Write Every Day: Day #11

[auroracloud]

When I've posted this, I'm going to finally start watching Good Omens. I feel I'm so behind, but then again, this is me. The same person who discovered Doctor Who in 2015 and well, you've all seen the results.

I took today very easy, so I'm better now - though I took it easier than I meant to, as I've been weirdly dizzy and weak most of the day. I'm not sure what it is, but at least it's better now than it was earlier, so it's probably going to pass. It can't be heat, because the temperatures are back to reasonable levels.

I've lately been listening to the back episodes of a writing podcast called Write Brain, which deals with the psychology, thoughts and emotions of writing, rather than the craft itself. It's really interesting, the host uses her own experiences as (I assume) very honest examples, and the episodes are nicely bite-sized, with about 15-25 minutes for most of them, so it doesn't take a lot of commitment to listen to one.

I was going to ramble a bit about the topic of the latest one I listened to, but since I'm still not quite well, I'd better leave that for another day. Still, thought I'd drop the link to it here in the case any of you want to give it a listen.

Today's Writing

I did some research reading, and I wrote several hundreds of words of character notes for a side character. I noticed I felt uncomfortable about the storyline I've been thinking about related to that character, but I'm not sure if the discomfort is because it's the kind of thing the story needs exactly because of the reasons I don't like it, or if the discomfort means I shouldn't go that way. I suppose that'll become clear in time - at least writing the notes made me think about this more.

Later I also went through some of my unfinished or first-draft fanfics, and started polishing one of them, adding a bit over 100 new words in the process.

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, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, used_songs, ysilme

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

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

Day 6: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, ellieet, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme

Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, ellieet, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, ysilme, yantantether (14 so far)

Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, ellieet, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (14 so far)

Day 9: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (15 so far)

Day 10: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether (10 so far)

Day 11: china_shop

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Comments

[yantantether]

Sorry to hear about the dizziness!

I wrote about 675 words - the fic has an ending now but there's still a gap in the middle, so hopefully I can sort that out tomorrow.

[auroracloud]

Yay ending, endings are good! Good luck figuring out the gap in the middle! I'm sure you'll sort that out eventually!

[alexseanchai]

"The first time, she wanted to tell more convincing lies. The second time, she wanted to tell more believable lies. This time...I think she wanted to be someone people trust. Or maybe just to be you."

"...I am a lie."

"Huh? —Oh. No. You don't believe that—do you?"

[auroracloud]

Sounds interesting!

[sylvanwitch]

It sounds like you were very productive despite feeling ill. I hope tomorrow is a better day for you, hon. *hugs*

I wrote 999 on the H50 fic. Will it ever end? (Do I want it to? *grins*)

[auroracloud]

*hugs* Thanks. I'm finally feeling physically all right again, the dizziness fortunately went away during the night.

999 is a nice number! And well, the story doesn't need to end before it's ready to end!

[cassini]

[crashing in with my check in for days 10 and 11 ]

[day 10 was just another day of words not happening and quite frankly, an energy crash and a load of sleep. got some notes and some prose, but only 300 of prose. week 2 just hasn't been easy so far, i perhaps should have taken an alibi sentence day and stopped trying to force words out. *shrug* will bear that in mind for next time ]

[for day 11, i cancelled my social stuff, spent 5 hours on art and did some more of that sleeping stuff around cooking and refuelling. then sat down for writing hour, and got the 1k words out. currently having a sherbet lollipop to celebrate ]

[auroracloud]

Sorry you had an anergy crash. Sounds like you're finding ways of dealing with it, at least - sleep is good, and it can be good self-care to sometimes cancel engagements when you're not feeling up for it. It's indeed a good idea to sometimes just take alibi sentence days and not try to force words out. The words may just be incubating and the writing may go better when you don't try to force it and let it take its time even if it means some days of not writing much. Of course, the trick is to recognize when it's such a time! But I've noticed it gets easier the more writing you do. Congratulations for getting the writing groove going again on the 11th, though! You definitely deserved that sherbet lollipop. :-)

[sierranovembr]

Enjoy watching Good Omens! I loved it.

I wrote 266 words today.

[auroracloud]

I only had time to watch the first episode so far, but I loved it! Will definitely try to watch more tomorrow. :-)

Yay for words!

[cornerofmadness]

I went and joined buffyversebingo and wrote 1516 words for one story in like an hour. Go figure

[auroracloud]

Sounds like your creative mind wanted to do something like that! Yay for all that productivity!

[cornerofmadness]

It was thrilled by the prompt that's for sure

[navaan]

I did some canon review and have some decisions to make I have the option of 4 prompts in my sign-up and I find all of them great. So which one to go with??

Overall I went over some mods posts and wrote about 500 words.

[auroracloud]

Sounds great! Good luck choosing your prompt! It's a good thing to have options, at least. :-)

[china_shop]

Hope you feel better soon!

12th: About 1800 words of a new ficlet... I wasn't quite expecting that! (It's a missing scene/expansion of a canon scene, so it's not exactly ground-breaking, but apparently I have a lot to say!)

[auroracloud]

Thanks, I've been better today, fortunately. :-)

Wow, that's an awesomely productive day! It's kind of amazing when a story just takes flight like that, isn't it? And who cares about groundbreaking, I know I'm happy to read all the missing scenes / expansions of canon that I find in my fandoms. :-)

[silveradept]

I finished up a prompt fill and wasn't sure how to post it, and also got some encouragement from another to post the thing and put all of those posts elsewhere for another audience to enjoy. Which still trips some of the deep-seated "but it's not actually good, so why would others want to see it?" brainweasels, even though other things I have done received a significant amount of positive feedback.

I'll get there, but I'll also want to clean up the typographical errors and such, too.

[auroracloud]

Good luck evading the brainweasels! In my experience, the people who are worried their stories aren't good enough are often writing the really good stuff. So I hope you soon get to posting them! But of course it's good to leave time for cleaning up the typos and such. :-)

[carenejeans]

I hope you're better soon.

Today I worked on the nonfiction project; no fiction writing.

[auroracloud]

Thank you, I've fortunately been better today. Good for getting words on the non-fiction project even if fiction writing didn't happen. :)

[ysilme]

I've given up the attempt to ever be up to date with anything. I never manage, which frustrates me to no end, and also often leaves me way behind, nearly with everything that is fandom-related. But I found out the hard way that I'm incapable of reading as fast, commenting as fast, let alone watching/reading source material as fast as the average fanperson. As far as watching goes, it's a question of sensory overload issues due to my autism; binge watching is totally out of the question for me, and even watching a whole movie or one or two episodes of a series every day results isn't possible for more than four days in a row without a "free" day. Part of me is saddened by this, because I feel I'm inadequate even as a fanperson, and not only with everything in real life. The rest of me struggles along and tries to get my joy out of it all the same, but I'm also never feeling really part of anything due to this, as I'm always the one who isn't up to date, didn't manage this or that and so on.
So I can totally relate to you feeling behind! And I hope you're having a lot of fun with Good Omens. (I've put that on the back-burner for a while, too, as we've just started to continue with GoT, and found we hadn't even finished Season 5 when Siljan lost interested and we stopped watching it on DVD.)

Thank you for the podcast link! It sounds very interesting. I tried the latest episode, but I'm afraid this is one of those which are un-listenable for me. Due to my sensory issues, I can't listen to certain sound qualities, particularly very jarring/squeaky voices and the dull breath and bumping noises you often hear on unedited recordings. Unfortunately, this podcast seems to combine all my sound issues, and I find I can't concentrate on what they're saying due to it. Turning down the volume doesn't help as it then gets too low... Perhaps I'll download an episode and try if it's getting better with a simple editing as soon as I'm trough with reinstalling my desktop.

For my tally: Monday (the 10th) was a great writing day for me; I wrote a long blog entry, wrote new scenes for the edit of the joint story project, and wrote over 1k for the joint story project at our weekly session in the evening, which adds up to 2,8k, plus over an hour of editing for the joint story project as well. On the other hand, yesterday (11th) only brought me about 35 new words written on my phone, although I managed another hour of editing later on.

[auroracloud]

I try not to worry too much about being up to date, because honestly, I'm used to always being the odd one out having weird interests, so the fact that anyone is into the same things as I am is always a plus! Doctor Who is the first time since Harry Potter that I'm into a really big fandom. Sometimes I wish I had more of the fandoms that "everyone" else is into, but honestly, I just want to read and watch the things I like. And while I read pretty fast, TV gives me sensory overload easily, too.

I gave up on Game of Thrones ages ago; it was too violent and brutal for me and even reading reviews/recaps makes my mental health issues flare. I'll much rather watch Good Omens!

Ah, sorry the podcast didn't work for you. I'm also pretty sensitive with auditive stuff; I'm not on the autism spectrum or anything, just your garden variety high sensitivity that's especially strong on the auditive stuff. But clearly my sensitive points are different from yours, since this podcast doesn't bother me, so I probably won't know when to warn you for possible problems, alas. I do wish she had a better microphone, but it's good enough that I can listen to it, which doesn't go for all podcasts I've tried. I frequently can't listen to even much recommended podcasts because I can't deal with someone's voice or accent, so I understand you, even if I didn't have those issues with this podcast. I'm sure there are plenty of other good writing-related podcasts out there that you can listen to more easily. I don't know a lot of them, but if you want to try something, you could give Writing Excuses a try; they've got very good sound quality and at least I personally haven't had problems with their voices. The approach is different, but they have writing prompts and such which is a nice bonus. :-)

Congrats for such a productive day for Monday! And an hour of editing on Tuesday is great, even if you didn't write a lot of new words.

[st_aurafina]

Yesterday I wrote a 500 word dreamwidth post, and today, 500 words more of tentacle porn. (Which I am really enjoying! But it's not as porny as it was at the start of the fic.)

I hope you enjoy Good Omens!

[auroracloud]

Glad you're enjoying the tentacle porn, even if it's not as porny anymore! I personally do like plot mixed with the porn, so all the better! :-)

Yes, I enjoyed the first episode very much!

[alexcat]

About 218 words on that Pwp still... life is making my writing time rather short these days.

[auroracloud]

Glad you're still managing to create some words despite not having a lot of time. :-)

[talkingtothesky]

I got 1200 words of brainstorming. Lot of catching up to do (word wise, and I haven't seen GO either). Will probably fall further behind though.

It seems like you're doing really well (research AND thinking AND editing), even while things are less than ideal right now. ♥

[auroracloud]

Yay for lots of brainstorming!

Yeah, I'm glad I managed to get some writing-related stuff out of yesterday, even if I was less than well. :-)