Aurora's Sundry Notes

Here's the final tally for Write Every Day in April. Thank you so much to everyone who participated! I had a good time hosting and having this travelling writing show camp at my journal this month. It was really helpful in this time of uncertainty and social distancing to have a constant stream of interaction about writing. I hope this was useful to you all as well!

In May we'll be hosted by nafs, so head over there if you want to keep participating! Hope I'll see many of you over there. Also, ysilme has a list of past hosts and those who've currently promised to host future months over in this entry at zwei_hexen - it's not binding, just a log of what offers have been made so they're easier to find.

If you subscribed to me this month for the Write Every Day posts, you can feel free to either unsubscribe or not, whichever you prefer. I won't take it personally if you unsubscribe when the month is over, I promise, but it's also perfectly fine if you want to keep on reading. I still need to properly go through who's subscribing to me these days and who's granted access as well and all that, so, I'll get there, I hope... Anyway, I hope to keep seeing you around, and I wish you all a good writing month in May!

And if you didn't have time to check in yet for yesterday or any other day, or if I missed you on the tally, let me know!


Tally

( April 1-30 )

It's been a busy day and I actually have a time when I need to get up tomorrow morning, so this'll be brief.

Today's Writing

I added sentences to a ficlet. I'm still hoping to finish things for my April allbingo card before April's over, but we'll see how that turns out.

Tally

( Days 1-25 under the cut )

Day 26: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 27: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 28: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 29: auroracloud, carenejeans, ysilme

Let me know if I missed you on the tally, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet! You can join in or drop out any time.

Are there any volunteers to host this challenge in May? I asked a couple of days ago and I'm asking again now. falkner has tentatively offered to host if there are no other takers, but if someone else is willing and able to host, please let us know!

Today's Writing

In the early part of the day, I added some sentences to yesterday's fanfic, and I typed up more of the novel scene, editing some parts in the process. Now in the evening I did a bit more novel-writing, a little under a page longhand. It feels like I currently often think better with pen in hand.


Tally

( Days 1-21 under the cut )

Day 22: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, ysilme

Day 23: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 24: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, cornerofmadness, falkner, lferion, luzula, rhoda_rants, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 25: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 26: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, shadaras, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Let me know if I missed you on the tally, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet! You can join in or drop out any time.

Since it's less than a week until the end of April, I thought it might be prudent to start looking for the next month's host before it's time for this travelling writing caravan to migrate to another journal. So, anyone around who'd be willing to host us in May? If you've never done it before, no stress. The main thing is to get the check-in post up every day, update the tally, and hopefully reply to the participants' comments and maybe cheer them on and so forth. Anything else is optional. Especially in the recent months the hosts have often included writing-related comments, questions, quotes etc. and that's been great, but it's entirely voluntary, so no need to worry if you don't think you can do that.

Anyway, if you'd like to try hosting us for the month of May, comment here or in another check-in post and let me know! And if you'd like to host another month that's not May, you can let us know that, too - it's extra nice to sometimes get the hosting sorted out for a few months in advance!

Today's Writing

I did some freewriting first, and wrote a bunch of notes for the Ambush Project #2. I'll really need to give it a better proxy title for referring to it here. I also unearthed some unused or little-used notebooks from my drawers and assorted other places, and took some time to figure out which I might use for the notes of which project.

I meant to work on my novel as well, but that doesn't seem to have happened. I did think about it, though, so there's been some work in my head...

Tally

( Days 1-21 under the cut )

Day 22: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, ysilme

Day 23: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 24: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, cornerofmadness, falkner, lferion, luzula, rhoda_rants, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Let me know if I missed you on the tally, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet! You can join in or drop out any time.

Today's Writing

Today's writing has just been kind of patchwork for me. I wrote down a whole bunch of fic ideas for the prompts from various bingo cards; I added a few sentences to a couple of ficlet drafts for the femslashficlets prompt table, and realized one of those ficlets is actually a complete first draft and put it in the folder for complete drafts. And I started a ficlet for the current weekly prompt, writing 70 words so far. Too sleepy to continue, but it's a start, and I've still got a few days left to finish it, and it probably won't be a long one, even by the standards of that community.

I should probably seek out some betas, since I have ficlets that I could edit and publish soon. Of course, I'm only managing to write in my tiny micro fandoms...


Tally

( Days 1-18 under the cut )

Day 19: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 20: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 21: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 22: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch

Let me know if I missed you on the tally, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet! You can join in or drop out any time.