zwei_hexen | Write every day! August 2023

china_shop

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ysilme here: thank you all for your well-wishes for the furry boy; he's doing fine! About 500 words of meta notes for me today, and an alibi sentence for the nostalgia project. I lost track of time over another part of my general drawer fic/nostalgia project: I'm editing and arranging all my drawer fics as well as old stories I want to keep in a Scrivener project each ready to be compiled as a finished e-book, doing this partly to get experience in creating e-books which works quite well by now.

sylvanwitch here: My writing for today consisted of a brief cover letter to submit yet another story to yet another publication. Can you tell I've finished the novel and am reluctant to start a new project while I wait the requisite cooling-off time before doing the first full read-through? *grins*

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china_shop

23rd: I spent an hour futzing with a story. Not much in the way of words, but I fixed a couple of continuity things.

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sylvanwitch

First, just saw your post. *HUGS*

Next, futzing is EXCELLENT progress, considering the massive distractions of life for you these days.

MOAR HUGS! ALL THE HUGS!

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ysilme

*big HUGs* for today from me, too, and go you for making words happen! ♥ What exactly is futzing?

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china_shop

Thanks! *appreciates*

Futzing is sort of idly poking at something, or working on it in an unfocused way. :-)

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badly_knitted

All good things getting done!

Aug 22nd - an amusing 1111 words over 3 pieces for an Amnesty round.

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sylvanwitch

11 is my number, and I love to see it doubled! YAY! That's a fantastic wordcount all around! :-)

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badly_knitted

Thanks! It always amuses me when I get numbers like that, completely by chance =)

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yhlee

Yay writing!!

800 words on hexarchate thing - I have 90,000 words, which would be a novel if there were any structure, and I am obliged to prioritize a different novel.

300 words on linguistics space opera.

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sylvanwitch

Your total word count is excellent! I’m sorry you are currently unable to follow your bliss on the hexarchate story, and I hope that changes for you soonest. Yay for linguistic space opera!

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shadaras

Many good things for you both! <3

Day 22: Exactly 1k (I wrote a drabble sequence). :3

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sylvanwitch

Thank you! :-)

YAY for 1000 words and brilliant drabble sequences! *\o/*

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the_siobhan

About 150 words and a short blog post.

And now I fall over.

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sylvanwitch

I hope you got lots of soul-restoring sleep! YAY for words and blog posts!

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cornerofmadness

Day 22 = me sobbing in the corner of my lab under a desk while plotting the death of online learning and all its glitches

I did edit out one of the problem child words in my novel that took an hour because no one can overuse something like me

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ysilme

*offers box of tissues, bottle of strong beverage of choice and a pile of cats for cuddles*
Sympathies about the edit, too - but you got it done, that's what counts!!!

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cornerofmadness

thank you very much. My cat is being a challenging goober on top of it

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ysilme

Of course he is. *sigh* *hugs*

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cornerofmadness

This morning he's being sweet (i.e. it's raining out and he wants to stay in)

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sylvanwitch

Lol! I'm glad find-and-replace exists for that very purpose, and I hope the whole novel feels lighter because of the work you put in.

As for the other, believe me, I empathize.

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cornerofmadness

You ain't kidding because I have a few words that appear over 100 times I need to go and decide which to cut and which to keep. Could you imagine without find and replace? Was watching an old Jessica Fletcher thinking imagine doing this on a manual typewriter!

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regshoe

Day 22: Began redrafting the epilogue!

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sanguinity

It's so exciting that you're on the EPILOGUE!

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regshoe

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sylvanwitch

YAY! YAY! YAY!

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sanguinity

Aug 22: Final edits, title, tags, summary, post! Also brainstormed titles for a friend's story. :-D

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sylvanwitch

YAY for posting! *does the happy posting dance for you*

Also, YAY title brainstorming! (You're a good friend.)

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yasaman

Day 22: 350 words for me!

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sylvanwitch

Go, you! YAY! YAY!

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luzula

ysilme: The ebook-making sounds satisfying! I haven't made ebooks, but I do make pdf:s for bookbinding, which is a bit different.

sylvanwitch: Oh, you finished your novel! Congratulations! \o/

Day 22: Beta revisions on werewolf fic.

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sylvanwitch

Thank you so much!

YAY for beta revisions and for the werewolf fic working its way toward being shared with the world. :-)

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lferion

22 Aug -- got all the past TRSB art pages coded and posted. Wrote a couple of weather haiku. No TRSB words :-/

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sylvanwitch

Wooo-hoooo! That's a lot of coding and posting!

YAY for weather haiku, too!

I hope you were able to get some TRSB words in today. :-)

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carenejeans

Day 22: I have a Thing which is 1,310 words long, but not all of them are new. Trying to count the new ones would be like trying to separate the eggs from a cake. ;-) Anyway, first draft accomplished.

Sylvanwitch: Congrats on finishing your novel! \o/

Ysilme: Learning to make ebooks sounds like fun. I sometimes find designing and formatting for publication as satisfying as writing (and sometimes just as exasperating). 8-)