Write Every Day, Day #5

[auroracloud]

Today's kind of gotten away with me, but I suppose weekends can do that. I meant to do more writing, and I really need to get around to some non-WED posting in my journal again, but might be too tired for that tonight. I generally meant to do more things, but I was rather tired. On the other hand, I did a fair amount of walking again, I did grocery shopping (with appropriate hygienic precautions), and I cooked. A delicious pasta sauce that is even further improved by the fact that I found it in a delicious piece of fanfic. Yes, for real. Fandoms are amazing.

Today's Writing

Another day when I did my writing fairly early, and that felt good. I did some more free-writing, which then segued into some surprise poetry, and writing down notes/ideas for a novel idea I've been nursing for a while. After that I did some more writing on the current novel, again longhand in the notebook. I'm thinking I should soon go through what I've actually got in the notebook and type it up, or at least the parts that feel like I can use them.

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, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 4: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 5: auroracloud, china_shop

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

Comments

[luzula]

I really need to get around to some non-WED posting in my journal again, but might be too tired for that tonight

You're posting every day--that is a lot of work! No wonder you're tired, and thanks for hosting this. : )

Wordcount: 700 (yay!)
Total wordcount on fic: 2500

Also I posted my filk song, and did editing on another fic after getting beta comments on it.

[auroracloud]

The hosting isn't a huge toll, though of course all in all it adds up to quite a bit of writing on this site. I'd just love to post about some other topics, but that needs to wait for a day when I manage my time a little better.

Yay, sounds like you had a lot of nice progress! Yay for posting as well. :-)

[alexseanchai]

I'm about 600 words into a story I was plotting in January. I don't think this is going to work with only one PoV character /o\

[auroracloud]

Sounds like good progress! And yeah, if it seems like the story needs more POV characters, it's a good idea to at least give it a try. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Yay for productive days! They are tiring though...

I got a couple more hours out in the garden, but first I got some writing done, then did a bit more after I came in again.

April 5th - 987 words. Two double drabbles, finished the fic I started yesterday, worked on the fic I started the day before (still needs a bit of work before posting), and started another random ficlet. Actually, it was supposed to be a drabble or a double drabble, but then it was 401 words and not finished, so that's another WiP to add to the pile I already have... I mentioned to someone else it's easier to start writing something than it is to finish.

[auroracloud]

It's surprising how tiring it is to just manage your life from day to day! I don't feel as though I did a lot yesterday, but I guess it did add up.

Sounds great that you're getting in both writing and gardening!

[badly_knitted]

It's a juggling act and I'm so tired all the time, but I enjoy working in the garden and there's a lot needs doing out there, so I'll do as much as I can while the weather's dry. It won't last.

Life sees even more tiring than usual at the moment. I suppose all te extra stress isn't helping.

[trobadora]

Still not feeling 100%. Another alibi sentence day for me.

[auroracloud]

Sorry you're still not feeling great. But alibi sentences are good for those days.

[falkner]

A drabble got written today. And by today I mean literally saving the document as the bells tolled midnight.

[auroracloud]

Well, the way I count it, if I didn't go to sleep yet it's still today! Er, it's always today, whichever day it is. But I mean the day on which I woke up. For instance, if I did writing tonight after midnight (I hope not) I'd still count it as today, because I didn't go to sleep yet. But it's nicer to get it done before midnight, at least for me!

[shadaras]

I haven't written anything in the fic I've been working on, but I wrote a whole 2.6k exchange fic today! :D It was a lot of fun, and went so quickly and easily and was a delight.

[auroracloud]

Woo hoo, that sounds very productive with the exchange fic! Glad you're having fun with it, that's the best!

[deifire]

Today: 101 words this morning before my professional alter ego needed the computer.

[auroracloud]

Ah, the pesky professional alter ego! I may need to steal that. Mine quite monopolized the computer and my most productive hours today.

[sylvanwitch]

I followed your habit and tried writing earlier in the day--not morning, as I had work to do for school, but before we went for our daily walk instead of in the evening after dinner. It helped! I was definitely more focused and had more energy, and I got a good amount of words out much more quickly than if I'd waited until after dinner.

I think I'm going to try this new pattern while I can, since I'm not physically in school and can write at lunchtime, for example.

Today, I added 730 words to the Bond/Q fic.

[auroracloud]

I'm glad writing earlier worked for you! It's nice when we can inspire each other in discovering useful habits. Glad you got quite a bit of writing done, sounds great. :-)

[sakana17]

Day 5: 1130 words to wrap up one story + 950 words of something new.

[auroracloud]

Ooh, sounds great, very productive!

[nafs]

Walking (with appropriate distancing etc) is so important in this time of staying at home. Gotta keep active if we can, for a bunch of reasons.

Stared at structure for a while before I decided that I still don't know if my timeline is too squished or not and the only way to determine that is to write all the scenes I need to happen in sequence and retcon the deadlines later. That decided, I wrote a little over 3 pages longhand to fill one of the next holes.

[auroracloud]

Yeah, both my physical and mental health benefit from being active. Though today I haven't moved enough, but at least I walked a decent amount again.

Structure is difficult! Sympathies! But yay for managing to fill one of the holes!

[china_shop]

6th: I wrote today. :-)

[auroracloud]

Yay! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

I'm exhausted today. I added 63 whole words to the novella but it's 'done' and ready to be sent back so that's great.

Got 355 words on my gen freeform challenge story

[auroracloud]

Being done with the novella as well as writing something else, despite being exhausted, sounds like excellent progress!

[cornerofmadness]

It was good. Today was better

[sanguinity]

Alibi sentence.

What was the fic / pasta sauce?

[auroracloud]

Alibi sentence counts!

The fic was from the Penumbra Podcast, 5 times Peter Nureyev dressed up for Juno Steel, and 1 time he didn’t by SpaceJackalope, and the recipe was in the author's notes at the end of Chapter Two. Came for the ship and the sex, returned for the delicious eggplant and garlic pasta sauce with optional olives and bell pepper. I should probably write it down so I don't always get distracted reading the fic when I want to make the sauce.

(Although I didn't use quite enough garlic this time. Next time, I'll put in the proper amount again.)

[silveradept]

I shuffled over to AO3 (and provided some director's commentary on) an older work of mine, so there was some new writing done today, Day 5. I'm pretty sure I also went at some additional writing on getting my posting queue longer.

[auroracloud]

Sounds good!

[lferion]

Day 5 - I did manage to finish a draft of yesterday’s story - another 700 words! And separately, a double drabble from one of the SWG Instadrabble prompts. It was a good weekend for writing.

[auroracloud]

Sounds like a very good writing weekend, indeed! Glad you managed to finish as well as write something else. :-)

[the_siobhan]

Did some editing, and deleted about 500 words. Must have written some replacements though because I ended up about 200 up.






Tonight's writing soundtrack: Rat Boy

[auroracloud]

The way I see it, editing counts as writing even if you end up deleting words, because it's still working on the story, and usually needed. Also, you probably write some new words while doing it regardless of where the word count goes. But yeah, I usually end up adding to the word count while editing, too - even though I'm usually trying to cut it down!

[yasaman]

Day 5: managed to write 449 words on the plotty WIP.

[auroracloud]

Sounds like good progress!

[carenejeans]

Oops, I forgot to check in yesterday and almost forgot today! Part of the problem is I'm not doing anything different, just plugging along on the nonfiction thing. So, on Day 4 and 5, nonfiction words were written. 8-)

[auroracloud]

I know the feeling! I was forgetting check-ins all the time last month for the same reason. But no worries, I'll add you in. :-)