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

[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!

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

That sounds great! Good luck for the treat-writing!

I always forget how lucky we are here in some respects - while of course we have pollution, too, the nature in Finland really is relatively clean, and the light pollution, while it exists, is not nearly so bad as in some other places. Even our biggest cities are small by international standards, and I live pretty far from the centre, so it's not bad. The skies have been lovely recently! And with winter, we have ridiculous amounts of stargazing time if it's clear, since the sun is up less than 6 hours. Of course in the summer it's light almost all the time so you don't see many stars, but the evenings are gorgeous.

Have fun skiing!