I feel better now.

[agilebrit]

So, I sat down and wrote for the last five-or-so hours, with minimal distractions, and managed to bang out over a thousand words. Which doesn't really seem like all that much, but considering the fact that I'm happy if I do 250 words in a day...yeah, it's shiny, and I'll take it.

I just need to figure out how I'm going to end this thing. I'll sleep on it, I guess. *ponders how you'd crucify an octopus-sort-of creature*

Word count: 2633

Looks like I'm going to finish well within the maximum word count. Go, me.

Comments

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

*ponders how you'd crucify an octopus-sort-of creature*

On a frame shaped like an 8-pointed star? Two conventional crosses set at 45 degrees to each other? Simply on a board, on which the tentacles could be arranged according to the crucifier's own personal tastes?

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Part of my problem is that I haven't figured out the physiology of these creatures. But I really need a better explanation than "This warrior race suddenly decided that war was bad after thousands of years," and a religious leader taking the planet by storm after a terrible war and then being killed by the authorities might be the catalyst I need. I just need to figure out how to weave it into the story and what sort of death it would be.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sushi?

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on eking out so much time at once. That takes some doing.

If I might stick my oar in, concentrate on the meaning of the execution rather than the style. Crucifixion was ignomious, very public, lingering and very common. In the modern world, we tend to directly associate crucifixion with Christ and the hope he brings and forget we're wearing the equivalent of the electric chair. As my pastor told me recently, the cross is offensive, it's meant to be.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Aha, very true. I just have to figure out a way to get it into the story. Right now, I got nothin'... *bangs head on keyboard*

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

It'll come to you. Probably in the shower.