auroracloud | Jun. 15th, 2019

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I'd worked on the travel writing assignment that I and a writer friend are doing together, typing up my diary entry about the nature outing and then editing it in the evening to make it more like travel writing. Well, I'd also sent the version that was typed almost verbatim from my diary, in the case the internet wouldn't work in the evening or I just wouldn't get it edited, and then I sent the edited version later. My friend read them both, and it turned out that she liked the first one a lot better! So I'd edited it worse, heh. (At least according to her taste. But she's read a lot of my writing by now, so I feel like she's got a pretty good eye for what works and doesn't work for my style.)

At least one of the reasons is probably that when I type, it's easy to ramble and write too much and overwrite things, because I type really fast. When I write by hand, I naturally rein myself in, because the writing is slower. The slowness also maybe makes me think more carefully about each sentence as I write it. But probably I also just corrected stuff that didn't need to be corrected. And of course, since the diary entry was written the next day, the impressions were fresher in my mind, and it seems I managed to capture the experience better though it wasn't chronological, more like thematic.

I need to take a while at some point to look at both texts and see what I was doing with each, because it might be useful for other things as well.

But hey, it's nice to know that apparently I can write pretty good-quality stuff in my diary!

Of course, this does make me wonder if I should attempt to write my novel draft by hand. It'd be slower, but it might be better? That is, if I manage to decipher it later...

Today's Writing

I've been sociable and out today more than usual, and as a result I've been pretty tired. But I did continue a bit on the fic I started last night, and I also started another fic for that bingo, this one in a beloved fandom I haven't written in a while. So let's hope I get this one finished and posted, it'd be nice to create more for that fandom again.

Then I felt inspired to continue writing this original short story that I wrote about two sentences of last week (I think). I ended up adding about 300 words to it (and since it's in Finnish, that's probably comparable to about 400 words in English, or something like it). I probably continued it from a different POV than I'd started it from, but those two sentences weren't very clear about it, and I felt like being in the other character's head. I rarely get around to writing original short stories, so it'd be fun if I managed to continue this one and make a full story of it. We'll see!

BTW, these check-in posts don't crosspost at LJ anymore because the post got too large. I'm too tired to arrange a way around it right now, especially since nobody's been checking in there this month so far.

Tally

( Days 1-7 under the cut )

Day 8:

alexcat,

alexseanchai,

auroracloud,

carenejeans,

cassini,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

ellieet,

sierranovembr,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

talkingtothesky,