general life frustrations

[edenfalling]

What I did today: slept a lot. I also tried to reorder checks, but ran into two problems. First, my bank removed an extraneous zero from every account number last year, so the number that deluxe.com has on record for me is not actually my account number anymore, and I'm not sure how long my bank will continue supporting the old numbering system. Second, deluxe.com only has my old address on file, and I would need to call a special phone line to change that information. (As a security measure, you cannot change things like that online, which is both comforting and extremely annoying.)

In other news, I wrote about 500 words of "Intervention," the Red Cross-and-space-pirates Star Trek: AOS fic I started a bit over two years ago and stalled out on, bringing the rough draft to 13,500 words. I have now written every scene up to the actual space battle, which I am leery of writing (hence the stalling out). But I do have an outline, and maybe I can get that done sometime before the next movie is released. *sigh*

It's hard to write while in a blue funk. It's even more like pulling teeth than normal. But writing also helps make me feel less empty, so. *deeper sigh*

I should try working on my Narnia Big Bang, but I don't know, I just am not feeling either of those stories right now. Maybe I can make some progress on something else instead.

Comments

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

Dividing forces is traditionally a military invitation to defeat by degree-but Sun Tzu says that when you outnumber five to one, you may divide and attack. There's little reason not to seperate their fleet, unless internal politics prevents it. Which is also a valid method of attack, gods save us from the politicians.

Well, yes capturing it may be a long term gain. But in the short term, the computers will likely be shut down, locking the helm and sending it off on a ballistic or autopiloted course with your boarding party until they can bring it under manual control. Still, it has the advantage of being easy to take with you if you need to run. However, these are starting to sound more like privateers, who might be a bit wiser to political concerns regarding making off with a hospital ship and the lack of subsequent mercy that they might receive for that.

I would suggest the breakdown of negotiations as a natural starting point, since the battle of maneuver will probably begin then, even if the actual fighting hasn't. Still, I agree that the whole fight would be much too long compared to what you already have. Brevity is the objective and details can be counter productive. I know a poor fool who wrote 25k words from the POV of a character that he then killed off to establish that War is Hell. A serious waste of verbiage.