Write every day! August 2023 - Day 2

[zwei_hexen]

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, nafs, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 2: china_shop, regshoe

Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.

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ysilme here: RL continues to be really stressful for me, and for the last few weeks, I didn't manage to focus on creative/fic writing, not even my usual go-to means of delving into drawer fic. I did write every day but other things, but my goal for August is to get the creative words back. Today was a decent start to that; I've been sorting through age-old fanfic snippets of my very first fandom, mainly to see what of those I want to keep for sentimental reasons as it was my very first writing and what to graciously get lost; and I actually was inspired to write a new drawerfic based on these snippets, and started with plotting and some character sheets. It'll remain drawer fic as I can't be bothered to do the necessary research and re-read the sources for a proper fanfic, but it's just the kind of fun I've been missing for some time.

sylvanwitch here: 356 words brought me to the end of Chapter 17 today and left our boys on a cliffhanger that I will resolve from Jake's POV in the next chapter.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Glad you found some fandom fun, even if it never sees the light of day. It's always good to discover unexpected inspiration.

Aug 2nd - Been having a crappy day, but I managed 500 words, a double and a triple drabble.

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, I'm sorry for the crappy day but happy you were able to make words as an act of defiance against it. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

I'm SO glad you're finding your way back to writing that pleases and enriches you, my friend. I know how much you need that release. Big, big *HUGS*.

[ysilme]

***Big HUGs back*** Thank you, dear! ♥ I find that WED is actually also helping me with this, as I find it so much easier to actually do something to get back into my writing habits/to my writing favourites with the slight positive pressure of having something to report in here every day. ^^

[ysilme]

Yay for cliffhangers and words happening! :o)

[china_shop]

ysilme -- so glad you found something fun to get your creative juices flowing! :-)

sylvanwitch -- wow, congratulations on finishing chapter 17! *pompoms for the cliffhanger resolution*

3rd: I went to writers' hour and added 469 words to my wip.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay! Go, WiP, go!

[ysilme]

♥ It's still going strong, I'm currently having a blast. ^^ Yay for your WIP progressing!

[trobadora]

Checking in for the 2nd.

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent to see you here, always!

[ysilme]

Yay for words wording! *\O/*

[luzula]

Good work both of you, but especial congratulations to ysilme for writing something creative again! \o/

Day 3: Again with the late night writing. 300 words of werewolf fic; total wordcount 14,300.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you!

Yay for werewolf fic! I hope you’re enjoying it. :-)

[ysilme]

I don't have a check-in for you for the 2nd, so I wanted to verify the day for your check-in.
And thank you! ♥ It turns out it's also quite comforting to revisit my teenage fandom heros, I find. *g*

[ysilme]

Thank you! ♥ It's great fun. Go you for late-night werwewolfing results! ^^

Day 1 & 2 check-ins

[the_siobhan]

A paragraph yesterday on the story and a couple of pages of journaling today.

Re: Day 1 & 2 check-ins

[sylvanwitch]

Words! Words have been written! By whom? By you-m, that’s whom! You’re awesome! :-)

Disclaimer: I swear, I am not intoxicated, but we did just come back from a lovely evening walk in the woods.

[shadaras]

Ysmilme - Sorting through old fanfic snippets is always such an experience! I'm delighted that your younger self's ideas have sparked a new concept for you, and that you're taking joy in it! ^_^

Sylvanwitch - Nice! :D A satisfying cliffhanger is always a delight!

Day 2: Editing and beta-reading. :)

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! It surprised me, so I have some hope it will do the same for my eventual readers. ;-)

Go, you, for editing and beta-reading, both of which serve such vital roles in the process and in fandom!

[nafs]

Day 2: page and a bit, visiting characters that I'm still not sure I'm keeping.

[sylvanwitch]

I like this kind of exploratory in which nothing is certain and, therefore, anything is possible. I hope you enjoy it as well. :-)

[lferion]

2 Aug - drafted the last 4 lines of the sonnet, though it definitely needs some tweaking. Also wrote a haiku.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for poetry! Excellent work!

[sanguinity]

ysilme: Oh, I'm pleased you're working on something fun again. Drawer fic is excellent for that.

sylvanwitch: I love ending chapters on a cliffhanger! I hope you get a kick out of it, too.


Aug 2: 1700 words! Which is an excellent wordcount on any day, and phenomenal for a workday. Still bushwhacking, but feeling more encouraged about my ability to find an end than I was yesterday.

[luzula]

Oh wow, what a wordcount! \o/

[chanter1944]

Checking in for days 1 and 2.

Managed a few sentences across a couple projects for day 1, but I wasn't tracking word count. Whoops on me.

258 words for day 2.

And now, ZZZZZ, I think.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for wording, of which you did some on both days! YAY! Go, you! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Hope RL eases up some. Good luck with those old fanfic.

Pool + Netflix has sucked up all my writing time (That said loving Sandman and Wednesday) squeaked out 570 words for fandomgiftbasket

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for gift words and for Netflix and chilling-in-the-pool, which isn't at all the same thing as the other kind. *grins*

[yasaman]

Day 1: net of 31 words
Day 2: net of 161 words

Mostly editing these first couple days, working my way up to finally finishing the last few scenes of this fic.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for an ending hoving into sight! And YAY for words! :-)

[silveradept]

Good that there's fun coming back for words. I'm checking in for Days 1 and 2, doing a lot of writing, but also grousing that this extra scene has decided to insert itself even though the work is coming due within a few days. I know what it's doing there, it's giving some other character the opportunity to do something very plot-important, but seriously, you had to intrude at this specific point?

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, scenes and characters--so rude, right? Sometimes (often) the writing just does what it wants and expects us to go along, I think. ;-)

[carenejeans]

Day 2: Managed 460 words on a nonfiction project.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! That's a great wordcount! Go, you! :-)