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| Expected Total | 75000 | 50010 | ||||||||
Notes:
- Finally got back into getting a lot of words in one day. I wasn't sure where the last couple of scenes were going. Remember that curve ball I threw myself? That scene had consequences, and I had to deal with them.
- I am the first one to admit that many of the words I wrote tonight sucked. I rambled, I repeated myself (not intentionally, but I was reading over it, and wow), and I really greatly managed somehow to get a lot of words out of unnecessarily and artificially making many of my sentences quite a bit longer than they really needed to be, just strictly from the standpoint of the amount and type of importance of the information they manage to impart. Yeah. But it's words, and embedded in those words are some good ideas, and some stuff I must remember to go back and mention in earlier scenes. Yes, I made notes. No, my notes are NOT counted in the overall word count.
- My three favorite bits, which I don't claim are great literature, but they're ideas I'm going to have to keep, if not with these exact words:
If Harriman had an attractive young woman in his room and the last thing on his mind was sex...well, it must have been serious, indeed.
Barton shivered violently, trying to hide it from the others as he departed the transmission chamber. On old Earth, they would have said a goose walked over my grave. But there are no more geese. And no more graves.
Humanity had moved into the asteroid belt just before the end came. Almost as though they had known. Barton often wondered about that. Was the Dyson1 team--or the Geode1 team--responsible for several of the breakthroughs that had led to the technology that had, ultimately, saved humanity from its own curiosity?
- Geode and Dyson are the names of two hollowed-out asteroids in which the time-travel machinery is located in the future. Both teams of time travelers are trying to save mankind, but they have different philosophies and approaches to how this should be done, so they often work at cross-purposes. If you want "good guy" and "bad guy," I'm afraid I have to mention the Vorlons and the Shadows from Babylon 5. Sometimes, people do good things for bad reasons. Or bad things for good reasons. </cryptic>
The Skeptics Guide #279 - Nov 15 2010 by NESS from The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (Rating: 0)