Day 5 at 12.15. Bit more difficult today because I woke up
with the right hump, Caroline has gone shopping and I’m sitting here alone at
my desk trying to get some work done. I hasten to add that Caroline had already
planned to go shopping and didn’t leave because of my hump, though I wouldn’t
have blamed her. Anyway, after a bit of work in the morning I cycled over to my
mother’s house. She was going out so I just had a brief chat before she left. I
then adjusted the handlebars on what was Caroline’s bike, which had been a pain
on way over, for the cycle back – round trip 8 miles.
Back here I’ve been puffing on an electronic cigarette, an
inhalator and then tried a NiQuitin sweet. The sweet was a bit on the strong
side. When I hadn’t quite got the hang of nicotine gum and thought you just
chewed it like normal gum (many years ago) I found the stuff gave me the
hiccups. These sweets are very much the same. Note to self: let it dissolve in
the mouth and don’t eat it like a Minto in future.
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Chapter 1
PR made in Room 101
T is resurrected in virtuality
T on planet, polity forces bombed
Gets turned into this:
Chapter 1
Thorvald Spear wakes
in a seemingly perfect hospital where he meets an old associate and learns that
he has woken in a pre-resurrection virtuality. He died during the prador/human
war which ended a century ago. Now buffered from the shock of returning from
the dead he remembers some of his past. He was a bio-espionage expert amidst a
division under General Berners, trapped on a world called Panarchia and
surrounded by prador forces. Hoping for rescue he saw a Polity destroyer arrive
but, instead of rescuing them it dropped antimatter bombs and annihilated them.
After I’ve gone through the chapter notes turning them into
neat little paragraphs I’ll sew them all together. It is a little more
complicated than that because some shuffling around is required: bits scattered
through concerning one thread, or character, have to be lumped together, some
set-dressing has to be discarded. Eventually I’ll end up with a whole and long synopsis. I then begin hacking it
down. This is all good stuff because throughout that process I find myself
getting to the essence of the story.
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