Thank you! I do feel much better about it now that I’ve talked with my awesome beta…
@seepunkrun is a genius and all is right in the world again.
Uh oh. You want to talk about it?
Sure. Though you probably need to get caught up on the chapter… I can’t tell what’s happening with it anymore.
Creative Choices
I’m at that stage with this epilogue where I have a few creative choices.
1. Burn it. It’s all crap. I finished the story, this is just 10k words of icing that’s ruining a good cake. Seriously, I thought this was a idea, but I’m totally doubting that now. I and probably could have accomplished what I intended in like 2k words, but I did research and added details and then a tragic back story and dialogue and yeah. Here we are.
2. Flip the end and make it a bait and switch with tragic and unsatisfying (but memorable) ending. I actually considered doing this. I think I would get hate mail.
3. Slog through to the end I intended, which at this point feels so meandering and unfocused I can’t imagine why anyone would care.
someone make me write
Few Words Wednesday
Cleaving:
It was just after a clear dawn that Nathan woke them to announce excitedly that it was time to get up.
Zach groaned and rubbed his eyes. “Is it Christmas morning?” he croaked.
“Hmmm.” Chris shook his head, eyes still closed.
“Why is he so excited when we’ve had so little sleep?”
Chris’ eyes flew open.
Anyways, here’s the video of Hurricane Irma in Antigua and Barbuda right now cause y’all acting like America is the only country on the planet
It’s WIP Wednesday!
Post a line or three from a current WIP, and then tag it with #mi6cafeWIPWednesday so the Cafe can find and reblog it!
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???? Far away, hot, everything wants to kill me.
Historical place without anyone liking history because they’re too busy being rich assholes
the “weird” corner of northeast america
cows
Where David Cameron fucked a pig.
On a sound between two mountain ranges.
West of the Chesapeake, between two rivers. It’s not a fucking swamp, it’s a plain.
Cabrillo, Scripps, Horton and Spreckels.
Lawyers, guns, and money.
Heroin, guns, murder, crabs, and John Waters.
Uffda.
cacti, unbearable heat, scorpions 🦂
the wooooorst cheetoh is basically my neighbor.
Cheesesteaks, liberty bell, declaration of independence, heroin
Frank Sinatra sang a song about it.
Beavers, trees and lumberjacks
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God.
Supposedly, Scottish political dissidents from Montreal were bribed with cheap land to settle here.
Next to the Stompin’ Tom statue
It’s cold a lot, and there are lots of trees. Everyone thinks we are all rig pigs.
The death star blew us up.
Canola, cows, mountains.
Where “a mile high” takes on a whole new meaning.
At the foot of the windswept devil
OMG this chapter is such a balm!
girlbookwrm posted a new chapter of Ulysses (83459 words):
Chapter 14: t’is not too late to seek a newer world (6124 words)
by girlbookwrm
Chapter Summary:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deepMoans round with many voices. Come, my friends,’T is not too late to seek a newer world.- “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Chapters: 14/15
Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies) and James Bond – All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Bond/Q, Eve Moneypenny & Q, also James Bond/Others is anyone really surprised by that?
Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny, Bill Tanner, R (James Bond), Female M (James Bond), M | Gareth Mallory, Alec Trevelyan, The Aston Martin, Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo, Madeleine Swann
Additional Tags: Spoilers for Skyfall, POV Q, Slow Burn, Spoilers for SPECTRE, POV Bond, basically a lot of head hopping sorry not sorry, the slowest of burns, Canon-Typical Violence, Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, basically all the greatest hits except smut sorry, Badass Eve Moneypenny, Secret Badass Bill Tanner, Part Time Badass Gareth Mallory, also the aston martin belongs to q just let me have this ok, excessive use of backstory, Canonical Character Death, pretentious title is pretentious, Excessive use of poetry, tennyson is probably rolling in his grave right now tbh
Summary:
“Paperwork for the new head of Q-Branch,” Tanner said.“Of course.” The words were like glass in his throat. Smoke inhalation was a bitch. His brain felt slow and foggy, like it was full of smoke too. “Who shall I take them to?”M lifted one white brow. “They’re for you, Quartermaster.” Bond and Q are drawn together by names, work, and a certain Aston Martin. In which Q is kidnapped once, Bond is poisoned twice, and Eve is a badass on at least three occasions. AKA that time I tripped and wrote 80,000 words of 00Q.All titles unapologetically stolen from Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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