Sick and writing...

 Respiratory symptoms for days and just messing around with games mostly.

The one real scene I did write is one for the 3rd intended book of the series when I'm almost done with the rough draft of book one...

Still, it's a conversation I think the characters in question would have and it's funny because I kinda' got emotional about it.

Two very long-lived individuals talk personal history around a fire on a terraformed planet while trying to figure out how to leave.

I'll share this little bit:

Scotty shook his head. “You’re not the hero type, Doc.”

“I feel driven to save lives,” she said.

“Nope,” Scotty said. “You’re driven not to lose lives.”

Doc fixed on him with an icy glare.

“I’ve seen you with a gun in your hand too often to be a ‘saving lives’ kind of hero, Doc.  You can make moral and ethical judgments like that on the fly, drunk of your ass, and you have zero-point-zero reservations about killing someone if there a risk to your patients.” Scotty met her glare with smiling eyes. “You may not like it, but you can kill as well as save,” he said in soft tones.

“I–I–” Doc stuttered, looking away.

“You can’t stand losing people, Doc. You make it personal and you have the skills and toolkit to succeed in some of the worst situations imaginable.”

Doc sniffled, tears coming down her cheeks.

“That made it easy to pick sides in this mess and to say yes when you asked for help.”

National Novel Writing Month

 Considering it.

Did it at least once.

My mistake?

I did it on a free wiki site... that became un-free.

It was a bit of an apocalyptic tale.

The plot, I mean.

I liked writing on a wiki because I hot linked all my character and location information and used the "Talk" page for my notes on chapters and the like.

However, I lost access to the story because I didn't log in during the time I could have downloaded it free.

For this year, I was considering a side-work to the novel(s) I'm working on, using the same world, but different characters and such.

The working concept is a smartcat--a hybrid human/cat with human intelligence and bipedality plus size--working in a diplomatic role tries to find out why her boss--the chief diplomat--is being held.  She finds a recently retired investigator to help and they find a multi-layer conspiracy.

So goes the concept.