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

[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.