This is MJ, Author, Artist, Analyzer. I'm coming to you with another 10 minute writing
session. This is from March 5th, 2024, from A Grow Bug Tale, Chapter 15. This is Part
8, Session 8 of Writing 10 Minutes at a Time, and this is what I wrote today.
Cinderstripe shifted his eyes between the three and leaned towards Hopper. You might
have, though they wouldn't say it outright.
I guess so, Hopper said with a new warmth in his voice.
How do you feel about that, Hopper?
A bit surprised.
I think they're both a little scary, Hopper confided.
I can see that, the Critterbot Tiger nodded.
Follow me.
Hopper scrambled along, six legs fumbling as he tried to keep up.
Where are we going?
I want you to meet the other Guardians.
Where are they?
They're coming along.
I'm the fastest on open land.
I ran ahead of Dino and Monkey.
It will be quicker if we head their way.
Cinderstripe
And then I ran out of time.
So that's where I paused writing for February 5th, 2024.
What did I have to say about this?
I'm not sure.
I was thinking that I was going to have the Critterbot Guardians one by one show up and
meet Hopper and have cute fun interactions that way.
And instead I had forgotten that I was going to have Widget there, so I had to add Widget
in.
And then we have a very awkward exchange with Gale Hoot.
And then Cinderstripe comes along and it's mostly like gently humorous.
Cinderstripe is supposed to be a serious straightforward kind of guy, no nonsense.
But he's kind of having fun with this weird Hopper situation because he's not afraid.
He's not really intimidated by Hopper and he's trying to gauge him.
He's trying to like de-escalate the situation as opposed to coming on hot and heavy or aggressively
and like causing problems.
He wants to gauge Hopper and find out if he's crazy, if he's harmless, if he's got malignant
intent, malific intent, negative intent, bad intentions.
He wants to see if he has bad intentions.
So he's trying to gauge him and he's like kind of tickled by this guy because he doesn't
see him as a threat.
But he's also not underestimating him.
He's having him walk with him because he's never really seen a bug creature.
Because my thinking is that all the critters on Critterbot Island, or critterbots on Critterbot
Island, are like a mammal or reptilian or something like that.
None of them are insects which have like six legs.
The dinosaur guy has eight legs or seven tentacles and a tail.
I'm not sure, can't remember the exact details.
But he's like a dinosaur guy who lives in the water when he can or when he wants to
or whatever.
So his physiology is a little bit weirder.
And then also the monkey guy coming along is a plant animal.
He's a plantable.
He's a moving plant.
And he or she, I can't remember, it might be a girl or whatever.
The monkey is like riding.
I have this, well anyway, I won't spoil that.
But yeah, I have fun ideas for what to do with these guys going forward so that they
all get together.
And I know it's weird how this is taking shape.
It's not exactly what I had thought it was going to be.
But I still think it's going to be good.
And I am looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
I have an idea overall just to get there, you know, to fill in all the blanks in my
roadmap is going to be interesting.
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