Multitasking Day!

Took triannamaxwell out to see the DC Gurly Show (queer-centric burlesque) at Apex last night, which was a blast. A was performing, which is the first time I've seen her do burlesque, and the whole show was very good (sometimes, you get one that's kind of dull, or out-and-out bad, but everyone was great this time). We also got to chat with a great bartender, so that was fun, too. We were going to run past C's 21st birthday soiree, but the bar they were at had closed by the time we left Apex, and we had no plans to drive out to College Park at 2a to hang out with drunk people. C, I'll make it up to you!

Today, I intend to do two things: write at least 5000 words, and update my icons. The former is pretty straightforward; I think I've figured out the plot goal of Act II, so now I can write towards it. The latter is pretty much silly. Yes, I'm adding 37 new icons, but I'm doing more than that. My personal borderline-OCD is kicked off by things being out of alphabetical order, so I'm deleting all my icons and reuploading them in alpha order. LJ staff people, if you happen to be skimming this, could you add some function that will allow for a reordering of one's icons that doesn't require deleting everything and uploading them in the order you want? Thanks!

We're starting today's wordcount here:


I'm leaving the target at 16000, because really that's the goal for the whole act. Plus, I should be winding up somewhere near there, anyway.

Expect updates over the course of the day.

caught, like bottled water in the light

But, I finished two scenes that were in-progress, so that's nice. But, I have an question for the technology-minded people:

I need a way to send a transmission from Earth to somewhere out in the galaxy in a way that will make it impossible to track. Yes, this is very scifi, so it can be possible tech, or stolen from a tv show, or whatever, but since I've got tech-minded people narrating sometimes, I need technobabble terminology I can throw around.

For you Stargate folks, I was thinking the Asgard tech on the Odyssey might help, but do you know if there's anything we've seen the Asgard use that might help?

Thanks!

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Two partial scenes completed, two brand new scenes, including coitus interruptus, an argument, and the end of the act. Now to finish writing the middle. :P

Also spent a few hours making a chart to keep track of all the original characters or expanded minor characters I've got floating around. I got to name spaceships!

I still need help with that tech question. I'm likely to skip and come back to the scenes that require technobabble if I don't come up with something soon, but I don't like doing that if I don't have to.

I think I'm done for tonight. Not as much as I'd hoped, but I did some plotting, so that counts for something.


It's starting to look more and more like I'll actually have a pretty complete draft to send to my editor on the 1st. I'm very excited.