Write every day! - June 2021 - Day 7

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Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 2: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 4: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 5: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 6: alexcat, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, , mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 7: 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: 240 words on a Drawer WIP.

sylvanwitch here: 254 words of something new that may or may not go anywhere. I'm trying for compact--under 1K--to see if I can tell a scary story in fewer words.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

June 7th - 1228 words, 4 double drabbles and some work on two fics for posting.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for so much good work! I hope this means your focus is returning and the throat thing retreating (?).

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

Hard to be sure, since it's been up and down recently, a bad day, then a better day, then a bad one again. Still feeling tired and lacking energy for anything physical, but sitting writing is mostly manageable.

[mtassarin]

More worldbuilding tonight, and about 450 words of random dialogue snippets that may or may not become part of the story!

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for playing! I love this part SO much, and I hope you are enjoying it too!

[shadaras]

Day 7: 1.5k, apparently! That is more words than I thought. xD I'm glad to be back working on that story, though; it's a lot of fun and I'm glad to be uh almost getting to the imagery that was the original seed of the story.

I also realised that if I shove a vague "oh I wanna do something with this character" feeling into a concept I stalled out on for plot reasons, I can solve those plot problems! Now to see how long it takes me to actually write that fic. :3

[sylvanwitch]

This is all GOOD news! I'm so glad you're enjoying revisiting both stories--that's exciting! I hope they come out better than you'd imagined for them and that any plot difficulties continue to be solved with the addition of a concept and/or character. :-)

[china_shop]

I also realised that if I shove a vague "oh I wanna do something with this character" feeling into a concept I stalled out on for plot reasons, I can solve those plot problems!

Oooh, that's a good trick! *makes a note for one of my stuck wips*

[shadaras]

:D Ahhh good luck! I hope it works for you!

[china_shop]

Thanks! It seems like the kind of thing that should work for me -- my brain is more interested in characters than plots. :-) And along those lines, I just found this insight from a Writing Excuses podcast, which I noted down for the same stuck WIP and will include here on the off-chance it's helpful:

You can't have a sense of progress without having a goal. "Progress" = the character's perception of progress. :-)

[nafs]

Day 7 (ooh, whole week!): Typed up yesterday's bits, put a note to myself about where it could be spliced with the existing bit and moved on. Wrote another two pages.

[sylvanwitch]

Go, you! One day at a time turns into a week and then into a month and so on, and you're DOING IT! YAY! (No pressure implied or intended, of course.)

[sanguinity]

ysilme: I hope you're enjoying your drawer fic very much!

sylvanwitch: Oh, nice! Flash fic is a whole art form of its own -- I hope you have a lot of fun playing with it.


Day 7: 750 words of fake married. A little quiet time between mad dashes for their lives.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for quiet time in the trope--I do love me some surprise domesticity in the midst of the chaos. Mmmm. Everything about this fic sounds delightful!

Honestly, given how MANY venues there are out there for horror flash fic, I think I'd be doing a disservice to myself if I didn't give it a shot, but more than that, and as you say, it sounds fun to try a new-to-me form.

[cornerofmadness]

1161 words on the Unconventional romance and I'm contemplating on joining an anthology because i have SO much spare time right?

[sylvanwitch]

Lol! Sure, time just makes itself, right? ;-)

YAY for words!

[cornerofmadness]

Right and sometimes I wonder, do they think we all write full time? Thanks for the one month turn around time on a novella length open call

[yasaman]

Day 7: 767 words on my plottier WIP, and 112 words on my feelingsy WIP today!

[sylvanwitch]

OUTSTANDING! You are making so much progress! Wooo-hooo!

[marvelouscity]

Alibi sentence.

Still haven't found a place to live yet. Hopefully soon.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, dear. I am sending you all good happy-moving wishes, so you find a place that you can afford and that has all the things you're looking for.

Also, alibi sentences are the building blocks of this whole experiment in writing every day. Good for you for keeping at it!

[luzula]

Good work both of you!

On the 7th of June, I have:
- edited chapter 14 of my poly fic
- received and pondered beta feedback on the short fic

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! And good work to you, as well! YAY! You are an editing machine!

[lferion]

7 June - edits on Balloons and discussion & notes for TRSB1. That all counts as writing, right?

[sylvanwitch]

That absolutely all counts as writing--it's all part of the process! YAY!

[china_shop]

Yay both of you for your words! *\o/* sylvanwitch, good luck with the word limit -- those can be a fun challenge!

8th: 908 words, but that includes some notes in the file. Still a lot more than my goal of 500. (Unfortunately, my WIP has grown a subplot. I think it wants to be longer than I'd hoped. And this is very much a rough draft. *dreads the amount of rewriting that will have to follow* :-)

[sylvanwitch]

I am looking forward to seeing if I can manage it. To say that I'm discursive is to put it politely, so I think I'll benefit from the practice. ;-)

EXCELLENT progress, my friend! Oh, noes on the subplot, but also WHEEEEE! because subplot. (See above, re: my natural state is turning short things into novels. ;-)

[china_shop]

Hee! *hearts you*

[trobadora]

Alibi sentence for the 7th - the day totally got away from me.

[sylvanwitch]

Damned days do that sometimes, don't they? Lol! YAY for you for writing that sentence and checking in too! YAY!

[ysilme]

That's a great goal, good luck! :o)

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you, my friend. *hugs*

[tehomet]

Day 7 - alibi sentence and half an hour's editing. :)

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! That sounds like good work!

[carenejeans]

This will probably be late again 8-) but another alibi sentence for Day 7.

[sylvanwitch]

No worries--my comment is likewise late because I missed yours--so sorry! YAY for words and keeping your hand in therewith. :-)