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.

[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]

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.

[trascendenza]

Wrote on both day 4 and 5!

[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!

[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.

[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

[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.

[yasaman]

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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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!

[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. :-)

[lilacsigil]

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

[st_aurafina]

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

[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.