Write every day! - June 2021 - Day 16

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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, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

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

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

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

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

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

Day 9: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, the_siobhan, trobadora, , ysilme

Day 10: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 11: alexcat, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 12: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, nafs, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 13: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, phrenk, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 14: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 15: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, mtassarin, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 16: china_shop

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ysilme here: alibi sentence only; it's been a productive but exhausting day. Due to the weird weather - either too cold or too wet so far - we could only resume painting the house facade last weekend, and now sun-avoiding, shadow-seeking me has to spend several hours outside in the sweltering heat painting. *melts* At least I get my daily excercise out of this, too. XD And I get a lot of time to think about plots and characters, which doubtlessly will turn out to be useful eventually.

sylvanwitch here: I worked again on the prompts word exercise, adding a third installment to the most recent of the snippets. I just wasn't in the right headspace to come at the flash fic again. Easing off seemed to help, though, because I came up with a sort of ninety-degree turn of the whole story that I think might make it work better. We'll see!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

June 16th - 500 words, 5 Doctor Who Drabbles.

Also two hours in the garden, although progress isn't very noticeable. Everything's so overgrown. *sigh*

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, I feel you, re: overgrown. Progress can seem positively glacial in that case. I hope you soon see evidence of all your hard work, though.

And, of course, YAY for drabbles! :-)

[badly_knitted]

Well, if I do it won't be for at least another week since it's now raining and that's supposed to continue every day for the foreseeable future. I really hate wet summers.

Thanks!

[shadaras]

Good luck with the heat, ysilme!

I hope your flash fic is cooperating, sylvanwitch!

Day 16: 1.2k for a quick exchange fic, and "editing" (rewriting, really) a scene of another fic.

[sylvanwitch]

I think I'm slowly coming to a good point with it, thanks! :-)

Wow, that's an excellent wordcount! And, of course, I'm all about the \o/ for editing--you rock!

[china_shop]

17th: 718 words on the WIP. I hope to get a little more done later, but that's what I've got for now.

[sylvanwitch]

I hope you get the time/motivation/energy you need, but even if you do not, that's a great word count, my friend! YAY! :-)

[china_shop]

Thanks! ♥ I managed a little more to give me 1,155 total! (I was really hoping to get 1k, so I'm very pleased! :-)

Easing off seemed to help, though, because I came up with a sort of ninety-degree turn of the whole story that I think might make it work better. We'll see!

That sounds great! *pompoms* Good luck!

[sanguinity]

ysilme: may your time painting and thinking about plots and characters turn into many excellent words!

sylvanwitch: oh, hurrah! It sounds like letting it backburner was just what you needed! I hope it goes well when you sit down to it again!


Lost all my writing time to modly duties, sat down to write an alibi sentence. Never got to the end of the story to add a new sentence to it, but did add several sentences inline while I was cleaning up some things, so... We're counting it as successful writing time.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much! So far, so good! :-)

That is definitely successful writing time, even without arriving at the intended alibi sentence. YAY for inline editing and for modly duties, though BOO for running out of time.

[cornerofmadness]

938 words on the exchange story today. N ot sure where the day went.

[sylvanwitch]

Time, what does it even mean anymore? (Brought to you, in my case, by summer break. This year, more than any other, I am having a terrible time remembering what day of the week it is. I'm also having a greater struggle with even relaxing. I keep feeling like there's something I'm supposed to be doing. Weird.)

ANYWAY (sorry): YAY for so many words! YAY! Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks all around. I know the summer is escaping me

[nafs]

Day 16: Typed up yesterday's 4 sentences and added another 6... leaving me nothing to type tomorrow, whoops.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, noes! Well, I guess that means you'll have to write some more (?). I'm not sure how that works for your process. DO you need a fresh prompt, or can you pick up where you left off?

[yasaman]

Day 16: 630 words for me today!

[sylvanwitch]

That's fantastic! YAY! *\o/*

[marvelouscity]

Did some writing for work that I'm actually pretty happy with, so I'm going to count it. And found out today that my roommate and I were approved for the apartment we applied to rent! So I guess it's finally happening!

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, YES! YAY! YAY! YAY! *\o/* I'm SO excited for you and your roommate! That's fantastic news! And now you can breathe a sigh of relief and maybe take a day or two to relax before you have to start packing, I hope.

Also, YAY for good work-writing! YAY!

[marvelouscity]

Thanks!! :)

[lferion]

16 June - 200 words on a double drabble inspired by the current horrible heat.

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, I'm sorry you're having a heat wave, and I hope it breaks soon. I'm glad it at least inspired a double drabble. YAY for words!

[luzula]

Ysilme, good job getting that alibi sentence made on an exhausting day! And Sylvanwitch, I hope your new idea pans out.

On the 16th, I have:
- Edited chapter 22 of the poly fic.
- Realized I needed to do research to continue on the new longfic. I'm glad I bought those tomes of 18th century history...ended up writing 200 words (total wordcount: 1,700).

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! So far, so good, I think. :-)

Excellent progress! Wooo-hooo!

(Also, I'm an eighteenth century Americanist, if there's anything I can help with. Don't want to presume, though. It's a big world, and every part of it had an eighteenth century. :-)

[luzula]

It's a big world, and every part of it had an eighteenth century. :-)

Hee, very true. : )

I'm looking for information about the activities of a man called Archibald Cameron in Scotland before he was arrested in 1752 and subsequently executed for treason (still not finding enough on that), about the Appin murder in 1752 (I think I found enough on that!), and more generally about the social unrest in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1750's following the 1745 British civil war (found some on that, would love more).

So, nothing to do with America!

[sylvanwitch]

Alas, I know nothing about mid-eighteenth-century Scotland, but now I'm intrigued! Lol!

[trobadora]

Checking in for the 16th and 17th. Poking at exchange fic.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for poking! And for checking in! You know we're always happy to see you here. I hope the poking leads to many good words! :-)

[tehomet]

Today was just an alibi sentence.

[sylvanwitch]

No "just" about it--you wrote! YAY! :-)

[ysilme]

I'm happy to hear that you seemed to have found a solution for that fic! :o) Just not looking at something sometimes really does the trick. *keeping my fingers crossed* Just happened to me, too, with that recalcitrant WIP - I finally had the entry lines, but got stuck again after them, so decided to let it rest for two days, and now it finally seems to flow. *knocks on wood* (And all that ado for something that was meant to be just a really short bingo fill.... /O\ )

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! I'm so glad the words are flowing for you again! I'm taking another break from the flash fic today, but that's for busy-ness/focus reasons, not because I'm stuck. I'll come at it again tomorrow (6/19), when T's at work all day and I have the quiet time to focus on it. :-)

I'm also smiling at the predicament of a short fic that goes long, as that is pretty much my modus operandi, present flash fic excluded. (Indeed, it's one of the reasons I'm trying my hand at flash fic--I think it's a useful exercise in condensing a story down to the vital parts.)