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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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

[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. :-)

[sanguinity]

Haha, nope, if anything this feels a bit more everything-at-once than usual. The exchange I mod has just started posting, which is maybe the second-busiest period of the cycle. (I'm scheduling works, posting works, chasing down late works, arranging for last minute pinch-hitters...) Meanwhile there are birthdays and holidays, because yo, December. And... well, to be blunt, my biggest job duty scales linearly with COVID deaths, which... is shaping up to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

Which is to say: I take my notebook off by myself at lunch and write something, and it is delightfully irrelevant to every and any thing in my life that matters. Which is such a welcome relief, I can't tell you.

[ysilme]

Welcome back at zwei_hexen, and congratulations for having met your annual goals already! ***\O/*** Good luck on your plans for this month!
And thank you. We'll just have to muddle through.