auroracloud: a fountain pen against a sheet of paper and writing (writing)
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Today's Writing

Today once I got home from work, I've just been super-tired and have hardly had the energy for anything. But I managed some notes on the novel-thing again, so at least that's something.



Tally

Day 1: [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 2: [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 3: [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

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Date: 2018-04-04 07:39 pm (UTC)
talkingtothesky: (magnusalec)
From: [personal profile] talkingtothesky
1278 today, just shy of goal. But I worked really hard to catch up and I'm happy with the quality of the words. \o/

Date: 2018-04-04 08:00 pm (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
I yesterday talked out a plot issue with someone and came away with a much clearer understanding of my novel's themes.

...aaaaaaa this iS TOO COMPLEX

Date: 2018-04-04 10:08 pm (UTC)
trobadora: (Default)
From: [personal profile] trobadora
More drawerfic for me!

Date: 2018-04-05 06:52 pm (UTC)
trobadora: (Default)
From: [personal profile] trobadora
More like the other way round. *g*

It's a good thing virtual drawers are infinite, or this one would be overflowing with all the fic I keep stuffing into it!

Date: 2018-04-04 11:26 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
I admire the fact that you persevere in note-taking even when you're exhausted. I know what a struggle that can be. I hope you get some good rest and feel less tired tomorrow.

I wrote 1051 on "The Donner Party," specifically revisiting the episode I left unfinished. It's moving me in an interesting direction in relation to the tentative through-line I'm considering, and that's neat to see happening.

Date: 2018-04-05 04:21 am (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
I was too busy grading the exams to do much today but I squeaked out 150 words on my Camp nano

Date: 2018-04-05 09:23 pm (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Thanks. And I lost it today because the flash drive broke...

Date: 2018-04-05 08:29 am (UTC)
carenejeans: (Default)
From: [personal profile] carenejeans
I...took a long, hard look at a section of the novel and ended up cutting about 1200 words. It was clunky, it didn't really fit into the plot, and it was too weird. Not good weird, just -- odd. Sigh.

After that I did some remedial world-building, or I guess I should say set-building, since all the action takes place in a BOOKSHOP. 8-/ How hard can 'worldbuilding' a bookshop BE? Hah. Large or small? (Middle-sized.) Swanky or down at the heels? (Not swanky.) In a detached building or part of a complex? (Detached.) How many floors does it have? (Two.) Does it have oddball sections along with the usual? (Yes.) A rare book room or just a few cases? (A room.) How many people work there? (Four.) How long has it existed? (65 years or so.) Did the current owner start it up or did he buy it from a Grade-A Eccentric? (The latter.) Does it have a basement in which, somewhere among the boxes of books, old typewriters, catalogs, furniture, shop mannequins and fallout shelter supplies, lies something... magical? (Well, yeah.)

Shotgun or square? Old-fashioned deep display windows or not? Register in front or to the side? Display cabinets or cases? Seating? I'm feeling punchy. Maybe I should take a break from it...

Date: 2018-04-05 10:35 am (UTC)
ysilme: Close up of the bow of a historic transport boat with part of the sail. (Pile of books)
From: [personal profile] ysilme
As a reader, I'd totally want as many details about that bookshop as possible, so go you! How a bookshop looks is IMPORTANT IMHO.

Date: 2018-04-06 05:57 am (UTC)
carenejeans: (Bookses)
From: [personal profile] carenejeans
Heh, funny you should mention the danger of defaulting to a place you know well... My husband and I own a used bookshop. I have to work to keep from defaulting to it, but I'm getting there. The fictional one is sort of an amalgam of several shops that I've liked over the years.

(Our bookshop is small, not swanky, part of a small shopping strip, one floor, shotgun, rare book cases behind the counter, two employees (husband, myself), we started it from scratch 15 years ago, and there is no basement. 8-))

Date: 2018-04-05 10:32 am (UTC)
ysilme: Close up of the bow of a historic transport boat with part of the sail. (Wordle write every day)
From: [personal profile] ysilme
Sorry to hear you've been so tired! *hugs*
It's been Siljan's birthday yesterday, so we were either out or having his mother over for tea and cake, with a bit of power vacuuming thrown in in the morning (cat Viggo had managed to get his head through the handle of our large felt wood basket, and dragged it all through the ground floor, scattering small bits of wood, twigs, dirt etc. everywhere. He knows well how to untangle himself, but it seems he remembered that only after a while.) I managed to fit in some quick 300 words of drawer fic, though.

Date: 2018-04-05 11:36 am (UTC)
st_aurafina: Rainbow DNA (Default)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
I had a crappy day at work, but my GF gently poked me to do a quick sprint before bed so I got 405 words.

Tomorrow must be better at work! Please be better...

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