Self-care, creative writing, and Mars-centricity

I did take a short break today and spent it on my creative writing. I took about twenty to thirty minutes, by myself, in an empty seating area near the lobby of the building I am working in.

I made some small revision to one of the scenes in Mission: Dawn, called Boy meets girl. This is the scene where I introduce the relationship between Arjay and Linda. I like the interplay between these two characters, that just came out when I wrote the scene. Now, when I wrote the original draft, I ended it with Arjay offering to send a shuttle to pick up Linda from Mars and bring her to Dawn. In my revision, I changed that slightly, to have Linda take a commercial passenger shuttle, called The Mars Runner, instead. This slight change allows me to add a bit to Linda's character - since she lives on Mars, she calls it The Earth Runner. I figured this addition would add a little bit of colour to Linda's character.

As I wrote the new dialog, I got to thinking that I could have fun with this in future scenes, by having Linda's "Mars-centricity" come up in humorous ways.