Work continues very slow. Yesterday very little happened, though Mom Boss prepped and I sent all the January rent reminders. Today there's been even less to do, especially since one of Mom Boss's kids had to stay home sick so she's been out all day.
I got all my coworker card-and-gift-bag combos put together and distributed this morning, so that's good. (The gift items arrived last week. I had the cards left over from last year. But I didn't get around to buying the tissue paper and gift bags until last night, because reasons.)
I have been reading through A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, which is a very interesting blog about the history of battle in popular culture, plus assorted other random stuff like how to construct a plausible pre-modern city, a beautiful seven-part takedown of Sparta, and a look at Cicero's ideas about natural law.
I have also been plinking a bit at the belated prompt response I owe![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
the_rck from a mini-ficlet prompt meme back in March. I was initially held up on that because I wasn't quite sure how to approach her idea, and then later because I got myself in a tangle over character motivations, but my current problem is that I need to write a small action scene and I don't really want to choreograph it. So I've been sort of sidling assymptotically toward the precipitating moment, and my most recent delaying tactic was basically making the "bad guys" take a reasonable precaution that will... possibly make my logistics simpler? Or maybe more complicated; I'm not sure yet.
Really I just need to "and then, and then, and then" the whole fight scene. Somebody tell me to do that?
I got all my coworker card-and-gift-bag combos put together and distributed this morning, so that's good. (The gift items arrived last week. I had the cards left over from last year. But I didn't get around to buying the tissue paper and gift bags until last night, because reasons.)
I have been reading through A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, which is a very interesting blog about the history of battle in popular culture, plus assorted other random stuff like how to construct a plausible pre-modern city, a beautiful seven-part takedown of Sparta, and a look at Cicero's ideas about natural law.
I have also been plinking a bit at the belated prompt response I owe
the_rck from a mini-ficlet prompt meme back in March. I was initially held up on that because I wasn't quite sure how to approach her idea, and then later because I got myself in a tangle over character motivations, but my current problem is that I need to write a small action scene and I don't really want to choreograph it. So I've been sort of sidling assymptotically toward the precipitating moment, and my most recent delaying tactic was basically making the "bad guys" take a reasonable precaution that will... possibly make my logistics simpler? Or maybe more complicated; I'm not sure yet.Really I just need to "and then, and then, and then" the whole fight scene. Somebody tell me to do that?
