Writing Log

"Tree of Life" Writing Log

2,960 / 80,000 (3.7%)

Words: 492, but it's actually over 500 because I rewrote and removed a lot of the previous section.
Total words: 2,960
Overused word: cart
Gratuitous Sikh woman: Shruti Kaur
Type of scene: This wasn't even a scene, just transitions. Do I even write whole scenes at once? Right. Less feeling pitiful and useless and more filling out writing log for yesterday.
Challenge(s): Describing a hanging platform that hooks onto a conveyor line and goes zoom. Sadly, it was actually challenging.
Which paragraph is it anyways?The conveyor line creaked to life. The platform jerked forward, picking up speed. The walls of the umbilicus blurred past Leander as the platform carried him forward. He did not look behind him.
Notes: Realized that since the next section will be a brief tour and introduction to the environs of the good ship Molly Malone, I should bloody well figure out what kind of ship it is, what it looks like, how it moves, and who's on it. Still working on that.
Other writingy stuff:
* Reported too-short 1-sentence critique to critters.
* Thanked other critiquer.
* Read WritersDigest, WritersWeekly newsletters.
* On-site actually had a fair amount of work today, so I didn't have time to do planned research into military airflight rankings or passenger/crew count on hypothetical long-range colonization space ships, etc.
* penthius freewriting - "Planet of the Werewolves," a very silly idea of the "paranormal romance" ilk.
* Posted writing log.

Details of the Day

• 09:43 ++ The scent of pink and white flowering trees that line the streets. #
• 10:10 GOP's new slogan, "The Change You Deserve," also slogan for anti-depressant? Hilarious! #
• 12:14 ++ Leftover chicken piccata for lunch. That may be my new favorite. #
• 12:15 --Will probably have to work this weekend, poss. both days. ::snarl:: #
• 13:40 From CSA email: sunchokes have almost as much iron as red meat, & the Scotts make "nettle pudding." #
• 14:26 Don't forget potluck next week! cloudscudding.livejournal.com/610065.html #
• 14:33 Nggg...research. How did I forget the painfulness of this stage? I think spaceships are neat, and it's *still* painful. #
• 15:37 Gardening in the sun for a few minutes is disproportionally good for the soul. Try it! #
• 15:53 FTL? Shit, I have to come up with a plausible FTL spaceship? Alcubierre has possibilities: tinyurl.com/67u9h3 #
• 17:27 Science research makes my brain bounce around in my skull. Strange ideas result: taking math and physics classes recreationally! #
• 18:51 Ice cream truck drove by, and the tune it's playing made all the neighborhood dogs start howling! #

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