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

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

[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.