Tag: Terra Insegura

The first sentence I wrote today

She and her mother were in the second load to be ferried to the shuttle.Words today: 1,406Total thus far: 18,532Percentage completed: 15.4

The first sentence I wrote today (well, technically, yesterday, since I’m posting this after midnight, so sue me)

With Hansen’s image gone from the vidscreen, Karl Rasmusson turned to the man to whom command of the Holy Warriors had defaulted.Words today: 992Total thus far: 17,126Percentage completed: 14.3 Not too great a total today, either. I expect more tomorrow, though, since I don’t have to be at rehearsal until noon.

The first sentence I wrote today

But there were precautions they could take against that possibility. Words today: 504Total thus far: 16,134Percentage completed: 13.4 An embarrassingly small total today–I got a late start. I need to pull up my socks!

The first sentence I wrote today

Richard Hansen looked at the man who had appeared on the vidscreen in response to his request to speak to The Avatar.Words today, plus a few from Sunday I didn’t blog: 2,139Total thus far: 15,630Percentage completed: 13 So here I am back in Saskatoon for the last week of rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

Unlike his predecessors, Karl Rasmusson, Third Avatar of the Body Purified, did not claim to talk to God directly.Words today: 1,403Total thus far: 13,491Percentage completed: 11.2

The first sentence I wrote…

…well, yesterday, actually, since I’m writing this after midnight (just got back a little while ago from seeing Enchanted; can’t wait to take my daughter to see it. I loved it, and judging by all the laughter in the theatre, so did everyone else. It had particular resonance since I’m currently in the middle of …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

…more or less…was: Richard exchanged a glance with Andy King, who had to be thinking exactly what he was: if any of those twelve ships were hostile warships, their mission of mercy might be short-lived indeed.Words today: 2,270Total thus far: 11,036Percentage completed: 9.2 Another two-session day, another 2,000-word-plus day, and we’ve broken the 10,000 word …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

Chris Keating crouched in the empty garbage bin and listened to the wild dogs howling in the streets of the City of God. Words today: 2,670Total thus far: 8,766Percentage completed: 7.3 A good day today, since I got in two fiction writing sections, thanks to a rehearsal schedule that kept me busy first thing in …

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The first sentence I wrote…

…Sunday. See, when you’re working on a professional theatrical production (I’m in Saskatoon working on Beauty and the Beast at Persephone Theatre, if you’re joining this blog already in in progress), Monday is your day off. So after I worked on Terra Insegura at Starbucks on Sunday morning, I rehearsed until 3 p.m., when I …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

We move on to Chapter 2: Emily woke in the dark to confusion and a pounding headache.Words today: 1,330Total thus far: 4,930Percentage completed: 4.1

The first sentence I wrote today…

…is not the sentence I’m going to post here, because I didn’t keep it. In fact, the sentence I wrote yesterday is already gone. See, I’d started this scene where my protagonist, Richard, looks around the briefing table and starts describing all his senior officers and…yawn…remembering all the…ho-hum…plot points from the previous…zzzzzz. Yeah, it even …

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The first sentence I wrote today:

Richard Hansen settled himself into the thick blue upholstery of the chair at the head of the long, oval, gold-colored metal table, and looked around at his senior staff.Words today: 1,435Total thus far: 2,504Percentage completed: 2.09

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