Write every day - Day 6

So, what do you do when you find yourself dragging your feet with a story? Say, you're spending a lot of time researching or outlining, to the point that you know you're drawing things out because for whatever reason you're not comfortable with starting the story. What's your method for overcoming internal inertia?

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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: china_shop

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ysilme here: today was a good writing day. Some 200 words on my crazy crossover drawer fic, and another 1,3k as my share on the joint-written fic during our writing meeting today.

sylvanwitch here: I edited all of Chapter Ten today and found the right break for Chapter Eleven. I've finally hit the section of the novel I feel strongest about, so that's good, but it does set in relief what's wrong with earlier parts. *sighs* Well, one draft at a time, right?

Write every day - Day 7

What makes you happiest in/with your writing? When you read over your own words, what is it that makes you smile and feel like you may have figured out at least something about this whole writing thing?

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: china_shop

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ysilme here: I wrote about 640 words today, part of it on the draft of a fanfic - the first time of a while that I acutally worked at a fic I intend to publish! *g* I fear I actually over-estimated my capability to write fic in the next weeks, though; I'm hosting a big party in a forest cabin in two and a half weeks, and the organising and preparations so far absorb a surprising amount of my creative energy, it seems. So it'll likely be yet more drawer fic in the coming weeks.... *g*

sylvanwitch here: I edited Chapter Twelve and feel pretty good about it. However, its emotional climax has pointed out how weak my introduction of the romantic conflict is earlier in the book, so that's one of many things I'll be addressing on the next editing pass. Given that this started as a lark outside my comfort zone and was originally intended to be about six thousand words long, I'm going to give myself a pass on feeling bad about the plot weaknesses (as long as I get around to addressing them).