Write Every Day, Day #3

[auroracloud]

I noticed that genprompt_bingo has a new round starting since yesterday, as does ladiesbingo. Although I have an abysmal success rate of zero with the various bingo prompt cards I've signed up for so far, I'm considering claiming one or two. Especially with all the new fandoms I've picked up with my obsessive podcast-listening (which I need to post about!) and reading, maybe it'd help me get stories written!

So as a voluntary question - do you have any favourite bingos, comment fests, and other sources of prompts that you would like to recommend? Do you like working with prompts? I rather like them - it often helps to focus my creativity and pick a direction to go. Though with random generators like bingos, there's always a risk that not enough of the prompts speak to you.

If you want another source of random prompts, I can recommend the Ersatz Genremixer, where you can enter characters and get tropey prompts from several different trope lists. The results may be anything from uncannily appropriate to ridiculous or just plain WTF, and I have far too many of them saved in a Scrivener file already.

Today's Writing

I had quite a lot on my schedule today - I've noticed I feel better about isolation if I keep myself busy with interesting things - and I also woke up too early and am therefore sleep-deprived again. I also took longer than expected with cooking and bread-roll baking. So I didn't have a lot of brain when I finally sat down to write, but hey, I still managed a little over 100 words on my novel, so it's not nothing. And the scene I'm working on is not that easy for me, because I'm trying really hard to be concrete and focused on physical senses and sensations rather than letting characters drift away in tons of introspection or just chatter about things. Because that's a thing I really want more of in my writing.

And then I started writing fic for a new fandom. Not a lot of words yet, but some! I'm still writing things for prompts from the happy distracting commentfest a few weeks back, though I haven't finished any. Maybe at some point I will!

Tally

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

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, elliet, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: auroracloud, china_shop


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

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I've done genprompt_bingo before; for me it's the best bingo out there because it's low pressure. That said, I write for lots of weekly or monthly prompt communities. I enjoy writing for prompts and having deadlines because it helps me to knuckle down and write. I love fan_flashworks. Three challenges a month, and various badges that can be earned.

Funnily enough, I was writing for that today, got a first draft of my entry for the current challenge done, then did some editing on something else for posting to my journals.

April 3rd - 929 words.

[auroracloud]

I had a bingo card from there earlier but I don't think I finished any stories. However, I really liked the prompts, so it might be worth a try to do it again!

I like the idea of flashworks and weekly prompt communities, but in practice I seem to be too slow a writer for those. I like to mull on my stories for a bit, and I just never seem to finish those things before the particular challenge ends. I've been following femslashficlets for a couple of years, and have finished (to the point of publication) a grand total of one story during that time, and that was during an amnesty/remainder week. Which reminds me, I should look at the current prompt table for that one and see if I can write something..

Sounds like a productive writing day, well done!

[badly_knitted]

I think I've had two genprompt cards, got a blackout on the first one but only wrote a few fills on the second. One day maybe I'll complete it. I like that you can do that with genprompt_bingo even with really old cards.

As you like taking your time when writing, you might like my challenge community ficlet_zone; new prompts each month but no deadlines so you can take as long as you want, dip into past prompts any time, and any length of fic is welcome.

Thank you, it was a pretty good day.