Write Every Day, September Day #25

[auroracloud]

I accidentally broke my TARDIS teapot today. Or was it yesterday? I don't seem to remember which it was, anymore. Sad, but at least it had served nicely for a few years. It's the second teapot I've broken this month; it clearly isn't my month in some respects. Now I need a new teapot. Maybe I should buy one made of stone or metal... Of course I can make my tea in a mug, too, I just like having a bigger pot for when I sit down to read or write. Especially in this time of the year, when it's getting colder.

It would be a lovely night for a full moon walk if I had the energy to go outdoors. This time of the year, I always start considering if I could possibly afford binoculars. It's so lovely to stargaze (or moongaze) when the nights are properly dark again, even though the views aren't the best in a city. (But at least Finland has relatively small cities and clean air.)

Today's Writing

My writing today has been an assorted lot. A podcast I listened to inspired me to start working on my most-likely-novel-to-be again, and I did about 400 words of brainstorming and character notes on it, as well as engaging in a little research reading & notes thereof. I've also continued the canon review of my Femslash Exchange assignment, bouncing around my ideas for the story as I do so, but I don't think I can start writing before I'm done with the canon review. So no actual words there, but stuff that needs to be done, anyway. Finally, I returned to the fanfic that I was writing massive amounts of words for on Friday and Saturday, and continued at a more mellow pace of 641 new words for tonight.

I'd like to look at editing my femslashficlets challenge fics, but we'll see if I'm too tired already. I also need to finish tagging my Winter Companions fic on AO3 so I finally get it posted there... It's been sitting in my drafts for a week because I need to sort out that paragraph breaks are where they should be and not where they shouldn't be.


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_hok, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, shopfront, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, trobadora, ysilme; and me. (9 so far)

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

Day 21: bic_hok, carenejeans, cornerofmadness,sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (7 so far)

Day 22: alexseanchai, bic_hok, carenejeans, cornerofmadness,sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 23: alexseanchai, bic_hok, carenejeans, cornerofmadness,sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme, and me. (8 so far)

Day 24: bic_hok, carenejeans, cornerofmadness,sylvanwitch, trobadora, and me. (6 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

[bic_hok]

Shame about the teapot!

I don't know about you but I love the brainstorming stage of a story! All that possibility and wild ideas!

Also I wrote on the 25th. :)

[auroracloud]

I definitely love the brainstorming stage as well! Only I lately seem to have been only doing that with my original stuff, and with lately I mean the past months. Oh well, at some point I'll get forward!

Yay for writing!

[sylvanwitch]

I'm impressed that you can work on more than one project at a time. I'm rather one-track-minded, so even though I have, technically, three projects right now, I can only work on one at a time (one a day, I guess you could say) rather than bouncing between them. I think it's great that you can do that.

Also, I'm sorry to hear about your teapot. I hope you find a suitable replacement. I have a little cast iron teapot that was a gift from a friend. It makes just enough tea (looseleaf, with a strainer that sets inside of it) for a big mug (16oz or so). I love it for winter nights. (I have a larger built-in strainer type that can also make a bit more than the other, but I don't like it as much, perhaps because it has no sentimental attachment.) Anyway, I just wanted to say that I do love the cast iron pot, so metal may be something you'd like too.

I wrote 596 words on the Loki/Thor story. I'm very tired tonight, so while I'm disappointed I couldn't manage more, I'm also just glad to be done for now, if that makes sense.

[auroracloud]

For me it's more the problem that I can't stay focused on one project for long enough to finish it. But I think it suits me to be working on more than one project at a time, because in the past, I only worked on one novel manuscript for a really long time, and I think it made my creativity kind of dry up and so it didn't become as good as it might have. If I'd worked on something else intermittently, I'd have found more fresh ideas for that project. But I often work on only one project per day, unless I'm flitting between different stories when I can't find one that speaks to me. Yesterday I did work on several different ones, true - but there was a break in between when I was doing something else, so it's not like I jumped straight from one to the next. That usually doesn't work! Unless it's the situation where I try one and it doesn't do a thing for me, so I try the next one.

I've been looking at cast iron teapots in some tea shop, so I guess that's why I thought of metal pots as a replacement. I need to start looking for a suitable one, good to hear you have a nice experience of yours. Though come to think of it, my water kettle actually can be used to make tea as well, I can replace the lid with one that has a built-in strainer. So I can actually use that until I find a pot that works for me. The TARDIS pot was a gift from a friend, so it's also a pity that it broke. But at least I got a lot of use out of it first, and ceramic objects do break sometimes.

Nearly 600 words sounds like a respectable word count for a weekday evening, in my opinion! So good for that, even if you would have liked to manage more. Sorry to hear you're tired, hope today finds you more energetic. ♥

[cornerofmadness]

Aww too bad about the tea pot.

I got 120 words of editing on the solarpunk and 615 words on the BtVS/AtS story for spook_me

[auroracloud]

Congrats for both editing the solarpunk and working on a new story!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. They were pestering the crap out of me for that story, silly characters

[carenejeans]

Sorry to hear about your teapot.

You've got a lot of projects going, don't you? Sounds like they're all going well, in their different stages of progress.

Well, my plan from yesterday worked this evening. I started with an "alibi sentence," and kept going, for 350 words!

And of course I worked on the nonfiction project. Or projects. 8-) I've got a gazillion clippings, and I've been sort of slotting them into rough outlines for essays and a sort of scrapbookish anthology idea. And other things. This project has tentacles, I tell you.

[auroracloud]

My writing has been in a rather unfocused stage for long, or maybe "really many focuses" stage. I flit from one project to another, and partly it works, but if I didn't have a fair amount of short-ish fanfics (and ones with deadlines!) I don't know if I'd finish anything. I do hope to start properly working on a novel draft soonish so that I would be focusing on slightly fewer different stories. But on the other hand, it works for me to have different projects to work on, in different stages of progress. If I do too much of one thing alone, my creativity gets stale. So it's nice to have some things in the planning/brainstorming stage, some in the first draft stage, some editing... But the number of unfinished stories I've got is way too much. I said in the beginning of this year I'd try to finish more WIPs, but it hasn't worked out that well so far.

Yay for "alibi sentence" turning into 350 words! And good luck with your nonfiction project(s). It sounds interesting, at least! Heh, project with tentacles. :-)