Write every day! - August 2025 - Day 9

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Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 2: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 4: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

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

Day 6: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 7: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman,ysilme

Day 8: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, 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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ysilme here: I'm on a few days of staycation with the intention to be as lazy and unproductive as possible, which is surprisingly hard for me. ;op But I'm also not attempting to write more than a snippet or an alibi sentence, so today's result of 360ish words for another first draft for a 3SF fill is quite satisfying. ^^

sylvanwitch here: We had a day out full of seeing things and rambling around gardens and woods, but before we left, I wrote a 328-word poem, “The Forever Fruit,” about finding joy in the little things.

Comments

[trobadora]

Checking in for the 9th.

[sylvanwitch]

We’ve got you! Thanks!

[sylvanwitch]

We happen to be on staycation beginning this coming Tuesday. We have day trips planned, but we are also leaving lots of room for lolling around and sleeping late. I hope you have a marvelous staycation, my friend!

[ysilme]

Thank you, I had, and I hope yours has been mostly great as well! *hugs* Siljan took over all my everyday duties so I enjoyed a surprisingly relaxing break even at home - I never realised how much difference that makes, as I normally never get a break even on holiday for various reasons.

[goddess47]

Day 9 - wrote a 9-1-1 ficlet... need to work on another fic for a fest that's due next week... hopefully, that is tonight's work!

[sylvanwitch]

I hope the fest fic writing went smoothly for you!

[sanguinity]

ysilme: Yay, staycation! And yay also for a satisfying bit of writing.

sylvanwitch: That sounds like a lovely day, and a lovely poem topic, too.


Aug 9. Did a trial recording of the first podfic in this set. Listening back, my diction isn't as good as I'd like it to be, so I'll try re-recording tomorrow maybe. While I was at it, I wrote a podfic-specific version of the AO3 author notes.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! I was feeling sentimental because I'm running out of free time before I return for another year of teaching, and the poem was to remind me that there will still be those little joys even when I am also not getting enough sleep and am stressed all the time. ;-)

I admire your dedication to doing this project well, and I hope the next recording satisfies you. YAY for author notes, too!

[brithistorian]

Both of your writing accomplishments for today sound great, as does the idea of a staycation. Here's hoping the rest of your station goes just as well.

Day 9: This is probably the most words I've ever accomplished in a single day: 2925 words of "I Don't Like Your Girlfriend — Remix"! This was all of chapter 63 and a third of chapter 64! I could conceivably have finished chapter 64 tonight, except that it took me a long time to figure out the viewpoint characters for chapter 64. I finally figured out that by combining two of the scenes into one, it took chapter 64 down from 7 scenes to 6, with each girl in the polycule getting to be the viewpoint character for one scene, which seems like a fitting way to end the fic.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much!

Holy Hannah! That's an amazing wordcount! And it sounds like you did some exceptional editing work, as well. I love unpacking plot puzzles like the one you're describing. I'm glad it was such a rewarding work day for you!

[cornerofmadness]

300 words now I'm ready to go pass out

[sylvanwitch]

I can imagine! Go, you, on the words when you're doing a con!

[luzula]

Day 8: Busy family day, never got around to writing an alibi sentence. /o\
Day 9: 200 words. Now back home!

[sylvanwitch]

re: Day 8, oh no! Well, family is a good reason, though, I think.

And YAY for more words on Day 9 and for being back home.

[callmesandyk]

Day 9: wrote!!

[sylvanwitch]

Great job! Yay!

[carenejeans]

Day 9: I finished a thing! It's part of the large sprawling project, but it's self-contained and (except for tweaking, which I can't stop myself doing) it's done! About 530 words!

Ysilme: Your staycation sounds great!

Sylvanwitch: Yay for poetry! And for finding joy in little things.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you!

And YAY back at you for finishing the thing! That's awesome! Go, you!

[badly_knitted]

Well done to both of you!

Aug 9th - 832 words. Another expanded ficathon fill, and part of a challenge fic, which required some research so I didn't get the whole thing written. Ran out of writing time.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much. :-)

Ugh to running out of writing time, but yay for research! I hope you have the time today to finish it.

[badly_knitted]

Luckily there's no mad rush on this one, need it done by Thursday night, so I'm fine. Dealing with other challenges at the moment.