Effing Feline is one smart cart

Fart-Fueled Flying Feline, Effing for short, writes the Weekend Writing Warrior posts on Mr. V’s behalf

I, Effing Feline, have figured out something about today’s snippet.

In Mr V’s WIP, Alien Contact: Becoming Human, the following ten sentences state the heroine’ self-doubt and internal conflict. Furthermore, her decision to detour for pleasure leads to all her troubles, and I believe that’s called an inciting incident.

I am one smart cart.  I mean, cat.  I’m one smart cat.

Background: Our unnamed heroine, mere minutes after being born fully grown and well armed, marches in a straight line toward her Destiny.  Then she comes to a tree blocking her path.

I would have to detour around the tree.  Although it irked my sense of right and wrong, the route to my Destiny could not follow a straight line.

I pondered this realization, which seemed obvious as soon as I thought about it—the first piece of wisdom I’d ever learned.  Was I, then, intelligent?

More importantly, if I must detour out of necessity, would it be acceptable to detour—briefly, briefly—for pleasure?  Dare I savor this magnificent cedar, for example, or the stream that gurgled unseen off to the right?

My mind insisted I should pursue Destiny with no deviation, like an arrow shooting to its target, but I wasn’t an arrow of wood and feathers; I was a human being of flesh and blood.

Wasn’t I?

I pondered that for a massive time—seventy-four-point-eight seconds—but was unable to decide about my humanity.  Insufficient data.

Effing Feline again. That hat looks good on me, though not as good as last fortnight’s horns.

Be sure to check out the snippets by other great weekend writing warriors.

This snippet is taken from what will be the third book in the Alien Contact for Idiots series. The other books (already available) are:

Alien Contact for Idiots
Alien Contact for Kid Sisters

Be sure to check out Weekend Writing Warrior Amy Braun’s reviews here and here, respectively.