Write every day! - December 2020 - Day 5

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Tally:
Welcome Post

Day 1: alexcat, badly_knitted, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, nafs, phrenk, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, thevetia, yasaman, ysilme (18/18)

Day 2: alexcat, badly_knitted, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, nafs, phrenk, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, thevetia, yasaman, ysilme (17/18)

Day 3: alexcat, badly_knitted, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, phrenk, sakana17, shadaras, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, thevetia, yasaman, ysilme (19/20)

Day 4: alexcat, badly_knitted, cassini, china_shop, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, thevetia, yasaman, ysilme (14/21)

Day 5:china_shop

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: no writing for me yet today, I'm only sitting down to it now. On the other hand, I could add 2,5k of nonfic to my alibi sentences yesterday, which feels good.

sylvanwitch here: 923 words for me tonight, a lot of them dialogue. There's suddenly a lot of talking going on. Sometimes that happens, but I want to make sure on edits that I'm not dumping exposition or running their mouths for the sake of hearing them talk. ;-) Otherwise, yet more grading today. *sighs*

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Dec 5th - 950 words, drabbles, a double drabble and one 350 word drabbly thing.

Also started knitting another pair of arm warmers.

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent word count! Drabbles can be such a fun challenge!

Also, YAY for arm warmers! Keep as warm as you can. :-)

[badly_knitted]

I'm working my way through the prompts at dw100, now THAT's a challenge, lol! Trying to write at least 4 a week so I can get caught up in a couple more years...

Doing my best. The arm warmers are the best idea I've had, they're like fingerless mitts with a hole left in the seam for my thumb, and they're ribbed so they're a close fit.

[sylvanwitch]

Your arm warmers sound VERY cozy, indeed!

[badly_knitted]

They are. I was inspired by the ribbed cuffs on the sweater I'm making, which is on hold in favour of making sure I have plenty of arm warmers. It's surprising the difference they make.

[shadaras]

I've written 2k today, to finish the exchange fic due tonight! :) Now to slowly go poke at the fic that reveals tomorrow [midnight between sun/mon, really, but like... tomorrow] that I gotta actually like... edit before reveals happen...

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for finishing before the deadline, and good luck with next deadline, as well. Go, you!

[cassini]

[just finished work, settling down to finish making midnight tea (the meal), and i got 500 words for day 5. staying on target ]

[sylvanwitch]

That's excellent work with staying on target! Yay! :-) Enjoy your tea!

[ysilme]

Yay for the words! And I'm so going to call my midnight/after midnight snacks "tea" from now on. Tea as a meal isn't a known concept in my language (although "coffee" is, but you're only having cake and torte for that, or perhaps some cookies, but nothing savory *g* ), and as I'm always drinking tea anyway... *g* (In my defence, I'm not eating breakfast, and lunch never before two p.m., so having a small meal in the night is normalish as I stay up much later anyway.)

[cassini]

[hehe, its a regional thing in my area that rather than saying 'breakfast, lunch, dinner', its 'breakfast, dinner, tea' - and my waking hours are 2pm-6am, so 'tea' happens at midnight-1am. im waiting for it to catch on, so im glad when it gets a thumbs up. my dinner is a lot like your coffee-as-meal, gives me a sugar kick to overcome the commute ]

[ysilme]

Our "coffe" is not considered to be a meal, just the coffee break in the afternoon. Traditionally, this used to be a somewhat festive affair in the Sunday afternoon when you visited family, and later also friends, and cakes and "torte" was the only food items considered suitable. In more posh circles you could have "coffee" everyday, and, when drinking tea became posh enough, this could be replaced by tea (with its own set of rituals). The main purpose always was socialising, though; you wouldn't sit down to have "coffee" by yourself, no matter that you might well have coffee or tee and something sweet in the afternoon.

[silveradept]

In my usual way of every other day, checking in for Days 4 and 5, lots of words done on the December daily posting, putting the Grief queue up to spec, and going back over soon to be sure assignments for tyops and autocucumber errors.

[ysilme]

Yay for writing happening and being busy! And don't worry; I think I only managed this year to check in every day in January when we were hosting... /O\

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent work, as usual. Your steady progress is impressive!

[china_shop]

6th: 756 words, nearly finished this action scene. Now I just need to deal with the fall-out. :-)

[ysilme]

Yay! :o)

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for being nearly finished, especially as action isn't your favorite thing to write. Good luck with the next bit!

[thevetia]

Dec 5: 860 words. It's all meta, but it's still words.

[sylvanwitch]

Something's got your brain churning, for sure, and that's awesome! Yay for words!

[sakana17]

Day 5: 1479 words.

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent word count!

[sanguinity]

ysilme: Good luck with the writing today! I hope it went well!

sylvanwitch: Yay, nicely over your word count. If you had any reservations about being just under yesterday, hopefully that put them to rest.


Check-in: Edited the exchange story, got approval from my live-in beta, and sent it off for approval (hopefully) from the original beta.

Also, it looks like you missed adding my December 3 check-in to the tally, please.

[ysilme]

Sorry for having missed you, I've edited you in in today's tally (which I'm preparing offline so it'll appear this evening.) Yay for the editing and approval succes!
Thank you! Not really as I had too little time, but the other stuff went well and was fun, so I don't mind overmuch.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you kindly! :-)

Excellent progress! I always feel a sense of mingled relief and dread when I send something off. On the one hand, it's done! On the other, it may NOT be done depending on what the beta(s) tell me! Lol!

[sanguinity]

My usual emotions are 1) HAHA NOT MY PROBLEM SOMEONE ELSE'S PROBLEM HAHA, and 2) omg what if it's horrible and they lose ALL RESPECT for me????

(Oh, the crises of confidence that go hand-in-hand with making things!)

[cornerofmadness]

too tired to talk, got 1695 words on the dark fic

[ysilme]

*sympathies* Great wordcount, though!

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

[sylvanwitch]

That's fantastic progress, especially considering the brain-melting exam-creating you've been doing!

[cornerofmadness]

Thank you

[yasaman]

Day 5: 314 words for me tonight!

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! Go, you! YAY!

[lferion]

Dec 5 - 200 words on a double drabble. Not entirely sure what I'm going to do with it or if it belongs in one of the universes/story-sets I already have or if it is a stand-alone.

[sylvanwitch]

Do you find that annoying or exciting? Sometimes, surprise things that don't seem to fit strike me as the former and sometimes as the latter. I guess it probably depends on the work itself, right?

[marvelouscity]

Day 5 - alibi sentence. 2 words long, but I'm counting it!

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, that's a sentence! Subject, verb! :-) Also, I love your icon. I meant to mention that earlier.

[marvelouscity]

Thanks! Before WED the only thing I'd used Dreamwidth for was a spn shipfest back in 2013, but I love Jo with my whole heart so I'm never changing it tbh

[satoyan]

Days 4 and 5: alibi sentences.

[sylvanwitch]

Words are words is probably our unofficial motto around here. :-)

[ysilme]

It definitely is! :o) Go, you, phrenk! (No matter how late I am commenting on this... /O\)

[luzula]

Wordcount for 5th of December: 600
Total wordcount on poly fic: 50,600

Also wrote a book review in my journal, and did beta-reading for a friend.

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, you had an excellent day of productivity! Go, you!

[auroracloud]

Aaah, hello, and sorry I've become awful at checking in lately and seem to continue it in December! But, please add me to days 1-5 when you've got time.

I've continued working on the novel I started in NaNoWriMo, and set myself the more reasonable goal of 10,000 words this month; I got to nearly 25K during November, but I need more time this month for studying and for figuring things out in the novel. I also need to start my Yuletide fic, and I have a ton of other fanfic ideas I'd like to do something about this month. Writing this here because I didn't check-in in the first-of-the-month post where you talked about goals!

Yesterday, though, I spent a while writing down my thoughts about another story (novel?) I'd like to write, because it's been popping up in my mind lately and I thought I'd see if writing about it gives me more concrete ideas. I also wrote down a list of things I need to figure out in my current novel so that I don't have to leave in quite so many blanks.

Anyway, thanks for hosting this month, and I'll try to become more regular with checking in again!

[sylvanwitch]

No worries on the check-in! We know how life gets. :-)

Also, you sound like you are brimming over with ideas, which is fantastic! (I find that sometimes the idea-well is just...bone dry.) I hope you're able to make your goal, whatever you choose to focus on, and that some of these plot bunnies are set loose in the wild to propagate! :-)

It's always good to see you, even if it's just in a "run-by" capacity! *hugs*

[ysilme]

Yay, lovely to see you around, welcome back! ♥ (and I'm SO sorry for being so late with commenting on your tally... *blush*) You sound really productive, and have some great plans ahead and works in the making! :o)

[alexcat]

Only 136 words on day 5... December is proving busy, very busy, so far, but I have challenges to finish so hopefully I'll have some loarger counts in the coming week.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, I hope you find the time you need! I hate that feeling of wanting to focus on something (and having deadlines for that something) but RL throwing barricades up in my way. I hope you avoid that feeling yourself and are able to reach your goals. :-)