Write Every Day: Day #5

[auroracloud]

Seems I need the tired kitty icon again today... I actually slept quite well last night and have felt much better on that respect, but I did some Proper Productive Stuff and then some Proper Sociable Stuff and as a result have been utterly drained. More detailed postings will have to wait until tomorrow!

Today's Writing

Once I picked myself off the bed, I spent much of the remaining evening writing my Second Doctor Era manifesto for tardis_library, but in the end I had to ask to move my posting day until tomorrow, because I was getting too tired. I should be able to get it done tomorrow okay, though. Anyway, for the sort of writing that I actually count for this challenge (I could count fannish writing, I just tend to not to...), I just managed a couple of sentences. At least they were for starting another fic for the Genprompt Bingo, this one being gen, too.

How was your writing day?

Tally

Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, luzclarita, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, used_songs, ysilme

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, ysilme

Day 3: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, used_songs, ysilme

Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, ysilme

Day 5: china_shop

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. You can join in or drop out any time!

Comments

[yantantether]

Hi there!

I started a new fic in a fandom I haven't written in before, which is fun, and wrote 634 words.

[auroracloud]

Hi! Sorry for the belated reply for this day's comments. Yay for branching into a new fandom! And for a nice amount of writing. :-)

[falkner]

Late check-in for yesterday! And I will now try to write down some words before the end of today as well, will come back tomorrow morning to edit the comment (I feel like I'm constantly in a rush these days.)

e: words did get written on the 5th as well. ^_^

[auroracloud]

Yay for words on both days! Sorry I was late replying. Hope you feel less busy soon! :-)

[cassini]

[the block of meetings i had is over, had the date, got the grocery shopping done, we cooked bacon cheeseburgers together once we got home and i'm barely behind on the wordcount *gives myself a silver star sticker* the gold star is for when i'm back on top of the laundry ]

[my check in for day 4 is just over 700, and day 5 is just over 1.2k. this chapter is writing itself pleasantly, so far ]

[auroracloud]

*gives you another silver star sticker* Woo, well done! Especially writing so much despite all else you had to do!

[sylvanwitch]

My exam was today, so I've spent a good portion of the afternoon grading handwritten exam essays. I am not nearly as far along as I'd like, but I have tomorrow off as a grading day (and grades aren't due until Monday morning, in any case), so I'm sure I'll get through them all.

Today's writing was, therefore, a break from grading, and since my conscientiousness/work anxiety won't let me enjoy much 'fun' while there's a pile of work to do, I only managed 376 words on the H50 fic. Those words finished up a scene, however, and left me in a very good place to start tomorrow's writing, so I'll take it. :-)

[falkner]

It sounds like you were productive both on work and on fun writing things!

[sylvanwitch]

I do try to give myself a break from the stuff I don't want to do by doing stuff that I do want to do, but it doesn't always balance out. (This is why I should never, ever, ever play addictive computer games...a lesson I am still learning. *grins*)

[auroracloud]

Good for managing even that much writing on a grading day, I'd definitely find it tough to manage as much after such work. And finishing a scene is always nice! Glad you have enough time to do the grading, hope you've managed to progress nicely enough so you don't have to stress through the weekend.

[alexseanchai]

I added some bits to the five-or-maybe-six-part "three-sentence" fic.

[auroracloud]

Maybe you can check how many sentences you've got when it's finished! It's fun when stories grow totally beyond their original target like that. :-D

[alexseanchai]

I could, but why?

(THIS IS A DIFFERENT FIC. I started this around midnight! Thirty hours after my above comment!)

[alexcat]

Worked on marvel bang a little - 715 words.

[auroracloud]

That's a very nice amount of writing for one day!

[sierranovembr]

I wrote today! Just a couple of sentences, but I have been having trouble getting going at all, so there's something. Finally got started on an idea I've had for a while.

[auroracloud]

A couple of sentences is a good start! Especially if you're getting started on an idea you've had longer. Good luck keeping up the writing! Even sentence or two a day keeps it in your mind at least and usually makes it easier to start on another day, and again another, etc. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

I agree with that kitten in the icon.

I edited one old fanfic and posted it to Ao3 and somehow I thought I had way more on Mischief Christmas but I only managed 294 words.

[auroracloud]

The kitten is very right!

Yay on both fanfic and and your Christmas story front! And even if the word count isn't staggering, it may still be much in content! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks I'm on the last scene so it's almost there.

[china_shop]

6th: More rewrites on that same ficlet. I over-corrected, so now I'm trying to find a middle ground. *keeps poking it until it works*

[auroracloud]

Ahh, the perils and difficulties of editing! I also have trouble finding the middle ground between fixing too much (and thus getting rid of something good / adding something that doesn't belong there / just the wrong style / etc.) and not fixing enough, so I sympathize. Good luck getting it work!

[silveradept]

I did, in fact, manage to work my way through the issues getting in the way and write out a prompt fill after several false leads and branches that had to be pruned back because they were leading away from what was requested. Call it about 1k, plus the something-k in putting together a new post for the weekly project.

[auroracloud]

Congrats for working your way through the issues and getting the prompt fill written! That's great!

[carenejeans]

So, I wrote a few alibi sentences, and worked on the nonfiction project. Nothing exciting. I'm hoping to do a bit more tomorrow. We'll see. 8-)

[auroracloud]

A few alibi sentences is better than nothing at all, and yay for the nonfiction project as well. Good luck!

[st_aurafina]

600 words of tentacle porn!!! (I feel like I should have some kind of majestic fanfare!)

[falkner]

excitedly plays a very loud fanfare

(I just imagined some kind of tentacle marching band, with a bunch of tentacles playing the different instruments... maybe I'm more tired than I thought.)

[auroracloud]

*many-tentacled fanfare!*

Have fun! :-D

(I'm afraid that despite my 150 icons, I couldn't find a suitable one for this topic.)

[ysilme]

Despite it being another horribly hot day, I had a good writing spree in the evening and wrote 1200 words, a bit for my crazy crossover and a large piece of a blog entry.

[auroracloud]

Yay for managing to write a lot despite the heat, in the end!

[ellieet]

Well done for what you're doing! I congratulate you.

Is it too late to be added into this? No worries if so; just sounds like a jolly good incentive.

[auroracloud]

Thank you! And you can join any time, doesn't matter which day of the month it is! It's always nice to have more people along. :-) Just start commenting which day(s) you wrote on in the daily check-in posts, and you're in. Did you write on some of the days of this month already? I can add you into the tally. :-)

[ellieet]

Thankyou! Well, I certainly did some writing today and yesterday. I'm working on a couple of small Sherlock ficlets but also a lot of Endeavour. There's a long Endeavour fic I'm slowly trundling away on; it's that new fandom passion, I've got about a dozen different ideas at once. :D Would be pleased to be part of this, thankyou.

[auroracloud]

All right, I'm adding you on the tally for... day 6 and 7, am I right? Thank you for joining us, and just check in on the daily posts - and if you miss a check-in, no worries, just check in whenever it suits you. I have a bit more of "what this is and how it works" in the Day 1 post if you didn't check that out yet.