Write Every Day, April Day #17

[auroracloud]

We're actually in the second half of April now. To be honest, I have trouble with feeling any sort of scale in the passage of time. It's also five weeks exactly since the whole isolation / social distancing thing began in Finland. Which is probably why time scales are hard. Anyway, I don't know who else needs to hear/read this tonight, but: whatever you're feeling in these times, and I mean whatever, it's okay to feel it. Let yourself feel it and ask yourself what you need and be good to yourself a bit. Or more than a bit. Anyway, that's all. If you want some lovely links and things, elisi has some, See this post for nice things.

Anyway, on with the travelling writing show.

Today's Writing

I took a break in the afternoon from Stuff I Needed To Do and spent some of that time scribbling down ideas for my Ambush Project #2. That was fun. I love the brainstorming and imagining phase.

In the evening, I looked at my bingo cards a bit, then went to my femslashficlets prompt table (queer women's lit quotes) and looked at the one completed ficlet I had there and edited through it the best I could. Tomorrow I'll decide whether I should try to get a beta, or just boldly post it without.

I also looked at the other prompts, made some new notes about ships I could write stories for (more specifically one new ship, courtesy of my podcast listening last night), and then I started to find one. I didn't get very far because it made me feel more things than I had the energy for, but it was a start.


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, 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: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 14: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme


Day 15: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 16: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman

Day 17: 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

[shadaras]

Today I wrote an outline for a ttrpg one-shot I'm running for some friends tomorrow. :) Should be fun!

Plausibly I'll write other things this evening, but energy is hard soemtimes.

[auroracloud]

Ooh, that sounds like fun! I hope it goes well! Are you role-playing in person or online?

Yeah, energy is hard sometimes. *sympathy* Well done for writing, whether you got other things written in the evening or not!

[shadaras]

Online! :D Hard to do anything in-person right now, y'know? And it did indeed go well. :)

[auroracloud]

I figured, but thought I'd check. :-) (Though I guess it would take a very big table, to keep the distance!) There have also been plans of an online roleplaying session among some of my folks - which would be extra fun as I normally don't get to play, being that I live in a different city from the others and can't participate in the regular sessions.

[shadaras]

Oh, nice! I hope that happens. :)

[china_shop]

Yay for scribbling down ideas and brainstorming! *\o/* I don't seem to be able to do that at the moment -- I'm just feeling my way in the dark, mostly. (Also, thanks for the link to elisi's links! ♥)

18th: It's still early, but I've written 217 words and there may yet be more to come (I hope!). :-)

[auroracloud]

Feeling your way in the dark also sounds familiar with how it's sometimes with writing! Sorry you're not able to do brainstorming and ideas at the moment. But yay for words! :-)

[luzula]

Today's wordcount: 500
Total length of fic: 10,800

[auroracloud]

Yay for keeping up the steady progress!

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with your cards and tables!

Chilly today thanks to the wind, so I went back to dealing with ivy, where I wasn't right in the path of the wind. There's rain forecast tongight and tomorrow so I might not get outside. Oh well, it's still April, I should expect changeable weather.

April 17th - 1290 words, and I got the challenge fic I started a few days ago finished and posted! \0/

[auroracloud]

Thank you!

It's been super windy here lately, so I feel your chill. And by lately I mean most of 2020. We've had very changeable weather in April - one day it's all spring-like and flowers are blooming, the next day it snows and sleets. But it seems like we're now starting to get more regular spring weather - let's hope the wind lets up as well!

Anyway, congrats for another productive day with writing as well, and double yay for finishing and posting challenge fic!

[badly_knitted]

Yikes! Where I live we only had snow once this past winter and it only lasted a day or two. We don't tend to get a lot of snow most years. We had an awful lot of rain and gale though, went on for weeks, everywhere was waterlogged. we've already had several hot days, but come summer it'll probably be cold and wet again so I'm making the most of the sunshine when we get it.

Thanks, I was very pleased to get that one finished.

[auroracloud]

We didn't really get a winter this winter here in the southern parts of the country, but instead we got a winter in spring. Figures! We don't usually get snow in April, but there's been nothing usual about the weather this year. First we get anemones weeks ahead of time, and then it snows on them....

I'm from more northern parts of the country than where I currently live, so I tend to grumble about the pitiful winters the south gets. This year has been less wintry than usual, though. But I realize that for a lot of people we're still plenty northern!

I'm also trying to enjoy the sunshine when I can, though for me it's more that I'm super bad at dealing with summer heat, so at this time of the year I can still enjoy the sun without being exhausted or ending up with a sunstroke or similar. ;-)

[badly_knitted]

Your poor anemones! The weather really is being a menace, it's all over the place. the sun we'e getting off and on at the moment will probably be our 'summer', we hit 22 C a couple of times. That's just about hot enough for me, I don't do well in too much heat, if it gets too hot I either stay indoors or wilt in the shade doing as little as possible. It's been nice having dry weather although today's rain might have been a good thing, it's bringing the apple tree into blossom.

I couldn't deal with really cold snowy winters, I get cold cold easily and can't get warm again and I ended up with no heat twice this winter, which didn't help.

Here's hoping you get comfortable spring temperatures you can enjoy, and no more snow on the anemones.

[sylvanwitch]

I appreciate the timely reminder that this is all just a total Wild West show, and any and all reactions are 100% okay. :-)

It also sounds like you had a productive writing day! Yay!

I added 636 words to Bond/Q, which I was quite happy with, as it came after a long day of doing yet more school prep work.

[auroracloud]

Glad the reminder was useful. I needed that thought, so I figured someone else might as well. :-) *hugs*

Yay for getting that much fic-writing after a long day of work! School prep work is challenging enough even in normal circumstances, let alone now when circumstances are very much not normal.

[alexseanchai]

Figured out why I was stalled on the last scene of ch 11 of firelight. Because I need to break the scene there, rearrange the planned Rena PoV scenes again, and move what I was trying to write here into ch 12.

[auroracloud]

Yay for figuring things out after being stalled!

[sanguinity]

Did some editing this morning, thought I was at the end of my story after all, sent it to beta, heard back that it was NOT the end of the story. Oh, well! Maybe I can write the end of the story tomorrow.

[auroracloud]

Glad you got editing done and story sent to beta, even if it turned out you weren't at the end of the story yet. Good luck figuring out the ending! Often sleeping on it helps, I find. :-)

[nafs]

Thus ends my fourth week of working from home. I was really bad at managing my time outside of work hours, especially doing things like "going to bed at a reasonable hour so you're not almost rolling out of bed right online to work." Otoh I now have a collection of playlists that more-or-less match (apart from covers) the setlists of every time I've seen Hanson live, so... It's been kind of a weird week.

Typed up the 400+ words I wrote the last time I checked in, and then added another 344 words straight into the "new parts" document as I try to fix the next scene. So far, we're veering into a different conversation than the two characters had in the previous iteration of this scene, which is good, but I'm not actually sure where they're headed with it, which is less good. Will try and figure that out tomorrow.

Or perhaps have them start a different conversation and see if that works. They have been trying to have this damn meeting for like... this might be my fourth try? And while the most satisfying version was the first one when she left after setting his office on fire, sadly that version doesn't actually work in this story anymore.

[auroracloud]

Time management with working from home is not easy! I'm reasonably good at it these days, but that's because I have a lot of practice at it - and I'm still not very good at time-managing anything else!

Yay for both typing up the previous words and writing more fixing the next scene. Good luck figuring out where the conversation is going! This definitely sounds like a familiar situation when writing. Some scenes and conversations are really hard to get right. Good luck! Even if you can't set things on fire now...

[cornerofmadness]

It was a slow writing day, managed 323 words on the long prodigal son story

[auroracloud]

It's still writing, yay for keeping up also on a day that wasn't as productive writing-wise as usually. Showing up matters more than the word count does. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

This is true though I need to show up for the stories I'm meant to be working on

[lferion]

Day 17 - A double drabble prompted by the SWG Block Party going on, informed by the Legendarium Ladies April prompt set. I'll let it percolate a little before figuring how to post it.

[auroracloud]

Sometimes it's good to give stories a little time to percolate, yes. :-)

[sierranovembr]

I wrote a few sentences or paragraphs in a few different things - nothing really grabbed me tonight, but I did try.

[auroracloud]

Some days are just like that with writing. But the important part is that you tried!

[yasaman]

Day 17: back to the plotty WIP with 691 words written!

[auroracloud]

Yay for many words in the plotty WIP! Good luck!

[sakana17]

Day 17: 3264 words.

[auroracloud]

Woo hoo, that's a lot of words! Yay!

[deifire]

Day 17: Editing my chapter. Added some words, cut out others. Have 78 more than when I started.

[auroracloud]

Editing is often like that - not necessarily big on word count, but important to do. Well done for working on that part of writing!

[silveradept]

I did do some writing on an assignment, which is good. I've finally managed to write enough to get people in the right place at the right time for the stated part of the assignment to begin, so hopefully from the, it will take off.

[auroracloud]

Excellent, yay for progress on your assignment. Here's hoping for a take-off!