Write Every Day: Day #11

[auroracloud]

Here's the post for December 11th.

Yesterday and today, I've been going through the prompts of Public Call and Yuletide, seeing about treats I might want to write. I've got several ideas now that I really want to write, and a few of them threaten to be long. Some require research. Send help! :-)

Today's writing

All of a sudden, I seem to have written about 1880 words on a possible treat. No idea how big the chances are of finishing that one by the deadline, because I'm not that far into the story yet... But I have fun, at least. Also tried a little bit of research for another possible treat, and brainstormed for others.

How about you?

Tally

Day #1: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #2: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #3: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #4: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #5: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #6: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, trobadora, ysilme
Day #7: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #8: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #9: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #10: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme

Let me know if I missed anyone! You can join in or drop out any time.

Comments

[trobadora]

Canon revision and a little writing. It's still very slow going.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Good that you're getting something done, at least! Good luck at speeding it up.

[ysilme]

I don't know what these treats are, but wow, that's really awesome! Congratulations for an obviously good writing day.
I'm feeling better today, and we spent half of the day away with friends. But even with a clear head and enough time I wasn't much in the mood for writing. This seems to be a theme these days; perhaps I'm just too busy to find the right kind of leisure for proper story writing. I managed 400 words today, but they were forced, will go again with the next edit, and this time don't feel helpful to the story.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Here, treats mean you're writing other stories besides the one you were assignment. You can write an extra treat for your recipient, if you're writing more than one story for them, or you can write treats for other people based on their requests, when those requests go public or when you can find them e.g. in their exchange letters.

When you're busy, it's hard to find the right headspace for writing. Sometimes even forced words are useful, though, even when they don't feel so at the time of writing. They may clear space for something else.

[esteliel.livejournal.com]

I usually love treat writing, but I'm not sure if I'll have enough time this year. I'd really love to write one or two... but first I should maybe edit my actual assignment into shape. /o\

1.1k on my Christmas fic today, which is also not exchange relevant but so much more fun to work on than doing the editing, sigh.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need to edit my assignment, too. I'll only let myself finish treats if I've done that. But these treats, I figure if I don't finish them before the deadlines, I can always post them at some other time, too. I'm just interested in the stories. :-)

Nice that your Christmas fic is inspiring to you, in any case! I happen to love editing, too, which is lucky, I guess, but many people like the excitement of the first draft writing better.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. I'm looking forward to Fandom_stocking opening up so I can write treats.

I got 480 on my Fullmetal Alchemist yule story and 370 on my steampunk original so not a bad night's work especially since I got started so late.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, I still need to put up my own!

That sounds like good work for the night, yes!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

You have a day or two left I believe

[avon.livejournal.com]

Just a alibi sentence for me on Sunday.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Always better than no writing!

[doctor-jehane.livejournal.com]

I wrote 2,000 words of a mock award for work, does that count? I also made words on a long LJ post, which hopefully does, too!

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

People have counted nonfiction and meta before, so... if you think it counts, I'll count it. :-)