Write every day! - January 2020 - Day 1

[zwei_hexen]

Welcome old hands and newcomers alike to a brand-new year, hopefully also with a generous dose of new writing motivation and energy!
Please don't hesitate to ask sylvanwitch or ysilme any questions you have.

Personally, I'm not one for new year resolutions, but to me it always feels like everything is resetting to zero at the start of the year, revealing new energy and opening up new opportunities. Of course, that doesn't negate the issues, problems and worries we can't just leave behind, or which we are confronted anew, so let's make the best out of what we've got, and, as far as writing goes, stick together for another round of mutual support and encouragement! :o) 

If you like, let us know about your goals for the new writing year or the month, look back on your last writing year, or whatever else you'd like to share!

(Ysilme)

Tally for January 2020:
Welcome Post

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: 2019 has bee a quite good writing year for me, despite the fact that I didn't post much, and nearly managed to not post a single fan/transformative fic at all, were it not for a last-minute pinch hit yet to be revealed. I'm quite happy that I exceeded last year's writing goal by far, as far as word-count goes, and despite the lack of finished works made a decent inroad in working at WIPs, organising, plotting and planning particularly on several longer (and older) projects. I also wrote and published my usual original Christmas story project contribution and already got lovely feedback for it, started to blog a bit more regularly again (with the intention to do this really regularly), and
participated at and won my 7th NaNo (and have been so frustrated about the site's changes that I'm considering not doing it any more because of it). But 2019 also holds a major writing event for me: in November, I had a major plot- and world-building epiphany for my fantasy novel which had been stagnating for a while as I couldn't figure out some basic issues. Most of what I wrote so far will be discarded, including the main characters I'd already developed (although I might recycle these charas at some point), and since then I'm working at the world-building and character development, and doing a lot of research. Now it finally feels like a story complex enough to fill a book-long tale, unlike before. ;o) 
My main goal in 2020 is working at the novel (working title: Tales of the Northlands), working more at some WIPs and posting at least some of them, and right now in January writing my contribution for the My Slashy Valentine challenge which is due on Feburary 7th. I got a cool assignment with a subject I'm really looking forward to write about, but also no requests at all for plot, which leaves me a bit in the lurch as coming up with plot ideas is one of my weaknesses. *g*
Edit to add: I wrote about 900 words today, all non-fic.

sylvanwitch here:  My annual goal for inkingitout is 150K words again.  That will be some combination of original and fanfiction.  My immediate goal for the month of January is to send out at least two original short stories (I sent one just under the wire yesterday).  I also need to review the "ambush project" (an original time travel lesbian romance novel) to see what's left to do; I was on the third draft when I lost motivation back in the fall.  And I suppose I should revisit the lesbian space opera and figure out if its salvageable.  It's time to get serious again about trying to get published.  Otherwise, I hope to have fun playing in my usual fandoms and perhaps one or two new ones (I'm looking at you Witcher).  Today, I added 1239 to a Bond/Q fic I've been working on for more than two weeks, finishing the first draft.  Yay!

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

I'm sorry to hear about Mr. Bookshop's health crisis and glad to hear that he's doing better now. I wish him as swift a road to full recovery as is possible. I also wish you time and energy for writing now that the storm has passed.

I'm so glad to hear that WED is working in a positive way for you. I found it and still find it to be marvelous at making me write *something* even in my foulest mood or when I'm at my most exhausted.

I also LOVE your idea of using alibi sentences as prompts. I keep all of mine in a folder in my computer files and sometimes refer to them when I'm struggling. May the Muse be kind and all the words good ones! :-)