Write Every Day, September Day #2
Sep. 2nd, 2018 10:44 pmHello and welcome back for Day #2! The Day #1 post has an explanation of what this is, if you need it.
A few organisatory things first: when we were sorting out who would host this month, a few people said they couldn't host September but would be able to host another month. In the comments both![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
navaan and brightandravenous volunteered to host for October. shopfront volunteered for November; but she said in yesterday's comments that she can also do December instead, if either navaan or brightandravenous wanted to take November. What do you say? That would leave us nice and sorted for quite a few months, especially since January traditionally belongs to trobadora (who already said she intends to continue that tradition).
And of course, if someone volunteers a few months in advance and then something comes up and you can't host, just let the rest of us know before the month starts and we'll find a new solution.
Also, yesterday I was going to ask what are everyone's goals or plans for the month of September, if you have any. A couple of people already posted about theirs, but if anyone else wants to share their goals for this month, or other comments about where they're at in their writing at the moment, feel free! No need to have any particular monthly goals if that's not your thing. I've just rather enjoyed this as a chance to occasionally take stock of where I'm in my writing, so I'm offering that chance here.
My next deadline-thing is Femslash Exchange, which has its deadline in early October, so I'd very much like to have at least a decent draft by the end of the month. Being able to post a fully edited and finished version before the deadline would be even more awesome, instead of always scrambling to edit frantically between the posting deadline and the reveals. Anyway, my assignment requires me to do some canon review, so I'll attempt to get that done in the next couple of weeks.
Otherwise, I've got the "language of the flowers" prompt table challenge over at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
femslashficlets, where you've got 20 flowers as prompts, and the challenge is to write ficlets between 100 and 1,000 words for each of those flowers, using the meanings/symbolism, cultural connotations etc. of each flower. I only found the challenge a few months ago, and if I recall correctly it lasts until the end of October, so it would obviously be nice to have a bunch of ficlets ready already in September. I've got one complete draft and several in the making, so I'll try to have... 10 would be nice, but at least 6 ficlets posted in September would already get me on the way to completing the challenge.
Other than those, I'd love to finally finish at least one fic that isn't for a challenge, a fest, an exchange or other deadline. We'll see how that goes. On the other hand I'd like to progress with my original writing, just don't really know where to. I've been brainstorming for a bunch of novel ideas, and some short stories as well, but I'm not sure which one I want to be my next project. I hope to have chosen and started a new novel draft before the end of the year, but I guess this month I just hope to make some progress, whatever it is.
Anyway, that's it for my ramblings! Any goals or hopes you want to share, if you didn't already?
Today's Writing
It's been one of those days when I just want to stay in bed or curl up on the sofa for the whole day, so I've been mostly doing that. And reading Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, which is utterly awesome. But it has been kind of hard to focus on any kind of writing. However, I managed to write 171 words on the femslash ficlet I started yesterday. It's 504 words now, so obviously it's at least half done! I also looked at a fic which I need to edit, but then I ran away. Well, figuratively.
(I also procrastinated by finding a new place to order Classic Who DVDs from without using Amazon. Although I don't have any money.)
How about your writing?
Tally
Day 1carenejeans, cornerofmadness, justmcshane, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)
If I missed you or you wrote but didn't check in yet, let me know! And you can join in any time.
A few organisatory things first: when we were sorting out who would host this month, a few people said they couldn't host September but would be able to host another month. In the comments both
navaan and brightandravenous volunteered to host for October. shopfront volunteered for November; but she said in yesterday's comments that she can also do December instead, if either navaan or brightandravenous wanted to take November. What do you say? That would leave us nice and sorted for quite a few months, especially since January traditionally belongs to trobadora (who already said she intends to continue that tradition). And of course, if someone volunteers a few months in advance and then something comes up and you can't host, just let the rest of us know before the month starts and we'll find a new solution.
Also, yesterday I was going to ask what are everyone's goals or plans for the month of September, if you have any. A couple of people already posted about theirs, but if anyone else wants to share their goals for this month, or other comments about where they're at in their writing at the moment, feel free! No need to have any particular monthly goals if that's not your thing. I've just rather enjoyed this as a chance to occasionally take stock of where I'm in my writing, so I'm offering that chance here.
My next deadline-thing is Femslash Exchange, which has its deadline in early October, so I'd very much like to have at least a decent draft by the end of the month. Being able to post a fully edited and finished version before the deadline would be even more awesome, instead of always scrambling to edit frantically between the posting deadline and the reveals. Anyway, my assignment requires me to do some canon review, so I'll attempt to get that done in the next couple of weeks.
Otherwise, I've got the "language of the flowers" prompt table challenge over at
femslashficlets, where you've got 20 flowers as prompts, and the challenge is to write ficlets between 100 and 1,000 words for each of those flowers, using the meanings/symbolism, cultural connotations etc. of each flower. I only found the challenge a few months ago, and if I recall correctly it lasts until the end of October, so it would obviously be nice to have a bunch of ficlets ready already in September. I've got one complete draft and several in the making, so I'll try to have... 10 would be nice, but at least 6 ficlets posted in September would already get me on the way to completing the challenge. Other than those, I'd love to finally finish at least one fic that isn't for a challenge, a fest, an exchange or other deadline. We'll see how that goes. On the other hand I'd like to progress with my original writing, just don't really know where to. I've been brainstorming for a bunch of novel ideas, and some short stories as well, but I'm not sure which one I want to be my next project. I hope to have chosen and started a new novel draft before the end of the year, but I guess this month I just hope to make some progress, whatever it is.
Anyway, that's it for my ramblings! Any goals or hopes you want to share, if you didn't already?
Today's Writing
It's been one of those days when I just want to stay in bed or curl up on the sofa for the whole day, so I've been mostly doing that. And reading Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, which is utterly awesome. But it has been kind of hard to focus on any kind of writing. However, I managed to write 171 words on the femslash ficlet I started yesterday. It's 504 words now, so obviously it's at least half done! I also looked at a fic which I need to edit, but then I ran away. Well, figuratively.
(I also procrastinated by finding a new place to order Classic Who DVDs from without using Amazon. Although I don't have any money.)
How about your writing?
Tally
Day 1
carenejeans, cornerofmadness, justmcshane, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)If I missed you or you wrote but didn't check in yet, let me know! And you can join in any time.
