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I gave myself a some good long yoga sessions tonight, which helped both with my back pain and with the general mental and physical state. I really need to remember how good it is for me and do it regularly! And when I start writing the novel, I'll have to build some exercise breaks into the day...

Today's Writing

I've done fairly much work on the novel but not a lot of words; I did research reading and notes in the afternoon, and now in the evening I spent a while sketching the home of one of my main characters, both the general appearance of the house and the floor plan. (As I've mentioned before, I can't really draw, so the likeness isn't much, but trying to draw still helps me make the picture in my head more concrete.) I also wrote some notes about the home.


Tally

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

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

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

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

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

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

Day 7: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] ellieet, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] yantantether (15 so far)

Day 8: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] ellieet, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (14 so far)

Day 9: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (15 so far)

Day 10: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (16 so far)

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

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

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

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

Day 15: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [profile] carenejean, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] ysilme (11 so far)

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

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

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

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

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

Day 21: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] ysilme (11 so far)

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

Day 23: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] ysilme (10 so far)

Day 24: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (10 so far)

Day 25: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yantantether [personal profile] ysilme (13 so far)

Day 26: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] ysilme (11 so far)

Day 27: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans; [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch (8 so far)

28: [personal profile] china_shop

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!

Date: 2019-06-28 08:27 pm (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
I think I figured out my midpoint, and I need to swap what I thought were the 75% and 90% points so that the action plot has more room to breathe and the emotional plot...words idk. it will work better this way. more in character—the way I thought it was, she has to actually use her words about her underlying emotions, which she has been avoiding doing all story and is consequently more likely to do after the dust settles from the action plot exploding in their faces than before. also if she uses her words about etc, she has to put the thing into words and listen to herself say them, which it does not make sense for her to have done given a pivotal thing she does while the action plot is exploding in their faces.

...wait crap do I need to rewrite the first chunk so she talks around the thing she is now going to say in wrap-up? because she may already have thought that thing in the draft, and if she has already looked at that thought, it won't work...
Edited (words wtf) Date: 2019-06-28 08:27 pm (UTC)

Date: 2019-06-28 09:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
Yay for doing yoga! I'm glad you gave yourself that much-needed movement break. :-)

(I did, too, actually, making sure to get up several times to take walks in the yard or around the house. So look at us living up to our promises to ourselves! We rock! :-)

I finally worked up the gumption to start the second edits of the ambush project. These are related to pace and narrative, so they are substantial. I'm working off of detailed notes I took during the first edits, so I have something definite to go on. For example, I spent probably two hours today working on the first twelve pages of the novel. I had to remove a significant scene, which will be moved to later in the book, and then, of course, create new connective material to make the first chapter make sense. I am also working on changing the characterization of the narrator, and that is also pretty substantial. In total, I think I added more than 1000 words, but I didn't keep track, a mistake I'll rectify for tomorrow's work.

At any rate, it feels good to have finally begun this.

Date: 2019-06-28 09:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] yantantether
Checking in for today and yesterday!

Date: 2019-06-29 12:06 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] romanajo123
*waves* Hi! Checking in for the first time. (just wrote about 340 words)

Date: 2019-06-29 04:34 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
After a long day melting on the battlefield, I got 133 words on Like Stone

Date: 2019-06-29 06:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Tell me about it. Walking all over Gettysburg yesterday it was between 33-34 degrees. The sun itself might have been cooler

Date: 2019-06-29 06:13 am (UTC)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
29th: A good writing day. I got quite a few words down, but there was some canon dialogue and some repurposing of another scene, so I can't say for sure how many. I think (hope!) I'm in the home stretch for this one.

Date: 2019-06-29 10:51 am (UTC)
ysilme: Wordle with writing terms "ranting denial typing pain story decision tea". (Wordle: write every day)
From: [personal profile] ysilme
That yoga session sounds lovely! I'm happy to hear it worked so well for you, and you're feeling better now! *hugs*
I'm kind of lucky in that regard myself: doing my usual household chores seems to be sufficient to keep me moving at regular intervals even during "desk only" days, and keep kinks out of my back, too - but thankfully, my back is also one of the few parts of my anatomy I rarely have issues with. These days it's kind of automatic that I often rise and walk around even when I'm working intensively at the computer, but I think I originally started this because I tended to sit unfavourably for my legs which started to swell in summer, or my wonky knee which got twisted and hurt afterwards. One of the trick that still help me is placing my teapot or water bottle away from the desk so I have to get up to refill my cup or glass.

(As I've mentioned before, I can't really draw, so the likeness isn't much, but trying to draw still helps me make the picture in my head more concrete.)
This is a terrific approach, and I'm sure lots of writers are doing this or something similar, too. I'm a very visual person myself and need to have sometimes very specific ideas of where is happening what, and collect photos as well as sketches or drawings I did myself for that purpose, or do them for a project. And floor plans - can't really live without them. *g* I also always need to describe everything in a very detailed fashion for a story. Since this is often not much fun to read I do this for myself first, and later either condense it into a smaller part of the narrative, or just keep it for myself.
(I think I wrote about this/ talked to you about this before, didn't I? I can't fully remember, thanks to this wretched memory of mine. Just ignore this if I have!)
For my tally, I'm still editing both projects, and wrote 174 new words on the 27th and 389 yesterday.

Date: 2019-06-29 12:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alexcat
Just 10 words to say I wrote. Hubby and I went on a day trip to the mountains.

Date: 2019-06-29 05:38 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
I added a post to my queue, and remembered to post an assignment that's coming due.

Date: 2019-06-29 06:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] carenejeans
More nonfiction stuff, though part of it was pulling together some notes for a possible introduction that I had started awhile back. I'm not sure how much of one the publisher wants, so this is mostly for me. But I might post some of it.

I've been exercising too! Mostly walking to the bookshop, taking things to Mr. Bookshop that he forgot. I need to do this every day, walk, I mean. He can remember his own stuff! ;-) And some yard work -- on my own yard. We found an affordable (and good!) gardener for my mom, so I don't have to kill myself over there, and it's more pleasant working on mine.

Now to make myself get on the exercise bike...

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