Log #475

Word Count: 725

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: DragonFriend (DF)

Summary: God I am so lazy. Spent much of the day playing Skyrim. Marking time to the end of NaNo. I’m a bit disappointed with myself because I was so excited for this story in October, but now I just want to be done and move on.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: Suddenly the trees bent back in a heavy wind and they heard the thunderclap sound of massive wings as something vast approached. Gremwing looked up to see the huge red-scaled underbelly and giant wings of a Great One. “WIZARDS! COME OUT, WIZARDS!” a great voice roared.

Editing: None.

Log #474

Word Count: 810

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: DragonFriend (DF)

Summary: Yeah, definitely not going to reach 50,000 words, but again, it’s an even year and so that’s okay. (Aside from my initial NaNo in 2010, I have never won on even years, only odd ones.) And that’s okay, I’m just really drained and wanting to play Skyrim on my all-too-short vacation rather than working. My goal is to reach 40,000 words and I think that is still doable. Only need about 3,000 or so to do that.

#NullaDiesSineLinea:

Hagan just stood there, frozen. “It should be here,” he said numbly. “They should be here.”

Gremwing took Hagan’s hand and gently turned the wizard away from the empty spot. “They aren’t here now,” he said gruffly, “so let’s get out of here so we can go look for them.”

Editing: None.

Log #473

Word Count: 555

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: DragonFriend (DF)

Summary: Woke up late, felt lazy, spent most of the day doing dishes, started playing Skyrim, and watched Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home… so I only got a tiny bit done today. Hoping to do better tomorrow.

#NullaDiesSineLinea:

Gremwing shivered. He had no desire to go anywhere near a wizard school.

Hagan saw it. “You don’t need to come.”

“The hell I don’t.”

“You can stay with the unicorns and guard them.”

Gremwing crossed his arms. “The hell I will.”

Editing: None.

Log #471

Word Count: 609

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: Second Unit Reviews (SUR)

Summary: You know you’re desperate not to work on something when you write a blog entry a week before it’s due. (Which is what I should have been doing this entire year with #OBFC, but there we are.) This one won’t be published until December but we’re in the home stretch! Only three more books after this one is published. And now I’m going to be early because I’m bloody exhausted.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: N/A

Editing: None.

Log #467

Word Count: 505

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: N/A

Summary: Focus is on getting prepped for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, so I only got in some Author’s Lament and some thoughts about DragonFriend and why it has been so hard to work on a project that was supposed to just be light, easy fun.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: N/A

Editing: None.

Log #466

Word Count: 530

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: DragonFriend (DF)

Summary: I… Squeezed in a short part of a scene with Hagan trailing unicorn hunters in between episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Go figure I’d be empty of ideas the whole day and then come up with a scene idea on the drive home.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: Only one type of person could waltz through the woods with the slender form and lithe movements of a nymph and yet scan the surrounding trees with the cold, hard eyes of an assassin: unicorn hunters.

Editing: None.

Log #464

Word Count: 645

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: N/A

Summary: Brain is shot. Didn’t get anything written in the morning and when that happens, I seem to not have enough energy/focus in the evening to write. So I just babbled for a while about writing during Covid which may turn into a Cat’s Cradle entry at some point.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: N/A

Editing: None.

Log #460

Word Count: 755

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: DragonFriend (DF)

Summary: End of the week. So tired. Had nightmares last night and this morning. Going to try to buckle down and either do a massive sweep of writing or nibble in bits regularly throughout the day. So much other crap to do too though… Ugh. This was a short snippet of Hagan and Rist in class.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: 

“So what kind of magic are you interested in, Lord Rist? Surely something far above us mere peasants.”

 

Rist glared, but [took] the offered chance to brag. “I am a practitioner of High Magick. With a ‘k’.”

 

Hagan nodded solemnly. “Can’t forget the K,” he agreed.

Editing: None.

Log #459

Word Count: 700

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: DragonFriend (DF)

Summary: Got a little bit more done with Hagan gathering kitchenware, but little else. Very far behind, but hoping to catch up this weekend. Maybe.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: The advantage Hagan had over many of the other wizard students was that he had skills to trade… Rist might be ahead of him in translating ancient runes or more advanced in mathematics, but Hagan knew how to cook, clean, darn, mend, and smelt.

Editing: None.

Log #457

Word Count: 555

Level Achieved: Easy

Project: DragonFriend (DF)

Summary: Slept in, so tired. Managed to bang out a little bit more from Webwing’s POV. Fortunately I have off work tomorrow so maybe I can catch up and get back on track.

#NullaDiesSineLinea: It looked like they had gathered the clan. Good. That meant Webwing would only need to tell her story once… and then they had to escape before the hunters arrived.

Editing: None.