Write Every Day - April Day #14

[auroracloud]

The muscles in my neck, shoulders and upper back have been so sore today after yesterday's massage. It happens sometimes when you really needed the massage, the muscles get sore the next day. I just wasn't expecting it now, I didn't realize they'd been so tight. Hopefully tomorrow they'll feel better.

I was so heroic today and went downtown and shopped for clothes. Trust me, that's heroic for me, especially on a Saturday. I hate clothes shopping. I like having nice clothes when I manage that, but going through the selection and trying a hundred things on before finding something that's right, and the lights and the noise of the shop... It's just so much. But at least I like some of the fashions available this spring - it's worse when you can't find anything wearable. I did find most of what I was looking for, at least. Spent the early evening being quite drained. Didn't have nearly as much writing energy as I'd have wished. But I did let myself watch a Miss Fisher episode.

Today's Writing

I was working on the novel again, but didn't get the four-digit counts I'd been hoping for. A little under 500 words on the draft, plus some notes, fleshing out a side character.

I'm having lots of fun with Main Character 2's scenes and viewpoint. The voices and such come out so nicely. Of course it's still a very rough draft, but at least the feeling's right, you know?

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

Day 13: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, shopfront, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, 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

[trobadora]

SmutSwap all day. It's uploaded now? But I'm glad there's still a week until the collection goes live!

[auroracloud]

Yay for uploaded! I get the impression that "post it on the last possible day and edit frantically up until the reveals" is a far more common strategy for exchange fics than may be the intention. :-D Good luck working on it, you'll get it there, I've no doubt of it. :-)

[trobadora]

Haha, yeah, I think it's very common these days. Maybe the old "email your fic to the mods"-type exchanges have at least one advantage there ... *g*

[alexseanchai]

600 words of fanfic :)

[auroracloud]

Yay, sounds great!

[sylvanwitch]

That is the *best* feeling, when it's all just flowing, isn't it? That's wonderful! I hope you continue to experience it with your novel.

I struggled my way back into "The Donner Party" after a few days' hiatus for that short story, but I finally found my footing again and wrote 1073 on it today.

ETA: I meant to add that I have every intention of picking up the posting on Monday (4/16), but we're having a pretty wicked ice storm here and are expecting up to 1/2 inch of ice on everything and high winds also, so there are serious concerns about massive power outages if trees and lines come down. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we aren't affected, but just in case we are, I'll have to post from work on Monday (assuming that has power and my house does not) because I don't have a smartphone or anything like that, and my wifi will be out with the power. Here's hoping this is just an abundance of caution rather than a prophecy of near-future events. :-) Anyway, it shouldn't affect my taking over, but I wanted to mention it on the very, very off chance that both work and our home don't have power on Monday.

ETA2: I had meant to comment on clothes shopping. Although I do not have the same condition as you regarding sensitivity to noise and light, I do share your loathing of clothes shopping and completely relate to the relief you feel in being done with it. Yay for finding things you like and braving the shops to do it! :-)

[auroracloud]

Yeah, it's totally great when the story's working out. Though I wish I was less scatterbrained and more likely to concentrate for long stretches of time, I might get more done. Well, at least it's progressing. :-)

Glad you found your footing with the story! It can be a bit hard to return to a story after a break, so congrats for progressing that well with it!

Good to know about the possible weather-related problems. In the case you're totally unable to get online for a longer time, I can of course continue the hosting for a day or two. But I hope your power won't go out, not completely at least!

[cornerofmadness]

glad the novel went well. Yeah that's why I'm pushing the massage off until after classes are over.

I was at the Ohioana book fest so I was gone all day. squeaked out 233 words when i got home.

[auroracloud]

Massage doesn't usually do that to me, but I guess I'd left it for too long and my muscles were tighter than I'd realized. It's better today, at any rate!

Book fests are fun! I hope you enjoyed yourself. Kudos to you for managing to write a bit anyway!

[cornerofmadness]

Glad it's better. It's always like this for me but I have a lot of structural issues with arthritis being chief among them.

Love me a book fest

[ysilme]

Ouch, that sounds uncomfortable! I hope you're better by now. I've always been told that when a massage causes muscle ache or soreness, it's been too hard/intense, and that this should be avoided... the dowside is that if done in that way, it can take quite some time until there's any relief.
Yay for going clothes shopping! I can totally relate to your reluctance to do so, I avoid it myself as much as possible. I'm quite grateful that I can order most clothes, because the ones of my favourite brands wouldn't be available even in next larger town anyway.
Not much actual writing for me yesterday, about 100 words all in all for the drawer novel and the fanfic WIP, plus quite some time plotting while doing other things. We were busy cementing in metal fastenings for fence posts, trimming trees and doing other spring-related stuff in- and outside the house, and went to a beautiful concert in the evening. While listening some idea popped up, and I spent most of the concert plotting it into the story.

[auroracloud]

Thanks, it has been better today, not really hurting any more. Hmm, I've been told it can happen when muscles have been very tight and the massage has worked on them a lot. It didn't really hurt (not meaningfully, anyway) when she was doing it, so I think it was okay. She's very professional. But it had been too long since I'd had a massage, and the muscles had knotted up more than I realized.

I need to start ordering online, too, because otherwise I can go for months when I should be buying more clothes. You just need to know brands and models that will likely fit you, so you don't have to order twenty things and return nineteen... I'm hoping to locate some that I can just order online in the future, though.

Sounds like you had a busy day, but yay for writing a bit nevertheless! And I love it when another art sparks ideas for your writing! It can happen to me, too. Music is particularly good at that, I find. :-)

[carenejeans]

Ugh, clothes shopping.

I worked on the nonfiction project again...

[auroracloud]

I agree with you on the ugh. :-) At least I got it done!

Yay for more writing on the nonfiction project!