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

[nafs]

I love how many WED people do at least some longhand writing - when I joined up months ago I thought I was some sort of dinosaur.

I beat the scene! Or well... it's good enough for now. There are a couple of points it doesn't cover that I might need it to cover but I think it's loads better than it was. At least 450 new words but then I got into pulling old bits in and adding sentences and... can't word count those.

I like this linear forward progress thing. Only a few more scenes to go where I have a definite sense of what goes where and then I'll be debating whether I need connecting scenes or a time skip (or both) and whether both POVs are balanced, etc. When I get to that point I bet you I'll end up writing things all out of order again.

[auroracloud]

Hee, I know what you mean about feeling like a dinosaur with longhand writing. For me it goes in phases - sometimes I don't write much by hand for a couple of months, sometimes I do it all the time. I think this month I've been inspired by those of you who also do it, it has reminded me how good longhand writing has been for me in the past, and so I was inspired to do more of it again. :-)

Yay for beating the scene well enough! And good enough that you can move on is better than aiming for perfect and never getting past it.