Write every day! - July 2024 - Day 11

[zwei_hexen]

"A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch." (Annie Dillard)

Today's quote was chosen by sylvanwitch on an image by ysilme.

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, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 4: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 5: badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

Day 6: badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

Day 7: badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, ysilme

Day 8: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 9: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness,edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 10: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, edwardianspinsteraunt, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

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: My eldest niece has just finished her Abitur and is backpacking in Sweden for a month. This morning she sent an emergency request for instructions and recipes for simple & vegetarian youth hostel cooking, and I ended up typing 2,3k of a basic backpacking cookbook for her. ^^

sylvanwitch here: I drew another folklore oracle card today and wrote 400 words, about two-thirds story and one-third notes for the rest of the story and questions I might need to answer to get to the rest of the story. I *really* like it so far, however, so fingers crossed that tomorrow's eyes see today's loveliness.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Mm, I suspect I have several dangerously feral WiPs...

ysilme, you are truly a devoted aunt!

July 11th - 517 words finishing my two challenge fics, the first of which is posted. Amusingly (to me at least), that brings this year's wordcount to 178178 =D

[sylvanwitch]

What a fabulous number! YAY! *does happy posting dance for you*

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I do love it when something like that happens.

[ysilme]

LOL Welcome to the anonymous writing zookepers! Congrats to the wordcount and the cool annual wordcount number! *\O/*
And thank you! *blush* I'm having a very close relation to my eldest and middle niece (sisters), and I've always been their to-go person for pratical advice in various areas, which I'm really honoured about.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Perhaps one day I'll learn the secret to taming WiPs.


That really is something to feel honoured about!

[shadaras]

That's a lot of typing about cooking! I'm sure it'll be super appreciated. <3

Day 11: 3k this morning and I'm gonna see if I can get some more this evening. :)

[sylvanwitch]

WOWZA! You take your battleship seriously! :-) GO, you!

[ysilme]

Thank you, and it is! We're a family of foodies but I'm the one with the most experience with this kind of cooking.

Oh wow, look at you, what a terrific word count! ***\O/*** Congratulations, that's awesome!

[sylvanwitch]

I LOVE that for you and for her! You are the cool aunty who Knows Things! *hugs*

[ysilme]

Aw, thank you! ♥ That's definitely a title I'll wear with pride. XD

that tomorrow's eyes see today's loveliness
What a beautiful way to put this. Go you for a new card and a well-working new exercise for you!

[sanguinity]

ysilme: That sounds like a completely different genre of recipe than what I would call a backpacking cookbook! But very cool, and I hope she gets good use out of it.

sylvanwitch: Yay for a story start you like! May it remain so!

Jul 11: I am absolutely fucking bushed (I've been having trouble sleeping in because of the heat and the early sunrises), but I did noodle around with some sentences earlier, so at least that's one thing done with.

[ysilme]

Oh dear, sorry to hear that! *hugs* Go you for making writing happening even so!

Thank you! I gave her a German backpacking cookbook for her trip which is based on a vlog (her English isn't up to that yet, leaving measurement conversion and brand food item names aside), but it turns out nothing what's available is really useful to her, either because they're meant for having your own cooking equipment incl. camping stove, or travelling in Central or Southern Europe which is a whole different thing as far as food availability and prices goes, or needing a degree of cooking experience she's not yet having. She turned vegetarian a few years ago and started to learn cooking back then, but she hasn't ever cooked in anything but a really well-equipped kitchen with all the pots and ustensils available she could wish for, and many of the dishes and recipes she's familiar with need ingredients you won't find in Sweden and can't replace, or need more equipment than she's finding in the youth hostel. It boils down to what can you cook for one person when you have either just one small pot and limited stove time and/or a hot water kettle available, don't want to waste any food, can't refrigerate, have very limited fridge space and limited money, too. *g*

[sanguinity]

In my context, I would have said backpacking food is food you have to carry on your back for a week or more, lightweight, shelf-stable, only needs water and/or a quick boil to reconstitute (because fuel is heavy to carry, too!). Which is more about preparation ahead of time, drying stews and things to reconstitute later, and less about, you know, cooking.

This sounds like a very handy cookbook you've put together for her, and I hope it makes mealtimes significantly easier for her!

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! *crosses fingers for self*

Ugh, that sucks, re: sleep. I tossed and turned for what felt like hours last night, though my cause was self-induced (namely, reading an ebook instead of putting it down for a physical book at least a half-hour before bedtime--rookie move, me). Anyway, I do hope you got some good sleep last night and are feeling more energetic today. (I would wish you cooler weather, but that seems cruel, given all the variables.)

[yasaman]

Day 11: 615 words and some comment replies for me today!

[ysilme]

That's awesome, go you! :o)

[sylvanwitch]

As usual, you've put in the words! YAY! :-)

[brithistorian]

I've been writing pretty consistently, but apparently not reporting my writing. I wrote on days 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 (not on day 5). I just finished and posted a chapter of one of my interlinked K-pop omegaverse UA fics, leaving the reader at a cliffhanger that will be resolved in the next chapter of the other fic. (I had started an omegaverse AU fic about Twice, then about 30 chapters in, one of the members of Twice bonded with one of the members of Itzy, so I started a second fic whose chapters are interleaved with the first fic in order to address my Itzy-centric plotlines without derailing the original fic.)

[ysilme]

It's good to hear writing happened to you on nearly every day and have been so productive! *\O/*
I've updated the tally; it'll appear in tonight's entry.

[brithistorian]

Thanks! Having the community here really helps me stay on track with writing. ^_^

[ysilme]

Thank you for saying this! ♥ It's the same for many of us. Personally I attribute it to WED to have developed a solid writing habit over the years, and went from struggling to even write 100 words every single day (my personal goal back then) to easily writing 2k on average for months on end.

[brithistorian]

2K? Wow! I currently write almost every day and I'm averaging 770 words/day. In the time I've been in WED, I've noticed that it helps me to produce something on the days where I'm not sure what happens next and the characters are being uncommunicative. Having that sense of public accountability helps me to put in the effort to write an alibi sentence, which generally leads to a second sentence and my bad days end up being a little bit better than they might have been.

[sylvanwitch]

It sounds like you've got to keep a lot of plates spinning! Go, you! May you have the concentration and focus to keep everything nicely in place! :-)

[brithistorian]

I always have a lot of plates spinning - I have trouble resisting a new story, and then once I start it, it inevitably grows out of control. The story mentioned above was intended to be "just a little side story," and it's now grown to 45 chapters totalling 79K words!

[cornerofmadness]

cool to the cookbook and to the folklore card. as for me it's been a bad day but I got 460 words

[ysilme]

Thank you! Sorry to hear about your day, though, but go you for getting some decent writing in even so! *hugs*

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, sorry for the bad day. Good on you for getting so many words in when you were struggling! *hugs*

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

Day 11 check-in

[the_siobhan]

About 500 words tonight! I'm on a roll.

Re: Day 11 check-in

[ysilme]

That's so awesome! ♥

Re: Day 11 check-in

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! Go, you! May the roll continue indefinitely! YAY!

[carenejeans]

Day 11: 744 words and several hours of revisions towards roping my feral mustang of a draft. But it's still running off towards the horizon. Drat.

Love the quote & graphic!

Ysilme: Hooray for a backpack cookbook! 8-)

Sylvanwitch: Your experimenting with the card deck is really exciting!

[ysilme]

Thank you on both accounts! :o) Go you for a great word count and writing work! Very apt description, it seems. ;o)

[sylvanwitch]

I am getting SO much inspiration out of it, and since I'm treating each story as an exercise, there's no pressure to "do well" or "make it marketable" or whatever, and I'm finding that SO freeing.

YAY for so many words and SO MUCH TIME revising! May you find a way to lasso that story into some semblance of order. :-)

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Day 11: More progress on the RPE fic!

[ysilme]

Good to hear, go you! :o)

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! This story has to be growing real legs at this point!

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

And I only expected it to be a little bit over the 1000-word minimum! I'm terrible at keeping things concise 😂

[luzula]

ysilme: It's funny, basic cooking is absolutely a skill, but it's one I learned so long ago that I don't remember not knowing it! Good job fostering that skill in your niece, and I hope she has fun in Sweden.
sylvanwitch: Oh good, I'm glad you're feeling joy in your story!

Day 11: 300 words; total wordcount 32,800.

[ysilme]

Go you for words wording! :o)
I know, right? It's really a skill that'll come handy all the time. Niece wasn't very interested in cooking in general until she turned vegetarian, and now her main motivator is sustainability and the desire to go as plastic free as possible without waisting things, which I find highly laudable. But for that she needs to get some skills and experience she hasn't yet, and I have an inkling that her travelling will considerable contribute to that! *g*

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! I'm enjoying it very much! :-)

YAY for words! That's awesome! Go, you!