Write Every Day, Day #12

[auroracloud]

Today I played around with my Dreamwidth user pics for a while, including changing my default icon, and for the first time in... over 1.5 years, I think... my default icon here doesn't look like Nyssa of Traken, so I feel very disoriented when I look at my Dreamwidth page and keep looking for "me". But I'd wanted a change for a while, we'll see if I stick with this one. (On LJ I don't have most of these icons, so it has no effect there.)

Today's Writing

Mentioning my Ambush Project in yesterday's post had its uses, as I ended up working on it today! Some handwritten pages, no idea of the word count or such. But it was nice to work on it for some time again.

In the evening I typed up the pages from one of the times recently when I worked on my novel with longhand writing rather than at the computer. It ended up being over 500 words, which is considerably more than I've recently managed at the computer, so maybe I need to do this handwriting thing more often with the novel as well. I also edited some while I was writing, and added some new things. There are still bits that have got a little comment attached to them that say "come up with something for this part," "finally come up with a surname for these people" etc. But I'm pretty pleased overall with what I did.


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

Day 10: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, caprices, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, yasaman

Day 11: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman,

Day 12: auroracloud, china_shop,

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

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Despite the threat of rain I managed to get out in the garden for a couple of hours, working in a different spot though, abandoning the ivy in favour of doing battle with the forsythia. It's so tall it's a menace, and there's overgrown hedge behind it somewhere, along with holly and a cotoneaster that also needs cutting back. Oh, and brambles too. Lots of brambles. *sigh*

April 12th - 944 words, a double drabble, some Doctor Who drabbles and I finally finished and posted the challenge fic I started on Wednesday. Yay!

[auroracloud]

You seem to manage to get in a lot of gardening now, that's great! Sounds like you're doing a valiant battle with those plants which seek to overtake their neighbours! :-D

Well done on finishing the challenge fic, and yay drabbles! I wish I was better at limiting stories to 100 words, that'd be a neat way to explore ideas without committing to a few thousand words!

[badly_knitted]

If I don't try and get out in the garden every day, the weeds and overgrown plants will take over. I'm fighting hard, but they're probably still winning...

Thanks, I got it posted just inside the deadline *sigh of relief*

I used to be sure I could ever write drabbles because I'm a bit wordy, and sometimes my attempts still take off ad end up several thousand words long, but I've practiced a lot and if I really have to, as with the Doctor Who drabbles, I can keep it short and manage to edit down to exactly 100 words. But if double drabbles are allowed, everything ends up 200 words. I need to be stricter with myself...