Round 26, Hour 25

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

The halfway point is . . .

*checks clock*

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Battle those evil nemeses! Pet the cute nemesis! Destroy those ninja penguins! Corral the bonsai giraffes! And while you're at it, write some fic or something.

Comments

[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

I wrote 800 words, that's not too bad, I'm going to see whether or not I can do another 800 or so this hour :D

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

I wrote 600 words. Which apparently I have to double over the next twenty four hours. :D

Also, I corralled me a bonsai giraffe, but it escaped. Guess the mesh of the net was too big.

[lolmac]

Oh, great. Now I have to catch the thing before Pitry's next shift!

Next time, try magnets. Or a finished chapter.

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

Bonsai giraffes are ferrous? I did not know that!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

800 words is fantastic! Did they make sense, too?

[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

As much sense as anything that comes out of my head :D

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

You do have to double the 600 words. If you don't, the halfway point will become meaningless, and you will be responsible for a huge hole in fic_rush.

Of course, maybe the huge fic_rush hole is how the bonsai giraffe escaped.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!! *g*

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

I have lots of stash yarn and fabric I can use to make a pretty patch for the fic_rush hole. I think pure silk is probably impermeable to giraffes. At least, the very tiny ones.

[lolmac]

They're either ferrous or ferocious. Or maybe both.

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

*cue black-turtled-necked wunderkind playing bongos*

Ferocious ferrous giraffes
slipping by my magnificent magnets
spotted yellow smoke on the wind, daddy-o.

(Does this count toward my six hundred words?
Kerouac would say it does. He's no publishing-house square.)

[lolmac]

It definitely counts. It may count backwards, though, or sideways, or in Roman numerals.

[lolmac]

If it's very pretty silk, the bonsai giraffes will at least stop and chew on it. That will slow them down so we can catch them!

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

I have a fat quarter of black silk brocade with cherry blossoms on it. I think that would suffice for giraffes - practically leafy.

I am beginning to get a strange feeling about this round of rush.

[lolmac]

More so than the 'typical' round?

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

Nope, maybe a little earlier than other rounds. Or I may just be condensing my experience of this round into an hour's worth of comments.