Write every day! - June 2021 - Day 9

[zwei_hexen]

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, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

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

Day 7: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 8: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 9: china_shop

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ysilme here: about 700 words of notes, meta and editing, with a new sentence or two thrown in. Things are getting a bit more in shape with one WIP, which is good.

sylvanwitch here: This was my first day of summer break--yay! I added 442 words to the flash fic, and while out for my first jog of this year (I had an injury last year and wasn't sure jogging was in the cards again, but today was good), I figured out how to finish it, or at least the nebulous shape of the ending. Double-yay! :-)

Comments

[mtassarin]

I missed the check-in for day 8, so here's a joint one for days 8-9: brainstorming/worldbuilding/outlining kept happening, as well as some short snippets that may or may not make it into the draft once I get to that stage. I think in several days, I'll be putting this project aside for a while to put some distance between it and me, then get back to finalizing some things in the last week before Camp NaNo. But for now, I still have a few interesting things to figure out, and I'm enjoying the process!

[sylvanwitch]

I love the work you’ Been describing here, and I hope Camp NaNo is a total breeze thanks to all this great prep!

[mtassarin]

Thank you! <3 <3 <3

[ysilme]

That sounds quite productive to me! And no worries, I've edited you in today's tally.

[shadaras]

Day 9: A fair amount of meta! And some thinking about fic, but mostly only writing the meta.

[sylvanwitch]

Meta is fun! Yay for thinking, too. 😊

[sanguinity]

ysilme: excellent progress!

sylvanwitch: Hooray, summer break! And hurrah, you know the shape of the ending!


600 words of fake-married: only one bed and midnight self-reckonings.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you!

And HURRAH for yet more of my FAVORITE tropes! I can hardly wait to read this! What a delight!

[ysilme]

Thank you, and congrats to your own word count! :o)

[the_siobhan]

About 250 words tonight, most of which I will probably re-write tomorrow.

But it's practice, innit.

[sylvanwitch]

It is, indeed, practice, and of the sort to which I can definitely relate as I keep adding words to this flash fic and then figuring out what needs to be cut. YAY for words with an only temporary housing. :-)

[ysilme]

I totally agree - even words destined from the beginning to be cut again are practice, as well as, in my imagining, future compost to nourish my imagination and my storytelling. They might exist only for the shortest time, but once they've been there the next ones growing on top of them will be richer and look better.

[nafs]

Day 9: I uh... spent an hour on writing-related things? I didn't end up printing anything out but skimmed through the section from the beginning to figure out what new bits had been copied over to the main document and what other bits I hadn't gotten to yet. Moved a few things over, the "how do I splice these two bits" question in one area resolved itself more easily than I thought it would, with moving a sentence here and typing up a few other sentences there.
Then I realized that page 50 of the section (yes, if I ever finish this novel it's going to be Long, the first section was 53 pages, this is section two, we're barely started, I will probably end up cutting a fuckton at some point) might be a decent stopping place rather than the place about 25 pages later that still needs wrangling with a bonus that I could send it off to the cheerleaders earlier. I might make them vote.

[sylvanwitch]

You are speaking the language of my people when you bewail how shorter things turn into novels, as that is definitely my Modus Operandi to date. Your approach is sound--writing it all down and worrying about the cutting later. Good luck with it all! :-)

[yasaman]

Day 9: 660 words on my plottier WIP today!

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent progress! Wooo-hooo!

[cornerofmadness]

797 words on the unconventional ship thing and it is done and awaiting editing

[sylvanwitch]

Done?!? YAY! *does the happy finishing dance*

[cornerofmadness]

the stupid thing was nearly 12K written basically in a week. go me

[ysilme]

Wohoo, congrats!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[marvelouscity]

Sounds like you both are doing great!

Day 9 - alibi sentence for me.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for keeping a hand in! Alibi sentences are often the anchor upon which later work is based, by which I mean you're keeping the writing muscles limber until you can use them more strenuously. :-)

[satoyan]

Days 3-9: begrudging alibi sentences.

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, been there. I hope you find your inspiration soon! :-)

[lferion]

9 June - 50 words on most of a new riddle/poem, and stayed up way too late chatting & brainstorming fic ideas with a friend.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for the new poem AND for inadvisable late nights doing things you love. :-)

[badly_knitted]

June 9th - 908 words, 5 Doctor Who drabbles and then I broke out an old fic that needed considerable work, expanding some scenes and adding a new one, because while it started off fine, the ending was horribly rushed. I think it's a lot better now but might still benefit from another edit or two.

[sylvanwitch]

Endings are the most difficult part of any story for me, so I appreciate your process here, whereby you return to a nominally finished story and rework the ending and then acknowledge that it probably needs still a bit more work thereafter. I am SO of a mind with you on that!

[badly_knitted]

If I didn't do things that way, I'd never meet challenge deadlines *grins* I can post something that's good enough to a challenge, but I want it RIGHT for my journal. I still find typos though, even years after posting.

Endings can be very difficult. I don't like to rush them, but sometimes they're hard to find.

[china_shop]

10th: Dreamwidth post, plus some canon review/notes for my WIP (though I didn't actually do the outlining I was planning to).

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for DW posts (which are always a delight, though I'm absolute pants about commenting). I'm sure you'll get to that outlining eventually. *grins*

[china_shop]

<3 <3 <3

[luzula]

Great work, both of you! I edited the rest of chapter 15 and got started on chapter 16. Also pondered some more beta feedback on the short fic.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! YAY for the steady editing you've been doing--very admirable! And yay for pondering beta feedback. I hope it proves fruitful for the story.

[trobadora]

For the 9th: I had to work late, so I didn't even try for anything beyond an alibi sentence.

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, an alibi sentence is important! It means you're keeping up the promise of writing every day. I'm sorry work took you so late, and I hope that today is a more restful one for you. :-)

Day 9

[alexcat]

896 - worked on a new PWP and began a MCU Stony AU.

Re: Day 9

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! So many words! Wooo-hoooo!

[silveradept]

Day 9 made progress on setting things up for an assignment, and keeping ahead on my personal project and also starting on putting together a presentation for a work-related conference. Many words, much wow.

[sylvanwitch]

I hope your many words, much wow goes as smoothly as can be expected and that people are, indeed, wowed by your words. :-)

[tehomet]

Day 9 - 594 words OMG

Hope you're both well :D

[ysilme]

Thanks, I hope you are, too! Congrats to your word count, too, that's awesome! *\O/*! ♥ (And I love your icon ^^)

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for words! And I'm very well, thanks! I hope you are, too! :-)