Write every day! October 2019 - Day 5

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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,

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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

[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* )