Write every day! October 2019 - Day 5

[zwei_hexen]

We've got a lot of interesting answers by now to the question about WED posted the other day; some only very recently, so check it out again if you haven't done so.

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, fadedwings, falkner, lferion, mergatrude, sanguinity, silveradept, schneefink, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme (17/17)

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, fadedwings, falkner, lferion, mergatrude, nafs, sanguinity, silveradept, schneefink, sylvanwitch, trascendenza, yasaman, ysilme (19/19)

Day 3: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, fadedwings, falkner, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, schneefink, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yantantether, yasaman, ysilme (18/20)

Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, fadedwings, falkner, lferion, lilacsigil, mergatrude, sanguinity, silveradept, schneefink, sylvanwitch, yantantether, yasaman, ysilme (19/21)

Day 5: china_shop, st_aurafina,

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: between a massive headache from lack of sleep and exhaustion and a large family-get together for my eldest niece's and my sister's birthday, I managed to get in whopping 1,4k of new words and am really proud. *g* I took my notebook with me, half- pretending to have something urgent to finish, so got a blessedly quiet hour for myself in their study which worked out really well. I wonder if I should new ways to write and/or create small pockets of me-time in otherwise overwhelming family situations (I love them all dearly, but I'm too much of an Aspie to find it easy to bear for so many hours, and usually end up totally exhausted from just a few hours of seeing them all) in the future.

sylvanwitch here: We had a long day of errands, and it seems I'm also coming down with something (likely a cold), so by the time we got home and got the groceries put away and dinner sorted, I was pretty grainy-eyed and exhausted. Thankfully, this morning, I spent about a half-hour before we left working on the fall festival spooky story I've been playing with for a couple of weeks now. I edited it through, taking out far more words than I added in, and then got to the same spot where I'd left off and realized that I still don't know where I want it to end. That's okay, though. There's nothing urgent about it, and I feel like I accomplished something, at any rate. So that's my writing for the day.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I finished the first scene of firelight ch 5—draft is currently clocking 24K altogether—and I have the sneaking suspicion that not only is the narrative midpoint again not where I left it, but this story is, by SFWA standards if perhaps not NaNoWriMo's, a novel-length fic.

[sylvanwitch]

Wow! Fantastic word count overall and great work finishing the scene that's been bugging you! And YAY for reaching that impressive goal!

[fadedwings]

I finished the last exchange fic I needed to write. Well, all but the last edit. I added about 400 or so new words and then I did my painful revising where I read the draft out loud and record it so I can listen and see where things stick or just don't work etc. It's really helpful but kind of painful. So I did that then put the revised draft on my kindle to read and caught a few things that needed to change from that read through and now it's just waiting to be beta'd.
I spent pretty much all day on it, but it's done and I'm very happy about that :)

Tomorrow I'm going apple picking with the family, so I'm probably not going to get a lot of writing done, though I will try and get some done in the morning before we leave. That was one of the reasons I really wanted to finish this today.

[sylvanwitch]

I'm so impressed with your process--it sounds super-thorough (and yes, painful--I'd also be uncomfortable listening to my words read aloud by me, I think) and practical and useful. Congratulations for getting through it all! Yay!

[sylvanwitch]

ysilme, I think your idea about finding a little you-time to get away from the bustle and noise of family gatherings is an excellent one, and I hope your family will continue to be understanding of it. I'm also awed by that word count, particularly given the conditions in which you created them! Brava! That's awesome! Yay! :-)

[sanguinity]

At the urging of a friend, wrote 300 words of eventually-will-be-porn while sitting in the airport waiting for my flight.

[sylvanwitch]

That seems like an exceptional good use of waiting time! Hurray for will-be-porn! :-)

[trascendenza]

Wrote on both day 4 and 5!

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words! Yay! :-)

[ysilme]

I've edited you in!

[umadoshi]

Belated check-in for day 4: wrote some words! Not many! But some!

Day 5 check-in: almost 900 words, which is the best day I've had in a long while.

Thank you both for hosting, and I hope you both feel better tomorrow!

[sylvanwitch]

You're so kind--thank you!

And hooray for that amazing word count! Go, you! *\o/*

[ysilme]

Welcome to WED at our joint journal! I've edited you in for day 4th in the next tally, too.

[yantantether]

ysilme, that's such a great word count, hooray!

I wrote 750 words to finish the fic, and my beta came back super quickly, so it's ready to post tomorrow after a final tweak or two.

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, that's awesome! Woo-hoo for word count and making things ready for posting!

[ysilme]

Thank you! Great word count for you today, too! *\O/*

[cornerofmadness]

Ooo that's a lot of words Ysilme and spooky story, Sylvan? nice. I'm fine with counting vidding. I'm fine with writing every day being create every day.

I was gone most of the day but got 714 words on spook me so there's that

[sylvanwitch]

That's an extra-great word count given that you weren't home most of the day!

Also, thanks for the kindness. Yeah, I think the spooky story is probably going to be relegated to the interesting exercise pile, but I've been enjoying playing with language, so there's that. I suppose there might be a market for it somewhere, but I haven't had the time or energy to do any research. *sighs*

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks

If it's under 1000K i have a suggestion

[sylvanwitch]

Alas, it's not, but I appreciate the thought.

[cornerofmadness]

AH well, I might link to that today anyhow once I get this mid term written.

[ysilme]

Thank you! Congrats to your own word count, particularly as you're not at your best at the moment. *hugs*

[cornerofmadness]

thanks so much

[alexcat]

Got a lot done today - Jenny's Bd fic done with 1610 words, 2 Spooktober Challenge ficlets - one for 244 and the other 392.

[sylvanwitch]

Phew! That's AWESOME work! Bravo! Wooo-hooo! Hooray! :-)

[yasaman]

Day 5: Just 247 words today, but I gotta think about how to transition to the next part.

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck with the transition--those can be tricky! And yay for words!

[lferion]

Day 5 — almost 300 words on the indulgent thing, which is certainly long enough now to merit a proper title, though no idea what that might be.

Also uploaded the pictures for what I’m doing for the SWG Rare Form challenge. No clue yet on an FFWorks piece.

[sylvanwitch]

You definitely have irons in the fire, don't you? It sounds like you're keeping busy and being productive too. I wish you many, many excellent words whenever you need them! :-)

[bookherd]

Not a lot on my schedule today, so I bested my personal WED record by writing 5235 words. I'm feeling rather pleased with myself!

[sylvanwitch]

WOW! WOW! WOW! That's an AMAZING word count! Go, you! Wooo-hooo! *\o/*

[ysilme]

OMG, how awesome is that? I think I managed to write that much in one day only a couple of times. You totally rock, congratulations! ***\O/***

[sakana17]

Day 5 check-in: polished up the draft of a story that's almost ready to post. Wrote 3500 words of a brand new story I'd been thinking about for a while.

[sylvanwitch]

Holy...that's an AWESOME word count! *applauds wildly* Woo-hoo! *\o/*

[carenejeans]

More work on the nonfiction project. And then I wrote a little over 700 words on a fic for the current fan_flashworks prompt. That felt good!

[sylvanwitch]

That MUST have felt good! I mean, I know you enjoy the nonfiction project, but I also know you miss the fiction when you haven't had the time for it, so I'm pleased for you. That's great news! :-)

[ysilme]

Yay, that's a great word count. Go you! :o)

[auroracloud]

I wrote maybe about 500 words on the ambush project, which I keep writing by hand in a notebook which is why I can only approximate the word count. But I'm starting to have more plot as well as a clearer idea of the world, yay!

Congrats ysilme for writing that much despite headache, exhaustion and family get-together - for me such days are usually "write a few incoherent sentences" days. Though on the other hand, writing as an escape from overwhelming socializing can work. Might be a good strategy in the future, yes!

And well done sylvanwitch as well for working on your story despite having a busy day! Editing is important work as well, not only the kind of writing that adds more words. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you for the kind encouragement, my friend. Your thoughtfulness makes me smile.

And go you for adding words to your project and seeing your way clear--that's so awesome!

[ysilme]

Thank you! Usually they're that for me, too, which is why I'm even more happy about such a result. I'm going to try something similar on the next occasions, too; it's nothing uncommon on our family get-togethers that two or three people wander off to do something on the side, or my father retires for a nap or so. *g*
Go you about the longhand writing, too. I'm in awe of people doing this, as I find this so laborious myself. (The main reason for that is that I can't read my own handwriting when I'm writing quickly, which I tend to do when writing fic, so I always have a hard time deciphering it afterwards. *g* )

[lilacsigil]

Day 6 check-in: wrote about 400 words on the second draft of a fic.

[sylvanwitch]

Great work! You're making progress!

[st_aurafina]

Checking in for Day 6: I wrote a thousand words, yay!

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, that's amazing! Wooo-hooo! *\o/*

[ysilme]

Wohoo, that's awesome, congrats! ***\O/***

[silveradept]

Day five finally finished a chapter for me on grief-giving, so that's good. But that means I'm queued up to the middle of the book, and so there's a lot more space to cover all before I can get done with this one and hustle to the next. The fact that I'm relatively close to the end is making me want to hurry up and get done with it.

[sylvanwitch]

The fact that I'm relatively close to the end is making me want to hurry up and get done with it.

I can definitely relate; I have a similar reaction when I'm nearing the end of a project I'm looking forward to being done with. I wish you good haste (and good words)!