Write Every Day: Day #17

[auroracloud]

It occurred to me I could be nice to my followers and LJ-cut everything but the ongoing week of the tally.

Thanks to staying up so damn late last night with the Yuletide fic, I got just 4-5 hours of sleep because I had to get up pretty early. I'm really not so good at sleep deprivation. What was making it harder to go to sleep was that my brain suddenly was hitting me with tons of fic ideas and I couldn't stop thinking about them. But, going out in the morning was lovely. Around 8 am, the sun isn't anywhere near up yet (it gets up close to 9.30), so the moon was pretty bright and high in the sky, and there was the slightest cloud cover, so there was this beautiful shimmering rainbow-ish/reddish halo around the moon. At the same time, parts of the sky were clear enough that I could see Jupiter, as well as some of the bright stars like Vega that could still be seen against the lightening dark of the sky.

Anyway, was out and about around the clock today, nearly all of that time in company of a friend and we talked a lot. I had fun, but with all that and the lack of sleep, I'm very very tired now. Might be smart to go to bed early tonight!

Today's writing

Despite the exhaustion, I managed to get over 270 words on a Doctor Who fic just now, which is more than I expected now. Maybe the tiredness helped, because my brain could just run away with me. *g* Originally I thought this could be a Public Call treat (it started from one of the requests), but there's no way I'm finishing it by deadline, and goodness knows when. Well, maybe I'll find a way to gift it at some point if I finish it.

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, avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #16: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme

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

Comments

[trobadora]

I did it! Or, well, I did something, at any rate, and have uploaded my Yuletide fic. It needs so much editing, but it exists, and it is a story, and it has been posted (despite the trouble AO3 gave me), and that's what matters. Right?

Well, maybe I'll find a way to gift it at some point if I finish it.

If the person is also doing Fandom_Stocking, that might be an opportunity? Lots of people are.

[miss-morland.livejournal.com]

I wrote and posted a ficlet, and did final edits on my YT story!

[esteliel.livejournal.com]

More editing for me! With any luck, I'll be able to finish and post this thing on Monday, and then I can start to think about treats, yay.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Another 500 words finished off my FMA yule story so huzzah for that.

[doctor-jehane.livejournal.com]

i wrote up my concert experience, and then 580 words of treat -- I might be on a roll! Hopefully I manage to finish it by the 18th!

Glad you had fun with your friend! and my goodness, your morning sky sounds beautiful! we're so polluted in Asia -- light pollution as well as the garden-variety pollution -- that clear skies are very much a luxury.

I'm off skiing 19th to 21st, though; so wordcount's likely to be somewhat less. But let's see!

[ysilme]

We spent most of the day yesterday with my mother-in-law, pre-celebrating Christmas with her since she's away over the holiday. Due to an accidental lactose exposure I was unwell afterwards and for the night, with no writing happening, but I wrote some 100 words in the morning of an original Christmas story that suddenly crawled out from under the bed, wanting to be written. It's a translation, or rather retelling of a snippet written ages ago in German, and I also spend some time with thinking about what to keep and what to change, if that counts. ;)
I'm fascinated by your moon halo description! And the time of the sunrise. It's different to know about this in theory, and to hear somebody telling about it. Each time we travel north I observe how much that changes, and how much it influences the rhythm of the day. Three weeks ago in southern Denmark it was already quite a difference to here, in the south of Germany; although the larger differences I only know from July. The farthest north I've ever been was to lake Siljan in Sweden, in July, where it didn't get fully dark anymore.