Write Every Day, June Day #20

[auroracloud]

We're 2/3 of the way through the month already! How did that happen? Anyone want to comment on how your month has been passing so far, writing-wise? I'm pretty okay with mine as far as word counts and such go, and the novel planning/researching is trudging along okay, and hopefully there'll be new fics to publish soon with the aid of bingos.

Another thing I'm 2/3 of the way through is Good Omens. Just watched Episode 4. Loving this so much, would watch more if I wasn't so incredibly sleepy. But one episode in an evening is maybe a good pace for me, even if I feel odd being this much slower than other people. But it's not that I don't love it, I'm just a bit slow at watching TV shows, and I want to watch it when I know I can focus on it properly.

Loving how incredibly shippy it is, also.

Today's Writing

Some novel research again, mainly in form of reading a book that's sorta related, plus listening to a podcast episode that happened to be quite relevant. I also wrote some fic, finishing the first draft of another one of my Cottoncandy Bingo fics, and starting another. I seem to be working on a different bingo line than the one I thought I'd be working on. But hey, as long as I get something written! Should get around to editing the first two fics I've got so they'll eventually be publishable.

I also need to remember to try to get something written for the current who_contest round - I love the theme and I've got ideas, but I should see if any of the ideas are actually willing to get written. Not that many days left before the deadline for that...

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

Day 19: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sierranovembr, silvercat, sylvan_witch (9 so far)

Day 20: china_shop, sierranovembr (already checked in)

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

[shopfront]

Ack, fly by checkin (why so busy etcetera :|) but wrote 18-20th! \o/

[auroracloud]

Yay for writing! I'll add you into the tally for those days. Hope things get less busy soon!

[cassini]

[three days of check ins from me, was away from the desktop 18th & 19th and had very little of interest to say >m< ]

[just done my word counts, 200 on the 18th (bleh.), 250 on the 19th (meh.) and 1.6k today (finally.). the 1.6k may be completely useless for my wip but i think i'm gonna keep with it for a bit, it's been more entertaining ]

[still playing catch up on the overall wordcount goal but it's within reach. i'm still on the reasoning of quantity over quality this year. next year i can work on polish and poetry, this year is all about building the mechanical habit and just pushing words out no matter how unhappy i might think i feel about them ]

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[auroracloud]

That's fine, I'll add you for each of these days!

Sorry you had a couple of less productive days, but it happens to all of us. The important thing is to keep writing, even if on some days it's not a lot. As you say, it's a good idea to build up the habits and learn how to produce words even if you're unhappy about the quality at the moment of writing. That's definitely how the writing has worked for me. When I've learned the habit of writing regularly, it's much easier to produce content, and then I can start sorting out the bad and the good and what I can improve and what I can't, and start doing something better out of it. I require a few rewrites per draft anyway, so the important thing is to have a first draft to work with, not that the first draft needs to be particularly good. You can't edit text that doesn't exist, after all. And, as a podcast I listened to said today, to become a good writer, you have to first be a bad writer - so even if you don't like what you've written, it's a step on the way to writing something better, and without that step you won't get ahead. Besides, we're often our own worst critics, and often something that I didn't think was that good when I wrote it turns out to be better later, when I reread it with more distance.

*cheers you on*

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for working on various projects today! :-)

As for Good Omens, I haven't even started it yet (my H50 S1-9 complete watch isn't done yet--I think I have 14 eps left of the S9), so don't feel too badly about your viewing pace. :-)

I added 774 words to the H50 fic, bringing it up to just a little over 34K. I think we're going to have another sex scene and then a bit of a wrap-up of the main case of the fic, and then the first draft will be done.

[auroracloud]

It's a bit weird the way these days, on the one hand it's easy to feel you should watch everything immediately, though on the other hand we've got those things at our disposal any time we want. I have a bunch of big Good Omens fans among my local friends, who all watched it within the first few days, and I have loved the book since my teens, too, so it feels a bit weird to be "behind", but I want to enjoy it by taking my time. And when it got online, I was in the middle of watching a Classic Who story, and wanted to finish that before I started something else. Enjoy your own rewatch!

Woo hoo, congratulations for being so close to done with the fic! It's a novella now! Hope you have fun with the sex scene. :-)

[alexseanchai]

yesterday, prompted thing on tumblr

later yesterday, soc_puppet added thing to their plunny hutch

subsequently, commented there with further detail on a possible such story

after midnight, updated comment with more detail

concluded edited comment "...wait shit"

linked to thread from my plunny hutch

also other stuff but like if I wanted to write this idea I would not have tossed it to tumblr all "free to a good home" to begin with

[auroracloud]

Heh, I haven't even actively thought of giving up unwanted plotbunnies for adoption! Probably because I'm too busy seeing which plotbunnies I can actually work into something. Though it does sound like a good idea, because someone else could maybe work with an idea that doesn't work for me.

[china_shop]

21st: No actual adding-words-to-a-fic yet, but a fair amount of free-writing/note-taking/brain-storming in my notebook... including at 3am. *eyes brain askance*

[auroracloud]

Yay for free-writing/note-taking/brain-storming! I quite enjoy that. Though I don't enjoy it so much at 3 am... Hope your brain starts using more reasonable hours soon!

[alexcat]

Got around 500 words today.

[auroracloud]

Well done!

[cornerofmadness]

I just submitted Mischief Christmas so I guess the writing is going okay. Spent the day doing the writers group critiques and managed 411 words on Like Stone so progress

[auroracloud]

Go you for submitting it! And writers' group critiques and such are useful also for your own writing, I've noticed. Also, yay for progress on the new story!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. I've been part of various writers group for nearly 30 years now. Occasionally you get the toxic person but for the most part they are very helpful if for moral support if nothing else

[silveradept]

A little bit of adding words to fic, but today's output was mostly adding back another entry into the queue of weekly posts, finishing what I'd started yesterday. And avoiding writing a line as a comment that would essentially be "Call off your sockpuppet, you're not making friends by "correcting" the analysis nor by insisting the original canon is as close to perfect in every way as it can be."

Did more reading of fic and trying to help someone else out with how potential work skins might go for them.

[auroracloud]

Sounds good! Sounds like you were active in plenty of fronts.

[carenejeans]

I worked on the nonfiction project for most of the day. It's coming along, but ack. So many little blurbs to write.

Typing that, it occurs to me that maybe this project and the novel are too different, and maybe that's why I'm having so much trouble concentrating on longer writing. Hm. Argh.

8-/

[auroracloud]

That could very well be! Two really different kinds of writing may be hard to do in the same day. I usually have to take a break between projects if I work more than one in a day, but with nonfiction the difference is bigger. I have some friends who are/have been academic researchers, and who also try to write fiction, and they find it really hard to get into the fiction writing mode after doing academic writing. I imagine it can often be the same with other forms of nonfiction.