Happy Saturday, Snippeteers! Long weekend ahead if you’re in the UK. I’m hoping to get some writing time without last week’s drama, when 2.5k of Ian and Patrick’s story disappeared into thin air very close to the end of my day when Word suddenly shut down on me and I found out that the autosave had stopped working. Again. It tends to do that after one of those pesky Windows 10 updates… There’s a lesson in here somewhere. Something along the lines of don’t rely on your tech. Or maybe, keep a hacker handy. Since my resident (fictional) hacker is stuck in Sweden, I’ve relocated all the writing back to Scrivener… and I’m religiously saving manually. For now.
Today’s snip is, once again, from the beginning of my dystopian story Sound Judgement. Before I really throw him into it – and share what reason he has to hate that song so much – I’d like to show off Ian a little more. Seeing how he spends his days I’m convinced he’d have done something intriguingly drastic to my laptop. 😉
From Sound Judgement
Ian dropped his bags by the door and bent to take off his shoes. The music told him that Tom was home and Ian would either find him soaking in the tub or decoratively laid out on their bed. Neither image appealed to him – not with that song playing, or after the day he’d had.
Like others who had seen where the country was headed, Ian Rathbone had become part of the resistance long before the coup. He’d spent the six years of anarchy undercover, had answered to Major Ashgill for so long he’d almost forgotten his own name by the time they wrestled power back where it belonged. Now, with his job once more in London, with documents and an apartment in the name he’d been born with, he spent his days shutting down illegal weapons labs.
It wasn’t the sanest of occupations. But sanity was relative.
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Are you Listening?Author Chat With Isobel Starling
Oh no! I’m sorry about the lost words! Terrible!
True. I was not a happy bunny. I think I need to remember to keep an eye on Microsoft updates. I just forgot that it screws up the autosave, so didn’t reset it. Gremlins are a part of the Microsoft experience these days. 🙁 But it’s surprising how quickly you can recreate 2000 words when you’re working against time and memory…not the same, of course.
I think he may need to tell Tom what a turnoff that song is…
Nice bit of background information worked in.
Tom is quite aware, I should imagine.
Oh no! Lost words are the worst. Actually, Windows 10 updates might be the worst. Difficult choice.
Nice snippet. Now I’m wondering what the song is and why Ian hates it.
Agreed, I’m not a fan of all things Microsoft right now. I prefer to be in control of my tools and so does Microsoft. Without the endless adverts and swarm of bugs that nobody does anything about I might come around to their way of thinking and hand over my toolbox, but…
As for Ian.. he has an exceptionally good reason to hate that song. Or at least, I think so.
Sounds like the song sparks bad memories, hope he doesn’t take his bad day out being grumpy at Tom
Interesting. I hadn’t thought of that. But no, Ian’s not that sort of person.
Oh dear. What was the song and what has him so on-edge about it? Great snippet, Jackie.
Thank you. The song is Me & Mrs Jones… and Ian has very good reasons for disliking it. 🙂
Oh, interesting! 🙂
Neither image appealed? Oh, dear! I’m not sure whether to feel bad for Ian or Tom (probably both).
I feel bad for Ian, definitely.
Sanity is, indeed, relative. And there’s so much pain…
I’m sorry about your lost words! Great snippet. Looking forward to finding out more.