you should post a sentence/two excerpt from your current WIP
Kel watched the clock impatiently. The moment it ticked over to 4:30, she logged off her workstation. It was Friday. And Friday afternoons meant she had an appointment to keep at the uplink centre. The pedway was already beginning to fill with other pedestrians eager to leave their place of work for the weekend, but within 20 minutes she’d navigated the windowed labyrinth overlooking the sprawling concrete urban jungle she lived in. The city was small in diameter, but tall. It served as the primary hub for agricultural export, which meant Kel’s view from the pedway included a great view of the agricultural industry spread from horizon to horizon. Not that she had time to admire the open skies today.
Today she’d set aside time for Induced Sleep for Lucid Dreaming. Since last year’s survival game, Kel had become hooked on Lucid gaming and, over the past year, she’d spent every spare cent booking a few hours at the uplink centre on Friday afternoons after work. Friday afternoons, if you could catch an early enough booking, were ideal. The uplink centres were always more busy on weekends; they were a far more convenient way to vacation than actually trying to leave the city. And less expensive. But on Friday afternoon, just before the evening rush, there was a small, two-hour window where the uplink centres were more quiet, she could have her pick of personal bays, and the med techs on shift weren’t overtired.
Last year, Kel discovered she really liked survival games, despite abounding evidence that she wasn’t any good at them. She’d always had an affinity for survival situations - even going so far as to choose outdoor survival as an elective in grade school. There was something about those early struggles, man versus nature, that really appealed to her. Earning her safety. Maybe it had something to do with wanting something more tangible to combat — at least there was a clear reason for distress when you were fighting monsters. Unlike trying to combat the vague malaise that lurked in the shadows of her consciousness.
Enough of that. There’s no point dwelling on it.