Write Every Day - April Day #4
Apr. 4th, 2018 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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:
auroracloud,
carenejeans,
cornerofmadness,
navaan,
st_aurafina,
sylvanwitch,
trobadora,
ysilme
Day 2:
auroracloud,
carenejeans,
cornerofmadness,
navaan,
shopfront,
st_aurafina,
sylvanwitch,
talkingtothesky,
trobadora,
ysilme
Day 3:
auroracloud,
carenejeans,
cornerofmadness,
navaan,
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.
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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Day 2:
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Day 3:
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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.
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Date: 2018-04-04 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-05 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-04 08:00 pm (UTC)...aaaaaaa this iS TOO COMPLEX
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Date: 2018-04-05 06:49 pm (UTC)So, shall I put you on the writing tally?
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Date: 2018-04-05 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-04-04 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-04-05 06:52 pm (UTC)It's a good thing virtual drawers are infinite, or this one would be overflowing with all the fic I keep stuffing into it!
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Date: 2018-04-05 07:01 pm (UTC)But luckily virtual drawers are bigger on the inside!
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Date: 2018-04-04 11:26 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2018-04-05 06:52 pm (UTC)Yay for lots of writing! And sounds like you're making nice progress with the story. :-)
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Date: 2018-04-05 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-04-05 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-05 08:29 am (UTC)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...
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Date: 2018-04-05 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-05 06:59 pm (UTC)I agree with Ysilme, bookshops are important! I love reading about bookshops! So worldbuild it all you like! That's a good example, anyway, of how worldbuilding isn't just about creating continents and mountain chains and countries for fantasy worlds or species and geography for a foreign planet, but it can be some small intimate setting like a bookshop or someone's flat. If you don't spend some time thinking about its details, either it's going to feel vague and the reader doesn't feel they're there, or you end up defaulting to some particular place you know well. I always have to spend some time making sure all my characters in modern stories don't live in my flat, or all the country houses in my historical stuff aren't my grandparents' house.
But yeah, if you feel like the bookshop is starting to swirl in your head (or appear in your dreams or whatever...) then taking a break from it may always be a good idea. :-D
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Date: 2018-04-06 05:57 am (UTC)(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-))
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Date: 2018-04-05 10:32 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2018-04-05 07:03 pm (UTC)Sounds like a busy day, especially with extra bits of feline action thrown in! Glad you got some writing done anyway. :-) Hope you both had a good day!
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Date: 2018-04-05 11:36 am (UTC)Tomorrow must be better at work! Please be better...
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Date: 2018-04-05 07:04 pm (UTC)