Write Every Day: Day #16

[auroracloud]

Today's writing

Yuletide editing. And editing. And editing. Still not done. There's been quite some progress, thankfully, but there's still one gaping hole that needs to be filled and a couple of things that really need serious improvement, and my mind isn't producing anything. I currently despair over the quality of my own writing, and wish I had come up with a different story idea, and wonder why I ever signed up for this exchange, and pity my recipient. Maybe I need to go and watch an episode of Torchwood, and then come back and finish this.

It's going to be a very rough version that gets uploaded tonight, and I'll edit it before the reveals to make it better, but as of yet it doesn't quite pass off as a story, and I won't have time and energy for any significant amount of editing tomorrow, so... Don't know how late I'll be up. Sigh.

ETA at way, way too late at night: Edits finished for the night and story posted! I will still continue editing it, there's a lot to be improved, but at least I've got a complete story now. Woo hoo!

How are all of you doing? Hopefully nobody's been eaten by bears.

Tally

Day #1: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #2: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #3: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #4: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #5: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #6: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, trobadora, ysilme
Day #7: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #8: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #9: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #10: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #11: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #12: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #13: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #14: auroracloud,cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #15: auroracloud,cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme

Let me know if I missed anyone! You can join in or drop out any time.

Comments

[trobadora]

You have over a whole week until stories are revealed, so I'm sure you'll manage to get there in the end.

(I have to say that because I have to believe I'll get there in the end myself, you see. *g*)

I did some work on my Yuletide fic again today, and actually made some meaningful progress, but once again I'm too tired to keep at it. There'll have to be a marathon writing session tomorrow.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I try to keep that in mind. I just want it to still be a fully functional story when I post it, and there were gaps in it or things that didn't follow. Now I've finally smoothed out the worst, though, so the rest of the improving will be left until the remaining week. I need to make the writing better, and balance out some of the emotional development because it doesn't feel right at the moment, but I'll get there. I think. Posting it at the moment so I at least don't have to worry about defaulting. Probably next I'm going to worry something happens and I can't edit and then my poor recipient will be stuck with this. :-P

But you'll get there in the end, too! I have no doubt of it! *cheers you on*

I'm glad you managed to make some meaningful process! Good luck on your marathon session tomorrow, and hope you sleep well!

[ysilme]

Yay, congrats to finishing into posting stage! *\O/*
I'm too tired myself for more than reporting some 150 words on my Maglor WIP, written in the last twenty minutes. At least I wrote them, without this challenge I would have left it at the "mind work" I did on my Big WIP during the day. Which has been busier than yesterday, but a good busy with more Christmas baking (all experimental due to necessary adaptions), jam making and other household and holiday preparation stuff.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glad you got something written, at least! And sounds like nice kind of busy indeed. :-)

[avon.livejournal.com]

I posted my main story today. My tagging is terrible, but otherwise it is pretty good, I think.

Yesterday morning I woke up and found that a dozen punch hits had gone out the night before. By sheer coincidence, the one remaining one that had not been claimed, 12 hours after they went out, contained a fandom I offered. So I offered to do it - figuring that it was gone but the mods were just, you know, sleeping. Much to my surprise. I got it.

I spent yesterday reviewing as much of the fandom as I could (I only own one of several books and there was no time to get the rest from the library) and throwing ideas out. As of today, I have maybe two ideas I can work with. I am not sure if they are one story or two. I came home from work tonight, review'ed canon a bit more, and tried to make an outline. I'll dig into actual words tomorrow. I hope.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting the main story posted! I'll have to look at tagging really carefully yet, too...

And that's great about the pinch hit! They're terribly hard to get, aren't they? Good luck with the writing!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Glad you got your edits done. I've had a rough day but I did get 700 words on my yule fic so there's that.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good wordcount! Hope today has been / will be a better day.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Still a busy one but I found out the anthology I'm in that released yesterday already has about a half dozen 4 & 5 star reviews so I am happy.

[doctor-jehane.livejournal.com]

I took in beta comments on Yulefic and tagged and up it went! Yay to the yay ;)

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Yay, sounds great!

[esteliel.livejournal.com]

Almost no editing, sigh, but at least I wrote half a page of what might become a Yuletide treat.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Yay possible treat! Good luck with getting the editing done.