Write every day! January 2020 - Day 13

[zwei_hexen]

Tally:
Welcome Post

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, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (19/22)

Day 3: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, nafs, ofmonstrouswords, sakana17, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme (21/23)

Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (20/23)

Day 5: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (21/23)

Day 6: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme (19/23)

Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme (19/23)

Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mtassarin, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (21/23)

Day 9: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (20/23)

Day 10: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mergatrude, mtassarin, ofmonstrouswords sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme (20/23)

Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, bookherd, china_shop, >user name="cornerofmadness">, lferion, mtassarin, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, umadoshi, yasaman, user name="ysilme"> (19/23)

Day 12: alexcat, alexseanchai, badly_knitted, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, mtassarin, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme (15/23)

Day 13: china_shop, mergatrude

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: meagre five words so far for me, but I was interrupted in the morning and fell asleep in the afternoon (first day without coughing since two weeks, no surprise there) and haven't yet sat down to my evening session, so I hope for more to come.

sylvanwitch here: 360 on a sequel to the Magnum fic, prompted by a lovely comment someone left for me. I hadn't thought about doing a series of little fics in this fandom, but the comment led to thoughts, and thoughts led to words, so I guess I'm doing this thing. ;-)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

there were some words between like midnight and three, but then I was falling asleep at the keyboard; figured I could write when I got up but uh not so much

did post that chapter though

that the comments contain both a lot of people who figured out the things PoV #2 hasn't yet and a lot of people who have no idea what's going on yet, including at least one who is sorta both on account of checking the tags after finishing the chapter, is super reassuring given I spent a couple hours yesterday fretting about what to put in the summary box that wasn't going to spoil the midpoint twist—even though the title and uh the very first freeform tag identify the midpoint twist!

Swap and Smell the Rose Garden (2304 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/4
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Lila Rossi, Chloé Bourgeois, Alya Césaire, Alix Kubdel
Additional Tags: Bodyswap, Identity Reveal, Mistaken Identity, Season/Series 03 Spoilers, Badass Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Protective Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Jealous Lila Rossi, More Than Canon-Typical Violence, Podfic Welcome, One-Sided Chloé Bourgeois/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Summary:

"They're right to say you're jealous!" protests Lila, with a sideways glance at Adrien. "You—Marinette, you shouldn't be ashamed of your art! You just need to work harder and stop wanting to be me." That isn't a sweet smile: something about the eyes. "And I'm sure the right person for you is out there somewhere."

Okay, fuck this noise. "Adrien got me to autograph the CD insert of his copy of Jagged Stone's Rock Giant," Marinette says flatly. "Because I am Adrien's very good friend, and he only ever talks to you when you give him no other choice. And I don't know what art medium you actually work in, but if it's figure drawing I bet you're still on stick people. And you have never met Jagged Stone in your life."

Go on. Tell me I'm jealous of you over your art talent. Or over Adrien. Go on, I dare you.

Lila's mouth works soundlessly. For a long silent moment, no one moves. Then Lila bursts into sobs and flees.

[ysilme]

Hi, as we asked you before: please don't post a story header or similar or text excerpt or other creative content or images in these tally posts. If you want to prompte your work, you can put in a text link to the story or to an entry in your journal or elsewhere whith more details.
Please keep in mind that this is not a community journal, but a personal one, even if it's used by sylvanwitch and me silmutaneously. This challenge is about mutual encouragement of our writing process, not about promoting our work.
Thank you.

[alexseanchai]

sorry

also I don't remember being told that (I remember you saying link to photos instead of embedding them, but not don't link to work); is it a community rule or is it something specific to this host?

[sylvanwitch]

ysilme has more history with WED than I do, though I've been here for a couple of years now, I think, so I'm sure she can provide context.

I'm not sure we have any hard and fast community rules, largely because we are a traveling circus, but in practice, we mostly will refer to having posted something, and sometimes someone will also provide a link to that work too, but we don't see the full header, etc., like you'd post on your own journal or perhaps in other online platforms.

Speaking only for myself, I think this community's focus is different than a fan- or fic-based DW account or a rec community or something like that, where the full header promotions would be appropriate. I feel it's a difference in function and focus, but I don't know as that's been articulated by the community as a whole.

If you'd like, we can just say it's our preference here at zwei_hexen.

[ysilme]

The first time I asked you was before the photo post, with the same issue like here: you put in the full header of your story, although I don't remember if there was also a text excerpt or not.
As I wrote above, it's perfectly fine to put in text links to whatever you want to share, including your own work or any kind of photo you want to share. It's also perfectly fine to promote your own work through text links.
I also wouldn’t have said anything if you’d put in two or three lines together with your link or so. But as it is, your comment fills one and a half screens on my notebook, containing apart from a story header including a summary that clearly contains a chunk of the story. Had you asked, I’d answered just that: feel free to post a text link, if necessary with one to three lines of text to keep things short.

This is not a community rule as such as we don't have community rules in that sense; we're unique in our way to be a community insofar as there is no central place like a community journal or website, no admin or moderator, no fixed set of rules. You know the challenge is hosted every month by one of us who participate, and this takes place every time at everybody's personal journal. zwei_hexen is in no way different from a personal journal except that sylvanwitch and I are two people sharing it for practical and technical purposes, and in doubt should be treated as such.

I’m on Livejournal and related platforms and now on Dreamwidth since 2007, have been and still am in various fandoms, communities, most but not all fannish, and have been and still am moderator in some of these communities. Everywhere I’ve ever been it’s been regarded common courtesy to not post unsolicited images, video clips, story headers, larger blocks of text or whatnot to personal journals without asking first; and in any community I’ve visited it’s been a requirement to first check posting rules, or else ask a moderator.
It’s different, of course, if people explicitly ask for such posts and content, or if you know them well and know they’re fine with it.

As I also explained before, the reason why I personally don’t want to have content of such size (be it in text/entry lenght or as data/images etc.) on this journal, is a) to keep the tally entries as comfortable and useable for everybody as possible, and b) to keep doing the daily tally as easy as possible for me.
I’m usually checking most of the comments on my phone and later do the tally on my notebook where I don’t have a mouse. Collecting the check-ins and answering at least some comments means a lot of scrolling up and down. The later in the month we get, the more links there are in the tally entry, which make the whole entry even longer (on the phone for example) and containing more data.
Also, everybody visiting this entry and wanting to read up other’s comments and perhaps comment themselves, or engange otherwise in the mutual support we’re doing this for, has to scroll past such long comments, or deal with large entries on mobile devices. It’s simpyl a question of being considerate towards others when interacting with them outside your own space in my honest opinion.

Of course, everybody hosting WED is perfectly free to do as they please in their own journals, and welcome or accept any kind and size of comments in the tally entries, since we don’t have set rules. And if anybody but me is fine with large comments or whatever, that’s perfectly fine for me - elsewhere, I can choose to visit such an entry, or leave it be. Here, I cannot.

[sanguinity]

100 random words on what may or may not be a new story, before work.

[sylvanwitch]

If a new story is what you'd like it to be, then that's what I wish for you. :-) Yay for words before work! Yay!

[sierranovembr]

Editing for me today - got that next WIP chapter posted to AO3. :)

[ysilme]

Yay, congrats for getting it posted! :o)

[cornerofmadness]

Oo I should go look at your Magnum fic.

Survived day one of the semester. Got 838 words on Come Undone

[sylvanwitch]

It's over there on its own for now, but apparently, it has decided that it's the start of a five-part series, which I spent exam proctoring laying out today. *sighs*

YAY for words! And kudos for surviving day one. I know today was supposed to be harder for you, so I'm hoping it has gone well for you so far.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm totally not pointing and laughing at you.

I survived barely

[alexcat]

Started a new little fic from a picture prompt - 1493

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, that's an awesome word count! Go, you! :-)

[lferion]

Day 13 - 225 ish words half on the bones of a poem for the Love Actually SWG challenge, and another 100 or so on the Sirens & Songstresses. These go at the beginning, since I realized where I started wasn't quite the actual start of the piece.

[sylvanwitch]

It sounds like you are making excellent progress--slow and steady winning the race. :-) Yay for words and for inspiration and for poems that begin things too!

[umadoshi]

I'm going to claim about 50 words for today, albeit in the form of placeholder bits of dialogue when I was mostly making notes.

[ysilme]

But writing did happen, and that's what counts. Go, you! :o)

[sylvanwitch]

Words are words and welcome here. :-) Yay!

[yasaman]

Day 13: 273 words on one WIP + 1,504 on the other. Feeling like I have a tortoise and the hare situation here vis a vis racing WIPs to completion lol.

[ysilme]

That's a fun comparison! Congrats to the awesome word count, no matter on which of them! ;o)

[sylvanwitch]

Lol! Well, whichever story actually wins, YOU (and your readers) ultimately win, which is awesome! Yay for words, and so many of them too!

[auroracloud]

I forgot to check in for the 12th, but I did words. I think most of them were on fanfic. The day passed in a bit of a daze, thanks to Body Doing Things.

Yesterday (13th) I worked more on the said fanfic, though I didn't finish it because my headspace wasn't there. Where my headspace was, instead, was in a potential beginning scene for a new story/universe/thing which I now have an uncounted amount of handwritten pages for. (They could be counted, of course; I don't write so much in one evening it would be uncountable, but I didn't count it yet.)

[ysilme]

Bah to Body Doing Things, and extra kudos for getting words out even then! ♥

...for a new story/universe/thing ...
That sounds totally awesome, though, congrats!

[auroracloud]

It feels awesome, but it's also frustrating in that it makes it pretty hard to set solid writing goals because it seems as soon as I set any, I get inspired by a totally amazing new idea and write ten pages for it. And then I wonder if I should focus on this new thing, or if that's going to be overtaken by something else by next week. I'm probably going to have to think about these things in the near future, because I'd like to get some longer projects written and don't know what to set my willpowers on.

[sylvanwitch]

I hope you're feeling better now; I know you were going through stuff. :-(

I also wish you luck in finding which thing your inspiration wants to fasten itself to. I've had that situation myself and, to an extent, still do, as I'm allowing fanfiction to eat my writing time lately when I *should* be working on a certain ambush project or the project the ambush project ambushed. ;-)

[china_shop]

ysilme: I'm so glad you're starting to feel better! May your energy levels improve quickly!
sylvanwitch: Yay for surprise sequels! :D

Day 14: I spent the morning editing the PWP, and frittered away the evening instead of wrestling with my time travel fic (though I might go and add an alibi sentence to it now, just to keep it fresh-ish). ETA: 158 words on the time travel. \o/

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! I'm...sort of stunned? But also looking forward to it, so that's a good thing.

YAY for making yourself do the thing with the thing! *grins* YAY for words where they're "supposed" to be, if you know what I mean. YAY!

[badly_knitted]

Day 13 - 1174 words, double drabbles and a bit of editing.

Been out all morning so I'm later than usual checking in. Hoping I can write a bit later...

[sylvanwitch]

WOW! That's a fantastic word count! Go, you! I wish your words wings for swift writing. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

Took a huge effort this afternoon to get some writing done, had to really push myself because the going out stuff took way longer than I like, and is very stressful because of anxiety issues, so getting in the right headspace for writing wasn't easy, but I'm stubborn, I hog-tied my muses and tickled the until they gave in. ;)

Now I'm officially exhausted and plan on going to bed soon. Getting up early to go out does not agree with me.

[sylvanwitch]

You deserve extra kudos, in that case, and ALL the cheer-leading you can handle! *grins*

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[badly_knitted]

Thank you! =D

Hoping I don't have to go anywhere for a bit now...

[silveradept]

Success, eventually, at writing a snowflake entry, since it seems to take me a few thousand words to get to doing the thing being asked because I'm talking about things behind the challenges, at least as they relate to me.

[ysilme]

Yay for writing that Snowflake! *\O/* I can relate, mine so far also just seem to grow and grow... but as a reader I find these things behind quite interesting as well. I haven't yet got around to read many entries, but I plan to catch up.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for fannish writing and for enjoying the challenge. It's good to know yourself and even better that you're willing to share! :-)