Round 23, Hour 4

[lolmac]

No-one seems to be stuck in traffic, although some of us are stuck in our writing.  Anyone want a stick?  A glowstick?  Sticky tape?  A sticking plaster?  Or will you stick to it regardless?

Comments

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

So far I've accomplished... 700 words of writing and two hours of Skyping with parents. Hee. Perhaps this hour will be more productive!

[lolmac]

700 words is nothing to sneeze at! Keep it up!

[sid]

Sticking to business! I think I've got hold of the right end of the stick, or in Teyla's case, bantos rods.

Got a little research done. Because it's important to know how old Lou Diamond Philips was when Iceman was in theaters. Believe it or not. *g*

[lolmac]

Of course it is. *nods*

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

Still watching TV (Sanctuary). I'm very fond of Henry and mildy fond of Will. Also, I'm cleaning old records while I watch.

Not really getting much accompished writing wise.

Laurie

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

Stick please! Stick of awesome!!!

I'm at about 353 words right now. Had a minor mental flop, but I'm slowly reving up for a little bit.

I think I'm going to try to write this section and then go back to sleep. I write better when I'm not utterly exhausted. Work week from hell!

[lolmac]

My sympathies! Have a stick of Pure Awesomesauce -- you can stir spaghetti with it and make writerly pasta!

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

Thanks ♥

Ooooo. An Awesomesauce Stick. Writerly pasta sounds like just the thing for this fic.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I just got done with winding down after work, and am fortified by two different types of rum.

This weekend I have a short story that needs banging out, and we'll see what else - an ending to a long delayed crossover, probably. I hope.

I think right now that the part of the short story I am writing will occur after the story ends, but I need to know what goes down for myself, because it has a lot to do with a minor character who appears mostly off-stage and why he wanted to marry the protagonist in the first place. I have a hard time writing about people who were raised to have fairly conventional expectations about life. Character has a job and it's in the field he always intended to work in. What is that!? So weird.

[lolmac]

Ooo, rum.

Ooo, crossover.

Ooo, character development.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Mostly rum. And pouring all the negative stuff into writing. And rum. And eventually boy scouts, but I seem to be on a character development roll.

[lolmac]

A pity the boy scouts don't like rum. Still, all the more for the rest of us!

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I totally wrote a short piece in which MY boy scout said screw it, got really hammered, and started a bar fight.

"No, Ray, when I do a thing, I do it right." Benton insisted. Then he leaned over to a man at the table behind him and said: "Excuse me, but my friend here just wanted to express to you that he finds the way that your mother prepares breakfast to be most satisfactory."

"Huh?" The man at the table, who was both large and inebriated, said.

Ray started to translate Benton-to-English by force of habit when he realized what he was saying. "Oh, shit." he said, ducking as the drunken man stood up, picked up his chair and swung it at Ray.

It was a very satisfying story to write. I expected to be called on going ooc but apparently a lot of people want to get Fraser really drunk and take advantage.

[lolmac]

I remember reading that one! I hadn't yet seen a single episode, but I loved the story anyway.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Fortunately for you, it totally nutshelled the pilot, too :D

Right. Stairs are between me and more rum. I go conquer stairs. To the stairs and beyond!

[lolmac]

Ad astra! Ad ascalier! (Or even ad escalator.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

NASA only wishes it had pilot Rick.

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Pilot Rick icon! ...is that one new-new or did I just miss it till now?

[lolmac]

I've been iconifying LOLMacs, so all the 'new' ones are not new-new. That one's from early 2010, and you actually commented on it at the time!

http://lolmac.livejournal.com/179330.html

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Ah. New as an icon, not one of the ones that you iconified months ago and I just didn't notice (which is what I was trying, somewhat tangledly, to ask).

*makes note to poke through the icon gallery sometime when I am not writing*

[sid]

Howdy!

*goes to kitchen for more beer*

:-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Beer me!

Or, I could go get more rum and tonic. Hi there! Happy Rush!

[sid]

I'm all out of booze. *sadface* Yay for beer!

Yay for Rush!

[lolmac]

*sadface* No beer?

[sid]

A few scattered bottles of Leinenkugel still lurk in the fridge. There's half a bottle of Oktoberfest left. Or would you prefer Classic Amber? It's just hard liquor I'm all out of.

And there's wine in the cellar, too. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Wine in the cellar? La-di-da!

[sid]

Heh, heh. Pictures of my "wine cellar".

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Ooh, rustic!

[sid]

Someday when I sell, I'll have to make sure the real estate agent uses 'rustic' to describe the basement. :-D

[lolmac]

Don't forget 'quaint'. Goes well with 'rustic'.

[sid]

'Charm' goes with both those words, but miiight be considered stretching it.

[lolmac]

Did you ever get your 'barren' back?

[sid]

Yes, the yard is even more barren since I had a Tree of Heaven (aka Tree from Hell) taken out.

[lolmac]

Heh. I did a lot of invasive species removal as part of the trailbuilding work back in Washington . . . I referred to it as 'killing aliens in the woods'.

[lolmac]

Uh-oh, more stairs . . . ad ascalier!