Update! (This is good news, folks!)

Okay, I rewrote both the scenes I'd lost, hit 10k again, and even picked up 50 extra words. I won't complain. To thank you for the support and celebrate some major scene improvements, here is an extra excerpt (hooray for portal description!):

"Gabby touched down, much more lightly than she would’ve thought, in a round room, or perhaps a building, made entirely out of stone. She seemed to have gone back into the medieval era. On the wall ahead, the stone seemed to reflect a strange greenish tint. Curious, Gabby turned around to try and find the source. It wasn’t at all difficult. Directly behind her, there was a portal vortex exactly like the one she’d seen on earth, except this one was vibrant green instead of stark white. She wondered if portals were color-coded. If so, it would make sense for a green portal to lead to Earth.

What Gabby found especially interesting wasn’t the portal but instead the thin stone archway that surrounded it. It was engraved with decorative markings that didn’t seem to follow any particular pattern. Intrigued, she stepped closer and discovered that it was actually a fascinating runic handwriting that looked a lot like elvish runes out of Lord of the Rings."

Since I wrote the original 2k words that I lost completely in the afternoon, I think I can still write 2k more words today. I don't have much else to do except for another fiction writing project. The only problem: this one's for school. Thankfully, the maximum is 6 pages double spaced, so it shouldn't take too long.

Happy writing!

~ Sophia-Rose