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auroracloudI've been meaning to do this for a while, but I've either forgotten or been so tired I haven't had the energy. But, this year the previous hosts of Write Every Day have had this new idea that I'm going to continue. So, if you want, rec something you've written in the comments to this post!
And if you didn't happen to write today but want to rec, you can just comment on the post anyway to rec your writing (maybe specifically mention that you're not checking in for the day, just so it's clear).
I haven't managed to do this yet, but I'll try now that I'm hosting it. I'm going to post mine in the comments. At the moment I'm trying to read through my old fics to find something I can rec - the problem is that I keep wanting to edit the already posted works and finding they're not as good as they were in my head... Trying to find something that doesn't make me lose faith in my writing... (I try to remember that I am writing fanfic in a language that isn't my own, and that actually can be something of an extra challenge.)
Today's Writing
I was exhausted by some RL stuff, so I let myself just do the word equivalent of doodling: I added character sheets for a few characters into my Scrivener project for Ambush Project #2, and wrote bits and pieces about the characters there. It's useful both for getting ideas down, and seeing what I still need. But I got a bit distracted trying to decide which pictures would best represent my characters (I saved a bunch when I first brainstormed it). And then I got even more distracted by inherent sexism in my language, gah. People tend to imagine Finnish is very gender-neutral because we don't have gendered pronouns (or gendered nouns, adjectives etc.) but we do have a ton of job names and titles that are inherently masculine, and they can be a pain. Some of them are easy to change into gender-neutral versions, but some are decidedly not. You can't just insert the word for "person" or "woman" where the original word has "man" because the expression only has the meaning in its original form, and people get totally different connotations when you change the word. Gaaaah.
Basically I don't know what to call one character's job title because it's one of those words and I can't find a workaround that's any use. Maybe I have to brainstorm with some local writerly friends... (And no, the society hasn't tried to find a gender-neutral version of the title yet either, as far as I'm aware.)
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:alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme
Day 21: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.
And if you didn't happen to write today but want to rec, you can just comment on the post anyway to rec your writing (maybe specifically mention that you're not checking in for the day, just so it's clear).
I haven't managed to do this yet, but I'll try now that I'm hosting it. I'm going to post mine in the comments. At the moment I'm trying to read through my old fics to find something I can rec - the problem is that I keep wanting to edit the already posted works and finding they're not as good as they were in my head... Trying to find something that doesn't make me lose faith in my writing... (I try to remember that I am writing fanfic in a language that isn't my own, and that actually can be something of an extra challenge.)
Today's Writing
I was exhausted by some RL stuff, so I let myself just do the word equivalent of doodling: I added character sheets for a few characters into my Scrivener project for Ambush Project #2, and wrote bits and pieces about the characters there. It's useful both for getting ideas down, and seeing what I still need. But I got a bit distracted trying to decide which pictures would best represent my characters (I saved a bunch when I first brainstormed it). And then I got even more distracted by inherent sexism in my language, gah. People tend to imagine Finnish is very gender-neutral because we don't have gendered pronouns (or gendered nouns, adjectives etc.) but we do have a ton of job names and titles that are inherently masculine, and they can be a pain. Some of them are easy to change into gender-neutral versions, but some are decidedly not. You can't just insert the word for "person" or "woman" where the original word has "man" because the expression only has the meaning in its original form, and people get totally different connotations when you change the word. Gaaaah.
Basically I don't know what to call one character's job title because it's one of those words and I can't find a workaround that's any use. Maybe I have to brainstorm with some local writerly friends... (And no, the society hasn't tried to find a gender-neutral version of the title yet either, as far as I'm aware.)
Tally
Day 1:
alexcat, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 2:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, elliet, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 3:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 4:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 5:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 6:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 7:
auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 8:
auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 9:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 10:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, caprices, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilmeDay 11:
auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilmeDay 12:
auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilmeDay 13:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilmeDay 14:
auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilmeDay 15:
auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilmeDay 16:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilmeDay 17:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilmeDay 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, ysilmeDay 20:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilmeDay 21:
auroracloud, china_shopLet 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.
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Date: 2020-04-22 06:36 pm (UTC)I've got the book on my e-reader now, I'm only waiting for the return of my ability to read books for more than ten minutes. But when I do read it, I'll be sure to check out your fic!