So I finally got my procrastinating butt in gear and started working on Allison and Robert’s story today. Since it’s been so (very!) long since I last worked on the story, I chose to go back to chapter one and start reading, get my mind back into the game, more or less. Glad I did because I made a few changes that I think will play better. For instance, I originally had Allison have long silvery-blond hair, but today changed it to a shorter length… a beginning scene has her in a tight, sweaty space and I liked the visual of her swiping her hands through her hair and spiking it. However, a bit later there’s a scene where she has a ponytail, so I met myself in the middle and called it shoulder length. Still short enough for long, droopy spikes but long enough for a short ponytail. *shrugs* Added a few sentences to better visualize some other scenes, just generally really getting into the groove of things, ya know?
BOOM! Crackle, crackle, sizzle…BOOM!
Enter a flash thunderstorm. Power blinks out. No biggie, really, since I’m working on one of my laptops and can work off of its battery.
Have you ever seen any one of the thousands of pictures posted on the Internet of people trying to work around their cat or kitten sitting in their laps and leaning on to their keyboards? M’kay, substitute that itty-bitty five to ten pound furball for a sixty-five pound Collie and you can begin to see my dilemma.
Arms pinned down by a quivering heap o’Collie – my protector, mind you… keyboard? Somewhere under all of her hair – even though it didn’t matter I could still see bits and pieces of it since my arms were pinned to my lap with sixty-five pounds of tri-color jelly! (Laptop is fine, by the way.)
I’m a writer, this is a funny scene – but no place for it in Allison and Robert’s story. It had to be told, and now I am so outtie….