auroracloud | Write Every Day

I didn't sleep nearly enough last night, because after my bout of writing, I stayed up too late watching Doctor Who, and then woke up too early. Oh well, happens sometimes. Some people party wildly on Saturday nights, I write fiction and watch quirky time travellers. Well, I know which one is more fun.

Tonight I'm unlikely to catch quite enough sleep either, because I was visiting a friend, and ended up staying later than I meant. Why do the best conversations always start around 9 pm? Just when you should be going home, that is when you start getting really into history and different centuries' and cultures' ideas and practices of sexuality and gender that are totally a lot more varied, liberal and flexible than people think, mostly because most people's ideas of history and "the old times" are shaped by the 19th and early 20th centuries, which were more restrictive in many ways. So yeah, now I've got both sleep debt and a huge desire to write something set in the 18th century. Or more accurately, do the huge load of research I need to do before I can write anything longer than a very short story set in the 18th century. Because I have a lot more grounding in the 19th century and there's just so much more available about my own country's history in the 19th (let alone the 20th, which I don't have that much interest in).

Um, I digress. Anyway. I had fun. And between writing and the visit, I've probably drunk about 3 litres of tea today.

Today's Writing

I worked on my novel again! Was a bit slow getting started, due to foggy brain, but I eventually ended up with 1098 words, and got to spend some time in my second MCs point of view as well. Fun times!

I don't expect to get as many words on weekdays, but we'll see how it goes. In any case, I'm so happy to have started writing this, after, I don't know, two or three months of planning? I can't even remember when I started planning this, and it's a bit hard to define since I'm using some elements of a story idea I had last autumn, too.

Tally

Day 1:

auroracloud,

carenejeans,

cornerofmadness,

navaan,

st_aurafina,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 2:

auroracloud,

carenejeans,

cornerofmadness,

navaan,