Dreamer Easy

Redrafted it. Lots of little changes, and one big one, to up the stakes for the POV character.

Right, draft one is complete at 4400 words. Thanks folks. Now for the sofa and DEATH.

Goal: 4000 words
Currently: 3500
Have been working for: about three and a half hours total
Hurdle: Thanks to the hypo, must now sleep like the dead for a bit.

Deadline: Tuesday 20 May
Goal: 4000 words
Currently: 2300
Plot problem: solved while going to sleep last night
Coffee: one cup so far

I'm gonna finish this thing today. It's me or it.

As a (not very much) younger woman, I would often assign wild SFnal meanings to quite straightforward song lyrics, simply because I'd missed the point. When I was fourteen, Pink Floyd's The Wall was a science fiction epic of mind control and secret police. Yes was particularly prone to this, as often their lyrics are incomprehensible - but not always. The "glass reality" of Into the Lens is simply a photograph, but it inspired the bizarre thoughts which led to the title The Mary-Sue Extrusion, which poor Dave Stone got stuck with at the last moment. In my teenaged mind, South Side of The Sky evoked all sorts of fantastical Ringworld-inspired imagery (somewhere I think there's a picture I drew in coloured markers of an immense fly standing inside a Dyson Sphere, which in turn is inside a children's party balloon). It is, of course, about the sorts of doomed expeditions I've been reading about all week - the climbing of mountains, the reaching of Poles.

Ground out another 500 words of White on White, out of 4000. This puppy's deadline is fast approaching, so it's extract-digit time. Spent far too much time looking up crap about Antarctica on the Intarwebs, even though I told myself I'd sensibly write this one straight through and fix the research afterwards. Ah well. I'll save my next fact-finding mission (ie sitting in a coffee shop skim-reading the half-dozen books I've borrowed) for Friday.

I've suddenly become frighteningly capable of accomplishing things. I don't quite recognise myself.