Write Every Day - April Day #13

[auroracloud]

Thank goodness it's weekend. I've been so useless most of this week. But this afternoon I got a massage, so yay, my neck isn't stiff and sore anymore! And then I got some Chinese takeaway. And then spent much of the evening reading, and went to Netflix, which was prompting me to watch Lost in Space, and I did watch the first episode.

I mostly enjoyed it, but whyyyyy does nobody ever wear a hat or something in winter scenes? If it's so cold that water freezes and you need a big warm winter coat and you're in danger of freezing, you cover your head. You absolutely have a hat, and if you don't, you at least pull your comfy fur-trimmed hood over your head. You lose so much heat through the head in cold weather. Sheesh, why don't the creators ask someone with actual experience of cold weather if they have none themselves? I know it may look cooler on the film without hats, but it kept throwing me right out of the story, since I know how cold you are in that kind of weather without a hat.

Anyway. Rant done. And oh, we have spring. First flowers are appearing!

Also, I haven't answered to all the comments from the previous post yet, but I'll get them tomorrow. Getting too sleepy now.

Today's Writing

I was too lazy to write much in the evening, but I did get nearly 200 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

Day 12: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme


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Comments

[shopfront]

Not loads of words, but I wrapped up one deadline and poked at a few others and finished one of my sign ups/letters yay.

[auroracloud]

Yay for wrapping up a deadline thing, and also the others! I'm contemplating a couple of sign-ups, so I might have to do a sign-up/letter in the near future, too. Meep! Had a bit of a break from them after ChocBox.

[sylvanwitch]

I am laughing at your observations, re: the lack of hats in cold-weather climes on certain shows. It gets pretty cold around here, though not as cold as it must be for you, but at any rate, I couldn't agree more. That is terribly distracting. (The other thing that sometimes distracts me in shows is when someone is handling and/or riding a horse incorrectly. I worked on a horse farm and had horses of my own over the years, and I find anything like that very distracting indeed.)

Yay for more words on the novel! :-)

I finished that short story tonight, taking out quite a bit but also adding some. The story as a whole is at 1790 words, about 600 of those added today. I'm going to let it sit for at least a day and come back to it probably on Sunday to see what I think, but the revisions I made solved some problems I was having with resolution, and I'm fairly satisfied with how it turned out. I may have a different opinion once I've re-read it, though. You know how that goes, I'm sure.

[auroracloud]

Glad I'm not the only one who finds that distracting! I'm just sitting there feeling my head freeze for them! I know very little about horses, but I imagine it must be very distracting when you do know about them! Because I bet they don't always do things right in movies/shows.

Congrats for finishing the short story! I'm glad you managed to solve some of the problems for now, too. Usually it is good to let stories sit a day or two before returning to them. You always see things differently then, yes. Sometimes you may be positively surprised, sometimes negatively, often both. :-)

[alexseanchai]

Plot and setting work :)

[auroracloud]

Yay, that's great! Very important parts to work on!

[ysilme]

350 words for the new drawer novel for me, plus spending even more time on floor plans. Ahem. I also spent all evening sewing for a kitty project, hopefully in a couple of days we'll have something new for them to spend energy on. *g*

[auroracloud]

Whee words and plans! And kitty-related sewing project sounds fun! Combining crafts and kitties, how awesome is that? :-D

[talkingtothesky]

476. Still working on my letter for the PoI Exchange.

[auroracloud]

Good luck with the letter! Writing those is quite a bit of work, but I do love having letters from recipients in exchanges I participate in, makes it easier to come up with a story!

[trobadora]

I worked on my SmutSwap fic.

[auroracloud]

Yay for SmutSwap progress! (I lack an appropriate icon for the theme, but Jack Harkness is always appropriate for smut. *g*)

[carenejeans]

I worked on the nonfiction project. No fiction today.

[auroracloud]

Good work progressing on the nonfiction project as well!

[luzula]

I mostly enjoyed it, but whyyyyy does nobody ever wear a hat or something in winter scenes?

I frequently wonder this about actual real people on the street...why don't they wear hats when it's cold?

[auroracloud]

I know, tell me about it! I'm originally from further up north where you can have colder than -20°C for weeks, and still some kids would go without a hat!

And do you also get the teenagers (and others who count as Young People) these days going with their ankles bare even in the middle of the winter? My ankles hurt from just seeing them. In the same weather when I'm wearing felt-lined winter boots and woolly socks and am wondering if I need more, some folks are going in converse without socks or with socks that don't cover ankles, and trouser legs ending above the ankle... How hard is it to understand that this fashion developed in areas that don't get 0°C and colder and is not meant for Nordic winter weather?

[luzula]

Yeah. Also the people who have a gap between their pants and their shirt, or lots of skin showing around their necks...

[auroracloud]

The bare ankles weird me out because I've never seen that. I think the bare stomachs thing with short tops and low-hanging trousers was already happening in the last decade; not that it makes it any more reasonable! Brrr, I'm glad I'm too much of a feminist, too unfashionable, too sensibly raised and too comfort-loving for that sort of stuff.

[tinny]

Hatless people bother me, too. But it's a lost cause. Recognizability (is that a word? spell check doesn't think so ;)) of the characters is more important, be it John Snow without a hat on the Wall or soldiers/policemen during a raid without head gear. *sigh*

[auroracloud]

I get recognizability as a reason, which is why I don't normally gripe about it, but here it was a part of the plot whether they'd get out of trouble before it gets so cold they freeze, so it was particularly jarring. Also, there were just five characters: an adult male, an adult female, a 11-year-old boy and two teenage girls, one fair-skinned and one brown-skinned, so actually it wouldn't be that hard to tell them apart even if they had headgear. Besides, they could wear different colour hats or something. After all, those of us in cold climates manage to tell each other apart in winter, too...