Write Every Day, June Day #17

[auroracloud]

I'm back home now, and promptly crashed as soon as I got here. I was more tired than I'd realized, though I had been pretty darn sleepy all day today. It's probably mainly because I've slept kind of poorly at least for the past week or so - besides going to bed too late on some days, I've also kept waking up too early, perhaps because the mornings get light so early now. I do wear a sleep mask when it's light, but it tends to come off at some point. Also, if I put it on when I went to sleep, it'd probably be off by the time it's actually light, so I tend to just put it on when I first wake up from the light. Maybe the very early dawn now is messing up my sleep patterns. Anyway, I just took at least two hours to be able to even drag myself out of bed.


Today's Writing

I added some bits to the short story again in the afternoon, amounting to a little over 100 words. Though since I haven't really figured out what it's about (I had an idea when I started, but I think it's about something else, and I don't know what yet), I felt like I wanted to write something else, but I'm just soooo tired. I started another Cottoncandy ficlet, in a new fandom, but I managed as many as 48 words, and my creative brain ran out of power mid-sentence. So I think that's it for today. I did listen to some podcasts that might sorta count towards novel research in a very broad and general way.

And I looked at my research books and thought for a second or so about picking one up, but I don't think that counts.

How about you all?

Tally

Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, luzclarita, ofmonstrouswords, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, used_songs, ysilme

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, ofmonstrouswords, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, ysilme

Day 3: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, ofmonstrouswords, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, used_songs, ysilme

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

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

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

Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, ellieet, ofmonstrouswords, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, ysilme, yantantether (15 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, ofmonstrouswords, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r, yantantether, ysilme (16 so far)

Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, ofmonstrouswords, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r, yantantether, ysilme (17 so far)

Day 12: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, ofmonstrouswords, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r, yantantether, ysilme (15 so far)

Day 13: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, ofmonstrouswords, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r, yantantether, ysilme (15 so far)

Day 14: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, used_songs, ysilme (11 so far)

Day 15: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejean, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, silveradept, sylvanwitch, ysilme (10 so far)

Day 16: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch (10 so far)

Day 17: china_shop

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Comments

[auroracloud]

Wow, another amazingly productive writing day for you! Congrats! Hope AO3 started cooperating and you got your fic posted. :-)

[alexseanchai]

I did! Check out my kudos count, unless the next kudos holds off for 2h this'll be my new fastest to 100 kudos

...

this is not helping my brain's conviction that less sustained effort gets more reward

[auroracloud]

Oh, wow! You definitely get some response. Awesome! :-) (...I only have one fic that even has over 100 kudos, and it's been up for several months.)

[alexseanchai]

Juggernaut pairing, megafandom, and I gather people have been reading my ML fic long enough to know they like it and rec it? so like.

but I am still floored every time I see a kudos count has just crossed a number ending in 00.

[auroracloud]

Yeah, that sort of thing helps! I'm still fairly recent for all my fandoms, and I have one big fandom and a handful of small or medium-sized ones, but even in the big fandom I mostly don't write the most popular pairings. I also write a lot of ken, which tends to get read less than shippy fic. (Considering how much more attention my Thirteenth Doctor fics get than anything else, I should probably try to write even one Thirteen/Yaz just for statistical observation reasons. *g* I mean, I do like the idea as well, I just haven't had good story ideas for them yet. And I have a contrary nature that tends to shy away from really popular pairings.) But megafandom and juggernaut pairing or not, you're clearly getting a great reception in any case, so yay for that! ♥

And I totally get still being floored by that! Even with my much more modest numbers, I still sometimes go to my stats just to stare at that one kudos rate above 100, or at the particularly good hits-to-kudos rate on some fics. :-)