Write every day! January 2020 - Day 3

[zwei_hexen]

Tally:
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Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, nafs, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (21/21)

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (18/22)

Day 3: china_shop

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ysilme here: still feeling exhausted from lack of sleep due to coughing. I wrote about two sentences so far, I think, and re-posted my pinch-hit story to my usual haunts after the reveals tonight. Not much to show for the day so far, but I hope a bit more is coming forth still.

sylvanwitch here: I finished editing, found a title and managed a summary for, and posted the Bond/Q story I've been working on since mid-December. Feeling good! :-)

Comments

[china_shop]

*hugs* for the exhaustion, and good luck getting some words down!

Day 4: 481 words, give or take (there were some deletions as well as additions), and now I have a completed first draft of my WIP! \o/ Need to tinker a bit, but hopefully I can get it to beta in the next few days. *twirls*

[sylvanwitch]

Woooo-hooo! *\o/* You rock! Go, you! *grins* That's awesome, hon! Carry on! :-)

[trobadora]

Woohoo! That sounds excellent. :D

[ysilme]

Ah, I read the other comment first. Congrats for completing the first draft! *\O/*

[alexseanchai]

Several hundred words on a new thing soc_puppet did not dare me to write. (No, really, ey didn't. Ey probably knew when saying the thing how my brain would take it, though.) Some significant fraction of those were after midnight.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for new thing! (I think. Is this a good thing? I hope so!) Enjoy the adventure!

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, hon. *hugs* I hope you're feeling back to your old self soon. *sends you sweet dreams*

[ysilme]

Thank you! *hugs back* Today I'm actually feeling much better, after several hours of cough-free sleep. ^^
Congrats on finishing and posting the Bond/Q story!♥ *\O/*

[trobadora]

Alibi sentence again. I feel like I barely woke up today. Annoyingly, the last couple days the only time I've felt fully awake was when I was about to go to bed.

Hope you feel better soon and can get some proper sleep, ysilme!

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, dear. Well, that's what alibi sentences are for, anyway. :-) I hope you have more energy soon! *hugs*

[mtassarin]

I have to admit I wrote nothing new for any of my stories today because I got focused on my editing goal. But editing involved rewriting some small parts and adding a couple of lines of dialogue, soo it maybe counts?

And ysilme, I hope you feel better soon! ☕️

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, editing definitely counts! Please, never feel like you have to leave that out. In fact, "all" I did today was edit and post a story, but I definitely count that as writing. :-) Yay for editing, the underappreciated drudge work of the writing process. :-)

[the_siobhan]

Today was spent weaving together some previously written scenes. I probably only wrote about 200 new words and deleted at least three times that, but I still count it as progress.



Tonight's writing soundtrack: Rat Boy

[sylvanwitch]

It's definitely progress. That nitpicky, careful work can be super-tedious, but I think it's sometimes the most important part of the writing process. Yay for words! :-)

[nafs]

There's something particularly depressing about being sleep-deprived due to coughing, my sympathies.

Spent another hour on the writing exercise. Didn't get as far as I would maybe have liked into the filling holes portion, but I do have a few new bits prodding at the back of my mind now. We'll see if I can get one of them written down tomorrow or if I can get any further writing the story out. Also one of the previously written bits sounds even more wobbly than I thought it was when I talk about it in this format so that's... helpful, I suppose. Trying not to go back and fix bits until all or most of the holes are filled, or unless filling a hole brings to mind a better way to do an older bit.

[ysilme]

Thanks! I'm having insomina problems in general, so I don't mind as much - not being able to sleep because there's a proper reason for it is easier for me to bear, TBH. ;o) Thankfully, the bad coughing stopped and I've been able to sleep a few hours by now.
That writing exercise sounds a bit complicated to me, but likely only for my still sleep-deprived mind. *g* I hope you can work it out in the desired way for you!

[cornerofmadness]

Hope you start feeling better ysilme

I was gone all day. I did manage to do a little a 560 words Star Trek comment fic and 309 words on Come Undone

[ysilme]

Thanks! I'm doing already today.
Great word count for you for not being home, too! :o)

[sierranovembr]

Wishing you a restful night, ysilme. Congrats, sylvanwitch, on posting the story!

I thought I was going to have to use work writing for the check in (editing a report took up a good bit of my day), but I managed to get a couple good paragraphs for the WIP and I think I might even go write something completely unrelated and a bit porny here in a few minutes. Hmmmmm....

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! :-)

Yay for unrelated and porny goodness! I hope that came about for you. *grins*

[bookherd]

Hello, and a belated thanks to both of you for hosting again!

I am picking away at my WIP while settling back into my new/old home. Expect lots of small wordcounts this month!

Day 1: I gave myself a day off from writing.
Day 2: 173 words
Day 3: 128 words

[sylvanwitch]

You're more than welcome! Hello again! :-)

Daily small word counts are sometimes the lifeblood of my writing routine, so I appreciate these check-in totals. I wish you many more words in whatever form they arrive for you.

[sakana17]

January 3: Story 1: in beta. Story 2: finishing touches. Story 3: 4659 words.

[sylvanwitch]

Wow! Fantastic productivity all the way around. Yay!

[auroracloud]

I worked a bit on the hopepunk story as I currently identify it as. Some words in draft, but maybe more in character notes. I also started writing the first fic for the femslashficlets prompt table!

Ugh, sleep deprivation due to coughing is terrible. Because just coughing that much is exhausting in itself, and the sleep deprivation makes it worse. Hope you feel better soon, ysilme! And sylvanwitch, congrats for finishing and posting your story!

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much, hon! *hugs*

Yay for words on your projects--that's marvelous! You're making progress toward your goals, and that's got to feel awesome!

[yasaman]

Day 3: 543 words of draft, plus 110 words of quick and dirty outline! Alas, not on one of the WIPs that's due in February, but still, I'll take it.

[sylvanwitch]

Sometimes, the writing has a mind of its own where deadlines are concerned, right? Yay for words, even if they weren't on the project you were expecting! :-)

[lferion]

Day 3 - more notes and a starting sentence for a different January SWG piece.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words of any size, shape, and/or purpose. :-)

[mergatrude]

Day 2 - family stuff wiped me out, so no words.

Day 3 - wrote a page and a half on a new story for the box challenge at fan_flashworks, and jotted down a few lines for a potential new poem. \o/

Day 4 - rewrote most of yesterday's draft, but I like the new version much better. \o?

(NB. I'm an antipodean, like china_shop. 🙃 )

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words, especially the kind that you like better. :-) I hope more of them flow your way.

Also, noted, re: time zones. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Day 3 was pretty good, 1491 words, comprising the bulk of a story for a challenge community on LJ, plus editing on the two stories I posted to my journal last night, one Torchwood, one FAKE.

I usually post direct to challenge communities to beat the deadlines, then sit on the stories for a few weeks, sometimes months, editing and expanding, adding bits I didn't have time for because of the deadline. It means I have a folder of fics that are posted somewhere but I don't feel are really finished, and I keep coming back to them at random until they feel complete. A weird way of doing things, but it seems to work for me.

[sylvanwitch]

One of the things I most enjoy about hosting WED is learning about the way other writers do their work. Your methods are fascinating to me and way outside my own comfort zone. I love when a writer OWNS the process, though, and you are so confident in it. That's awesome!

Also, YAY for that word count! :-)

[alexcat]

Had CRT scans today so ther ewere only 10 words just to say I wrote!

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, words are words, especially when you've got medical stuff going on. I hope things resolve for you soon!

[silveradept]

Writing for the 3rd consisted of the second of snowflake_challenge's prompts, where I found it really difficult to pin down the spot where "fandom" as such began.

[sylvanwitch]

I think I'd probably have the same problem myself. I don't do the challenge because I can't post publicly, and it feels weird to do it under access limits, but I appreciate all the great stories coming out about how fans found their groove. :-)