Write Every Day, June Day #18

[auroracloud]

Oops, how did it get to be midnight in my time zone already? It's not like I was doing anything useful for the past half an hour... And I wonder why my sleep schedule gets messed up.

Anyway, tonight I went to see a cinema screening of the Royal Opera House's production of the Romeo and Juliet ballet. It was incredibly beautiful. I've seen that ballet a few times in different versions, but this one was by far the most emotional and intense, and the most gorgeous as well. Even though I didn't see it live, only on cinema screen.

It made me feel quite refreshed and renewed, and I also felt more creative afterwards. I do recommend for all writers and other creative types to try to regularly immerse yourself in other forms of art, experiences, etc. It doesn't have to be something expensive like going to the opera (though operas often have cheap seats) - maybe you can just go to a place near you that you haven't visited, to a shop or a market selling interesting items, some free art gallery or concert, try a food you haven't before, something. It can really help in "filling the well" of your creativity, and give you new points of view, so I'd especially recommend if you feel like your creativity is running dry or you're getting stuck.

Today's Writing

I finally got to doing some research reading again - it wasn't a lot, but later in the evening it also inspired a scene/dialogue in my head, and I wrote a part of it in my notebook. I've done this on a few occasions - let's hope that I can later figure out in which notebook(s) I've done it. For all I know, this might be how the novel-writing will get me - suddenly I'll just notice I'm already writing it.

ETA: And 255 words more for one of the Genprompt Bingo fics. I wasn't supposed to write anything anymore, but I looked at it and suddenly there were words coming.

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: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, silveradept, sylvanwitch (9 so far)

Day 18: china_shop


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Comments

[alexseanchai]

added a couple sentences to the post–Gamer 2.0 fic, that counts, right?

hopefully not done for the day but I feel so spectacularly crappy

[auroracloud]

Anything counts, including a couple of sentences, definitely! :-) Sorry you're feeling poorly, I hope it improves later. ♥

[st_aurafina]

I ended up doing a midnight writing sprint last night - not sure if I should count that as today or yesterday?? What are time zones??

[auroracloud]

Time zones, who knows! I tend to divide the days from when I go to sleep, so say, if I wrote at 1 am tonight (I hope not), I'd still count it for today though it's technically the next day. But counting it for the actual day in the calendar at that hour also makes lots of sense. I can put you down for the 18th for now, and if you prefer to move it to another day, just let me know. Or count it for both if you want, if you were writing on both sides of midnight. :-D

[sylvanwitch]

The ballet sounds lovely, and I completely agree about the efficacy of allowing yourself other creative experiences to open up your own creative valves, so to speak. I'm personally a big fan of art galleries; I love the atmosphere of them, the spaces and light, as well as the art itself. And I do find myself reinvigorated when I come back from an exhibit. (Likewise, a historical exhibit or something of that nature will also help shake me up and get the juices flowing.)

We worked out in the yard clearing a space for a raised bed and then assembling the frame and mixing the soil and filling it in. I'm letting the soil settle overnight, and then I'm going to plant another pollinator bed. It was dirty, sweaty, hard work, but I'm really proud of the new little space for growing things. :-)

Anyway, because I was a little low on energy, I added only 684 to the H50 story. I'm in the climactic scene, though, and I left off at a good spot for tomorrow, so I think it's alright.

[auroracloud]

I have the Finnish Museum Card, which allows you to enter most museums (art museums, history museums, whatever) in Finland for the same yearly fee, however many times you want to visit them. I really should make more use of it, as I love both art museums and history museums, and I have plenty of them in my disposal. I'm somehow not that used to art galleries as such, maybe because I come from much smaller places that didn't really have them, but in Helsinki there are plenty, so I ought to visit them more often, too.

Congrats on all that gardening work! You're creating space for life! :-) And by my counts, 684 is still plenty of words for one day. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Was in the hospital all day with mom, managed to format the Christmas story so I can send it in and got 210 words on like stone

[auroracloud]

Ugh, sorry you have to be stuck there another day as well. :-( Good luck. Well done for getting something done with writing, anyway.

[cornerofmadness]

thank you. was there all day too

[silveradept]

I got some words in on the sequel work, even though that's threatening to mess with my structure ever so slightly and make it a longer work that it actually was planned to be, but what else is new?

[auroracloud]

Well done on getting some words in - and my stories nearly always turn out to be much longer than I planned, so that sounds familiar. :-)

[china_shop]

19th: Spent nearly all day tweaking and re-tweaking a fic, and finally posted it. PHEW!

[auroracloud]

Well done for posting! I know the feeling of tweaking and re-tweaking before finally managing to post it - sometimes it seems like you'll always notice something that still needs to be fixed.

[china_shop]

Yes, and once I've fixed more than a few words, I feel like I need to read the whole thing through again to make sure it still works and I haven't introduced inadvertent word repetition or something. ;-)