Write every day! - June 2021 - Day 17

[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, 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: badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, marvelouscity, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, tehomet, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 17 : china_shop, trobadora

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ysilme here: alibi sentence only so far. Yesterday, I added about 300 words of draft to my WIP, at least. Today's been even hotter and more exhausting. *sigh*

sylvanwitch here: I restarted the flash fic to take it in a different direction and got about halfway through, keeping a lot of the meat of the earlier version but also changing quite a bit. I have no idea how many words I added/subtracted, but I feel good about the progress I've made. Of course, I still need to stick the landing.

Comments

[shadaras]

Day 17: much meta, more editing. (perhaps I should take a break and switch projects to exchange fic that are due soonish and which I haven't started? probably I will not. xD)

[sylvanwitch]

Lol! I think you should do you, my friend, whatever that looks like and/or means. I do wish you luck with the exchange deadlines, but I also know you're very good about making those. YAY!

[sanguinity]

ysilme: yay for 300 words! And heat makes it hard for me to write, too. Good job getting your alibi sentence in!

sylvanwitch: Yay, I'm glad that the flash fic feels like it's going well! I hope it continues to do so!


Not much, mostly having another go at a paragraph I wasn't quite happy with. This is better, but still not there yet.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much! I'm hoping to perhaps try landing it tomorrow. We'll see. ;-)

Also, much luck in beating this paragraph (gently?) into shape.

[ljm]

Today, (or, yesterday, rather, as I'm writing this at midnight) I did...three sentences of time travel

[ysilme]

Yay for writing! Is this a tally for the 17th or the 18th? Some people are going by the date/clock, others by "today is until I go to bed" or so, but I wouldn't know about you. ;o)

[ljm]

17th! Thank you

[sylvanwitch]

I love that your comment in itself is a kind of time travel. *grins* YAY!

[china_shop]

ysilme: *hugs and a big icy drink*
sylvanwitch: That sounds like fantastic progress, yay! *encouraging pompoms*

18th: 1007 words, and I've drafted out all the missing parts but one for my new structure/plan (plus one still needs checking against canon), so in theory I can move forward tomorrow. *fingers crossed this all holds and makes sense*

I probably have about 5-7k to go in the first draft. It would be great if I could speed up a bit and get it done by early next week. (And then I'll run into the problem that it's a very spoilery story, so the person I'd usually turn to for structure/plot advice might not be willing to read it, since she's only watched about a dozen episodes of the show and I think intends to watch more eventually...)

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much! *grins*

*sends you a basket of sense-making* :-)

YAY for so many words and for figuring out where everything goes from here on out! YAY! I hope you're able to find a beta. If it's a canon I'm familiar with, I'd be happy to take a look if you let me know what kind of beta work you require.

[china_shop]

Thank you soooo much for the offer! *hearts you to pieces* It's Guardian, and I do actually have a Guardian beta; I'd just like to run it past my usual plot beta first, and I don't know if I can. But I should be good either way (my Guardian beta is also good at plot -- I just like to save her for the character work *g*). <3 <3 <3

[nafs]

Day 17: another page and a half longhand. I may have written an ending to this scene. I will still need to edit it until it achieves coherency but not only did the conversation reach an appropriate stopping point, one of the characters even left the room! Maybe I can move on! (Also it suggests a way to introduce one of the last main characters who has mostly been off to the side til needed, so that's good, because the original intro to him probably isn't going to work anymore.

[sylvanwitch]

It sounds like your work was VERY productive of lots of good changes! YAY!

[yasaman]

Day 17: 729 words for me today!

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, that's excellent work! YAY!

[cornerofmadness]

1576 words b etween two Prodigal Son fic so good for me

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, that's fantastic! You're on a roll these days! YAY!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. Deadlines motivate me

[marvelouscity]

Yet another alibi sentence for me.

[sylvanwitch]

I'm sorry the words are being recalcitrant, and I hope you find what you need (be it time, energy, focus, inspiration, etc.) to help you produce more words when you're ready to do so. NO pressure here, just kudos for keeping your hand in! :-)

[mtassarin]

On day 16, the outline and worldbuilding notes for the Untitled Superhero Romance were officially moved to my "Preparing for Launch" folder after I did the last few tweaks, and after that I found myself in a limbo. So many short story plot bunnies I can tackle to pass the time until Camp, so little idea which one to start with. Why can't I have infinite time and energy to write all the things? :D

While I'm trying to decide what to focus on for now, Day 17 was all about editing my neglected novel. I actually wrote about 800 words from scratch, replacing a clunky fight sequence with a scene where the adventurers politely talk the necromantic monster into leaving them alone. So I guess that editing day turned into a writing day, after all.

[sylvanwitch]

If you discover the secret to infinite time and energy, please do share it with the rest of us, will you? *grins*

LOL! I LOVE your scene description here and am intrigued about the story! I also like the idea of talking the bad guy out of the scene rather than fighting it/him. (That said, I do love to write action sequences, so my mileage may vary. ;-)

[lferion]

17 June - 225 more words on the thing from yesterday, working title 'Too Hot'. Possibly one more session if they go like these two. I do need to figure out where they are going and why. Right now they are just going, but with unknown purpose.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for words (and a great working title, apropos for at least some of our fellow writers here in the community, judging by comments on the weather) and good luck in finding that destination. :-)

[luzula]

It's hot here, too! At least for Sweden (27 degrees Celsius in the shade). I wish it wasn't. Anyway, looks like you're both sticking to the writing and making progress!

On the 17th, I have:
- edited chapter 23 of the poly fic
- done research for the new longfic
- written 700 words on the new longfic (2,400 words total).

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, I'm so sorry you're struggling with a heat wave, and I hope the weather breaks for you soon.

YAY for so many words! AND editing! AND RESEARCH?!? You're a MACHINE! :-)

[badly_knitted]

June 17th - 745 words, a 500 word challenge ficlet and some editing on two fics.

Also got outside for half an hour when it wasn't raining. Doubtful I'll get out there today though, so back to searching through knitting patterns...

[sylvanwitch]

Ah, I'm sorry to hear the weather is being inhospitable. We had a good week here, with actual June-like temperatures and conditions (as opposed to what has been passing for June for the past several years--unseasonable heat, etc.). I've been trying to enjoy every day and take none of them for granted because I know that what used to be normal weather is now the exception. *sighs*

That got dark in a hurry.

Let me hasten to add YAY for words! I'm so glad you wrote them. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

This rain and cold, while not fun, is also not unusual for June weather. The hot sunshine we were having is far less common. We usually get the heat in May these days, but this year it was wall to wall rain. *sigh*

It might stay dry today, but I have a challenge fic with a deadline to write, and zero idea of what to do with the prompt, so I'll be wrestling with that.

[ysilme]

Yay, that's lovely to hear! ♥
For my own tally, I wrote 156 words for my draft after posting the tally entry yesterday.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! WORDS! YOU MADE WORDS! :-) You rock, my friend!