Day 16 (Team July)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

My heartfelt thanks to elmey for taking over the duties while I was enjoying the beauties of North Germany.

Here's today's prompt for your writing updates and for any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have.

Keep the fires burning! :))

Comments

Lightning Bolt

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I managed 207 words at lunchtime. I was planning on adding more this evening but the housework I didn't do on Sunday and cooking up a killer chilli (dinner and two lunches taken care of, yay) used up all my spare time.

(for June and July)

A certain Bercol and Rontane have come to visit Servalan.

An excerpt:

Bercol? He was still head of the Information Bureau and as such was the former boss of Anna / Sula / Bartolomew or whatever she was choosing to call herself now, which was presumably why he had managed to keep his position. And of course there was Rontane, where Bercol was, there was usually Secretary Rontane. Ex-Secretary Rontane that is, since Servalan had acquired her own series of assistants (regrettably one had to have so many of them killed) when she had taken over the presidency. Those two were an almost inseparable pair. Odd really considering the difference in political position, but perhaps love made strange bedfellows.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Love that casual aside about the short-lived assistants.

The chili sounds good too!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was a dangerous career, working for her.

The chilli was great! I found some pure corn chips (just local corn and oil) to have with it and I've got leftovers for lunch. YUM!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yay words :)

Great voice in this - very vivid

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Re: Lightning Bolt

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Odd really considering the difference in political position, but perhaps love made strange bedfellows.

Kinda like that couple Jimmy Carville / Mary Matalin who were Democrat and Republican advisors respectively!

Interesting excerpt, lots of political to-in and fro-ing.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

These two have seen an opportunity to extract some of Servalan's fortune. :-)

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

I love the gossipy, ironic tone in this.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Love the play on words in the last sentence. Indeed!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She'd think of politics before love.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Love the way you managed to bring those two into it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have some fun with them.