Write Every Day: Day #6

[auroracloud]

Oops, I lost track of time working on my Second Doctor era manifesto... I'm so bad at being concise, and trying to squeeze things down to readable length takes time. Almost done, though. But here's a quick check-in post so I don't forget it! I'll answer your comments either later, or tomorrow, depending on how tired I am when the manifesto's done.

Today's Writing

Mostly the manifesto, but I did add a few sentences to the fic I started. And I browsed some research literature and had some Ideas for the novel.

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, cassini, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, ysilme

Day 5: alexseanchai, alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, yantantether, ysilme

Day 6: 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

[alexseanchai]

Wrote a three-sentence fic, and it is actually three sentences this time. It's most of three hundred words, but it's only three sentences...

[auroracloud]

Woo, yay three sentences! Doesn't matter how long they are, they're still sentences! (I wonder if I should try three-sentence fics. I need to learn to be more concise. Then again, I have a tendency towards run-on sentences...)

[cassini]

[can i be tacked onto the day 4 tally please? my late check in has left me off the list slightly :3 ]

[i've tried to get back on the art wagon i fell off at the end of last month, which isn't going well and wasting a lot of my creativity. gotta reconfigure. managed to get 1.1k written before i started wrestling with pixels though, so i've got that ]

[auroracloud]

Oops, sorry about that! That's what I get for posting quickly. I'll add you there right away.

Ooh, art as well as lots of writing! Glad you managed to be so creative and productive, congratulations!

[cassini]

[easy done, i couldn't manage this hosting, i'd be forgetting left n right x3 and ty ]

[china_shop]

7th: More ficlet edits and way too long fruitlessly looking for a title...

[auroracloud]

Good luck with both edits and title! Oh, titles are my bane, I sympathise! I spend way too long looking for titles, too. I should probably just look up a title generator (I'm sure someone's created one, this is the internet we're talking about) and then hope the total randomness inspires people to read the fic itself.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for fandom manifestos! I love it! :-)

I had 35 more handwritten exam essays to struggle through today, and as of this posting, I have eight left, so I'm feeling pretty accomplished (though less so when I realize I have to go back down to the TV room and grade them before I can let myself watch any more H50 *sighs*).

Anyway, I did my writing in two chunks: first thing in the morning, while the coffee was brewing; and early afternoon, before I worked myself up to doing the grading. I added 917 words to the H50 fic.

[auroracloud]

It was fun! Even if I took way too long to create it!

Whew, that's a lot of exam essays to go through! And congratulations for also managing a lot of writing on the same day. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Managed 291 words on Like Stone for wipbigbang

[auroracloud]

That's great!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[talkingtothesky]

200 words of fic brainstorming. I feel completely blocked and stressed, I can't relax enough to open my brain and access any ideas that might be lurking inside it. To stay on track, I ought to have written 4000 words by now, instead I have 200. Yikes.

[auroracloud]

Ugh, I'm sorry you're having a difficult day, both with stress and not managing to write much. Stress can make it so hard to create, so don't be too hard on yourself. Though I understand feeling worried if you're lagging behind. Good luck, hope that you'll soon find your flow and the words start coming easily! Some stories just take their time.

[yantantether]

I was having a bit of a blah day for writing, but managed 174 words.

[auroracloud]

That's good for a blah day especially!

[shopfront]

Belated check in for days 3 and 4, where I didn't really write except to finish some late exchange letters - one of which very nearly broke me oh god (note to future me, stop doing exchanges with matching for prompt tags) so I'm counting it as proper words.

[auroracloud]

My sympathies - and if exchange letters almost break you then it's definitely an extra good reason to count them in your writing! And I hear you - I recently did an exchange with matching for prompt tags, and that was my most exhausting sign-up ever. Not going to try that again any time soon.

[shopfront]

SO exhausted good god. I also wasn't very well, so I can mostly lay it at the door of poor health, but I think too I had gotten comfortable with my largely repeat cut and paste past prompts and tweak them a smidge method of putting together letters. And it's hard to rally for all that extra writing at the best of times, haha. But hallelujah it is done and I need to remember to start my letters for prompt exchanges like during nominations or something *facepalm*

[ysilme]

My slight head cold became a full one, and I kind of don't have the energy to work on my projects... I also got lost a bit in re-reading long parts of the jointly-written fanfic project, started to edit it into a version that can be printed or made into an ebook, and wrote about 400 words for a new scene for it. I'm frustrated that I don't manage to get into the mindspace, and find the energy, to work continuously at any of my various projects in various stages. I know it's more sensible to not be hard on myself, but it feels also as if I'm not getting anything accomplished, although I continuously produce text and work at one edit or another. At least I'm keeping involved in writing as such. *sigh*

[auroracloud]

Ouch, sorry to hear you did get a full proper cold. *hands over ginger tea and tissues* Hope it doesn't stay for long and you feel better soon. Don't be too hard on yourself, it's really tough to manage writing when you're sick, and my brain seems to always turn into mush when I have the slightest cold. So 400 words is plenty of words on such a day, I say! Rest and take care of yourself, and don't worry about writing much. You'll be able to write more when you've recovered, and that happens sooner if you don't work yourself too hard. ♥

[silveradept]

Congratulations on finishing the manifesto.

Day 6 was a "comments, plotting, and writing a Twitter thread definitely count" day, as I didn't make any progress as such on any of my open projects. I asked a few questions about etiquette so that I know whether to wait or post on them, so now I know.

[auroracloud]

Thank you! And I always count plotting, anyway, when I'm not producing actual story words, because it is a part of writing, and often needed before you can get to the draft-writing. :-)