miscellaneous family stuff, plus writing
Jun. 13th, 2022 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
We left the island on Sunday afternoon, so as to briefly overlap with Aunt Cara's visit to the Twin Cities. (She is now retired and is planning to move back to Minnesota from Chicago, and wanted Mom and Nick to help her out with her first baby steps in that process.) We had a nice family dinner, and now Aunt Cara has left to drive home, Dad and Nick are out buying a power cord for Nick's weed-whacker and some fence repair supplies, and Mom is at Urgent Care to get her injured foot checked out after we collectively convinced her to stop ignoring it and proclaiming it was totally getting better, really it was. *headdesk*
Meanwhile I am taking advantage of a free kitchen table and outlet and getting a little writing done. I have added a bit over 275 words to chapter 18 of The Guardian in Spite of Herself -- admittedly, most of them are a description of Tengai, but I'd been stuck in the scene in question for a while and last night I finally realized that what I needed at that point IS, in fact, a detailed description of Tengai, because the town layout becomes relevant later on and this meeting between Eiji and Kisame is exactly where that becomes less of an infodump and more of a "I am showing you around my town so you can work out a defense plan as per our potential contract" thing.
I think I'm gonna see if I can finish the scene and get started on scene 4 (Naga-tachi reacting to a message from Konoha). :)
Meanwhile I am taking advantage of a free kitchen table and outlet and getting a little writing done. I have added a bit over 275 words to chapter 18 of The Guardian in Spite of Herself -- admittedly, most of them are a description of Tengai, but I'd been stuck in the scene in question for a while and last night I finally realized that what I needed at that point IS, in fact, a detailed description of Tengai, because the town layout becomes relevant later on and this meeting between Eiji and Kisame is exactly where that becomes less of an infodump and more of a "I am showing you around my town so you can work out a defense plan as per our potential contract" thing.
I think I'm gonna see if I can finish the scene and get started on scene 4 (Naga-tachi reacting to a message from Konoha). :)
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Date: 2022-06-13 10:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-06-13 10:48 pm (UTC)We have put in a request with the marina owner to have the shore station towed out a little further, and hopefully he'll get that done before Aunt Jan arrives in late June/early July. The water does seem to be dropping slowly.
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Date: 2022-06-13 11:04 pm (UTC)