Write Every Day, Day 2

[auroracloud]

Today rather got away with me, with various things to do, so this post is again later than I thought it would be and I'm half asleep at the keyboard... So if I write any nonsense or forgot or mistyped someone's name, I apologize, and feel free to notify me about any errors.

I'll try to occasionally include writing-related topics in these posts, but right now I'm too sleepy to come up with any, so on with the post!

If you missed what this is about, please see yesterday's welcome post.

Today's Writing

I got into the writing itself quite late, and then was heavy on resistance, which is why I took so long to get to anything else either. But eventually I did manage to write almost 250 words, so I'm pretty proud of myself, considering how hard the words were in coming. Triumphing over your own internal resistance is satisfying!


Tally


Day 1: auroracloud, badly_knitted, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 2: auroracloud, china_shop


If I missed you, or if you didn't check in but you did write, just let me know and I'll edit the tally. You can join or drop out any time!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Today was damp and chilly, so I only got a half hour in the garden, which meant more time for writing. So...

April 2nd - 1112 words, a 500 word challenge ficlet, then I finished and posted the one I started yesterday, and did some editing on a couple of others. When the weather gets warmer at the weekend, my daily word count will probably be quite a bit lower.

[auroracloud]

Well done on the writing! It's good you can make use of bad weather in a creative way. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I'm never short of things to do, so that's good, especially right now. =)

[luzula]

Today's wordcount: 400
Total wordcount: 1650

I just wrote a hilarous (at least to me) scene of someone's kilt falling off during a swordfight. : D

[falkner]

That does sound hilarious!

[auroracloud]

Excellent! And that sounds hilarious to me, too!

[alexseanchai]

I may need formal permission to write the damn exchange fic without so much as glancing at my recipient's letter. Since they linked their letter in their sign-up and it is more than far enough into the writing period that it should have been unlocked by now and it is still not unlocked. (Where if they simply hadn't linked one, I'd probably be done and posted by now.)

It would be nice if I were to start posting where the firelight fades before the first anniversary of starting to write it (that is, May 4, or possibly 3 if I had the create entry page open for at least two hours before clicking post), but if I set any such goal, it will be nearly to if not after that date before I make any more progress on it. And since I realized a couple things about why I've been stalled, I really don't want to stay stalled! (In one point of view, I ended the previous scene wrong, so of course I couldn't start the next one right. Am PMing a beta to discuss how that scene actually ends. In the other point of view, there's a detail I threw in for worldbuilding flavor early on that I could use to bring a key fact to Our Heroes' attention, instead of needing them to unpromptedly realize the connection between three statements earlier in the story. One of which statements they dismissed—with cause! they had no reason to trust the speaker here!—as flat-out lies meant to bait them into a trap.)

Thank you hosting!

[falkner]

Write the damn exchange fic, you have permission for a random internet stranger.

[auroracloud]

As the host of this month's WED, I am giving you permission to write the damn exchange fic! If they take ages to unlock, it's their responsibility if there's something there that you don't know about.

Good luck with your story! Sounds like a mighty project. Just checking, did you write on the 2nd, since you didn't mention it?

Thank you for continuing to participate!

[alexseanchai]

I'm counting talking with beta about how to fix that scene, so yes

[auroracloud]

Yes, definitely counts, it's working on the story. :-) Sorry, am still a bit sleep-deprived today!

[trobadora]

579 words for me today. Too tired for more. *falls over*

[auroracloud]

579 words is plenty! About what I got done in two days, myself. Hope you get some sleep!

[falkner]

Writing has been done in the form of outlining a new story. It's still a few hundred words put down on paper, so I'm calling it a win for the day. Now to start ironing everything out...

[auroracloud]

Excellent! Outlining is an important part of writing, I definitely count all the planning/plotting/outlining work I do as writing, too. Good luck with the story! :-)

[ysilme]

Thank you for hosting April! I'm glad to hear writing happens for you, and things are proceeding as expected, considering what's going on. *hugs*
Dang, beginning of a new WED month and I already managed to miss a day... *sigh* But after managing well for the last weeks things caught up with me and gave me a bit of a mental break-down two nights ago, with a massive headache to deal with yesterday. I'm much better now and writing actually helps again, which I'm grateful for.
I've written a lot throughout March, but nearly no fic, as Corona-related changes in my daily routine, a lot of additional work, and general worry and anxiety froze my creativity up. But things are slowly turning into a new normal, and I'm also back at writing fic since a few days, with 134 words yesterday (April 1st) on the next chapter of a published WIP, and an alibi sentence on the same so far today as I'm just sitting down to write.

[falkner]

But things are slowly turning into a new normal
Scary, but true.

[auroracloud]

Don't feel bad about missing reporting for yesterday! I'm sorry to hear about your breakdown - understandable, but that of course doesn't stop it from feeling bad. But I'm glad that you're feeling better now, and that writing helps! ♥

Glad you've been able to write fic again, as well! Good luck with your story!

[shadaras]

I've written a couple hundred words of my fic, and spent rather a lot of today gaming (which is why it's only a couple hundred words). Still, I've moved into a new section of juicy dialogue-heavy character interaction that's ripe and ready for tomorrow, when I'll have more time to write. :)

[auroracloud]

Sounds like an interesting section of fic to move into! (Talking about a juicy interaction that's ripe and ready makes me lust after fruit. :-D) Hope you enjoy writing that part, and good luck!

[sylvanwitch]

It is absolutely satisfying to push through that resistance you're describing! Kudos to you! :-)

I added 682 to the Bond/Q fic.

[auroracloud]

Thank you! Yay for more progress on your Bond/Q fic!

[sanguinity]

A lovely, satisfying, three longhand pages before work today.

[auroracloud]

Sounds excellent! I do need to get around to morning writing again as well, it sounds lovely the way you describe it. ♥

[deifire]

Day 2: 32 alibi words. And a story playlist.

Will try again tomorrow.

[auroracloud]

That's 32 words more than nothing! And a story playlist totally counts as background work, I say. So you were still working on it even if that part didn't produce new words. Good luck with writing on a new day!

[sierranovembr]

Triumphing over your own internal resistance is very satisfying, indeed! Good job.

I wrote a page of notes for my paper by hand that will be typed up tomorrow. :)

[auroracloud]

It is so very satisfying, yes!

Yay notes! Notes are good.

[nafs]

Yay beating your own resistance!

You know how I said yesterday that I was about halfway through typing things up? It was closer to 1/3 or 1/4 of the way through. I will possibly be tired tomorrow but I am done my retyping. 3,105 words of it today, at least the actual fic part, plus notes in my three notes files.

Tomorrow is the scary day where I need to write new words. And over the weekend I need to try and merge the newer bits with the original document and do a readthrough again because I'm losing track of what has and hasn't been fixed and how much of the original hole-filled draft I'm keeping.

[auroracloud]

Congratulations on all your retyping! Great work! Best of luck with writing new words. Ah, merging different parts and different drafts together can be a challenge, hope it goes as smoothly as possible. :-)

[silveradept]

Checking in for today and yesterday, Days 1 and 2. Mostly comments on the writing, but today I started on a new post for my Pern queue.

[auroracloud]

Well done for writing on both days! It's a good start.

[alexcat]

So two days' writing.

Day 1 - 1740
Day 2 - 449 + grocery shopping

[auroracloud]

Well done for so much writing, and also getting a good chunk of writing done when you also have to take care of practical things.

[cornerofmadness]

Hope you got some sleep. I managed to get 150 words on the novella I was meant to be working on and 1475 words on a surprise Prodigal Son story (eye roll)

[auroracloud]

Thank you, I did, though not as much as I'd have liked. Yay for lots of writing, even if most of it wasn't on what you meant to be working on.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks

[china_shop]

3rd: 1101 words (including dialogue I'd written previously, but still -- lots of words!) on something that is not any of the things I should be writing. HAI! :-)

[auroracloud]

Isn't that just the way of muses? Mine always gets more excited when it (she?) gets to work on something it shouldn't. But congratulations on so many words! And sometimes the things you didn't mean to write are the best. :-)

[yasaman]

Day 2: I wrote 1,207 words of a fic I hope to finish tomorrow!

[auroracloud]

Sounds great, that's a lot of progress! Good luck with the finishing!

[lferion]

Day 2 - posted a thing to AO3, SWG and the Back to Middle Earth journal, also wrote a drabble-poem (four stanzas of 25 words each, with a through-rhyme) that I think I should let percolate a tad before posting to fan flashworks.

[auroracloud]

Sounds excellent, posting a thing as well as writing a poem. I hadn't thought of a drabble poem before, but it could be a nice way of sort of... narrowing down the poem through a constraint, if you know what I mean. :-)

[ellieet]

Yesterday (the 2nd) I didn't do any typing, but I did scribble a few things down in my notebook; a short cuddle-piece and a little poem. Probably barely 100 words in all, but it's something. ^_^

[ellieet]

OH! Of course; yesterday I also finished a draft of an Endeavour fic that I promised a friend! Hooray!

[auroracloud]

Scribbling in the notebook totally counts as well! Also, yay short cuddle-pieces, we need cuddle-pieces! Also congrats for finishing your draft fic as well, that's excellent! (I think I have now exceeded my allocated number of exclamation marks per lines.)

[carenejeans]

Day 2: worked on the nonfiction thing, part editing, part organizing (where to shoehorn in these iffy bits? etc.), part new annotations.

(And oops, forgot to say in my comment yesterday that I did indeed write on Day 1! Sorry.)

Yay for triumphing over your own resistance!

[auroracloud]

Yay for writing on both days! Organizing can be so difficult, well done for progressing in that as well. :-)