Write every day! - December 2020 - Day 1

[zwei_hexen]

Welcome everybody to another round of WED! I hope you've all survived this crazy year as well as possible until now, and also not done too badly writing-wise. To all those who tackled NaNoWriMo and similar writing challenges, congratulations for participating, keeping strong, fighting the empty pages and of course winning!

Please don't hesitate to ask sylvanwitch or ysilme any questions you have.

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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: Please excuse me for sticking to the technical barebones so far; I've had an extremely draining family situation yesterday, a horrible night, and resolving but even more draining events today. I'll write about my writing goals and plans in a day or so, but today I'll leave the field for sylvanwitch. I'm looking forward to host again and talk to you, after having made myself so rare these last months.


sylvanwitch here: Welcome one and all! I'm so glad we're sharing this month with you, and I'm very much looking forward to hearing about your writing projects.  My plan for December is to finish the novel I've been working on for months.    I'm at 106.5K words on it now, and I'm hoping to finish the first draft by the end of 2020.  Generally, I shoot for 500 words/day, but to make it to the end before the year's done, I'll need to do at least 800 words/day, so that's my goal. 

Comments

[luzula]

Hi and thanks for hosting! : )

My goals for this month are: 1) picking up my Yuletide draft that I finished two weeks ago, looking at it with new eyes, and revising and finishing it as needed, and 2) getting my poly fic to 60K.

Wordcount for 1st of December: 400
Total wordcount on poly fic: 48,000

I did not have that much time for writing today, and spent some of the time I did have on researching if/how nipple stimulation during sex feels different if you are breastfeeding. I don't mean as a kink, I just want to know how breastfeeding a baby can change the sensitivity of your nipples. Internet searches did not actually turn up much.

Uh, if you have info on this and don't mind sharing, feel free to weigh in!

[sylvanwitch]

Your goals sound admirable and doable, which is always a nice combination in my experience! Alas, I have no first-hand knowledge of breastfeeding, nor do I know anyone I could ask, but now I'm really interested in the answer. If you happen to discover it and don't mind sharing it here, I'd love to know!

Good luck with your editing, research, and writing! :-)

[ysilme]

Welcome to zwei_hexen and WED this month, and good luck with your writing goals! 400 sounds like a neat word count for the day!

[badly_knitted]

*waves* Good to see you both again!

I'm battling on as best I can and so far haven't missed a day. Keeping my fingers crossed for the final month of the year.

Dec 1st - Had to go out today so only managed 700 words, a triple drabble and four drabbles.

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, 700 words is a great word count, especially for a busy day! We'll do our best to help you feel at home here and encourage you to make your annual goal. I know you've got it in you because I've seen before how amazingly productive you can be.

May the Muse be kind and all the words good ones!

[ysilme]

Good to see you again, too, welcome back! Congrats to managing every day so far, and best of luck with keeping it up in December, and for your writing goals!

[cassini]

[take care of yourselves, hosts ]

[same as most days, im out at work and wasting time with other hobbies, but my wordcount for day 1 was 640, and i guess id be pretty impressed if i could get 15k for the month (what with 2020 and new and useless hobbies occupying my computer time) ]

[everyone who has done writing this year, whether 1k, 100k, all 11 months so far or whatever - youre cool ]

[sylvanwitch]

I couldn't agree more about all us writing heroes out here. Seriously, creating ANYTHING in the dumpster fire of 2020 is a heroic act of life-affirmation, if you ask me. (You didn't, but I'm not shy about sharing. Lol!)

I think 640 is an excellent word count, especially as mine has been 500/day forever now, though this month I'm going for 800/day just to reach the end of this first draft. Anyway, if you stick to around that, you'll more than make your month's goal, which is awesome!

Let us know how we can help to encourage you. :-)

[ysilme]

Thank you, you, too! Congrats to the great word count, too, that's awesome! What (new) hobbies did you acquire/tood you away from the keyboard? I started seriously crocheting during the first lockdown (have always been a knitter but never crocheted anything beyond potholders) and did a cuddly granny square blanket which the cats love even more than we do (I'm currently doing small versions for them so we can use the big one ourselves *g* ), although my big distractor this year has been yet another playthrough of Skyrim. I've been playing this on and off for a couple of years, but never for so long with such an intensity before.

[shadaras]

Hello!

This month I've gotta finish a big bang (~2k left, probably), write my yuletide fic, and write my swrarepairs fic. Other than that, there's nothing I definitely need to do, so it's much more relaxing than November was. :)

Today I wrote a 1.4k oneshot, which was a lot of fun.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for fun writing! I mean, I'm enjoying the novel I'm working on, but I miss fanfiction like the devil sometimes! So, I'm going to live vicariously through your pleasure on this one. :-)

Your goals sound totally doable, and I'm glad they mean less pressure on you than you've had in the past. Here's wishing you joy in all the writing this month!

[ysilme]

Hi, welcome to zwei_hexen and to this month of WED! Congrats to the awesome word count and result, too, that's terrific, and good luck with your writing goals! *\O/*

[nafs]

Hello! Still plodding along with the same thing, here.

Today was unexpectedly productive, with four pages longhand in less than an hour. Always nice to start the month off on the right foot.

[sylvanwitch]

That's excellent news! Wooo-hooo! May this momentum carry you through the whole, long month! :-)

[alexcat]

Got 466 words in today (12 -1) and signed up for 3 mini allbingo cards. The story I'm working on now is a Cap-IM Christmas treat.

[sylvanwitch]

Great job on the words and the sign-ups! May they bring you lots of productive, fun ideas!

(Your icon is delicious, btw.)

[yasaman]

Day 1: 417 words for me tonight! Happy to be back here, and thanks for hosting again!

[sylvanwitch]

We're delighted to welcome you back! Yay for words! Yay! :-)

[thevetia]

I dropped out of November half-way through so I'm trying to make good on December!

I have a story I've been fighting with for months that I'm trying to finish this month. Currently at 6k words and barely 3/4 finished. Today I realized I've been heading in the wrong direction and failing to write the story points that inspired me in the first place, so no wonder I kept stalling out!

Dec 1: a couple hundred words of outline to refocus myself on the true point of the story.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, good luck with re-directing! It's exciting that you've figured out what was bothering you. I hope the outlining helps you get to where you both need and want to be with the story!

[sanguinity]

Oo, sylvanwitch, you're so close to done! I'm so excited for you!

ysilme, that sounds like an awful day, I'm sorry.


My goals: NONE, hooray, hurrah! I met my goals for the year during November, go me! So I'm going to finish off this exchange fic (currently at beta), and then spend the rest of the month noodling away at whatever I feel like. Most likely the Sprawling Monster, although we'll see -- I have several things on the back burner.

Today's check-in: Longhand page at lunch on a new story my chief-troublemaker and I have spent the last couple of days brainstorming. Then some time tonight re-reading the Sprawling Monster, trying to fix in my head where I left off in terms of bridging the disparate parts of the story together. Didn't get so far as to find out, but did a little light editing along the way and rediscovered a number of things I'd completely forgotten about. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Everyone should have a chief troublemaker, I think. *makes note to self to get one* :-)

Yay for words and for having no obligations this month! (I remember how MUCH you usually are doing at one time, so I am imagining this is a delightful break from the crushing norm.)

I enjoy when I re-read something I've been away from and rediscover things I like. I find it's a bit of a boost. I hope you continue to delight in your rediscovery. :-)

[sakana17]

Day 1: 182 words.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Hope the family thing resolves itself ysilme and go go go on the novel Sylvan. As for me I want to get more done on the stupid novella, finish my fandom trumps hate story and my Prodigal Son holiday story and oh finish the Prodigal Son dark fic

I got 1504 on the dark fic and 1684 on the holiday story so not too bad

[sylvanwitch]

*snorts* As usual, a really light load, I see. Lol! *winks*

Outstanding word count for the day! Wooo-hooo! I hope the Buffy story is finally unstuck for you.

[lferion]

Dec 1 - 100 words continuing on the poem I started a couple days ago.

Lovely to see you two here again! Thank you for hosting.

[sylvanwitch]

It's great to be here and exciting to see you, too! Yay!

And poetry--woooo-hooo! I love it!

[satoyan]

Hello, thanks for having us!

I did nano this year and wrote 55k, but I'm probably not even halfway through the story. I'm on a streak of alibi sentences because motivation is very low right now, and I'm thinking about giving up on this one and writing something else. However, I'm not quite to giving up yet, so that is where I'll be putting my words for now! I created a new goal on the nano website: 50k more words by February 1st.

Day 1: 340 nano words.

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck finding your motivation for the novel. I hope the Muse is kind to you and that your new goal helps to rev you up. I know about post-NaNo slump and can definitely relate, though I haven't done NaNo myself in years.

340 is not nothing! That's great! GO YOU!

[china_shop]

I'm currently working on a WIP from April/May, which I'm trying to finish as a charity WIP. It needs more plot than I'm really comfortable with, which is why I got stuck, but I don't have time to mess around, so... *determined face* :-)

1st: a couple of hundred words.
2nd: a few sentences and some thinking/planning/strategising, plus most of my weekly update post. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Your weekly updates are masterworks unto themselves, so I can appreciate the planning that goes into them.

Good luck on the WIP--I hope you find the determination and motivation you need to get it done. YAY for words of any and all sorts but ESPecially the kind that lead to finishing something that's being tricksy.

Dec 1 check-in

[the_siobhan]

I did about 300 words creating some background for my villain.

He's stealth for the first part of the story, so I'm struggling a bit to figure out how the big reveal happens.

Re: Dec 1 check-in

[sylvanwitch]

As someone who had a secondary antagonist show up halfway through the novel and before the actual antagonist was introduced, I empathize with your plight, and I hope you find a way to reveal him that works for your story structure. Writing, why does it have to be like this? Lol!

[ysilme]

Three days in and I'm already behind... *hides* Best of luck with your novel and your plans, hon, and for reaching your word count goals! ♥

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you, my friend! I’m struggling with a heavier-than-expected workload, but commenting makes for a nice break from grading, etc. Good luck with your own stresses, hon! Big, big *HUGS*