Write Every Day, September Day #6

[auroracloud]

The evenings are starting to get dark here. It's always, if not exactly a surprise, anyway new at this time of the year, because it literally hasn't gotten properly dark for months.

Today's Writing

I've been having quite a bad day mostly, so tonight I've been pounding my anguish into my keyboard, working on an angsty fanfic WIP. Which is probably too angsty for those characters, but whatever. I'll find the balance at some point. I also worked a little on another fic. 942 words altogether, so at least writing happened today.

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, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (10 so far)

Day 4: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, justmcshane, navaan, rosefox, shopfront, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (12 so far)

Day 5: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (10 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

[alexseanchai]

5-6: trying to kick the outline mentioned on day 4 into shape for series of such posts augh

[auroracloud]

Good luck with that project of yours! It sounds really interesting. :-)

[trobadora]

Great progress, congrats!

I only wrote a few snippets and continued to try and sort out my notes for the next Desire 'verse story. I made a bit of progress in tying the emotional arc together, but the plot itself is still a disconnected mess, and I'm not sure how to stuff all that into a single structure yet. Good thing I don't actually need to be working on this right now ...

[auroracloud]

Thank you!

Good luck with sorting out your notes and sorting out the story! A good thing you can take your time working with it and aren't so pressured about it. I'm sure it'll come to you, but some stories definitely take time.

[shopfront]

Still plugging away at the pinch hit, but I'm making some progress and I've added a few scenes to my outline that I think will make it better. May I be able to write like the wind tomorrow though :/

[auroracloud]

Glad you've been making progress. Hope writing has gone swiftly and well for you today and you'll get it done!

[sylvanwitch]

Sometimes the best catharsis comes with the keyboard, doesn't it? Anyway, I hope that's how it worked out for you, that is, that you feel a little better. I'm sorry it was a difficult day, and I hope tomorrow is better for you.

I wrote 805 words. I'm also pleased to report that it was cooler this morning (only 77F and a little less humid) and then, like magic, even though there was no actual wind or rain or anything, the temperature dropped to around 71 or 72 and the humidity likewise dropped. It was Very Weird, but I am totally not complaining if it was weather wizards or whatever. I'm just glad that my classroom is no longer a sweatbox. :-)

[auroracloud]

Writing is definitely a great way to release or transform feelings. I am better today, fortunately; being able to take enough time off for my mind to sort itself out is helping.

That's a good amount of writing, and yay yay for cooler weather! I did the conversion to centigrade, and sounds like your temperature is starting to approach our day levels (which are still warm for this season, but at least manageable). Yay weather wizards or whatever is responsible for the change!

[cornerofmadness]

Sorry the day sucked. I got 887 words and I finally posted that Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series wip I've been working on for the last 6 weeks (well FINISHING it, I started it 15 freaking years ago). It's Here on AO3 if anyone wants to see it.

[auroracloud]

Thank you. Congratulations both on the word count and for managing to post your very long-in-writing WIP! I've only watched Buffy, not Angel, so I'd probably be a bit lost reading it, but I hope you get many readers! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. Yeah this would definitely be better if the reader knows both series but it is also definitely AR. Thanks. I hope people will like it.

[carenejeans]

Taking out your frustrations on the poor characters, are you? 8-) I'm sure you'll find the balance later.

Me, I did some flailing around writing terrible sentences, then some freewriting, then some whining and complaining. The freewriting bit tells me I'm reading too many articles about Social Media In This Day and Age, heh. It was cathartic, but it's not going to be a story. Oh well!

The bulk of my writing today was, as usual, on the nonfiction project. This is weird writing, btw. Aside from introductory bits, and notes on everything (mostly for the offshoot projects!) it consists of describing books and articles, etc., in 25 words or less briefly and concisely. My eyes are starting to cross.

But it's still fun! Today I was (mostly for my own amusement) tracking an article from the early 1900s -- a "listicle" about objects that can be seen from the summit of my landmark mountain. It moved through all the local newspapers, apparently for years, like a slow-moving meme. Made good filler, I guess.

[auroracloud]

Well, not so much taking out my frustrations on the characters as channeling my depression on them. But hey, at least it was lots of words, and it did help me feel better.

Sometimes cathartic free writing is necessary to get things out of the way of the things you really want to be writing once that's sorted. :-) No wonder if your eyes start to cross a bit with your nonfiction project, though! And that sounds like fun about the article - I'm a big history geek and when I do research for my historical/alt-history fiction, I get all excited about things like "look, in the 1880s they were listing in each newspaper which travellers had come to town, professional titles and all, and which of the town's two or three hotels each was staying at! Aren't human beings delightfully odd?" Ao I can totally see how it would be fun tracking the progress of what counts as an early 1900s meme. :-)

[ysilme]

I hear you on the darkening evenings! It started earlier already for us, and this year it saddened me even a bit: I feel like I missed so much of summer because we just waited for the heatwave to pass, and now the summer is clearly at its end... *sigh*
Sorry to hear about the bad day! *hugs* But yay for writing happening, and I also I think putting that into writing is a good thing - one of the reasons I have some drawer fics is that I can do all the angst or hurt and comfort there I need, but would never write in something I intend to be read!
I missed reporting in yesterday - these last days I've been literally elbow deep in plums, figs, with more and additional peaches to come, and time and energy were baldy limited for anything that required a keyboard. For the 5th, it's 547 words of drawer fic and some meta, as well as four large jars of spiced plums, five small jars of plum chutney no. 1, a huge pot of future plum jam prepared to steep, dito a middle-sized pot of chutney no. 2. Also, four jars of fig jam and two large plates of dried fig slices.
For the 6th, it's 135 words of drawer fic, fourteen small jars of plum chutney no. 2, and the afternoon spent fetching the colour for painting the house. We're getting a special, very durable Norwegian product which needs to be ordered to a vendor a 40min drive away. *sigh* And they miscalculated something and it's not enough, too...

[auroracloud]

Yeah, I couldn't really enjoy the summer much this year because the heat was too much for me. That kind of sucks. I almost wrote "I should have gone to the north" except that Lapland was just as hot as the southern Finland, so it wouldn't have helped. Early autumn is one of my favourite seasons, so I'm happy about this time. But it's always a bit strange when you all but miss a whole season, or at least your usual ways of spending it.

*hugs back* Thank you. Fortunately I'm starting to feel better, and yes, the writing helps. I have some fics that I work on when I'm especially angsty, and I've no idea if I'll ever post any of them, but it's really good to have them to write, regardless.

Thank you for both your words and plum jam reports, I'll add you to the tally (alas, I don't keep a separate "fruit preserves" tally, I suspect it'd be a bit too sporadically filled). Sounds like you're getting well stocked in jams and chutneys. I've had way too little of that, because the weather has made it a poor year for berries so far. But it does seem to be a good year for apples, though I don't have any of my own.

[ysilme]

alas, I don't keep a separate "fruit preserves" tally, I suspect it'd be a bit too sporadically filled)
LOL That would be funny, but indeed too sporadically filled. I don't do this every year, and this year is extraordinary, too; I've never before had such a large amount of fruit gifted to me to use, but despite the (ongoing) horrible drought, the fruit trees keep on giving an enormous yield, and of very good quality due to the long, hot, days, too - only the older trees, though; the young ones struggle too much with the lack of water. Our huge, old apple tree is loaded and has already lost some branches between the drought and the fruit load, but I don't know if there will be any to can or dry. The variety can't be stocked and isn't suitable for eating raw anyway, so we bring most to the fruit press, but I try to make as much apple sauce as my poor hands allow, and to dry apples for snacking, too.
We had a surprising number of blueberries, too, given that our two bushes aren't in a good location yet, and we don't know yet how to prune them, so haven't done this in time. But otherwise it wasn't good here either for any kind of berries.