Write every day - Day 17

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Inspired by current circumstances: Are there any conditions, emotional or otherwise, under which you find it especially challenging to write? Does happiness make your muse go into hibernation? Does stress make you less likely to write?

For me, if I'm struggling with some big, RL issue, I find it harder to focus on the words until the situation, whatever it is, is resolved. Long-term stress isn't an issue, but short-term shocks or sudden disasters make it difficult for me to sit still (I'm a pacer) and write.

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: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (14/16)
Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/16)
Day 5: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 6: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (13/16)
Day 9: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, ysilme (15/17)
Day 10: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 12>: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 13: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, user name="navaan">, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtthesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 14: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 15: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 16: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)

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ysilme here: 1k fic for me, with about 700 words of it written on my phone in the morning - I have a new phone my bluetooth keyboard interacts with much better, and seem to be able to type on it now as quick as on my computer. Yay!

sylvanwitch here: I managed 703 words in between bouts of stress-crying and financial panic. *sighs* (I think everything is ultimately going to work out. I will not be 100% confident of that, however, until the money from the house sale is in the bank.)

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

How awesome that your new tech is working out for you! Yay! That's excellent progress!

[cassini]

[we are having a time here today. i sorta forced 700 words out of myself to meet the daily goal while rotating between 1) pain in bath, 2) fever in bed, 3) pain and youtube and 4) pain at work. fingers crossed for tomorrow being much less annoying for everyone currently disgruntled ]

[china_shop]

17th: I wrote about a thousand words on a flashfic and posted it.

18th: Polishing the exchange fic. Making post-beta edits, deleting commas and adding a couple of lines. Trying not to fret, and resisting the temptation to find another (third) beta just because I've been working on this story so long I can barely see it anymore.

[sierranovembr]

Alibi sentence! :)

[alexseanchai]

plotting!

*pokes scene* come on, what's the problem?

[cornerofmadness]

Stress can make me write more just to avoid it but i have major depression and that sucks to try to write through. I've noticed in the last six month (which have been bad) I've slipped back into fanfic, almost abandoning original fiction because it's easier for me to write.

and speaking of which 834 words on Like Stone today

[talkingtothesky]

I added 600 words on Day 17.

*hugs* I really hope the crying and panic backs off and leaves you be soon.

[silveradept]

Finished a post, so there were words. My problem sometimes is that I'll get focused on something else that's enjoyable, like a game, and then I'll lose a lot of time to playing the adventures.

[st_aurafina]

Are there any conditions, emotional or otherwise, under which you find it especially challenging to write?

Ugh, work! Work needs so much concentration that I'm usually quite flat when I sit down to write. But there's always editing, like tonight.

I didn't write new words but I edited 2k of old words and they're better for it.

[alexcat]

Ten words on thw 16th and ten today... just so I could say i wrote. I will be making a ist of upcoming works on the 18th and work on my Holmestice fic as well.

[falkner]

I have been thinking for a long time now to buy myself a bluetooth keyboard to use with my phone, but I never took the plunge. A couple of years ago when I moved into my current apartment I was without Internet access for months, so all my fic was written and posted on my phone, and a keyboard to use with it would have been an absolute heavensent...

As for writing, 200 words/a double drabble written and posted for a challenge.

[carenejeans]

Ysilme: Great word count on your new writing tech! If I ever get a good phone, I'll get a bluetooth keyboard for sure. My terrible bottom-of-the-line crap phone can hardly work with itself, forget about a keyboard.

Sylvanwitch: Sorry to hear about the stress crying. I hope things work out well for you! And great word count despite it!

I didn't work at all on fiction yesterday, just immersed myself in the nonfiction project.

An emergency will affect my writing pretty badly. I can write through longer term stress, and was even writing quite a bit when my job went sour, when I would flee the building to sit and write for an hour at lunch. Weirdly, since I retired, I find having more time to write makes it harder to concentrate, or even to sit down and open the laptop. "Oh, I have all day. I'll write later..." Famous last words.

Happiness tends to make me write silly things. Which is good, for the most part!

[auroracloud]

More editing of the hurt/comfort fic for me. Starting to get stressed out by the reveals closing in...

For me, stress and anxiety make it harder to focus on writing. Being in a bad/depressed mood isn't necessarily a problem - then I'm usually happy to escape to writing. Though sometimes it may lead into being too lethargic or tired to write. My mood does affect what I can write. When I'm feeling angsty, I'm likely to write either angst, hurt/comfort, or tooth-rotting fluff. :-)

[navaan]

Bluetooth keyboards are a blessing. Since I have one that works well with phone and tablet working ANYWHERE has become so much easier.

I hope everything worked out for you too, sylvanwitch.

I was on to the next draft and more editing. about 740 words for me.

[ysilme]

I managed 703 words in between bouts of stress-crying and financial panic. *sighs* (I think everything is ultimately going to work out. I will not be 100% confident of that, however, until the money from the house sale is in the bank.)
*hugs tight*