Write every day! - August 2025 - Day 2

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Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, 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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sylvanwitch here: 420 new words on the revised chapter one.

ysilme here: 426 more words for the new drawer fic draft, plus a few hundred words of nonfic.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Wheeee!

Aug 2nd - 1047 words. An expanded ficathon fill, and the start of a challenge fic. Got to try to finish this one tomorrow because the challenges are starting to pile up - I have two more to write for already!

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent word count! Good luck finishing this one and with the other challenges too!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! Got to write for a drabble challenge first today, then I'll get stuck into finishing the fic.

[ysilme]

And wheee back to you, as well as good luck with the challenges! ^^

[badly_knitted]

Thank you, I need it!

[glinda]

August 2nd: 300 words of my monthly album review post.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, that sounds like fun!

[glinda]

It is! One of my new year's resolutions this year - I try to pick a few fun ones - is to listen to a new album each month and then review them on my blog here! Fun to do and gives me something different to blog about!

[ysilme]

That's a great project, good luck with it!

[goddess47]

Day 2: 800 words on a ficlet for a prompt community!

[sylvanwitch]

Awesome! It sounds like the prompt really got the words flowing. :-)

[sanguinity]

Aug 2. I, um, corrected a whole fleet of typos? (One typo, which appeared eight places.)

Also a friend sent me a pronunciation guide for all the names in this podfic I'm supposed to record; I listened to half of it, and then had to go rest on my fainting couch.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, no! Well, good luck with the pronunciations (just tell me it’s not Welsh—lol!) and yay for defeating those typos!

[sanguinity]

Welsh doesn’t scare me; I had to learn that ‘tl’ sound for an indigenous language I studied. I’m assured it’s nicely phonetic if you understand the system. (She says, not having studied Welsh.)

No this is French, which I struggle with. Happily I have a friend to help me out with it!

[luzula]

Happily, I took French in school, which has been very useful for podficcing. Best of luck with those r's! Is that the most difficult part for you?

[sanguinity]

Hearing what I'm supposed to be doing, and then mimicking it with any kind of grace. So many of the sounds are undervoiced (to American ears), that I'm not always sure what I'm even hearing, and then trying to recreate them... Ugh. Lead-footed clodhopper on a Regency dance floor.

But Garonne was very good about doing it both at-speed and slowed-down and overpronounced, so she's given me my best chance at it. Please do not think I'm complaining about her assistance or her language!

[luzula]

She's helped me a lot with Gaelic pronunciation, too, although I can't claim to actually sound good as a result of it. But much less wrong than I would be otherwise! The slowed-down and at-speed versions are great, I agree.

[sanguinity]

Yes, she's helping us with our Gaelic, too! Although Gaelic is gonna be Phoenix's problem, not mine.

We have several stories that have varying amounts of French, but for the story that takes place in a fantasy France, the one with the loooooooooooooooooooong list of French names but in which there is no French dialog, I'm considering keeping to Garonne's pronunciations but not attempting her accent (as much as that distinction can be made). In context, I'm not sure that it makes sense to have everyone's names be in a wildly different accent than the rest of the narration? And I am unconvinced that my attempts to switch in and out of a French accent three times in a sentence are going to give anyone any pleasure.

[luzula]

Well, if it's fantasy France instead of real France, that gives you an out, too! But yeah, I think the approach of trying to get the sounds but not the melody of speech right can be a good one.

[ysilme]

Seconding this!

[the_siobhan]

I just had to go through eight chapters and fix all my it's > its, so I feel your pain.

[sanguinity]

Sometimes that’s the way it goes! Going through the whole document and correcting every last instance of whatever it was THIS time.

[brithistorian]

Congrats on the word counts!

Day 2: 1188 words of "I Don't Like Your Girlfriend — Remix"! This puts me about halfway through chapter 59. Unless something else catches my attention, I've decided to go ahead and finish this up before working on anything else, which will let me pump up my word count for the year with minimum effort while also letting me reduce my number of WIPs by 1.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you muchly! :-)

Oh, that's an outstanding wordcount! Congrats on your progress and good luck with your plans to finish. YAY for words, words, and more words!

[ysilme]

Thanks, and congrats back, that's a great word count!

Day 2 check-in

[the_siobhan]

My alibi sentence turned into a paragraph and now I'm going to bed.

Re: Day 2 check-in

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for alibi paragraphs! :-)

I hope you had a good rest.

Re: Day 2 check-in

[ysilme]

Yay for both! ;op

[cornerofmadness]

Day 2 - had some free time, knocked out 1300 words between 2 projects

[sylvanwitch]

Outstanding! Brava! YAY! :-)

[ysilme]

Yay, look at you! *\O/*

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[callmesandyk]

Day 2 of the month: definitely some words!

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for words! Words have been made! :-)

[yasaman]

Hello! Thanks for hosting this month!

Days 1 & 2: I did some writing post-midnight on the 1st, which always confuses the Scrivener word count, but my word count total across both days was 811 words!

[sylvanwitch]

You are so welcome! :-)

Excellent progress on both days! Go, you!

[ysilme]

Welcome back, and go you for a lovely word count! *\O/*
I'm so much of a nighttime writer that I've decided to count the words always between getting out of and going to bed, no matter the date/time of the day.

[luzula]

Day 2: 500 words on public transport, which is always a reliable way to get me to write! \o/

[sylvanwitch]

I envy you your ability to write while moving. I can't so much as look too long at a map without incurring nausea lasting hours.

YAY for so many words! :-)

[ysilme]

Awesome, go you! :o)

[carenejeans]

Day 2: Some industrial strength noodling on The Project. 8-)

Good word counts, both of you!

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much!

NOODLING IS AWESOME! (I felt that deserved shouty caps.) YAY for noodling!

[ysilme]

I love that term, and I know exactly what you mean. *g* go you for doing it! *\O/*

[ysilme]

Yay for those shiny new words! :o)

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for the new drawer fic, my friend! That's awesome! Go, you! :-)

(I owe you a longer reply. When my brain is not being eroded by student workshop essays, I promise you will get that reply. *hugs*)

[ysilme]

Thank you! ♥ And no worries about the reply, I know how busy you are! *hugs*