Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi → The Sorcerer's Progress
I have the battle and the conversation on paper. I'm going to type them up and start editing, thinking about the next part in between.
I don't want to fool around with rechaptering B1 for this since I'll need a full rewrite anyway. My thought is to put this up as a couple of shorts. Thoughts?
You've got me thinking about a BVD foundry 
I like shorts at the moment, I don't have to try to hold the entire story in my head. I'll be happy to read your shorts. (in a non-Bart way)
I've gpt the battle typed up; about 1000 words. The next part is talk, should come in a little shorter.
I don't remember what fora it was mentioned in but Eat the Rich is brilliant and majestic
I wouldn't call PJ O'Rourke's writing majestic. It's more anti-majestic, in the style of The Vagabond King. But it is brilliant, especially the illustration of Riccardo's Law of Comparative Advantage.
I've been hung up for four days on a scene shift. A conversation is cut off by a scene break. It continues right after the break, with the same ensemble in a different place. Easy cinematic effect and a basic writing device, and I can't make it work smoothly!
But last night I saw a way to interrupt the flow to good effect--a better result than I'd hoped for the other way. I woke up without forgetting it, and after a few false starts I've got a hundred odd words that I like.
Making progress. I expect to have the easy 4,000 words done by tomorrow. Then, the hard part.
I'm planning, tentatively, to get very nasty with a feminine habit that can drive men to distraction: The woman who says she doesn't want dessert, but helps herself to the dessert her husband/boyfriend/date orders. I figure there must be a reason for it besides cussedness and an excuse to yield to temptation whilst virtuously denying it. Sharing as bonding, maybe? Or just a desire to strike back at the boor who put temptation in front of her?
pfft dessert... you've been dating amateurs. I've had my entrée picked clean on me. It's disconcerting
It's disconcerting
Understatement of the decade! How can a guy be competent if he cannot plan? How can he plan if the people he is supposed to trust implicitly--and impress with his competence--systematically undermine him in what shoukd be their best moments together?
Okay. Now let's find out how the ladies see this. That is, if they're willing to open up about it. (Dangerous words, indeed.)
Not sure if I've ever done it to a date (I usually order dessert, if I have room in my stomach), but I've stolen food from my siblings plenty of times. Maybe it's like popcorn? You don't crave it until you see/smell it.
Are you admitting you're driven by cravings 
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Are you admitting you're driven by cravings
Yep, absolutely. 
Not just food cravings, either... book cravings, hug cravings, couch cravings, etc.
I hug my bed. Does that count?
Mr. Howell hugged a teddy bear.
One bite of the husbands dessert is just sharing. Politeness.
What we have here is what macPhee would have called a phatic hiatus.
Been away. Had the chance to spend 4+ days with my Dad. Figured out the mystery of the can't-drill-with-anything, hour-plus-with-carbide, angle bracket that chipped up one cobalt drill bit and dulled at least one more. The material must be hanging on the edge of the austenite-to-martensite phase change, turning monster-hard constantly just ahead of the bit. Answer-use a different brand.
what is the angle bracket made out of... Vibranium??
Austenite and martensite are crystal phases of iron alloys. Iron is the once-and-future wonder metal, and this property is exploited by the people who make safes and strongboxes. I just found a drill bit customer review which says this property is common in stainless steel, and while the metal in question is not sold as stainless, it probably is designed for reduced corrosion.
I'm now drilling number-bit sized holes, and the bits I have are TiN coated. I may have to spring for a 'cheap' set of Co bits for this. ('Cheap' as in 'would buy three tanks of gas.)
Searching for info about 'Heinleining', I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_(narrative) .
Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi → The Sorcerer's Progress
