November 2024, Day 27

[wiseheart]

Counting down to the last three days...

This is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it).
May the magic be with us all!

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[wiseheart]

I've run into a serious problem with "Hunter, Prey". Originally, I intended to follow the canon episode, only replacing the totally uninteresting and never-seen-again aliens of the week with Klingons (at least everyone knows Klingons), but then I realized said problem which was caused by the sloppy writing of the original. Our heroes come across a rogue planet - apparently that's a planet that has broken out of its orbit and is now wandering across the universe in its lonesome - that has no sun. And yet they find a world similar to the South American rain forests. With green, tropical foliage. Now I'll have to revamp the entire story to give a halfway acceptable answer for that, because every schoolkid knows that chlorophyll makes the plants green, and how it would photosynthesis be possible without a sun and consequently without light? Now I'm having my Centaurian exobiologist muse about the problem. She hasn't come to any conclusions yet. *g*

Excerpt:

"I wonder when this planet has broken out of orbit," Dr. Yannes commented. "The

[adafrog]

Yes! You go girl with the lack of sun problem. That would drive me nuts.

[wiseheart]

I know, right? The screenwriters always have a serious problem with the "science" part of science-fiction. And with continuity.

[adafrog]

True.

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[artemis10002000]

No words old or new today, but at least I settled on a title for zine fic and that one-line description/summary I needed to submit

[adafrog]

Definite start.

[wiseheart]

Hopefully that will set you on the right way.

[ylla]

Well done, those are tricky bits.

[akane42me]

I have worked all day cooking and getting things ready for tomorrow's big day. I have everything cleaned up and now I can rest. In four hours our daughter and her boyfriend will land at the airport and my husband will bring them here. They're here until Sunday and we are so 😊

My first bit of relaxing time was to work on my story and I finished the revisions for another scene, and added 200 words to fix the little continuity issue left over from yesterday.

Now I will try to read but I will probably doze off:)

I will skip tomorrow. A completely full day ahead from start to finish.

[adafrog]

Words and getting ready for visit? Go you!

[akane42me]

Thank you!

[wiseheart]

That is a great word count on a day like this.

[sallymn]

Yay, I did and posted my first exercise: the elements that had to be in it were a private detective, a tenement building and an 'object' that would fit into a story about them, and we were supposed to write for 15 minutes (I think I went for 20) I invented a 19th century lady detective who is investigating in a decaying tenement. Aaaand I promptly killed her because the ghost of a lady detective trying to solve her own murder - or others - just sounded so me....

We'll see what the tutor or other students think. I am the first to have posted my exercise which is always daunting.

Next is working on stories and maybe brainstorming prompts for the Secret Santa

[adafrog]

Aaaand I promptly killed her because the ghost of a lady detective trying to solve her own murder - or others - just sounded so me....

lol Love it.

[heleninwales]

A story about a Victorian lady ghost detective sounds like something I would enjoy. I hope your tutor likes it.

[wiseheart]

I'd like to read that one, too.