Write Every Day, June Day #13

[auroracloud]

I slept in something crazy today - I don't have to be anywhere, seeing as I'm not working at the moment, but it did rather throw off my schedules and made me not very productive at all today.

Anyway, I'm just leaving this here quickly in the hope that I have time to watch another episode of Good Omens before I'm too sleepy and have to go to bed.

Today's Writing

I started drawing timelines on paper, to create both the main history timeline and separate timelines for each of my protagonists, but I didn't get terribly far. Still, it'll hopefully be useful while I figure out a more efficient way to do timelines.

I wrote more character notes for supporting characters. More of them are coming alive and giving me ideas, I love it! I also feel I really shouldn't hold back the writing itself for much longer, because there's so much I still find out only when I'm writing the first draft (or the second, third etc.).

I also wrote down ideas for fics for the Cottoncandy Bingo, but I didn't get to actually writing any fic.

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, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r, yantantether, ysilme (15 so far)

Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r, yantantether, ysilme (16 so far)

Day 12: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r, yantantether, ysilme (14 so far)

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]

I wrote 300 words, which finished off the ficlet I started yesterday. Now I mostly need to do a lot of editing of the story I finished yesterday, plus this new one!

[auroracloud]

Congrats for finishing, and good luck with all the editing! :-)

[sylvanwitch]

You sound prepped and ready to start the first draft--that's awesome! I'm looking forward to hearing more about it (and to catching up on your writing posts).

I wrote 936 words of the H50 fic before spending the majority of the day cleaning and doing chores. The biggest project, and the one I'd been dragging my heels on, was moving books to make room for more books. I had to clear a tall shelf of geek-related stuff (eg. action figures and the like) so that I could move books there. Then, I had to integrate recently read books into my collection. (This is the sci-fi/fantasy section of the library, which is down in our big television room, where we also have our DVD collection.) Anyway, it feels really good to have it all done (and that there are no longer stacks of books upstairs waiting to be shelved downstairs). Yay, me!

[cassini]

[moving books to make room for more books - slice of my domestic life right there. except i'm procrastinating so. very. badly. feeling really guilty because i just stashed my wife's tabletop stuff and models in a cupboard ]

[sylvanwitch]

I feel you on the procrastination. When it got to the point that the stacked books on the upstairs desk were posing a health hazard to our cats, I figured it was time to actually bite the bullet and shelve them. I hope you find the same motivation, minus the bodily peril for any furkids (or humans) in your life. :-)

[auroracloud]

Well, I do still have some things to sort out before I feel I can actually start writing without running into problems in the first chapters, but there's not a lot of that kind of stuff anymore, so I definitely look forward to starting. :-)

Sounds like you had an active day! Both lots of writing and lots of chores! I mostly don't manage that much of either in an average day, it seems. ;-)

And yeah, I also sometimes have to move books to make room for other books. I've pulled out lots of books I've decided I can give up... Which means they're sitting in piles on my bedroom floor, while I'm waiting to remember to take them to the library recycling shelf or a charity shop. And then I get used to them and they don't go anywhere. Oops.

[alexseanchai]

yyyep that's 1100 goddamn words of fml.

the next scene still only works in my head if Adrien approaches "Lila". if Chat Noir does, it won't go. but I cannot think of a compelling enough reason for him to be Adrien at the time, and I have thought of several for him to be Chat Noir. also this wasn't supposed to get massively into metaphysics. and I don't want to write the angst-path ending, no matter how much sense it makes, even if it does pivot right into a bright future. never mind the angst-path ending when it does not so pivot and therefore there has to be a sequel in which Marinette is refusing to let Chat Noir tell her the thing that, unbeknownst to her, will answer the question of why Adrien is avoiding her!

fmlll

[auroracloud]

Ooh, great, sounds like you're having a productive and creative time of it!

[cassini]

[somehow i wrote 1.4k today while playing slightly too much tropico 5. it's been an emotional-pick-me-up-day because it's back to work tomorrow and i most definitely have some household stuff to do before then. feeling a little more equipped to tackle it all though ]

[auroracloud]

Hopefully the writing helped with facing the chores and the return to work!

[sierranovembr]

I wrote 515 words today to finish up a bingo fill that I had stalled out on back in March. That was great.

[auroracloud]

Congrats on finishing, and on managing to finish a stalled fic from a few months back, that's great indeed! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Started slow but got 774 words on Like Stone so that was good.

[auroracloud]

Glad you had a productive day despite the slow start!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[ofmonstrouswords]

uh, scrawled a hasty poem while in the bathroom at work and did some character-sorting on one of my WIPs this morning. also journalled.

not as much as I would have liked but it's something.

(also i've written every day this month except the 8th and 9th. i've just been terrible about checking in, which is pretty usual for me.)

[auroracloud]

All right, I'll add you on the tally for all the days you've written! I might not go back and edit all the posts separately, though, but I'll definitely add you to the newest one. :-D And glad you managed some writing even if it wasn't a lot now!

[ofmonstrouswords]

awesome, thank you! and yeah, no, I would not expect you to do it on all previous posts, hahaha. that would be way too much work. XD

[china_shop]

13th & 14th: I wrote about 2200 words over the last two days, finished my ficlet (there is KISSING \o/\o/\o/) and sent it to beta. Then I had a bath and made notes for two new ficlets, argh. (The to-write list never gets any shorter! ;-)

[auroracloud]

Woo hoo finishing ficlet, and kissing and starting new ficlets! And tell me about it, no sooner have you finished a fic than two others at least are waiting to take its place!

[carenejeans]

I had a hard time concentrating today. But I ended up doing some organizing and researching and thinking, then added more notes to a long thing I'm writing on books, book collecting, decluttering, bookshops, e-books, and other bookish things.

It's not exactly free-writing; more like ruminating. 8-)

[auroracloud]

Good for you for getting organizing, researching, thinking and notes done even if it was hard to concentrate on other kinds of writing!

[talkingtothesky]

I started watching Good Omens and was instantly, overwhelmingly inspired to write things for/with it. I definitely don't have time for a new fandom right now, but. I got 1600 words and am less behind on my monthly goal, yay! (I really tried not to jump on this train. I resisted it for 2 whole weeks.)

[auroracloud]

I can understand the desire and inspiration to write things! I feel somewhat tempted, too, though I have only watched two episodes so far. There are so many things you could just... take and run away with, only creatively. Yay for lots of words and being less behind your goal, anyway!

[alexcat]

I got started on something today and got 1850 words.

[auroracloud]

That's a lot of writing!

[ysilme]

Yay for your novel planning/drafting going along! I find it very exciting to read about it, and to kind of follow you a bit how you're going about the planning, technic-wise. I've never been very organised in this regard, insofar as I didn't think about what I'd need to plan, just made lists and notes and stuff when the items on them came along during the writing (I hope that makes any kind of sense?). Like, I only went out and made a decent mind-map when I was stuck with something. On the other hand, I feel I'm generally a bit at a stalling point in my writing right now, and organising my content in a better way might just be what I need to get over the small hurdles I've encountered here and there. I've become good in organising my files, notes, research info and such, but I kind of put my head into the sand regarding also the inner organisation. Realising this is also kind of embarrassing as I'd have sworn I was doing this all the time, but I just thought I did. *g*
My tally: 116 new words plus the usual one or two hours of editing.

[auroracloud]

I'm still figuring out just how I do my planning and drafting - I know I can't get super-organized like having every scene outlined, because I just find out so much only when I'm writing. But at the same time, I'm much more likely to go on and turn out something I like when, with longer works, I have some planning done. I've been thinking of writing a bit more about this process, so I may do it some day. :-)

Yay for getting new words as well as editing in!

[tinx_r]

And lo, 2000 words have been achieved and the thing is done. Wow. I haven't written that much that quick in years!

[auroracloud]

Yay, congratulations! Deadlines are sometimes the best muse. :-)

[silveradept]

Only a few scattered words of revision and expansion in a couple things, mostly because I agreed to essentially repaint my bathroom between tonight and tomorrow ("tonight" meaning the 13th.)

[auroracloud]

Whew, that sounds like a lot of work, so good for getting any revision/writing in as well!