Write every day! - July 2024 - Day 4

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Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, falkner, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 2: badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt,
luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 4: china_shop

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ysilme here: 42 words for day 4, plus a bunch of organisatorial work for the NP.
Edit: I ended up taking out one of my long-neglected Tolkien WIPs and writing a few lines, getting my word count up to 111 words.

sylvanwitch here: I went to add more words to my novel earlier today and discovered the words I'd left off with yesterday were the perfect ending. That was a bit of a shocker! So, I jotted down 253 words of notes for directions I want the editing to take the novel, and I may just start that tomorrow. It's been so long since I began this novel that the earliest chapters really should feel like they were written by a stranger, so I'm counting that as waiting time.

Comments

[ofmonstrouswords]

July 2: 1,418
July 3: 2,059
July 4: 25 so far but the day's just begun and I'm taking a break from writing for my yearly July 4 celebration -- watching Independence Day again.

Figured out my July writing goals!

July 2024 Writing Goals

* don’t break the streak! (214 days)
* finish Nebula's Heart epilogue
* finish drafting Forest’s Flame
* work on Chosen of Kore text update
* edit the EC Prequel
* finish drafting The ARC Project
* work on From the Ashes
* work on edits of Stolen Fire

[sylvanwitch]

Happy Fourth! :-)

EXCELLENT word counts! And YAY for holiday traditions! Enjoy your Independence Day (both italicized and not ;-).

That is an EXTENSIVE list! Go, you! Woooo-hoooo! *\o/*

[ofmonstrouswords]

Thank you! I enjoyed myself thoroughly because this year (unlike last year) I managed to get ahold of the copy with the extra scenes in it! Which is a better film.

And yeah, haha, my list is extensive for a couple of reasons:

1. I overestimate what I'm capable of.

2. I'm a chaos/mood/ADHD writer; I will flit between WIPs and no matter how much I try to plan my production schedule, it always ends up in the garbage within a few weeks. So I make a huge to-do list each month of the projects I want to work on/finish and then hopefully my inner mood/chaos/ADHD gremlin lets me cross off 1 or 2. XD

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with the novel

Day 4 2377 words on a surprise to me Hazbin story

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you!

And WOWZA! That's a truly prodigious word count! Go, you! Woooo-hoooo! *\o/*

[cornerofmadness]

thanks so much

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Day 4: A couple of paragraphs on the RPE fic, despite being somewhat distracted by the general election in my country (TORIES OUT!! WOO!!)

[sylvanwitch]

Wooooo! (I'm USian, but I appreciate whenever and wherever conservative jerks get ousted.)

YAY for getting ANY words in with that particular distraction!

[yasaman]

Day 3: 1,108 words
Day 4: 412 words

And now I'm going out of town for a wedding, when I presume only alibi sentences will be happening!

[sylvanwitch]

Wooo-hoooo! That's a great word count for Day 3, and Day 4 is respectable too! YAY for out-of-town trips--one of the many reasons alibi sentences were invented. :-)

[sanguinity]

Woo-hoo, sylvanwitch! Congrats on finding the end!

ysilme, I hope the organisational work was satisfying!

Jul 4: Wrote a couple of paragraphs on the Holmes longfic, but it's all very lacklustre. I suspect I've started the chapter in the wrong place? I'll play with it tomorrow and see.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! It's both awesome and awful. ;-)

I hope playing with the Holmes story gets you to the point in the chapter where the writing flows better for you!

[carenejeans]

Day 4: 623 more words of chatter/free writing and some To-Do-ish notes.

sylvanwitch: Yay for getting to the end of your novel! It's funny how different things can look the next day. Good luck with your editing!

ysilme: I hope your arm is better. Yay for organizing! 8-)

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much! I'm honestly really sad today, but I'll get past it. ;-)

YAY for free writing, chatter, etc! I hope that all leads you in the direction you most want to go with your writing projects.

[trobadora]

Checking in for the 4th.

[sylvanwitch]

Hi! I'm glad you're here, always! :-)

[badly_knitted]

Organisation is important.

So are endings! Yay!

July 4th - 710 words. Finished and posted the last two fics I started, plus I did some editing on a couple of others, one of which is posted to my journal.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you!

YAY for finishing, posting, and editing--SO MUCH WORK! Go, you! Productivity for the win!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I was very pleased with what I achieved!

[china_shop]

sylvanwitch: woohoo! So many congratulations on finishing! *\o/*
ysilme: congrats on getting words down! How nice to be inspired to work on an old WIP. <3

5th: 718 words. Why are my dramatic climaxes always just conversations?? *g*

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! It's honestly terrifying to be without this project, but I'll manage. ;-)

YAY for dramatic climaxes that come in the form of conversations!

[luzula]

sylvanwitch: wow, congratulations on finishing the first draft of your novel!!
ysilme: organizational work is writing progress, too!

Day 4: Well, I was inspired and wrote 800 words, finishing the draft of chapter 6 of my longfic! Total wordcount 30,200. Also I went through the chapter and did some editing.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much!

YAY for inspiration leading to finished chapters and editing!

[brithistorian]

I wrote on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I ended up with a total of 1780 words for the three days, but they were really difficult words: Two characters finally had a serious conversation that could have totally changed the course of the story if they had had it several chapters ago, and then another character did some deep soul-searching about the changes she was making in her life and where she hoped they would eventually take her. (Or not take her - she's much clearer in her thinking on the negatives than the positives.) I'm hoping the characters let me have a light-hearted scene tonight - I think I've earned it! ^_^

[sylvanwitch]

It sounds like you've definitely earned some lightheartedness, and I'm wishing that for your writing for today!

YAY for so many words, even if they were difficult and challenging. :-)

[ysilme]

Wohoo, how awesome to find you already have a perfect ending, and are finished! Congratulations! ***\O/*** *throws confetti and streamers (and TIL streamers are called streamers - we call them "air snakes" *g* )
I missed when you started it, how long has it been?

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much, hon! *dances under the confetti and air snakes* :-)

I began it back in the middle of September 2023, which surprised me because I thought I'd started it a little later in the fall. At any rate, it's been a constant companion for the better part of a year, and I am sort of missing it, but I'm also enjoying the freedom to just play around with words and ideas.