Write every day - Day 19

If you had to identify your greatest weakness as a writer, what would it be?

For me, it's perspective, as in lack thereof. There are times when I'm pretty sure what I'm writing is good and makes sense and will translate to the reader, and then there are times when I have absolutely no idea what effect my words might have on an audience, especially with original fiction. Sometimes, a beta or editor is able to give me a sense of direction, and sometimes I get, "Yeah, it's good," but I'm not sure I believe it. *shakes head* Yeah, perspective.


Tally:
Welcome ( Days 1-14 )

Day 15: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 16: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 17: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 18: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 19: china_shop

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ysilme here: another good writing morning with 1,7k fic and nonfic. The rest of the day was less good with some stupid things happening, but we ended it with our first dinner in the garden and some fun time watching the furries go grazy in the newly-mowed "paths" between all the lush greenery (a.ka. tall weeds and parts of a meadow). I'm once again in awe about my cats running at top speed first through the grass and then at the same speed up into the apple tree while chasing each other. Good thing they don't know what gravity is! *lol*

sylvanwitch here: FINALLY, I had a day when I could get outside and do some yardwork. It's still terribly wet in places, but I was able to do some weeding and trimming. Then I had housework--so much housework--to do. But I just finished another 663 words on the H50 fic, and it's still a source of much joy. Yay!

Write every day - Day 20

My turn to post a question today: I'm always quite curious how user names come about. So if you don't mind to share how yours happened, if it' linked to something special or whatever, I'd like to know!

Tally:
Welcome ( Days 1-14 )

Day 15: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 16: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 17: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 18: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 19: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 20: china_shop

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ysilme here: today, I wrote fic in the morning, some nonfic in the afternoon and a bit for the joint-fic-project in the evening. I didn't manage to put word count together yet as I haven't yet synched the files from my phone due to a technical mishap, so I don't have a number. A couple of hundred words or so by my guess.
And to answer my username question for those who might be interested: after two user names that became impractial or too common for various reasons, I looked for something in Sindarin (one of Tolkien's Elvish languages) that fit me in some way and came up with isilmë, which means moonlight - very fitting for nocturnal me who loves the full moon and has been suspected to be a were-someting at times. *g* But the name was already taken in its original form, so I decided to write it with an Y, as a kudos to my favourite video game, Skyrim, as well as a couple of other obscure references to that letter. The pronunciation might be a bit unexpected if you aren't familiar with Sindarin terms. I tried in vain to find an example; perhaps I'll record one myself. ;o)

sylvanwitch here: 640 on the H50 weird AU, which has decided it wants to be more than a simple five-things sort of tale. Turns out the casefic aspect has decided to be more than simply useful context. I'm sort of curious to see where it leads. ;-)

As for my username, I chose it a loooong time ago when I wanted a name that reflected my particular "flavor," as it were, of solitary paganism. "Woodwitch" was taken, so I made it "Sylvanwitch" instead. Since then, I've morphed it into "Lady Sylvia" for my public tarot-reading appearances and my original fic penname, Sylvia Greenwich, which is pronounced like the city in England but is my private, sly wink at my original internet username.