Write Every Day, Day #9

[auroracloud]

It's nearly Easter... Do you folks have time off during Easter? Since I currently make my own schedules, I don't have any particular days off, but I really feel I need more than just the regular two-day weekend I give myself, so I'm probably taking a regular Easter break from Friday to Monday, or at least Friday to Sunday. I've been really tense and tired this week, and I'd better take some time to relax and let go. I hope it also leads to more writing, but if it doesn't, I'll try not to stress myself about it.

Today's Writing

I managed to do my writing in the morning, and ended up with a few handwritten pages of a thing I wasn't planning for, but which started to grow in my mind from a shorter bit I wrote a couple of days ago. Well, it's words, I'm taking it!



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, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

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

Day 5: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

Day 6: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 7: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 8: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman


Day 9: auroracloud, china_shop

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Comments

[alexseanchai]

I think I have identified why I am stuck.

notice the bit where this has not got me unstuck.

[auroracloud]

At least it's still progress? I hope it soon helps you get unstuck!

[luzula]

Today's wordcount: 500
Total wordcount on fic: 5,300

[auroracloud]

Excellent! I'm glad that story is progressing well for you. :-)

[falkner]

I'm doing my writing right now! (Well, I actually am taking a break to have a drink...)

I don't celebrate Easter, so it's just going to be yet another day in this tiring lockdown, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed it's not going to be extended once more because right after Easter is the only time of the year I buy chocolate. I don't like it much and only eat very rarely, so stocking up once a year when the Easter leftovers go on sale it's the best and lasts me until the following year!

[auroracloud]

Taking breaks and keeping yourself hydrated is important also for writers!

I don't celebrate Easter as such, either - I'm not Christian so it's not my festival. My family's only ever celebrated it in the heathen way we celebrate these holidays, making those traditional foods we like and so forth. Honestly our Easter celebrations have probably all been based on the Pagan rather than Christian traditions. (Not that we're Pagan either - well, I swing that way a bit, but I'm agnostic mostly - but there still are a lot of those traditions around.) Though this year I'm doing even less because, well, circumstances. But it's a statutory holiday over here, so the kind of desk jobs I've had have always had the Friday and the Monday off, so I'm accustomed to having a break at whenever Easter happens. But yeah, I don't really celebrate, which is why I had to spend some time thinking about whether I was taking these days off or not.

Well, that was a bit of a tangent, sorry!

I wish I didn't like chocolate much! Would make healthy eating easier, heh. Though I'm not really into most chocolates that are particular to Easter and likely to be on sale afterwards, so it doesn't cause a particular chocolate stock-up for me. At least it hasn't usually... we'll see what happens this year.

[badly_knitted]

All words are good words, whether planned or not!

Wore myself out battling overgrown hedge today, but luckily got most of my writing doe beore going outside.

April 9th - 983 words. Another 500 word challenge ficlet that I'm very happy with, some work on the fic I started yesterday, and a bit of editing on something before posting. Now I'm too sleepy to do anything else.

[auroracloud]

Yes, they are!

Hope you got a good rest after your worthy fight with the hedge! :-) Glad you got the writing mostly done before that, sounds like another productive day. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Not really, too many other things to do, but at last I got to sit down!

I'm being surprisingly productive, but I'm starting more things than I'm finishing...

[auroracloud]

but I'm starting more things than I'm finishing...


I do that allllll the time, so... you're in good company? Or something. :-)

[badly_knitted]

*laughs* Good to know I'm not the only one... Better than not starting anything.

[china_shop]

*wishes you some relaxation and recovery time* <3 <3 <3

10th: 674 words so far -- I might have another sprint later on.

[auroracloud]

Thank you! ♥

Sounds good! I should try sprints again some time, they can be fun.

[sylvanwitch]

How exciting to be working on something new and for it to grow legs! Yay for words!

I added 545 to the Bond/Q fic tonight. I think I might actually be moving toward the climax. Since it's just under 30K words now, I think it's time. Lol!

[auroracloud]

Yes, it's exciting - although I do have a tendency to get started on new projects. But then, I also know it doesn't work for me to only work on one project for a long time. Hopefully I eventually finish one of these!

Hee, 30K sounds like a respectable length for a fic, yes. :-D I've no idea why all my fics are pretty short though I only manage to write novel-length original stuff. I really like reading lengthier fics when they're good, though. I'm glad the story's progressing so well for you!

[deifire]

I hope the relaxation time goes well!

Now, you've got me thinking maybe I should take a day off.

Today's word count: 131

[auroracloud]

Thank you! And days off are good every now and then, it's a good idea to think about when is a good time to have one.

Yay for words!

[trobadora]

I got distracted, and rather than working on the fic I'd started I wrote a snippet of something totally unrelated. Looks like we're in the same boat. :)

We get Good Friday and Easter Monday off, too. Which is good because I need more sleep. And also some time to maybe actually catch up on some fannish stuff ...

[auroracloud]

Maybe the Distraction Muse is going around, sprinkling distraction inspiration on us!

Yay for opportunity to sleep and fannish stuff and such!

[sanguinity]

Apr 9: went for a walk during my morning writing time (so pretty! shining sun! singing birds! blooming flowers! empty sidewalks!), but noodled some when I came back, and again during my lunch hour.

[auroracloud]

Yay for walks and sun and birds and flowers and empty sidewalks! That sounds lovely. Glad you got in some writing time anyway.

[nafs]

Good Friday is a statutory holiday around here and some places get Easter Monday as well but fewer and fewer. Because of the whole situation though, the premier declared that grocery workers would get both Friday and Sunday off this weekend. For me it means not only tomorrow off but the university does a thing where most offices just keep a skeleton staff from 3pm til close of business the day before a long weekend and we kept that up today even though noone's actually in the office. My supervisor was the one from our team to "stay" - means she gets to leave early some other day of her choice.

Not much and I only started after 11:30 pm but I'm still plodding on stitching scenes together to make an actual sequence. Little over a page longhand. One more scene that needs finishing and then I will switch POVs and start the same day over again. The other POV needs more fixing, but once I get going with hers I tend to write her in longer bursts so I might get a longer daily wordcount going in the next few days. Fingers crossed, anyway.

[auroracloud]

Glad the grocery workers are getting some time off! They deserve it. Over here, there's no real change in grocery store opening hours... The regular days off obviously don't happen for all professions, but I've worked the sort of desk jobs where they're a thing, because nobody needed us to be available every day, ha.

Good luck putting scenes together, that can be challenging! And best wishes that things go well with the other POV. Sometimes I also find it easier to keep going with some characters than others.

[sierranovembr]

Checking in with 430 words on my WIP. Pleased with that. :)

[auroracloud]

That sounds very good!

[cornerofmadness]

I seem to be missing from day 8

Today was amazing writing wise (and sucky for everything else), 2478 words between three projects. I got my dick_or_treat story posted. Added to that comment fic from last night and started something new for a request

[auroracloud]

Oops, I must have got distracted when I was supposed to add you! Or likely distracted myself. Anyway, thanks for letting me know, will fix that!

Sorry you had a sucky day otherwise, glad that the writing went well, at least. That sounds very productive indeed. Here's to hoping that next you get days that are good both writing-wise and otherwise.

[cornerofmadness]

that's okay. THanks

[lferion]

Day 9 - Three drabbles, one using Instadrabble prompts, and two genprompt bingo prompts.

I get tomorrow off, which I am looking forward to, especially as I had forgotten it was a holiday.

[auroracloud]

Sounds great! And sounds like the genprompt bingo prompts are working out great for you. I haven't even got started with mine, but I don't tend to write very short stories, so I usually need to mull over a bit more to find something that works in the length I tend to write.

Yay for surprise holidays! Hope you enjoy it. :-)

[yasaman]

Day 9: checking in with 1,356 words across two fics!

[auroracloud]

Amazing, that sounds very productive again! Glad that writing's flowing well for you!

[silveradept]

Checking in for 8 and 9. A lot of words have gone through my various keyboards, mostly on other things, but there was a solid chunk that was actually related to my writing projects.

[auroracloud]

Yay for words on writing projects as well, even if other things took up the most of the writing time!

[carenejeans]

Day 9: More work on the nonfiction project, and another alibi sentence! 8-)

Our bookshop is closed on Sundays and Mondays, so we get Easter off by default, though not Good Friday. However, since the shop is closed due to shelter in place, it doesn't matter. We've been working in the (closed) shop and at home (listing books online, going through boxes in the garage, etc.) and our hours are, how do you say, flexible. ;-)

Anyway, your taking a long weekend is an excellent idea.

[auroracloud]

Yay for both of those forms of writing!

And getting days off by default is great, too, and flexible hours. I can imagine there's a lot of work done even when the doors are closed. When our libraries were about to be closed for the current situation, I heard a librarian say they were going to do inventory during the weeks when they're closed, and a bookshop is bound to have a lot of that sort of thing as well.

[shadaras]

I did do some writing now-my-yesterday! About two hundred words of cooking-based bickering. :)

[auroracloud]

Hee, sounds great! I approve of cooking-based bickering!