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

[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 ...

[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 :/

[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. :-)

[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.

[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.

[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...