Write Every Day, April Day #19

[auroracloud]

I actually managed to somewhat start tidying up my home today. Not a lot, but some. At this rate I might have a nice-looking home by 2030? But hey, it's a start.

Today's Writing

More worldbuilding today, this time for Ambush Project #2. Wrote down lots of stuff, it was really interesting. I've been in a bit of a daze most of the day, this kind of thing isn't really conductive to being well-organized about the rest of my life!

In the evening I also took a look at my bingo prompts again, wrote down a few ideas - and I ended up actually starting that story that I wrote down the fandom and prompt for yesterday. Didn't get far, though, because I'm getting tired. Then again, I did also spend a lot of words on a non-WED post about fannish things, so even if that's not what I typically count for writing (because I want to make sure I somehow work on my creative stuff), but it did take its time.


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

Day 18: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity shadaras, sylvanwitch, yasaman

Day 19: 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

[luzula]

Today's wordcount: 1,300
Total wordcount on fic: 12,800

A productive day! : )

[auroracloud]

Woo hoo! Sounds very productive indeed!

[badly_knitted]

Oops, thought I'd checked in yesterday but somehow I didn't! I was a bit distracted last night.

April 18th - 1157 words, a 1k challenge ficlet and some editing.

April 19th - 1871 words, a complete fic written and posted, just made it in before the deadline! I had no idea what to write so I just started typing, it turned into an idea, and just took off! I love when that happens.

[auroracloud]

It happens, no worries! I'll add you for both days. Congrats for getting the fic written and posted before the deadline! And yes, it feels great when the story weaves itself as you write it.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

It ended up being quite a fun story.

[alexseanchai]

fun fun fun

update: solved every problem that post mentions, providing we define not "AO3 won't let me put some accented Latin characters or any Chinese characters in my click-or-hover-to-translate CSS" but "I need a way to make sure the reader gets these translations regardless of whether they are on desktop or mobile and regardless of whether they have the creator style on or off" as one of the problems. I need to put in a bug report, too. also this novel-length now has fourteen chapters of draft on AO3. the last three chapters alternate "[Scene #]" with horizontal rules and that's the whole of those chapters' body text, mind you, and there's a number of smaller placeholders in earlier chapters, but the text wrapping around the images works and the linked footnotes all work.

[auroracloud]

Good luck figuring out all that stuff! Makes me so glad my works don't need any special formatting or such, that sounds challenging.

[alexseanchai]

I mean, to be fair, this doesn't really need special formatting either.

I just don't want to slow down the narrative to explain either "shit the PoV character definitely knows, and the reader ought to but might not" or "shit the PoV character definitely doesn't know, and the reader doesn't need to but will miss some dramatic irony if they don't". and having text continue to the left or right of the embedded illustration, instead of only before and after, is so much prettier.

[ysilme]

At this rate I might have a nice-looking home by 2030? But hey, it's a start.
That might actually be the case for me. *sigh* *hugs in sympathy* But yes, it's definitely a start, which is the important part! *\O/* And writing seems to have gone really well for you on top, so double yay! *\O/*
Sorry I also missed several days in a row again. I seem to have really difficulties to keep track of anything these days - on Thursday, Siljan thought it was Friday and I thought it was Wednesday. *g* Anyway, I wrote a lot, though mostly again non-fic -
various letters of the proper letter-writing kind, morning pages and my ten-year-calendar, the latter two both in longhand, but also continued editing at the WIP every day. On the 16th it was 1,7k, on the 17th 1k, 173 words on the 18th and about 500 today.

[auroracloud]

Well, at least I'm not alone in these very, very long-term tidying projects. :-D :-D I'm still hoping the isolation would manifest in an urge to clean all the things. I'm getting more done than I did before, but I'm still much more likely to cope with the situation by crocheting, cross-stitching, baking, and listening to a ton of podcasts.

No worries about missing days, it happens! I was missing days all the time last month, even though I'm normally pretty diligent about checking in.

Ooh, letters! I've really been meaning to get to letter-writing, I have some friends to write to... And yay for editing your WIP as well!

on Thursday, Siljan thought it was Friday and I thought it was Wednesday. *g*

Well, on the average, you had the correct day! :-D (Which may say more about averages, or more precisely, means, than it does about other things. But still!)

[shadaras]

I've written some words for "how the light gets in", which is a The Untamed fanfic I'm writing because I need fluff in my life right now. Some of these words are just planning future scenes. This seems reasonable to me, on this bright sunny day. Especially since I spent the morning of watching Phantom of the Opera on that YouTube stream and the afternoon out in the sunshine. :)

[auroracloud]

I totally support all the fluff-writing in the world at the moment! Hee, I've heard so much about the Untamed, admittedly mostly on the podcast Be the Serpent where they're all Very Into It. Haven't checked it out for myself so far yet, though. And planning future scenes is also an important part of writing!

Sounds like a fun day all in all! I saw that version of the Phantom of the Opera back when it aired in cinemas. I'm not that into the musical, but it was an excellent version of it.

[sylvanwitch]

I definitely need to catch up on your personal posts, but today is not that day. *grins* I will say I'm so excited for you that you're finding so much to write on your various projects--that's awesome! :-)

I spent a lot of the day finishing up the last of three weeks' worth of lessons (we're back "in school"--read: online--tomorrow), but I also added 584 words to Bond/Q. Plus, we got a walk in in between the raindrops, so that was good.

[auroracloud]

No worries, the posts will be waiting for you when you feel like checking them out. The downside to not writing any non-WED posts for a while is that they end up far too long...

Excellent work for managing to write that much on the fic again despite having so much school prep to do! And yay for getting in a walk as well. :-)

[deifire]

I feel you on the tidying up so much!

Today's word count: 281. Also, got my other chapter back from beta, edited, and posted!

[auroracloud]

*high-five of shared tidying commiseration*

Yay words, and yay editing and posting the chapter! It's great to get something finished. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Ahahaha a tidy home by 2030, that sounds reasonable for me as well

I don't even know what happened today but I managed 4,289 words between two Prodigal Son stories. I mean wow.

[auroracloud]

It's a very reasonable goal! It doesn't do to rush things!

Wow, that's a lot of writing! Congrats! Sounds like you were inspired. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks I was

[sanguinity]

Apr 19: Revisions + published, yee-haw!

[auroracloud]

Woo hoo revisions and publication! There seemed to be a few of those happening yesterday among the WEDers! Hopefully it will inspire me to actually finish and publish something, too. :-D

[yasaman]

Day 19: spent more of the day reading fic than writing it, but no regrets! I still wrote 200 words.

[auroracloud]

Reading nourishes creativity as well! It's definitely nothing to regret to have enjoyed a good chunk of time reading fic (I'm assuming you enjoyed it because people rarely feel compelled to read fics if they're not enjoying it :-D). But yay for still getting in some writing as well!

[sakana17]

Day 19: 2966 words.

[auroracloud]

Woo hoo, that's a lot of words!

[the_siobhan]

Forget that nonsense with rocks, tidying is the real task that was assigned to Sisyphus.


Hit 470 tonight! Whoot! I didn't have a lot of time, but I got on a nice roll while I was doing it.

I'm still struggling to find a schedule for writing, but some friends have proposed doing a month writing meet-up online, so I'm going to take advantage of that.




Tonight's writing soundtrack: Dearly Beloved and the coyotes having a party behind my backyard

[auroracloud]

tidying is the real task that was assigned to Sisyphus.

That makes so much more sense!

Yay, sounds like you got a lot of writing done with not much time for writing. Sometimes when you get on a good roll, you can progress nicely even in a short amount of time, I love that feeling.

That write-up with friends online sounds like a good idea to try! I hear you on struggling with a schedule for writing - even though I'm accustomed to my daily writing by now, it's not the easiest thing to find the right time for it (especially since my brain insists on having its most creative time at the same time when it's also the most useful for anything else I need to do, and I can't do everything in a few hours!).

Oh dear, coyote party, that sounds very exotic to me as we don't have coyotes in Finland. Though of course I have my own share of exotic animal anecdotes since not all our animals are common in other countries.

[the_siobhan]

My backyard ends on a set of railroad tracks, and the coyotes use the rail corridor to travel through the city. They've been really active lately, I guess because there are fewer humans on the streets.

[lferion]

Day 19 - 400ish words on a Maedhros/Fingon thing. I had to stop and get some other things done, so I really hope when I have time again I can pick up the thread. I'm liking where it is going, but it's not my usual, thus the need for hope/luck.

[auroracloud]

Good luck picking up the thread again! It can be a challenge to write something outside your usual kind of story, but also rewarding!

[carenejeans]

Day 19: I didn't work on the nonfiction project today, because like you, I spent the day tidying. Specifically, shelving books in the, er, book-room (the stuff we list on the internet is here at the house in a spare room). It was like a game of bookshelf Tetris.

I did write an alibi sentence. In fact I wrote three. More little plot sprouts. ;-)

[auroracloud]

Bookshelf Tetris sounds like quite a game!

Yay for three alibi sentences, that's already more than just alibi! :-)

[china_shop]

20th: Pretty much just an alibi sentence (but I cleaned out some clutter from my spare room!).

[auroracloud]

Seems several of us have had cleaning days lately. Yay for still getting around to doing something for writing, even if it wasn't a lot this time. :-)

[china_shop]

I only did it so I could check in, so yay for WED, too! 🌻❤

[silveradept]

Day 18 and 19, words success, even if not much because I spent my time doing other things that are in theory supposed to be relaxing.

[auroracloud]

Too bad if the things were only relaxing in theory! Anyway, writing is writing, even if there wasn't a lot of it this time. :-)