Write Every Day, June Day #23

[auroracloud]

Today included a shared effort with my mother to bake a strawberry pie, which turned out delicious.

It was a cooler and windier today than was predicted earlier, so I didn't end up going swimming, as I'd planned. Made it a nice day to be out, though, since it wasn't too hot. It's been nice enough here, although I confess I'm getting a bit ready to return home. Which is why it's good I'm doing so tomorrow.

Today's Writing

I wrote a bit more for the possible who_contest entry, though I didn't progress a lot. So I guess I'm only entering if there's an extension, since the current deadline is tomorrow. There's only been one entry so far, however, so an extension might be needed anyway.

I spent some more time doing research reading, though I got a bit sick of it and of the time period I'm researching, so I decided to give it a break. Worked on some more fanfic instead - some editing, and started a new fic for the Cottoncandy Bingo, very shippy and sappy and... cotton candy, I guess. I did end up with over 800 new words, so looks like it was a productive day in the end.

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, talkingtothesky, ysilme (11 so far)

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

Day 17: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (11 so far)

Day 18: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, ysilme (12 so far)

Day 19: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvan_witch, ysilme (12 so far)

Day 20: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, ysilme (12 so far)

Day 21: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (10 so far)

Day 22: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (13 so far)

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Comments

[shopfront]

Checking in for today and belatedly for the 21st. Managed some zero-drafting and catching up on reading today. Which felt like a heroic effort after chasing exchange sign-up and editing deadlines all week boo.

[alexseanchai]

fandomgiftbox is posting boxes for filling, I'm just saying

(by the time anyone actually gets to read the thing I wrote today, I will 100% have forgotten all about it)

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent work today, from pie to cottoncandy! :-) Yay!

I wrote 879 words on the H50 fic this morning, finishing the first draft at a total of 36813 words. I'll probably start editing tomorrow because I've been doing some editing as I go already, so I don't feel the need to let it breathe for a bit. Mostly, I'm going to line edit and look for continuity errors.

Also, I got to spend time with a friend (and former student) of mine today, which was lovely.

[sierranovembr]

I finished up a tiny ficlet for a bingo fill. Not that exciting in itself, but it did make for my 21st work to AO3. Which means I now have a second page! Not something I really ever expected to happen when I started writing fic.

[china_shop]

Ohh, home-made strawberry pie sounds amazing!!

23rd: A lot of poking my WIPs but very little progress. Alibi sentence equivalent.

24th: 531 words. This story works a lot better now it's not just one person thinking some stuff. ;-p

[cornerofmadness]

Ooo strawberry pie.

I spent too much time working up the cover art paperwork for my publisher. I did however get 1244 words in 40 minutes for Like Stone. That's more like it.

[silveradept]

I put lines and thought toward new assignment fic, but mostly it was watching things and doing things around the house.

[ysilme]

Yay for lots of words happening for you! :o)
I'm still at my editing, and yesterday also wrote 1,2k on top of that.

[carenejeans]

Mmmmm, pie! Yay for strawberries!

I didn't have too much time to write yesterday, but I managed to get over 300 words of fulminating a possible book review.

[auroracloud]

Yay for zero-drafting and catching up on things! Hopefully you're done for a while with chasing deadlines?

[auroracloud]

I looked at it but there aren't a lot of boxes so far I could conceivably write anything for. Will keep an eye out for it, though. Glad you managed to write a fill already! And hey, at least it'll be a nice surprise when you start getting comments. :-)

[auroracloud]

Congratulations for finishing the first draft!!! *fanfare* And that's a veeeery impressive total word count! And great if you feel like you can start editing soon. I tend to need quite a break after finishing something long... Though admittedly it's been long since I last finished anything long!

Glad you also got to have a nice time otherwise. :-)

[auroracloud]

Congrats for a bingo fill anyway, and double contracts for making it to the second page of AO3 fics! Yay for surpassing your own expectations, as well! It's funny how fic-writing takes you away... :-)

[alexseanchai]

v true

also yesterday, added like 1200 words to something I hadn't touched since December. story no longer attempts to either address the shitty behavior of the leads' friends who made the plot start or to have any sexual contact onscreen, but it's done and posted and people like it and I got to take a WIP off my master list

[auroracloud]

It was very yummy! Even if they weren't this year's strawberries, but from the freezer. But they were still very juicy when the pie was done!

This story works a lot better now it's not just one person thinking some stuff. ;-p

Ahaha, the story of so many of my writings. Why is it so hard to get to the point where your story has some actual events and interactions? I don't know.

Anyway, well done on writing both days, even if you didn't get a lot of progress on the 23rd. Sometimes the poking is useful even if much doesn't happen on that day.

[auroracloud]

Well, that was an impressive pace in writing! And well, cover art is important too - and you still got that much writing done!

[auroracloud]

Some lines and thought towards fic are still useful! Oh, I need to get to doing things at home, too. This place somehow again looks like it's inhabited by overactive ferrets rather than one human being. Well, it's cleaner than it would be with the ferrets, I assume...

[auroracloud]

Sounds very productive, both editing and over 1K of writing!

[auroracloud]

Yay for doing some writing with your time, anyway. Sometimes the fulminating reviews are the most interesting ones. ;-)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. Yes the cover art thing has to get done and now I all the edits in the world to look forward to.