Write Every Day, September Day #21

[auroracloud]

It keeps being unusually warm for the season; it's almost Autumn Equinox, and today, once the morning rain cleared up, we had about 20°C, which is not normal Finnish weather for this time. But at least more leaves are turning yellow. Also, the weekend's supposed to be cooler. And with partly cloudy and partly clear days, there are some beautiful evening skies. I went for a walk in the evening around sunset time, and there were clouds the colour of bluebells, almost, and the higher clouds behind them streaked with pale orange and rosy glow.

Today's Writing

I finished editing my short ficlet and sent it out to beta.

I'd slept poorly so I didn't really mean to try to write anything else. But I've been listening to various Big Finish Doctor Who audios lately, and today I listened to a Short Trip (a short story narrated by someone, in this case a cast member, but not acted out by a full cast) that strung unexpectedly emotional cords with me. It gave me a story I wanted to write. in the evening, I thought I'd write out the beginning so I would remember to return to it later...

... And then 1-1.5 hours later I look at my 2K word count and think, hmm, I'd like to finish the story now, but I seriously need something to eat and I also probably really really need to sleep.

I guess that story is really wanting to get written!

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, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (9 so far)

Day 7: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, justmcshane, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (10 so far)

Day 8: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, justmcshane, navaan, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (9 so far)

Day 9: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 10: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, navaan, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 11: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (6 so far)

Day 12: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, tinx_r,trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 13: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 14: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 15: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 16: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme; and me. (7 so far)

Day 17: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme; and me. (6 so far)

Day 18: carenejeans, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme; and me. (7 so far)

Day 19: bic_hoc, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme; and me. (9 so far)

Day 20: bic_hoc, carenejeans, cornerofmadness,sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme; and me. (8 so far)

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet! And you can join in any time.

Comments

[trobadora]

Wow, congrats, that's some amazing writing! Sometimes a story really does want to be written RIGHT NOW, and it's such a great feeling when that happens. :D

The forecast says summer is officially over here, now. It was 29° this afternoon, but now it's raining, there's supposed to be a storm over the weekend, and Monday apparently won't rise above 15° C. Going to pre-emptively search for a blanket ...

Writing-wise, still the same for me: playing with my origfic idea. I have at most one week left until I serioulsy need to start making progress on deadline-related stuff again ...

[carenejeans]

Yep, sometimes stories want to be written, paying no attention to whether you need to eat or sleep! It's great when that happens.

It's back to summer here, too! It's not that unusual for September to have a mini heat wave, but still. I'm tired of the heat. At least the evenings and mornings are cool.

Today everything I wanted to do was derailed by my phone going on the fritz. It just got worse and worse, and I finally had to do a factory reset, sigh. But that seems to have fixed it. Cross fingers.

So I didn't work much on the nonfiction project, and since technology had irritated the stuffing out of me, I did some hand-written pages -- some clustering and notes, just generally noodling. It was soothing, if nothing else!

[auroracloud]

In Finland, September is generally full-on autumn (even our name for it means "the autumn month") so I'm a little surprised when summer temperatures turn up, even if bright sunny days are common. But today it's all wind and rain and cool weather, so I'm back on more familiar ground. :-D

Sorry to hear your phone was messing you up! Glad the handwriting and noodling about was soothing, at least. :-)

[auroracloud]

Yes, it definitely is! I'd missed that feeling.

Wow, 29°C sounds very summer-y to me! I'm glad we've been out of such temperatures for weeks now. But yeah, if it's going to drop to 15°C and below, you're going to want a blanket soon.

Glad you're having fun with the origfic idea. Even if the deadline stuff will need attention soon.

[bic_hok]

It's wonderful when you get on a roll with writing.

I wrote on the 21st, introducing a whole new minor character I hadn't expected!

[auroracloud]

Yes, I'd missed that feeling!

It's always interesting when your story takes unexpected turns, like introducing characters or plot points you hadn't planned on.

[sylvanwitch]

Isn't it wonderful when a story wants and needs to be told so urgently that it just flows out of you, almost without your volition? I love that feeling; it's one of my very favorite things!

I wrote 784 on the Thor/Loki fairy tale tonight.

[auroracloud]

It is utterly delightful when it happens!

Yay for more Thor/Loki fairy tale! It sounds like an enchanting concept, and sounds like it's flowing out nicely, from the word counts. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

I wrote some pages in the meeting but didn't feel well enough to type them in.

[auroracloud]

Well, it's still writing, so yay for managing to use some of that time to write. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

It beat paying attention to a 45 minute argument about WHEN these meetings should actually take place

[auroracloud]

It most certainly would beat that! Ah, how "useful" many workplace meetings are! And on the top of it, they can conveniently suck you out of the energy to do other things afterwards...

[cornerofmadness]

You're right on the money there