The webcast

[vaneramos]

I nearly missed the webcast because a thunderstorm cut power at 3:45, six minutes before air time. I sat cursing as this sluggish computer rebooted, hitting cancel when the ScanDisk dialogue appeared. Norton Antivirus took forever to load. Okay, a minute, which seemed forever. I reached the website with two minutes to spare. Lightning flashed around throughout the story, but never interrupted me again.

It was amazing to hear someone I've never met read my work live from Paris. I feel all squiggly. The audio was marginal, and with Barbara Campbell's moderate Australian accent I might not have understood it if I didn't know the words. Maybe it's just my computer. Did anyone else see it?

I hope some of my writer friends will consider submitting. This was only day 24; 1,077 to go. A hint: you're supposed to pick a story thread from the previous day or another episode. She appreciated that I used more than one thread: Virginia's character and the village setting from yesterday's story, and the hanging theme from "everyone can dance".

She invited me to write again, and I will. Thanks to grandiva1968 for pointing out this project.

Now back to Waterspout 3, in progress.