Write every day - Day 8

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Do you have any writerly superstitions? Is there anything you MUST have or do, anyplace you must be, any song you must listen to, etc., in order to have a good day of words? Is there something you simply will NOT do because doing it jinxes the work?
For me, I don't like to talk about the plot of a work in progress because laying out the whole story verbally takes some of the urgency out of putting it down on paper, so I try to keep most of the story to myself, avoiding all but a two- or three-sentence blurb summary until it's done.


Tally:
Welcome
Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (16/16)
Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (15/16)
Day 3: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (13/16)
Day 4: alexseanchai, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (13/16)
Day 5: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/16)
Day 6: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/16)
Day 7: alexseanchai, auroracloud, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (13/16)
Day 8: china_shop

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ysilme here: so far, only an alibi sentence for me today, and I'm not sure if it'll be more. It's choir rehearsal night, and I went on an unplanned spree of looking through and unpacking moving boxes which've been sitting around in the extra room since we moved in 14 years ago... *coughs* I feel totally accomplished and am proud that the pile is now less than half the size of before, but also rather exhausted. But I had an idea for a scene during rehearsal and noted down a few words of this, and will now write up some more details.

sylvanwitch here: I finished the first edits of the ambush project tonight! Yay! Next up, reading it end to end and doing an after-the-fact outline for each chapter and then figuring out what I need to add to the earlier chapters to make it more interesting. I also need to adjust the romance subplot because they get naked too fast and fall out for no obviously good reason. (I mean, there is a reason, but I don't think I make it clear enough when the actual "break-up" happens in the story. So...)

Comments

[cassini]

[it's alibi day for me, managed 200 words sometime at 2am but been with the loved ones for most of the day ]

[sylvanwitch]

Being with people you love is an excellent reason for writing an outstanding alibi! (200 words is boss! :-)

[alexseanchai]

outlined another damn thing, hopefully now done with it, it's disturbing me

also 800 words of a concept I seriously doubt I'm writing, mostly bc the first few words are "the really epic one spanning probably fifteen years and a million words"

in which, congratulations, alex: if you delete a few words from that sentence—written kitten says eleven, but I'm not sure if "sentence—written" is being counted as one, two, or three—you will have a perfectly grammatical double drabble

[sylvanwitch]

I'm a big fan of disturbing, but I definitely relate to also not needing to write that thing sometimes.

As for epic things you don't intend to write... I am not qualified to say a word. I keep writing the epic thing. Sometimes, one epic thing interrupts another epic thing. If you resist, you are a stronger person than I am where epic ideas are concerned. :-)

[falkner]

Only an alibi sentence for me today as well. Initially I was going to use my day off to catch up with some writing, but it ended up being a lazy kind of day instead...

[sylvanwitch]

Mmmm, lazy days! I love those! (I'd also love to HAVE one sometime soon. *grins* This is the good and joyous envy here. :-)

I'm glad you had a good, lazy day. You deserve it!

[ysilme]

Having a lazy day is absolutely lovely! And, in my opinion, also really important to have to rest and recharge also our mental muscles. ^^

[china_shop]

8th: Still wrestling with my exchange story. Why is this so haaard? (I've done a bunch of editing. Am about to try to add a scene.)

[sylvanwitch]

I feel your pain! I hope that by now you've wrestled it into total submission! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

No I do not. I can write almost anywhere with any amount of crap ongoing but getting me away from the internet helps.

I got 1020 words on Like Stone today

[sylvanwitch]

Wow! That's excellent work! Brava!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks

[silveradept]

Useful words on the weekly project to put one back in the queue as one gets pulled out for this week's post.

Maybe more elsewhere, as I need to write a scene fragment to post to a WIP Wednesday.

[sylvanwitch]

Useful words are such a comfort to have around, aren't they? *grins*. Excellent work today! Yay!

[st_aurafina]

300 new words, two chapters of a first pass edit for me. Not as much as I'd like, but it's a work night. I will be easy on myself for that.

[sylvanwitch]

Absolutely, you should go easy on yourself, especially for a work night! Yay!

[navaan]

A whole scene of 1000 words on the thing that has an actual deadline. I do enjoy the adventure parts. I hope I can power this through despite everything and despite Endgame eating my brain...

[sylvanwitch]

Wooo-hoooo! It's good to hear that you're regaining your momentum on other projects when you're still having major feels. Good luck moving forward!

On a different note, the first of my newest reading adventure (in this case the event collection Civil War) came in the mail yesterday!

[navaan]

Haha, the most confusing too. XD Don't read it before you have access to the tie-ins (or is it a collection with tie-ins?) because it's one of the ALL THE PEOPLE NOT MUCH CONTEXT event books... BUT SO IMPORTANT. XD

[sylvanwitch]

It is the one with all the tie-ins, I think. It's this one: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0785195637/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (?)

I just sort of took the titles you mentioned and spent probably a good half-hour on Amazon trying to figure out what my best bets were. *grins*

[carenejeans]

Er, forgot to check in on the 7th. I wrote about 400 words on a flash fiction story.

And today for the first time since I joined this group, I wrote NOTHING. Zero words, zilch, nada. Not even an alibi sentence! I was so tired yesterday that I just... didn't. (Have to pace myself better on working in Mom's yard, but there were weeds as tall as me out there. Where do they come from??).

Anyway. Onward and upward!

[sylvanwitch]

I like your attitude! You know, some days the words just aren't...wording. Or the energy isn't there or whatever. It's okay, as long as you get back on the horse or in front of the keyboard or something. ;-) I wish you good words tomorrow!

[talkingtothesky]

I wrote 800 words on Day 8.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words! And so many of them! :-) May they continue to flow!