I had a surprisingly good writing day, considering that today was also the day of the great cleaning frenzy that we perform every other week. But the new cleaning lady proved to be an enormous help, and so after a one-hour nap I actually wrote more than two (A5) pages. By hand. That will be probably about one page when I transcribe it to the computer, but at least I've managed to give proper form some of the ideas that have been ghosting in my brain for a while, so I call that success.
Excerpt: Jack was so surprised that he blurted out the first (rather idiotic) thing that came to his mind. "I never knew Vulcans could have twins, too."
Luckily for him, she was gracious enough not to point out the stupidity of that statement
( ... )
Another wee bit of Glorfindel's story - I got around 250 words added - here is the first paragraph -
He could remember dying. There had been a split second of fearful realisation as he fell, a short space of terrible pain, then the pain stopped. He had heard a voice calling, realised that he was no longer lying on the rocks but, rather, looking at his own body splayed there; he was somewhere above it. As realisation came he had used expletives his mother would not have approved of, before turning towards the voice, wondering how he could walk with no hröa… and then warm darkness.
TBH I never managed to chew myself through the whole Silmarillion. I just looked up stuff as I needed it. HoME on the other hand is something I've read again and again.
As I was falling asleep (this happens a lot, which is why I have a pad and pen next to my bed, Of course, I'm often too comfy and/or sleepy to sit up and use it) I suddenly started thinking about one of those unfinished stories I am planning to work on and had a whole string of dialogue scroll out in my head.
Of course I was too comfy etc.... so the exact string is gone :(So sadly gone. BUT I had enough bits and bobs in the morning to make notes and brainstorm a bit, and so I have quite a bit of rough draft of the way my sleepy self saw it going, if not the exact words, and salvaged some of the dialogue and will work on it tomorrow.
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Jack was so surprised that he blurted out the first (rather idiotic) thing that came to his mind. "I never knew Vulcans could have twins, too."
Luckily for him, she was gracious enough not to point out the stupidity of that statement ( ... )
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He could remember dying. There had been a split second of fearful realisation as he fell, a short space of terrible pain, then the pain stopped. He had heard a voice calling, realised that he was no longer lying on the rocks but, rather, looking at his own body splayed there; he was somewhere above it. As realisation came he had used expletives his mother would not have approved of, before turning towards the voice, wondering how he could walk with no hröa… and then warm darkness.
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Of course I was too comfy etc.... so the exact string is gone :(So sadly gone. BUT I had enough bits and bobs in the morning to make notes and brainstorm a bit, and so I have quite a bit of rough draft of the way my sleepy self saw it going, if not the exact words, and salvaged some of the dialogue and will work on it tomorrow.
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