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auroracloud) wrote2020-04-03 11:15 pm
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Write Every Day, Day #3
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.
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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:
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Day 2:
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Day 3:
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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.
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I did take a bunch more screencaps of the area I'm trying to describe, and I did successfully convince myself that the answer to a different question about this setting is "the way that makes the scene more dramatic"…
ETA: progress! real live progress!
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Generic prompts mostly don't work for me - I need something specific to a fandom for it to inspire me.
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It's only 273 words, but you know, there are rhymes and stuff, and writing lyrics isn't really something you measure by wordcount. : )
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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.
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ETA: Prompts! I usually just ask my tumblr followers for prompts (sometimes with the help of a prompt-list, sometimes without), and then do whichever of them strike my fancy. I've always felt a little guilty that my fill rate is around 50%, but I suppose that's a little bit of the way bingo cards work, right? You can go for blackout if you want, but you can also just pick a set of five that (mostly) speak to you.
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For prompts, I've had a lot of fun with the AO3 Tag Generator in the past. Also, my main fandom has an ongoing prompt fest and a seasonal one every December.
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I added 648 words to the Bond/Q fic. I feel they're extraneous, but I'll leave them for now.
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Physical grounding is so much fun in scenes; I find that it's easier the more active they are in the scene. Sometimes I end up using physical sensation as a way of showing that characters are too fucked up to be able to think, though, so I don't consider it quite so separate from the 'drifting away' that you mention. (This may be why I find the blocking of writing combat and/or sex so interesting, to be fair.)
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I love bingos like I love to buy yarn and never use it:
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Doesn't sound familiar at all. I'm told my dialogue is a strength. It had better be, the lion's share of my stories are dialogue, especially before I start revising.
Discovered I really didn't like one of the last parts of what I typed up yesterday so my words today went to re-setting that scene. Tomorrow, reading and moving pieces to get a better sense of the big picture.
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I'm amused by today's word count because they're so similar. I got 571 words on my gen freeform story and 517 on my original novella
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I do like prompts, and I am particularly fond of making them work where by rights they really shouldn't, sometimes by invoking archaic meanings or atypical interpretations.
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I like the idea of prompts more than I like prompts themselves! I don't know. Bingo cards always seem to have a square that annoys me and ruins everything. 8-/
I think I've mentioned this before, but form and structure prompts work best for me. I'm not sure why, but for instance, "write a story where Sherlock is a mermaid" just has me going, erm. But "write a story where Sherlock is a mermaid, in the form of a ship's log," has possibilities. 8-)
(Hmmmm...)
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