zwei_hexen | Write every day! January 2020

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ysilme here: Sorry that my snowflake-related comment yesterday came without line breaks; I wrote it in my text editor and forgot to put in the tags. ^^ I can add 622 words to my tally, partly non-fic and partly working at my challenge assignment - although I'm still at the note-taking stage.

sylvanwitch here: Tonight, I edited and posted my Magnum P.I. (2018) story. That means I may have to actually work on original stuff tomorrow. Or... ;-)

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From:

nafs

Another alibi sentence, and also realized that the scene I wanted to tweak next no longer exists in the current draft (one of my POV characters argues with the eventual antagonist a lot, so what was originally the first argument got entirely rewritten but now I want a lot of it back as a new second argument so we're up to three verbal arguments before the confrontation where the antagonist loses the plot and stabs her) so I copied it from an earlier draft into the "new parts" document in preparation for poking at it hopefully tomorrow.

From:

sylvanwitch

I can't speak for everyone, but any time I think about a story and then act on the thoughts, no matter how few "new" words result, I count it as writing. It's all in service of making progress on a story; it all serves the narrative. (We all serve the narrative. It rather makes us sound like feudal vassals. There are...intriguing parallels. [It's also possible I've just watched too much The Witcher].)

From:

ysilme

It's all in service of making progress on a story; it all serves the narrative.
This!

From:

nafs

Oh yeah, I've checked in with research and such before but this was just a "oh I should see if I can make my alibi sentence part of that next scene... where IS that next scene... oh right." And then opened an early October draft and grabbed it, so it wasn't more than like, 30s.

From:

the_siobhan

About 350 words tonight on my much neglected original piece.

Tonight's Soundtrack: Bad Religion

From:

sylvanwitch

Good choice, re: soundtrack! Also, yay for words! :-)

From:

sanguinity

Per beta notes, did research for my historical longfic, and added the preliminary results to my notes file.

From:

sylvanwitch

Yay! There's a lot of foundational work going on amongst us here. I love it! It offers so much promise for the future. :-)

From:

lferion

Day 7 - 141 words on the Hidden Figures SWG piece, and I posted the Box challenge piece to Fan Flashworks. Bedtime now.

From:

sylvanwitch

Yay for posting and for words! You're making steady progress. Wooo-hooo!

From:

alexcat

246 on my Iron Man BB. On the other hand, I got the fridge cleaned out too.

From:

sylvanwitch

Getting the fridge cleaned out is not nothing. Also, yay for words!

From:

cornerofmadness

Only 841 words on the pain in the butt Come Undone

From:

sylvanwitch

"Only"--lol! But I'm sorry that story is still being so difficult for you. Good luck with finishing it!

From:

cornerofmadness

I do have ridiculous standards for myself. Sometimes when I see a scene in my head and it plays on a loop by the time I get to write the scene, it falls flat in my eyes

From:

sierranovembr

I wrote 502 words and got through the porny fic! Gonna let it sit for a day and edit tomorrow.

From:

sylvanwitch

Yay for getting through it! That's awesome! Good luck with the percolating. :-)

From:

yasaman

Day 7: 319 words on one WIP, 1,148 on another. let us not speak of which of those WIPs is the one with the due date. /o\

From:

sylvanwitch

Oh, no! It's funny how the thing you're SUPPOSED to write inspires instead all sorts of other things, isn't it? Still, those are impressive word counts! Yay!

From:

china_shop

ysilme -- I agree with your reasoning on community promotion. And good luck with your challenge assignment! <3

sylvanwitch__ woohoo! Congrats on finishing and posting your story! \o/

As for me:

7th: Wrote a few lines of dialogue in my notebook, and started reading through my time travel fic notes.

8th: Read he rest of my notes and made some more. I really need to sit down and actually work on it, but instead I just keep making endless endless notes, and I don't know if I can slot them together.

From:

sylvanwitch

Thank you, hon! :-)

Endless notes...that's a song I'm familiar with. The more of them you write, the more daunting it feels to sit down and put them together, right? I wish you luck with that! :-)

From:

china_shop

The more of them you write, the more daunting it feels to sit down and put them together, right?

Yes! This! Argh! ;-)

From:

ysilme

Thank you, and thank you! :o)

From:

auroracloud

Another similar amount of writing for the ambush project, yay. I also managed to do my Chocolate Box sign-up, though I didn't yet manage to finish the letter. I did actually write prompts into all my requests, though, so maybe I should just be less ambitious about my Dear Author letters. All I really want to add is pulling together a general likes list - I've got plenty of them in my old sign-ups, though, but somehow I'm again not satisfied with them, so I'll have to edit a bit, I guess. Maybe a good thing I'm not planning to sign up for any other exchanges soon...

From:

sylvanwitch

I love that you put so much thought into your Dear Author letters. I'm not an exchange participant, but I do read the letters sometimes, and I always enjoy the ones that are clear in their fondest wishes for a gift. I hope you get exactly what you'd most enjoy reading. :-)

Also, yay for words on the ambush project!

From:

auroracloud

I hope my authors appreciate them as well! I always worry I flood them with too many things and sound annoying or excessive - but then, if I only write a few sentences, I always feel compelled to write more. I think it's at least partly because I myself write a lot better with prompts and details to go on from, to the extent that I feel stumped if I don't get any in my request. So I try to provide suggestions and info about my likes for those writers who, like me, feel better when they get those. I try to always emphasize they're just suggestions and the author doesn't need to use them. I do usually get lovely stories, though, so I guess it works!

From:

badly_knitted

Day 7 - 1100 words (eep, nearly had an extra zero in there by accident. I don't write THAT fast, lol!) Anyway, one 500 word ficlet and three double drabbles.

I'll be working on WiPs for day 8, see if I can get anything finished.

Edited Date: 2020-01-08 10:50 am (UTC)

From:

sylvanwitch

Good luck getting your WiPs finished and YAY for that fantastic word count! Wooo-hoooo!

From:

badly_knitted

Thank you so much! I'm doing my best to make progress..

From:

carenejeans

Worked on the nonfiction project. I was going to write a little bit of fiction, even just an alibi sentence, but fell asleep in my chair and woke up at 2:00 a.m.! Sheesh. Couldn't write an alibi sentence then, because my eyelids were glued together. 8-/

My schedule is so weird these days, but I'm going to have to make some time to write earlier in the day.

From:

sylvanwitch

but fell asleep in my chair and woke up at 2:00 a.m.. I am in this picture, and I don't like it. ;-)

I definitely relate to having evenings when fighting off exhaustion long enough to write down a few words is a Herculean effort. I wish you more energy moving forward. :-)