Write Every Day, September Day #4

[auroracloud]

I did some yoga tonight, at home with an online video as I always do these days, and oh, it was good for me. I really need to start doing it more often, it's good both for my body and my mind and feelings. My mind's so often all over the place and I'm tense and restless and can't find the quiet inside that I need - to feel well, ro relax, to create. It's worth taking out some time of my day/evening to find that quiet place and put my mind and body in the same place. I need to remember that.


Today's Writing

I wrote a couple of hundred words of some sort of freewriting internal monologue / narration for one of my original ideas. I also worked on another half-written femslash ficlet draft - I don't think it needs much more to be complete, but I'm too tired and need to head off to bed now.

How was your writing today? (And yesterday, if you didn't check in yet for that.)

Tally

Day 1: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, justmcshane, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (9 so far)

Day 2: alexseanchai, brightandravenous, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, navaan,shopfront, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (11 so far)

Day 3: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, navaan, rosefox, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (9 so far)

If I missed you or you wrote but didn't check in yet, let me know! And you can join in any time.

Comments

[navaan]

Checking in for Days 3 and 4.

Not much more than alibi words and planning of an exchange fic on Day 3 and about 600 words on Day 4 so far. I need to finish this thing so that I can finish this other thing and this other thing... >.

[auroracloud]

All right, I'll add you to the tally for both days! And 600 words for Day 4 sounds very good. :-) Sounds like you've got a lot of things to finish! :-D

[trobadora]

Oops, I missed a check-in again! But I wrote both on the 3rd and today. Just a few sentences each, though.

[auroracloud]

No worries, I'll add you in. I figured you'd just missed the check-in, as always.

And a few sentences is always better than nothing!

[tinx_r]

I skipped the whole of last month alas (although I managed a few hundred words here or there, I was so intermittent I never even checked in at all). Let's hope for better things this month. Yesterday went great with 481 words (which considering my recent output is pretty much the same as writing a novel, lol).

So here goes nothing!

[tinx_r]

And 143 words for today!

[auroracloud]

Just checking, is that 143 words for the 4th or the 5th?

[tinx_r]

Hmmm. I'm going with the 5th!

[tinx_r]

No wait, it must be 481 for the 3rd, 143 for the 4th, and now 375 for the 5th! Sorry!

[auroracloud]

No worries, I'll update the tally accordingly. Yay writing!

[auroracloud]

Hi, nice to see you back! Good luck at writing more regularly this month! Sounds like you're off to a good start.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for doing something that makes you feel centered and balanced both inside and out! :-)

This was our first full day of classes and I'm exhausted. It was terribly hot and humid in my classroom, and by the end of the day, I was physically ill with the heat. I recovered after a shower, a meal, and a nap, at least enough to write 464 words on the story.

[auroracloud]

Oh, I hope you feel better soon! That sounds really exhausting and unpleasant, I'm sorry to hear it had such a strong effect on you! I hope it gets less hot and humid in the days to come, and that you won't be as badly affected. Great for still managing quite a bit of writing later!

[rosefox]

I'm sort of accidentally participating! I wrote a total of about 3000 words on the 3rd and 4th. :)

[auroracloud]

Yay for accidental participation and lots of words! Feel free to check in whenever you feel like it, even if it isn't regular. :-)

[rosefox]

I wrote this morning too. :) But probably won't again for a bit, since the stories I was working on are finished.

[alexseanchai]

• Introduction
• Prepare (shear, wash, card)
• Dye
• Spin
• Weave
• Knit
• Crochet
• Sew
• Embroider
• Quilt
• Conclusion

...

historically women's work
labor has value—time, effort, skill, artistry
You Are Loved Dolls for RAICES Texas
First Unitarian Portland quilting circle for homeless shelter
hats for preemies
yarnbombing
embroidered protest signs
if you want to survive the apocalypse you are going to want someone who knows how to make fiber into cloth

...this is the outliney stuff for a 3K-max essay.

SEND HELP

[auroracloud]

... Well, it sounds really interesting, at least! For a casual yarn geek like me, at least. (Casual, because I haven't finished a knitting/crocheting project since whenever.)

But clearly you've been working on outlining, so yay!

[cornerofmadness]

I would love to pick up yoga again.

Got 1700 words today. It's a good thing.

[auroracloud]

I recommend trying out YouTube videos if it feels too hard to get yourself to go to a yoga class, for whatever reason - it worked for me. I totally can't afford yoga classes and don't have the time and energy for them either, with my other physically active hobby, so the online videos are golden for me. I can do them in my home, when I feel like, how I feel like, so I actually get around to doing them. I was thinking I could post about my favourite YT yoga channels sometime, in the case anyone else picks up the inspiration.

Woo, that's a lot of words, yay!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. I actually have DVDs designed for overweight and arthritic people so I just need to sit down with them.

That said I'd love to see your favorite T channels.

I was on a roll.

[carenejeans]

Worked on the nonfiction project in the morning, then got busy, so didn't start on fiction until late at night. Usually that isn't a problem, but I was both tired, and restless in my mind. Something like yoga would have helped!

Anyway, took a few stabs at some small prompts, but nothing really came of out of it. Oh well.

[auroracloud]

Some days the fiction writing just doesn't want to work out. Good for trying, anyway!

[ysilme]

I'm glad to hear the yoga helped you so, and writing happened! Hmmm, doing yoga by online course sounds actually like a good idea. Can you also do it with very little experience? My to-go kind of calming exercise used to be Tai Chi, which I did for two or three years, but I'm so out of the routine that I can't do it reliably any more, and there are no classes nearby I find useful. I did a yoga class for beginners ages ago, and a specialised one before that.
Not many words for me again, only about 50 - more alibi words, as I was again mainly working with my WIP files. Currently I'm comparing versions... which I HATE. Much easier in Scrivener, at least!

[auroracloud]

There are lots of yoga videos out there that are aimed at beginners and explain very carefully what you do, and go slow. And if you've done yoga at some point, you probably have some grasp of how the basics work, even if it's been a long time. I could do a post about my favourite (and most beginner-friendly) free online yoga channels on YouTube, if you would find that useful?

Comparing versions is a lot of work, yeah. But you need to do that sort of thing, too, to get the words written.

[ysilme]

Such a post - or just some links - would be terrific! Thank you very much for suggesting this! And yes, I'm somewhat confident about the basics.

[justmcshane]

Haven't been getting much done lately (being sick sucks, ugh!!) but I managed to pound out an complete ~3k fever-induced fic in the last few hours. So I feel accomplished!

[auroracloud]

Aww, I'm sorry to hear you're sick! Hope you get better soon! *sends good vibes and ginger tea* But wow for managing to write anyway! Sometimes fever-induced stories get very special. :-)