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

[shadaras]

I have written a couple hundred words of traumatizing my characters! :D

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.)

[auroracloud]

Good for you, if not for your characters!

I somehow often have trouble with physical grounding, maybe because I'm such a live-in-my-head type and sometimes have to make myself be grounded in my own life, too. Though dancing as a hobby has helped, as has doing more cooking, baking, and crafts. Anyway, it's something I want to pay more attention to, because I really enjoy reading stories where that's done well.

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.

That's very true! One of the reasons I focus so much on the sensations and the physical in the scene I was talking about in this post is that there, my usually very cerebral character pointedly isn't able to be cerebral because the things that are happening are affecting her so much. (I feel like that was a very unclear sentence, sorry about that.)

[shadaras]

All of those hobbies are very good for physical grounding, yes. :)

And your sentence made sense!