Write Every Day - April Day #12

[auroracloud]

So tired tonight. When I'm done with this post, I just want to do a bit of an evening yoga and go to bed and read and hopefully sleep.

Today's Writing

I continued organizing my WIPs, this time with the Torchwood fics. I gathered all that I could find into a big Scrivener project, one file per story plus one for the random snippets that weren't yet a part of a full story - next I should sort through those and see what I've got there. Anyway, those came to over 18,000 words, and that's not including a longish one I put into its own Scrivener project a couple of weeks ago. I really need to start with goals to finish some of those WIPs! Anyway, that means that just between Doctor Who and Torchwood, I've probably got at least 40K words of unfinished (or unedited) fics. And I know I've got at least a couple things in other fandoms, too. It makes me feel oddly accomplished. Guess I did a lot of writing last year after all! Now I just need to go about finishing some of them.

Anyway, in addition to that, I wrote 105 words on the novel.



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

Day 11 alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, 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

[talkingtothesky]

Congrats on all the organizing! Doctor Who and Torchwood fics ftw <333

I wrote 1500 words today. I've got a long way to go to catch-up, but I know I can do it.

[auroracloud]

Now, if I only get some of them finished. :-)

Nice word count for the day, at least! Good luck catching up! :-)

[shopfront]

Organise all the things! Both the best and worst part of the writing process, in my opinion, heh. I'm glad you're feeling accomplished though, that's lots and lots of words \o/

Managed about 1.6k of one of my most pressing deadlines, yay. Hoping to knock it and something else over tomorrow so the weekend can be all unpacking, crossing all the fingers and toes.

[auroracloud]

I definitely suck at organization sometimes. I don't think I even remembered I had some of these stories...

Yay for managing a good amount of writing on one of your deadline things. Good luck at finishing the stories, and with the unpacking!

[sylvanwitch]

I am a big fan of organizing, so I appreciate that feeling of accomplishment you've described. Revel it in, I say! :-)

I wrote another 576 words on that short story I started yesterday. The working title is "Theresa Goes to the Holy Land," but I'll need something significantly more, well, significant when I finish it, as it's meant to be a horror story and that one rather makes it sound like a seventies American porn film of a particularly seedy sort. ;-)

[auroracloud]

Titles are difficult. I often don't have even that much of a story when writing them. That's why my super organized Scrivener project for fanfic is full of titles like "night 2" or various combinations of "Character X Character Y fic".

But in any case, yay for writing more of that story!

By the way, do I recall correctly that when you host Write Every Day, you need to do it in locked posts? Just so I can inform everyone correctly when the hosting switches over to you.

[sylvanwitch]

Yes, for reasons of employment, I have to keep my writing life separate from my "real" life (though I feel that my writing life is at least as real, if not more real, than my so-called real life, if you know what I mean). I hope it won't be a problem for anyone. Folks are welcome to have me add them so that they can read the posts and then request me to drop them as soon as the two weeks are done.

I assume you'll include Sunday, and then I can link to your final tally post for Days 1-15 and start on Day 16. Is that acceptable to you?

[auroracloud]

All right, just wanted to check that in advance so I'll be posting the right instructions. I don't think it was a problem for anyone before, so I doubt it will be a problem now, either.

And yeah, I'll still do Saturday and Sunday, and then let you take over on Monday for Day 16. A nice even split of the month. :-) And I'll try to get the tally post up early-ish.

[alexseanchai]

I am possibly setting Stagecraft aside for a while—that novel concept is too important to me to fuck it up with incompetence—and I'm going to work on a practice piece novel. On which I have three different tentative titles, the protagonist's name, and—using Story A Day's formula here—the central plotline. I think.

[auroracloud]

Good luck with your practice piece, if you decide to go that way. Sometimes it's good to set a story aside for a while if you recognize it's not ready to be written yet.

[alexseanchai]

Thanks :)

[cornerofmadness]

Another day with too much to do. I got two chapters edited. that needed to happen.

[auroracloud]

Congrats on getting the editing done!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks

[carenejeans]

Organizing is Good. 8-) I love Scrivener.

Another alibi sentence -- which turned out to be another good one. I keep being surprised by how useful these alibi sentences can be. Obviously they're good for helping to keep up the habit of writing every day, but beyond that, they're sometimes pretty useful in themselves. -- I've come up with a good opening sentence for a chapter, and another good sentence to end a chapter. Today's sentence was a nice bit of character development.

I don't do this on purpose, I just open the file to do the minimum, and write without thinking very hard about it. But my backbrain seems to feel that if I'm going to write one sentence, it should count. Or something! I don't expect this to happen every time, and expect I'll write a real dud now that I've said this, 8-), but it's cheering to realize that even writing a little bit can move things along. A little bit. 8-)

[auroracloud]

Scrivener is so wonderful!

I'm glad you're finding your sentences good ones! Maybe it happens that when you only focus on one sentence, it can easily end up being a good one. And if not, at least you've written anyway! But yes, even just a little bit moves things along. Even if you write just one sentence every day, that's 30 sentences by the end of the month. If you write 100 words every day, that's 3,000 words in a month! Which can be a short story or a chapter or two in a novel. :-)

[st_aurafina]

Yay for doing some good organising!!

I dropped out for a few days, but I got 852 words in today.

[auroracloud]

Welcome back to the writing! That's a nice good chunk of writing for a day. :-)

And yes, organising is so important! Especially for someone like me who easily lets it slide. :-)

[ysilme]

I hope you could sleep! *hugs*
I also always love the nice amount of words I see in my collected files in scrivener. My main drawer fic scrivener, where I once started to first put them together, and then also write them together as much as possible, contains over 500.000 words by now. If I need motivation, sometimes I just need to look at that number and feel accomplished. *g*
Another 1k for my new drawer fic for me yesterday. It's a non-fantasy, present time story for once, and mainly taking place at an old farm in Bavaria. I actually managed to spend over an hour yesterday with some freeware layout tool to draw a layout for the farmhouse... *headdesk*

[auroracloud]

*hugs back* Thanks! I did eventually sleep, though not quite as much as I wanted to. This week has been a bit bad for sleeping, somehow I'm more restless than usual. Don't know if it's the season, my cycle, or the inexplicable rise in anxiety I've had lately... Hope it gets better soon.

Wow, awesome drawer fic scrivener! I should maybe keep one like that, too. I'm also thinking I need to set up an idea scrivener. Because I'm one of those idea-rich writers who get more ideas than they know what to do with; and I often just write them down in random notebooks, but the chances are, I won't find them again later because I've written so many other things in the same notebook, too. Yet everything doesn't immediately become its own project, because that would get complicated, too. But in an idea scrivener, I could write as much or as little as I have, sort them by genre etc. and then have a look every now and then what I've got and which one I'd like to work on next...

[trobadora]

Well, my 4-digit word count streak is definitely broken now. But I did write something yesterday - about 400 words, distributed over four different stories. *g*

[auroracloud]

Aww, sorry your 4-digit word count streak broke! But you had it going for amazingly long, didn't you? So congrats for that! And 400 words is still a nice bit of writing, even if it's over several different stories. :-)