Write Every Day, Day #13

[auroracloud]

All right, my little Easter break is about to be done, but I guess I really needed it! I do feel good about having taken some extra time "off" (in quotation marks because my schedules are so very self-determined at the moment, not because it wasn't time off). Guess if I did any of the cleaning I meant to do, beyond routine maintenance? No!! Uh, I really do need to get to that soon.

By the way, the posts have recently gotten too large to crosspost on LJ anymore, but nobody's been checking in there, so I'm just not going to crosspost. I'll try to make a note about the fact there, in case someone does need it, but it's too much hassle to make it crosspost when nobody seems to need it.

Today's Writing

I ended up doing a lot of non-fiction writing by hand. Memories and such. They might just be practice, or I might some day want to do more purposeful non-fiction about those topics - doesn't matter now, the important thing was writing them. I really enjoyed it. Later I typed up some more handwritten stuff for my novel. I didn't add and edit as much as I did for yesterday's scene, but some, anyway.

I kind of meant to do more, but then I spent a lot of time writing a podcast recommendation e-mail to a friend. Which reminded me that I've promised to do one over here... Will try to do it soon! (Can't just copy-paste since it was in Finnish and I'd ideally like it to be useful for more than two of my readers.)


Tally
(edited days 1-12 for the updates from comments to this post)

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, ysilme

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, ysilme


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


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, ysilme


Day 9: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme


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


Day 11: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 12: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 13: 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

[falkner]

Quick check-in. Words are being written!

[auroracloud]

Yay words!

[luzula]

Today's wordcount: 700 further words of 18th century battlefield
Total wordcount on fic: 7,700 words

[auroracloud]

Yay for more progress!

[badly_knitted]

So cold out today! Temperatures dropped from 21 C ysterday to 9 C today, and it could go as low as 1 C tonight. Nevertheles, I got a bit done in the garden, but I came inside when I realised I couldn't feel my nose. The wind was icy.

So, less gardening means more writing.

April 13th - 1332 words, 5 double drabbles and I finished a fic I started a few weeks back. Very satisfying =)

[auroracloud]

Hee, so you're getting what we have on warm days. :-D But wind can make a huuuuge difference, I know. Yeah, you don't want parts of your face to freeze!

Sounds like a productive writing day, indeed! Well done for finishing all those things!

[badly_knitted]

The wind was definitely the deciding factor yesterday. By nose has since thawed out *grins*

I was very happy with what I achieved.

[deifire]

Today: 37 alibi words

Between some RL bad news and a horrible headache I can't shake, I'm calling that better than expected and calling it a day.

[deifire]

Looks like I forgot to check in yesterday, too. That one was slightly better at 253 words

[auroracloud]

Actually you didn't forget to check in, I somehow skipped over your comment! Sorry about that! I seem to have been scatter-brained yesterday, since I missed two people on the tally. I'll add you for both days.

And with RL bad news and a horrible headache, getting any writing done at all is amazing! I hope things will be all right. *sends hugs, soup, or whatever else is appropriate*

[sylvanwitch]

I'm so glad you enjoyed your Easter break, my friend! You deserve the time to relax and recharge. :-)

Today's writing was courtesy of the student writing group that I moderate. We're trying to 'crowdsource' a story. Members of the club who are interested in participating have been invited to a shared Google document. Today, I wrote the character description for the main character, described the setting, provided the conflict, and wrote the first several paragraphs to get the story started. Now, the students in the group will add on, and we'll see where it goes! Anyway, that was 581 words and a nice little break from the Bond/Q story, to which I can return fresh tomorrow. Yay!

[ysilme]

What a great idea! :O)

[auroracloud]

Thank you! I hope you were able to relax and recharge, too, you certainly deserve it as well.

What an interesting idea! Collaborative writing can yield some fascinating results. Such a cool project to embark on! And yes, sometimes it's very good to have a bit of a break from the story you've mainly been working on. Hope you're feeling refreshed!

[china_shop]

14th: Read through the fic so far and added 227 net new words. Am going to have a bath this afternoon and brainstorm for the next section. :-)

[auroracloud]

Ooh, yay bath and brainstorming, hope that was fruitful! Pausing for a moment to lament the fact that I can't take a bath because I don't have a bathtub. Luckily, showers are also inspiring as well as cleansing. :-)

[shadaras]

About a hundred words of 'oh shit it's bedtime' for me! :)

I spent the morning at the dojo practicing weapons by myself and the afternoon playing an online ttrpg, so I don't feel bad about this paucity at all; the rest of the day was very nice.

[auroracloud]

I know that kind of writing well! :-D Yay for managing some writing even if the day was otherwise full - and it sounds like a very nice day indeed. (Okay, I don't know anything about practicing weapons, but I'll take your word for it!)

[sierranovembr]

I finished off a short section of a bingo fill - and if I get the thing edited tonight I may call it done. We'll see how the laundry goes.

Good luck with the eventual cleaning!

[auroracloud]

Yay for progress on bingo fills! I hope I'll start working on mine soon, since I've claimed three cards in a short while. :-D Hope the laundry didn't keep you too occupied and you got time for editing - and if not, good luck on another day!

Thank you, today I failed at doing anything about the cleaning, but I hope on another day, my time management goes better.

[lferion]

Day 13 - wrote a drabble incorporating the fourth line prompts on my genprompt bingo card, and posted yesterday's poem to fan flashworks. I also had a lovely chat with a friend who had a new baby, so hasn't been online much. It was so nice to catch up.

[auroracloud]

I'm glad you're finding so much inspiration from the bingo card prompts! And that's so nice about a chat with your friend, it really is so good to be able to catch up with people.

[cornerofmadness]

I did get a lot of writing down today 1791 words on the birthday fic and got it posted + 500 words on the long Prodigal Son story

[auroracloud]

Congrats for finishing the fic and getting so many words on the other story as well!

[sanguinity]

Whoops, you missed my check-in from yesterday. (Unless you decided that alibi editing is NOT a thing, in which case I'll be sad.)

...especially since today's check-in is MORE alibi editing! \o/

[auroracloud]

Oops, I'm so sorry about that! Alibi editing definitely is a thing - a thing I've done sometimes, too - and anyway I usually fall under "if you consider it writing that counts, I consider it writing that counts" (at least if it's slightly more than "I vaguely thought about it at some point"). I just seem to have been scatterbrained yesterday and missed a couple of comments as I was replying and updating the list.

So, yay for managing alibi editing, at least! It's still working on the story!

[sanguinity]

I suppose with alibi editing there's a danger that one just twiddles a few words back and forth endlessly without getting anywhere, but then again the whole alibi concept isn't about getting somewhere today, it's about showing up.

"if you consider it writing that counts, I consider it writing that counts"

I haven't hosted yet, but that strikes me as an eminently sensible rule. :-)

[sakana17]

Day 13: 362 words on story + 1393 words on revision of the draft post.

[auroracloud]

Well done on both counts!

[yasaman]

Day 13: did a decent amount of boring work writing today, but also 395 words of fic!

[auroracloud]

Glad you got some fic-writing time in addition to the work writing!

[ysilme]

I haven't cross-posted to LJ for the longest time either, as also nobody ever seemed to want to join there; when switching to zwei_hexen I think we didn't even create a journal on LJ.
It's good to hear you had/gave yourself a break over the holidays, and that it helped you, and also that writing happened for you. ♥
I'm afraid I needed a break as well, at least from being active online; I haven't commented, answered comments, reported my tally all through passion week or longer in some cases, but the digital work for my parish's website took up so much of my time and energy there wasn't much left for anything else, and the last two days I've also slept for most of the day to catch up with sleep deprivation. I managed to write, though, even if only alibi sentences on most days except for the last two. At least by now I think the creative writing is slowly coming back, as I also more and more get settled into our new reality, and I'm confident that I might manage regular check-ins again. I'm so sorry for having missed so many and needing to be edited in! I've written every day so far, and am missing on the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and from the 6th until the 13th. Thanks already for putting up with me!

[auroracloud]

Yeah, I mostly crosspost because I've set my journal to automatically crosspost. Though I've started to consider not doing that anymore - but there still are a couple of people who regularly comment and all who are on LJ only.

Taking a longer break from being active online is quite understandable and sometimes necessary. Glad you were able to take a break when you needed it! Don't feel bad about not having checked in, it's not a big deal to add you into the tally (at least if it's okay that I don't go back to edit you into all of the daily posts - I mostly just update the most recent tally). Well done for keeping up regular writing even if it was mostly alibi sentences! That's excellent in such a flurry of activity!

[ysilme]

Sorry for having been misleading; I meant crossposting WED entries. I'm crossposting my regular entries all the time for the handful of LJ only friends I still have. But none of these at my journals participate at WED, so I stopped crossposting these as doing the tally eventually became so complicated for this reason - I honestly didn't see a point in making it even more complicated if nobody was going to use it anyway.
Thank you so much for editing me in! And of course it's absolutely sufficient to only put me in the most recent tally; TBH I'm always doing the same. ;o) I'm not checking older tallies either, and after the month is over only the final tally on occasion if I wanted to find out how I did, and that's that.

[silveradept]

I did write on Day 13. Almost none of it was writing I actually wanted to be doing, but there was writing.

[auroracloud]

Well, at least it was writing! Hope that you soon get to do more of the writing you want to do!