Write Every Day, April Day #20

[auroracloud]

I'm slowly trying to edge my way towards an earlier posting time, so I'll get around to going to bed earlier as well. Today I'm all of five minutes earlier than yesterday!

Today's Writing

I took some time during the day to work on my novel a bit. I continued writing a chapter I'd started last week. I'm not sure how happy I'm with the voice in it, but well, I'll be feeling it out, I guess! Plus, it's always easier to edit something that has been written than something not written.

I had thoughts about writing more on the characters and plot of Ambush Project #2, but I never managed to make time for it. I did think about it, though, so maybe I'll get to set those thoughts down on another day.


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, ysilme

Day 17: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

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

Day 19: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 20: 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]

I wrote a good ~700 words on my fic! These characters are almost to a point where they won't be cooped up and can start doing things!

[auroracloud]

Sounds great! :-)

[luzula]

Today's wordcount: 900 words
Total wordcount on fic: 13,700 words

Ow, my hands; too much computer time. Not just from writing, though. : (

[auroracloud]

Yay for another productive day of writing! Not yay for hands hurting from too much computer time. :-( I know the feeling, I get that with my hands a lot, and especially these days when most things are online so I spend even more time than usual at the computer... I try to remember to do relieving stretches and movements, and wrist warmers (fingerless mittens) tend to help me. They keep the little muscles in the hands warmer so they don't get as sore, somehow.

[badly_knitted]

Getting something written down gives you a foundation to build on. Getting it right is what editing is for.

Got out in the garden for a while, but I've spent the last two days working in a different part of it, clearing ivy, because it's too windy at the side of the house at the moment.

April 20th - 1119 words, 5 double drabbles and some editing.

[auroracloud]

Getting it right is what editing is for.

Indeed!

Yay for another productive writing day! And a gardening day as well, it seems. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Today was back-to-school day, post-break, but it went alright, and I finished up my grading by 3:00 in the afternoon, so I was able to go for a walk in the sunshine--yay!--and make a good meal and then also write. Today, I added 883 words to the climax, and many of those words were a total surprise to me, but in a good way. :-)

[auroracloud]

I'm glad the back-to-school day went all right. And yay for sunshine walks and good meals!

Today, I added 883 words to the climax, and many of those words were a total surprise to me, but in a good way. :-)

That sounds great! The kind of writing that becomes as a surprise but in a good way can be one of the best kinds of writing. :-)

[deifire]

Today: 139 words

[auroracloud]

Yay for writing!

[cornerofmadness]

Definitely easier to fix the voice once you get it started.

No luck on my novel but got 448 words on the prodigal son story for my friend.

[auroracloud]

Yay for progress on your story for your friend! And best of luck with the novel for the coming days. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

THanks

[lferion]

Day 20 - a couple of sentences, continuing yesterday’s piece. All I had time for, but I’m happy I was able to find the thread even a little.

[auroracloud]

Yes, on a busy day it's great to get even a little bit written! It still keeps the story alive in your mind and keeps you thinking about it, and makes it easier to continue on the next day as well. :-) And it can be especially challenging to find the concentration to write on a busy day - or even remember it, sometimes - so yay for you!

[yasaman]

Day 20: started a new fic? WHOOPS. but did write 473 words for it!

[auroracloud]

That's a good kind of whoops, I say! :-D

[alexseanchai]

partially revised the first of a few scenes so one of the two characters just got magical empathy powers hears emotions as music, instead of my shortcutting from unspecified sixth-sensory input to knowing what others are feeling. (the other will be experiencing emotions as color and texture, like fabric & etc.) story is already much better for this. had to youtube classical music all evening, mind.

SurprisedPikachu.jpg

kudos to silveradept for patiently putting up with all my "does $RevisedLine convey the thing at least as accurately and more musically than $OriginalLine" messaged at intervals

[auroracloud]

Ooh, that's an interesting magical empathy power, I really love the idea! I get really strong connections between music and emotions, so that story would definitely resonate with me.

had to youtube classical music all evening, mind.

There are worse forms of research! :-)

And yay for having someone to message about story problems/thoughts! It can be so helpful to have a sounding board. :-)

[alexseanchai]

there are definitely worse forms of research 😺

[ysilme]

Yay for 5min won on the schedule! :o) I'm struggling with the same in relation to my totally broken sleeping pattern - it's rather difficult on my part. I don't seem able to convince my brain that at a certain time it IS better if I go to bed instead of dawdling yet another ten minutes, and ten more, and just finish this or that, and then be too knackered to get up at the desired time on the next day. *hides*
No fic writing for me yesterday, as my voluntary job sucked me in again, but I wrote a couple of hundred words about writing during a pandemic as a comment to somebody and will shamelessly count that, also because it gave me a plot bunny. A PLOT BUNNY! They aren't extinct after all! *sobs with relief*

[auroracloud]

I don't seem able to convince my brain that at a certain time it IS better if I go to bed instead of dawdling yet another ten minutes, and ten more, and just finish this or that, and then be too knackered to get up at the desired time on the next day. *hides*

That sounds terribly familiar. The Daylight Saving Time doesn't help either - basically I've already done the work of moving my schedule one hour earlier than it was in the winter to go to bed at the same time, yet I know it would be better if I went to bed still earlier... But it's hard especially because I tend to get a peak in activity in the evening, so it's hard to calm down. And then at a certain level of tiredness my initiative shuts down, so I'm kind of too tired to make myself go to bed...

Sorry you didn't have time to do fic writing, but yay for still getting in some form of writing! You count what you want to count, I say - and if it gave you a plot bunny, then it clearly was, you know, writing research or brainstorming or something. Yay for encountering a living plot bunny in the wild! (I seem to be some kind of a plot bunny attractor, since I've always got way too many bouncing around, but only some of them lead to proper stories...)

[sanguinity]

Apr 20: Missed my morning writing session, but did make some edits to the story I published yesterday. (Shut up, it's for an exchange and doesn't go live for a while.) When I sat down to do some lunchtime writing... So obviously that was an impossible situation to solve and there were no lunchtime words.

So it's a good thing I made some edits to the story in the morning, huh?

[auroracloud]

Yay for edits! And I totally do that with exchange stories. Every. Single. Time. I don't think I've ever managed to finish an exchange story so that I would edit it between the deadline and the reveals. So definitely not judging you there, heh.

Ahahah, I see you have one of those Very Helpful Cats. I suppose there are upsides to my not having a pet. *longingly pets cat from distance*

My family had a dog for a long time, and while he didn't tend to go sit on my writing (we didn't let him on the furniture and he mostly knew that), if I ever tried to read a newspaper on the floor (they were broadsheet-sized back then so it was easier to find the space that way), he would decide that was the most excellent place for a furry dog to lie down in his "pet me" pose.

[sanguinity]

And not just between publishing and reveals; I tend to tweak stories for years afterward. When I find typos, yes, of course, but also when I finally realize how to streamline that annoying phrase or whatever.

Hee! Silly puppy! I can't really blame them: you are very obviously focusing your attention there, so obvs the best way to get your attention is to place themselves at its focal point! Very sound logic, everybody wins! \o/

[auroracloud]

After going through some of my old works for the purpose of self-reccing, I quickly concluded I must also adopt the habit of tweaking stories for years afterwards, because oh my goodness what clumsy phrasings I found, I don't know how I've ever believed I can write, except that if I found them clumsy now and easily found ways to improve them, I must have improved as a writer as well, so at least that is a relieving thought. (Anyway, this is a step up from "I can't even look at my old stories".)

Yes, the doggo logic was very sound. He got petted, I got to pet a dog, and it's not like the newspaper has any feelings. No losers in the scenario!

[alexseanchai]

oh cat

[sanguinity]

Very cat!

[silveradept]

Decided to go back at adding posts to the commentary queue, which was great at reclaiming some confidence that the words are there, even if it seems like they're slightly out of reach at time.

[auroracloud]

That's great! Discovering the words are still there is good, whichever method it takes on each day.