Write Every Day - April Day #3

[auroracloud]

Today's Writing

I haven't exactly been an overachiever today (ha), but in the end I have managed some notes for my novel plans. I haven't counted, but probably a few hundred words. How about you all?



Tally so far

Day 1: auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 2: auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme

Let me know if I missed you or if you wrote but didn't check in yet! You can join us or drop out any time.

Comments

[navaan]

Oooookay, finally checking in again. I keep writing every day, but sometimes commenting just eludes me with all the stressors lately.

I started the month with finishing 6 fics in one go and I'm current pushing the things I quick posted for deadline into shape for AO3.

So... 6000 words on the 1st, 3500 on the second and so far about 500 or so today while editing.

And... exhausted but satisfied.

[auroracloud]

Nice to see you here! *hugs* I totally get you about not managing to comment when other things are keeping you stressed etc. I'm glad you've managed to keep writing every day, anyway! Sounds like you're having a very productive start of the month! Heck, I think I've already written more than I did all March. :-D Congratulations!

[sylvanwitch]

Man, I was dreading--DREADING--sitting down to work on editing, planning, etc., for the rest of "The Donner Party," but I knew that if I didn't do it now, I'd be sorry later. I did finally spend a solid, focused hour doing a timeline of all of the major sections I've written so far, and I also created lists of character names and spaceship names. I caught one glaring age error by doing the timeline, and I also discovered I wrote a big chunk of an episode that I never got around to finishing, so I have to do that.

I color-coded the text for the timeline, since my plan is to organize it non-linearly (moving back and forth through the MC's life)--thanks for that, by the way, as I think you wrote about color-coding and that got me thinking of it--and wrote some questions that creating the timeline engendered.

I'm counting this as my writing for today, but I'm so excited to start fresh tomorrow! Now that I've broken through the initial dread, I'm feeling pretty confident about it all. Yay!

[auroracloud]

Wow, sounds like you did a lot of work with the editing! Congratulations for getting yourself to do it, and for making so much progress! Planning and organizing definitely counts, whether it results in new words or not. Hope you enjoy continuing to write it! And I know what you mean about dreading the editing/planning/organising at first, but feeling more confident about the story once you've done it.

[cornerofmadness]

I finished editing both the novel and the steampunk short story so yay for that.

[auroracloud]

Congratulations, that's good work!

[cornerofmadness]

Given how busy I am this week I'm pleased. Thanks!

[carenejeans]

I worked on the novel again today -- wrote a bit and cut a bit, so I think I came out even. Oh well. I also tried to NAME some of the places in the story. Sheesh. Didn't get very far. Dang it.

I'm feeling the call of the WIPs folder -- I haven't chosen any to finish this month (maybe have another go at the ones I chose last month!). Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

[auroracloud]

Glad you got some work done on the novel! Sometimes you have to cut stuff, it's also progress in writing even if it doesn't create new text.

I'm so bad at naming anything, so I sympathize with your naming problem!

I should make a WIP folder, I think, to start...

[ysilme]

Too exhausted yesterday for more than about 100 words of alibi fic. We've started an outdoor project for which a huge pile of construction wood needs to be moved, and I've unstacked, carried, and stacked 4m long logs for a couple of hours. It wasn't made easier by temperatures suddenly having risen from 2 to over 20°C overnight.... I might not find the energy to write more than an alibi sentence for most of this week, and will probably also only check in occasionally.

[auroracloud]

Sounds exhausting indeed! Good luck getting through it without being too drained. And don't worry about checking in, I'll just edit you into the tally when you get a chance to check in.

[talkingtothesky]

I eventually cobbled together 172 words yesterday, but it wasn't a good day. Today I will play catch-up to my Camp goal again.

[auroracloud]

Good luck with catching up! That's a good word count for a bad day, in any case. Hope things are better soon!

[st_aurafina]

450 words on the POI WIP. I wanted more but there were things to do, like, you know. Laundry. Fewer words than I wanted versus a pile of clean underwear. *sigh*

[auroracloud]

Damn laundry for getting in the way of writing! But still, sounds like a nice word count. :-)

[trobadora]

About 2.5k for me, still drawerfic.

[auroracloud]

Wow, still the awesome word counts!