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

[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. :-)