Write Every Day, September Day #8

[auroracloud]

I was meeting a few friends today, at the home of one of them. There were pancakes and talk about everything under the sun, so it was good. I only got home pretty late, and now I'm about to fall asleep because I didn't sleep well last night for whatever reason.

I wish there was a way to stop grinding my teeth in my sleep, though. I know I do it because all the little muscles connecting my jaws to my skull are hurting like they've been replaced by tiny torture instruments. I try to massage them with my hands but it's never enough. Also, I can't figure out where I put my mouth guard, which is weird because I had it when I went to bed last night and didn't when I woke up. You'd think there's only so many places it can go between those times, especially as I don't sleepwalk (as far as I know - and considering the state of my bedroom, I'd trip over things pretty quickly if I did). Not that the mouthguard prevents the teeth-grinding, though it may lessen the force a bit, but at least it protects the teeth. I'd still like to have some when I'm older, you know. Oh well, I took some muscle relaxants, they'll probably knock me over soon and hopefully I won't grind as badly tonight... Enough about that, I guess.


Today's Writing

Before I left to meet my friends, I started writing what could be one of the early scenes of my novel-in-planning. I was writing longhand, so I don't know how much I wrote, but probably a few hundred words. I hope I'll feel like continuing tomorrow - I'm quite excited to be writing something for it, and I hope I manage to keep working on this story.

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, justmcshane, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (11 so far)

Day 6: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 7: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, justmcshane, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (9 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

[trobadora]

I hope you find your mouth guard!

Only a little work on the FemslashEx treat today. I was really tired all day, for no particular reason.

[carenejeans]

Argh for teeth-grinding. But yay for writing on new novel-in-planning! I hope you still feel excited about it today.

I did the usual work on the nonfiction project, and 421 words of creepy bookshop. 8-)

[auroracloud]

Creepy bookshop sounds like a great project. :-D Good work managing to keep up with the nonfiction project as well.

[auroracloud]

I did, in the end - somehow it'd snuck itself between my two overlays. I must have somehow contrived to put it there in my sleep; when I was a kid and had tooth braces, I'd always take them off and put them under my pillow while I slept, but this seems a touch more complicated.

Too bad that you were feeling tired, hope you've felt better rested today!

[sylvanwitch]

I'm happy you're happy with the writing so far! That starting-out energy is always so heady. Also, I hope you find your mouth guard and that the pain lessens soon.

I wrote 1062 words on the story before we headed off for a long day of errand-running. Tomorrow, I'm staying home and doing NOTHING. (Okay, I should clean my house, I really should, but I make no promises. ;-)

[auroracloud]

It's really awesome to feel like I've got an idea of how the story might really start out, now. :-) The mouth guard had snuck itself between my overlays, in some puzzling manner - normally all I manage to do in my sleep is shove it under my pillow when it feels uncomfortable. But at least the joint/muscle pain isn't as bad today, the muscle relaxants probably helped. (Though they helped less with sleep than I'd have liked.)

Woo, that's a great amount of writing for an otherwise busy day! And yay for staying home and doing nothing. I should have cleaned today, too, but well. I did clean some. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Bad writing day only 270 words mostly because I had to catch up on work stuff.

Wish I had suggestions. I grind mine too, Broke three teeth so far doing it.

[auroracloud]

Well, that's still a decent bit of writing for a busy day - at least you progress on it a little and keep it in your mind even if you didn't have time to write much.

Ouch, teeth breaking sounds really unpleasant. That's one of the reasons I got a mouth guard so it at least eases the damage on the teeth - let's hope it helps enough I won't break my teeth or grind them into nonexistence. It sucks that there's no way to stop doing it since it happens unconsciously in my sleep - apparently the best hope is "stop being stressed and anxious" and oh, do I wish I knew how to do that! (Well, I know it in theory, but the solutions I know don't mesh well with needing to earn my living in today's world.)

[cornerofmadness]

It is unpleasant (I'm further dunned by the fact genetically there's nearly no enamel on my teeth and all the molars are filled making them weaker). My best solution so far is meditation and a reiki move (one hand on the forehed and one on the top of head for a few minutes while lying in bed). Does it cure it? No but it seems like I grind less that way

[tinx_r]

433 today! Good luck finding your mouthguard :(

[auroracloud]

Yay writing! And thanks, I did eventually find it before I went to sleep. In my experience, posting online about not finding something nearly always helps me find it soon after the post. ;-)

[ysilme]

Meeting friends sounds great, and yay for the writing! You have my sympathies about the tooth grinding, though.
I was power-canning again yesterday, so just some 200 words on a drawer fic later on to wind down.

[auroracloud]

I hadn't had a proper nice geek-social evening with good friends like that in a while, it was really nice. :-) Sounds like you're busy with your harvest time, but glad you could use some writing to wind down. :-)

[justmcshane]

Wrote 900ish words for my iddybang fic (which is so not going to be done in time) and spent half the day writing up the sound/music cues for my current drama production. I couldn't tell you the word count on that last one, honestly.

[auroracloud]

Meeting fic deadlines is so difficult! But sounds like you had a productive day, yay! Also you mentioning scripts and drama things reminds me of how much I want to write drama some day. One of these days when I feel more able to tackle challenges, I will try my hand at it...