Write Every Day - April Day #11

[auroracloud]

Despite having a great time last night, I unfortunately had quite a crash this afternoon, depression and anxiety things hitting me in a pretty bad way. I eventually got over it and am more or less okay now, just tired. But it meant I spent most of the evening in bed. Could use not having these kind of days, but well, nothing for it but dealing with them when they come.

On a plus note, I enjoyed some of the reading while in bed trying to rest and stuff. And I think that once I was well enough to consider writing, the writing made my mood better.

Today's Writing

I wrote a little over 300 words on my novel. I also finally got started organizing my fanfics! I took an idea from ysilme and created a Scrivener project where to put all the WIPs in one fandom in separate files, organized under folders by relationships or character, and marking whether they're an unfinished first draft, a draft being edited, or some random bits I'm not sure where they're going. Tonight I did this for Doctor Who. It was fun, and I really do have a lot of interesting stories I could continue working on. It seems I have 15 stories, altogether over 19,000 words. And that's just Doctor Who. Next I'll do Torchwood, and then assorted other fandoms. But that will have to wait until another day, because I'm tired.

Tally

Day 1: auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, iberiandoctor, <navaan, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

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

Day 3: auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, iberiandoctor, navaan, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme

Day 4: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, iberiandoctor, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme

Day 5: auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, iberiandoctor, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme

Day 6: auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, iberiandoctor, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme

Day 7: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, luzula, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 8: auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme

Day 9: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, iberiandoctor, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky; trobadora, ysilme

Day 10 alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Let me know if I'm missing anyone, or you wrote but didn't check in yet! And of course you're welcome to join us any time.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I yelled a lot about how my writing mode doesn't suit noveling, and got some good advice, which will hopefully even work!

I decree this counts. XD

[auroracloud]

Well, you did work on your novel! In a way. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

I'm glad you're feeling better and that you were able to do some writing as well as organizing of projects. The more I hear about Scrivener, the more I think I should look into it. Perhaps that will be my first summer project. :-)

I wrote 598 words today on a short story. I run a twice monthly student writers' club, and we usually do a writing exercise. These words came from that prompt. I think I'll finish it in the next day or two and am planning for it to be right around 1000 words. One of the things I love about such exercises is that they force me to be economical with the words, with the result that the stories are compact and more vivid, I think. Anyway, it's nice to have a break from "The Donner Party" which is at exactly 67,000 words right now.

[auroracloud]

I really like Scrivener! It suits my slightly chaotic, unorderly way of creating and has so many ways to make notes etc. They offer a 30-day free trial, and it's 30 days when you're actually using it, not 30 days from your first use. There is a learning curve before, but I find it worth it. :-)

That's a nice way to get something different written! And I should try challenges that force you to be more economical with the words, because I think my writing would really benefit from it.

[cornerofmadness]

It sucks when depression grabs you (been there most of the week)

I only wrote three book reviews but it was 800 words.

[auroracloud]

Sorry you've been feeling depressed, too. Hope it soon gets better for both of us.

That's a nice bit of writing, anyway! And book reviews can be good for your writing, too. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks, right back at you

And the people who give mt the books appreciate me getting off my butt and getting review done.

[carenejeans]

So sorry you had a bad day. It's good that the writing made your mood better.

What was going to be my alibi sentence today turned into a couple of paragraphs, about 160 words, and that made me feel better!

Mom is still improving, knock on wood.

[auroracloud]

Thank you!

I love it when alibi sentences do that! That's one of the neat uses they have. :-)

Glad your mother has been improving, hope that continues!

[shopfront]

I'm sorry to hear you had a bad day, I hope it continues to improve for you <3 I wrote a few hundred words on a few things. I really need to dig into some deadlines but everything aches and I can't seem to force it. Ah well.

[auroracloud]

Thank you. ♥

Sometimes writing won't be forced. Glad you got something written, anyway! Hopefully the things with deadlines will start coming along.

[ysilme]

Sorry to hear about your crash yesterday, but it's good to hear that you got something out of it at least, and managed to write a bit. Sometimes, the price to pay for good things is annoying, isn't it? *hugs* I'm happy to hear that I inspired you a helpful idea to organise your WIPs.
I worked a bit at my WIP yesterday, but was too distracted by other things to concentrate on finishing it. Instead, I wrote a bit over 1k for the new drawer novel - it's so relaxing to not care about anything and just write on. *g*

[auroracloud]

Thank you. *hugs back* Don't know if I had a bad day because I'd been active the previous evening or in spite of it - so hard to tell with these things. Could be either. At least it's good that I can still feel supremely good about things sometimes, because there have been weeks when that has seemed out of sight. But writing's good.

Yay for a lot of words on the drawer novel! Writing on without a care is relaxing indeed. :-)

[trobadora]

More drawerfic. I'm running out of steam on it now, though. And also, I really need to work on my SmutSwap fic ... *headdesk*

[auroracloud]

Good luck at getting to your SmutSwap fic! Maybe it's a good point for a break from the drawerfic, then. :-)