Write Every Day: Welcome and Day #1

[auroracloud]

This month, we're doing Write Every Day over here at my journal. Welcome all who want to join for this month, old and possible new participants alike!

What it's about

Some people have been doing this challenge for nearly two years; I joined in August when I started using LJ, and have found it very helpful for my writing, and am happy to host it this month. The basic idea is, well, what it says: the goal is to write something every day. I make a post for each day, and keep a tally of everyone who's written each day. No minimum word count, no quality requirements, no competition. Even if all you write is one sentence, you've written. Fanfic, original fiction, nonfiction, all is good. In comments we can talk about what we've been writing, how it's going, chat/vent/cheer/whatever.

I've found this super-helpful, because even on a day when I seem to have no time or energy or ideas, it gets me to write at least that one sentence, and usually it turns to more than that. Even when it's just that one sentence, it keeps the writing for me and makes it easier to write more on other days. I used to do the same thing on my own a few years back, and it was the best writing time I'd had, but it works even better when you're doing it together with others.

There are regulars who've been doing this for quite some time, most longer than I have, but anyone who wants to try it can join any time. Just let me know and start commenting! You can drop out any time, too. If you don't manage to check in every day, I can add you to the tally afterwards. For more of an idea of how it has worked in the past, you can see this overview post that navaan has made of each month's first and last posts.

Since this is my first time hosting: if you people notice I'm doing something differently than I should, just let me know. The basic idea is quite simple, but just saying this in the case I miss something!

So, let's get started!

Today's writing:

So far, I did a little bit of planning for the novel idea I'm working on, and a couple of sentences of my Yuletide fic. I hope to do some more fic later, I really want to get the first draft into a shape soon. EDIT: I added a few more sentences; altogether a little over 100 words today. I really need to get more productive writing-wise over the next days. I don't know what happened to today. But still, progress.

What about the rest of you?

Comments

[miss-morland.livejournal.com]

A little under 400 words on my YT fic, which refuses to be done. *sob*

[ysilme]

Hi, new participant (I hope) here! I'm a flistie of Miss Morland's and have joined her hosting this two years ago or so during NaNo. Measuring my writing progress in whatever way is really helpful for me, too, so seeing Miss Morland's daily posts about the challenge motivated me to join you all and see how it works for me.
I'm mainly involved in the Tolkien (Silmarillion) fandom and have just finished my fourth NaNo. I also rebelled for the first time, editing a former NaNo story which is a Tolkien fanfic I hope to finish during the next months - I'm horribly slow with anything that's not an exchange or challenge story... I'm still winding down from the NaNo craze and of having been away for a week of holidays, so a bit over 300 token words are all I've got to show for today.

[esteliel.livejournal.com]

An entire chapter of my slavefic edited and posted, phew. This was... a very iddy chapter, which showed in the amount of work editing took. (I know I have my favourite words, but no one needs to sob 5 times in two paragraphs... /o\)

[avon.livejournal.com]

I really want to finish my first draft of NaNo by the end of the year, so I wrote like 600 words on that (and a bunch of words for work). Tomorrow - more spero or edit Yuletide? Questions questions. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I added 108 words to my novel Blood Red Roulette while editing it and got 150 words of a new Steampunk story. I did more editing than writing today.