Buzz, buzz (or: shut up, Seinfeld)

You know, one day there'll be an animated film based around bees or ants or whatever, and all the main characters and soldiers and antagonists and comic relief will be women*. God dammit.

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*Unless they're the short-lived male harem.

Gauntlet: we're gonna need a montage (montage!)

Right. December. Time to get serious about this writing throwdown. Establishing shot of montage:

Story 1: Moonrise (the kind-of-a-zombie story). This started life as a demi-drabble (50 words long), and is now...not. Five sections long: halfway through first section.

Story 2: [terrible punning title redacted] (the cabbages and kings story, or why you shouldn't abdicate to long-lost heirs). This has been kicking around in my head since at least 2004, but after a crappy zero^th draft it's taken me this long to find the real story. N sections long (where n is somewhere between five and seven): an opening line and ridiculous optimism.

Story 3: Vessel (the 'Assyrian' automaton story). The longest and hardest, despite planning, and thus left till last. See how procrastination and deadline stress are built into the foundations of the Gauntlet? Ten sections: the first paragraph done.


See you tomorrow in the next thrilling montage shot, in which we show a little improvement.