Write Every Day, June Day #30

[auroracloud]

So here we are, the last day of the month! Tomorrow, I'll still post the final tally, but then we continue the challenge in July over at carenejeans's journal. So head over there if you want to keep checking in to write every day. (Or however many days you happen to write on.)

Just asking again: is there someone who'd already like to volunteer to host for August? We don't have anyone hosting that month yet, and in summer, it would be nice to have things settled down a bit in advance. I know I can't do August, as I'll be traveling for some of that (plus I just did June, obviously).

Today's Writing

I went on another research trip! Same place, but didn't stay quite as long this time, so I was less knackered. Though it was warm today, and the sun was shining when I did the outdoors part, so I did feel a bit overheated, despite making sure I didn't spend much time out in the middle of the day. (And my honesty feels compelled to add that it was 22 °C. Yes, I'm aware that some people's homes are warmer than that. I'm aware that all you people of warmer climates are now laughing at me. I'm a wimp with warmth, I can't help it. I didn't choose it, my body did, and the dizziness is real. But I didn't get a sunstroke, yay.)

Anyway, lots of notes were written - also before I went, because I spent some of the morning reading a research book - but I didn't have a lot of energy for fiction-writing. I also lost most of the evening with a book. Anyway, I did finish the edits to and posted the one fic I managed to complete for the Cottoncandy Bingo. I hope I'll get some of those I've started written later on, even if it's too late to manage a bingo for this month. Anyway, I then managed to get myself to work on my who_contest story, so I still have a chance of making that. I happened to get a word count of exactly 300 words altogether, a nice round number for day #30!

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, shopfront, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (11 so far)

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

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

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

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

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

Day 27: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans; china_shop, cornerofmadness, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yantantether ysilme (10 so far)

Day 28: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, romanajo123, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, yantantether, ysilme (12 so far)

Day 29: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch

30: 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!

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

Evenings are NEVER "lost" to a book--they're just relocated to a better and more interesting plane of existence--lol! Seriously, though, I know what you mean. I was that way this morning, reading well past my usual cut-off time. I just didn't want to go about my day.

Let's see...I finished the editing on the first chapter, which included adding probably 500-1000 words. Keeping track is difficult because I'm also cutting out parts and moving them into a separate doc, since I'll be using those scenes later on.

I feel a lot better about the whole novel now, though. There was some important exposition that needed to be established in this chapter, which began its life as a short story, where I'd short-handed some world-building stuff. In a shorter format, I could get away with that, but in a novel, not so much. Anyway, I feel the narrator/protagonist is MUCH stronger now, and I think I've demonstrated some important plot elements without doing an info-dump. Readers may have a different opinion, however. That's what editors are for. ;-)

ETA: Because I'm a big lout and forgot to say THANK YOU! Thank you so much for hosting us this month! As always, you were gracious, interesting, and fun to interact with. *hugs*

[auroracloud]

I did say "lost" rather than "wasted". It's just, sometimes you're like "wait, how did two hours go by?" But it was one of the October Daye books, so certainly it was not a waste. :-D And I think you're entitled to some lazy reading mornings on your summer holidays!

Well done with the editing! Yeah, I can never keep track of all words changed in editing, either. I sometimes change a lot, so usually I just see if there's any added word count, and if I know I've both removed and written lots of new things, I try to locate the main new paragraphs and sentences and get a general word count out of them, and just stick that into my spreadsheet as a guesstimate. Glad you're feeling better about the novel after getting started with the editing! And yes, editors are for telling you what still needs changed for the thing to work after you've done your part in editing. You can't see everything about your own text, after all.

And don't worry, it doesn't make you a lout to forget that. *g* But you're welcome, I'm happy to do my part in making this challenge run smoothly, when it's been so good to me. *hugs* Keep seeing you around!

[romanajo123]

* checking in for today

[auroracloud]

Yay for writing!

[cassini]

[*stumbles in looking ragged and tired* yo ]

[missed some days check in (23, 28 and 29), but i'm not too fussed about them being added now we're at the end of the month :3 i made my summary post for june with my running wordcount, and didn't want to move out of june without saying that i'm still writing 95% of 'every day' and looking forward to persevering next month. i'm already in the 1st now so i'm not really looking forward so much as preparing hastily ]

[tyvm auroracloud for hosting this month, check in had a great atmosphere and your posts were lovely to read ^w^ ]

[auroracloud]

Hi, glad to see you've been able to keep writing for most days even if you missed a few check-ins, and I'll definitely add those for the final tally. It's great you've been able to persevere with writing on most days, and good luck with July!

And you're welcome, it's nice to host every once in a while, to do my part and to get to chat to other writers using this challenge to help their creative habit! Thank you for being along!

[sierranovembr]

Ending on a high note. Or, *a* note at least. Am writing right now. :D Thank you for hosting this month

[auroracloud]

A note is very good! Yay for writing! And you're welcome. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

I did some writing 461 on summer_of_giles and 561 on Like Stone. Thanks for hosting it this month.

[auroracloud]

Sounds like a pretty productive day to end the month with, yay! And you're welcome, thanks for participating!

[cornerofmadness]

It was thanks

[yantantether]

About 500 words for me today.

Thank you so much for hosting!!

[auroracloud]

Yay, sounds good, a nice chunk of writing to end the month on! Thank you for participating!

[ysilme]

Thank you for hosting this month, it was once again very nice and a lovely experience!♥
My tally for the last two days is 125 words for the 29th and 1826 words for yesterday, both in addition to about half an hour of editing. I'm currently just trying to not melt and not be too horribly uncomfortable, with the new heights of our heatwave hitting us.

[auroracloud]

You're welcome, thank you for participating! ♥

Sounds like you're being quite productive despite the heat, since editing does take its time and energy, as well. Sorry you're suffering from a heat wave - we're going to have cooler and rainier days here for the rest of this week, is any such respite on the horizon for your place? I'm giving you a watery icon to help cool you down! :-) (If only it did work that way...)

[ofmonstrouswords]

Every day since my last check-in...I'm just terrible about checking in. XD So the 14th-30th.

Not much on fiction, but journalling and some poetry work. Hoping to do more in July.

[auroracloud]

All right, I'll add you for those days in the final tally! And journalling and poetry are lovely forms of writing, too. Good luck with your writing in July!

[alexseanchai]

I'm checking in for yesterday on the strength of having done canon review and avoided writing. (My wrist is still doing the clicky-poppy thing. Great; how do I uninstall it? Voice-to-text and I loathe each other!)

[auroracloud]

That sounds like a good thing to do, hope your wrist recovers soon!

[silveradept]

I did writing on this last day, but I've been lax about checking in on time because I've also been using time to catch up on my gaming.

[auroracloud]

That's all right, I added you onto the final tally. :-)

[china_shop]

Thank you so much for hosting this month! *showers you with gratitude* (Sorry for the belatedness! /o\)

[auroracloud]

You're welcome! Thank you for participating! *stands under the shower of gratitude, very nice*