That's okay. It was a typical week with the usual shenanigans at school.
Some good news there, though. I think the graffiti artists have decided to call it quits for now.
I did actually get the "dog ate my homework" excuse. I told the young lady that her excuse was old when Moses tried it. Sadly, I got the blank "Huh?" stare for that one.
My paperwork reduction experiment is working. I didn't get a lot of extra time to write, but I did use the time to do a bunch of other wacky things like setting up a computer to replace the one that was gradually experiencing more and more hard drive problems.
I'm going to embark on a new story today. I have the prewriting stuff done already, except the plot mapping. I had tried it once already, but I didn't like where it was going and how it was getting there.
To fix that, I'm going to try doing something a little ... odd. I'm going to try to tell the story from inside the POV of a parrot. No, I'm not going to have the parrot be a small, feathered human. I want to have the parrot act and interpret things as a parrot. I have an excellent model: my Timneh African Grey engineer bird.
This may be rough for a couple reasons. First, I'm not very good at telling a story from just one character's POV. If I run afoul of problems with this, I'll make the parrot one of the POV characters along with the two main human characters.
Second, I'm not a parrot. I'm only guessing at what goes on through their cute, little heads.
*Shrug* I'll try to write a couple test scenes and see what my crit group thinks.
I have to catch up on my crits for the week before I dive in, but before even that, church.
Speaking of which, I'd better go see about breakfast.
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