Write Every Day, Day #4

[auroracloud]

Ah, I got proper sleep last night, which was nice. And the weather was nice, so I had a good long walk of about 1.5 hours. Otherwise I've spent way too much time looking at embroidery patterns online, so I think I need to just order some more threads already. On the upside, all that actually ended up indirectly helping my writing, which is not always the case with procrastination.


Today's Writing

I took advantage of weekend to start my writing early today, which was so much nicer than doing it when I'm half asleep. I should really try to schedule at least a bit of writing into my mornings during the week as well, it's so much better for me writing-wise. Anyway, I wrote longhand this time around, starting with a bit of timed free-writing, and then went on to work on a scene in my novel. It was really nice.

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: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 4: auroracloud, china_shop

Comments

[trobadora]

I'm not having a great day, so it's an alibi sentence again. *sighs*

[auroracloud]

Sorry you had a bad day! *sends hugs* Hope today has been better. Alibi sentences are entirely valid, especially for bad days!

[luzula]

Word count on fic: 150 words
Total wordcount: 1800 words

So not a lot of new writing, but I also made a harmony for my filk song that I wrote yesterday and recorded the song. Also I read beta comments on a draft of another story.

[auroracloud]

Sounds like you've been busy with creative stuff in many ways, even if there weren't that many new words. And for a song, creating the harmony and recording the song sound comparable activities to editing a story so it can be published.

[badly_knitted]

Got a couple of hours out in the garden today. It was supposed to be warm and sunny, but not where I am - I had to put my thick gardening coat on. Still, it was nice even though my arms now feel like they're falling off. I was cutting back a very overgrown shrub.

Got some writing done first though, so...

April 4th - 948 words on another challenge fic, which means tomorrow I need to finish this one and the one I started yesterday...

[auroracloud]

Yay two hours of gardening, that sounds lovely! Over here we have weather that looks really nice from the window, and when you go outside it's quite chilly, especially with the wind!

Sounds like it was a productive day for writing even with the outdoors work. :-)

[badly_knitted]

The same is true here. It was supposed to be as high as 20 C here today, but honestly it was nowhere near that, the wind was quite cool. Yesterday I needed a coat, but it was a bit warmer today.

Thank you, I think I made good progress.

[shadaras]

Today I wrote an exchange letter, which feels like writing story-words even if it isn't, precisely. :) Lots of little story-seeds!

I've also just started writing more on my fanfic project, and it's getting where it needs to go for the next plot point, which is nice.

[auroracloud]

Exchange letters can be quite a lot of work, and they are contributing to exchange writing. :-) And yay for fanfic progress as well!

[deifire]

It was nice here, too, and I got outside to long enough to wave at some friend from 10ft away.

And then I came back in and wrote 114 words for the day.

[auroracloud]

Ooh, waving at a friend, that's exciting in these times of isolation! I haven't seen any of my friends face to face for weeks... And yay for getting some writing done as well. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Your morning work sounds lovely. I should try that as well (not the longhand bit, perhaps, as my handwriting is problematic, but the doing some words in the morning, as and when I can). Sometimes I find that by the time I sit down to write, my energy has fled, and I struggle to get words on the page. Having some already down would ease the pressure and might also lead to a more productive evening's session too.

Tonight, I added 335 words to the Bond/Q fic. For the first time in a LONG time, I forgot I had words to write! Thank goodness, I checked DW and saw this entry! I had such a lovely, long walk this afternoon and then made us a celebratory dinner (just because), and honestly, writing just slipped my mind! Anyway, I did get my words in, but phew!

[auroracloud]

My handwriting isn't great either, though it depends a lot on which pen I'm using, but I am usually able to read it, and I love writing by hand. I should do more of it. But anyway, getting some writing done early in the day is good. If I wait until a lot later, I'm usually tired and it can be hard to write.

I'm glad that seeing the post inspired you to remember to write! And also that you had such a nice day, we need those in these times!

[sanguinity]

Yay, you had morning writing time! I'm glad it went so well.

For me, mostly transcription today, with a little editing. Plus a walk-and-talk story-storming session: I might know more about how to end this story than I did before. Fingers crossed, anyway.

[auroracloud]

Good luck with your story ending! Walking often helps me brainstorm stories, sort out plot details etc. Did you talk to someone else about it or to yourself? Both have their uses. :)

[sanguinity]

With my wife. I lay out the problems for her, and she proposes solutions. Many of her solutions are absolutely absurd, but even the absurd ones have a way of pointing out the next bit of the path.

[nafs]

Oooh embroidery patterns! Not one of the crafts I've done much of but I love embroidery floss it's all so gorgeous.

I suppose there were one or two new words today since I tweaked a few things as I went along, but mostly it was two and a half hours of moving things about.

I keep a "new parts" document separate from my main document so I can just type whatever writing I've done that day without having to worry where (or if) it fits with the other stuff. So step one was moving the 36.8K words of "new parts" around so the whole thing was more or less in the order it would fall in with the rest of the document, which also left me with several pages of "Already Jossed myself, keeping for spare parts".

Step two was going through and seeing which bits I'd already moved over and which bits still needed to move over. Partway through step two I also made a note to myself of where in the main document continuity started falling apart entirely (ie where the rewrites and the original version stopped agreeing with each other) I got about a third of the way through the main document before I got to the bits in "new parts" that I haven't a clue where they go yet, so I guess tomorrow I need to either poke at an outline again to clear that up or just get to rewriting from where it all falls apart. Probably some of both.

Before the computer disaster of last week I'd been stalled on actually doing this for a couple of weeks so it's nice to have made some progress.

[auroracloud]

I've only really done cross stitch so far, but I want to branch out to other kinds of embroidery, so I've been looking for easy designs that I can get started with. I have a bunch of books from the library as well - got them before everything closed down - but it's nice to have lots of ideas.

Moving things about and figuring out the structure and what goes where and so on is also a really important part of writing, even if it doesn't produce new words. Sounds like you made important progress, go you! Good luck!

[yasaman]

Day 4: wrote 1,170 words to finish up the fluffy fic I was working on! Now back to my other, plottier WIP I suppose.

[auroracloud]

Yay for finishing and fluffiness! Good luck with your WIP. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Glad you got some writing done. IN spite of the mouse stalking my apartment, I got a crap ton of writing done. I wrote 1868 words on the novella and I'm nearly there as far as getting it done.

And then managed another 2102 words on a Prodigal Son story

[auroracloud]

Oh dear, a mouse! Hope it wasn't too bothersome. Yay for so much writing, that's a very very productive day!

[sakana17]

Day 4: finally got some writing done this month! 542 words.

[auroracloud]

Yay for writing again, welcome to April! :-)

[china_shop]

So glad to hear you got some good sleep -- that makes everything better! :-)

5th: I wrote today!

[auroracloud]

Yeah, sleep is important! I really need to learn to go to bed earlier...

Yay writing!

[silveradept]

Checking in for days 3 and 4 with relation to ongoing projects of clearing out the links and adding more to the queue of weekly read-through posts.

[auroracloud]

All right, sounds good, I'll add you in!

[lferion]

Day 4 - 1500ish words on a piece prompted by a friend of mine. I think/hope there are only a couple hundred words more, so I can finish it while it is still fresh in mind. Tomorrow is going to be less than ideal for writing.

[auroracloud]

Sounds great! I really need to start asking my friends for prompts... Good luck with finishing!

[ysilme]

Yay for good sleep, long walks, needlework, writing, and feeling well about it all! ♥
I've ordered more knitting wool already twice since I started self-isolating, am advancing well on my current WIP (a lace scarf), started a new one (doing the knit along of the Arne & Carlos quarantine podcast KAL) and am about to try my hand at granny squares for a blanket what I wanted to do forever but never thought would be wise, considering the awesome speed I usually finish my projects with. Not. ;oP Knitting is what currently helps me most staying sane, and also helped me get back into fic writing again.
I also hope to manage regular check-ins again after being busy for a couple of days with very necessary cleaning, baking, and celebrating hubby's birthday. I also managed to write about 240 words each on the 3rd and 4th and on the current WIP which feels really good after so much unfocused and non-fiction writing lately.

[auroracloud]

I've been crafting a lot since the isolation started, too, though I have so much yarn for crocheting already I haven't needed to order any yet... And I mean, I'd have enough for years, but of course most of the things I want to crochet aren't things I can make with my current yarns. But I have a few ongoing projects that are still ongoing, so they don't need new yarn, at least. However, since I'm so new into embroidery/cross-stitch, I need more materials soon!

I should check out that podcast! I've seen Arne & Carlos's designs in magazines and stuff, it could be quite adorable to check out their podcast. And good luck with granny squares, I love crocheting squares. Yeah, blankets are quite a project - I have the squares for two unfinished ones in my yarn closet, though I'm thinking of making at least something with them soon - but it's also good for times of stress because you don't have to think hard about the pattern, but you still get variety from changing colours.

Sounds like you've been busy with good activities, at least! But I'm glad you managed some writing as well. It must be nice to be back to fiction-writing.

[alexseanchai]

There were a few words.

[auroracloud]

That's good, a few words are more than no words!

[the_siobhan]

I love your succinctness.