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)

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Comments

[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.