Write every day! - March 2022 - Day 1

[zwei_hexen]

Welcome to Day One of Write Every Day! If you're new to WED and need more information, please check out the welcome post and our our introductory post, which provides information and useful links. Of course, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them here or in a private message at sylvanwitch or ysilme.

We're looking forward to a fantastic month with all of you and would love to hear your plans for this month of writing. Are you working on existing projects, launching new ones, experimenting with a new process, overhauling an old one, editing a draft, writing for a fest, and/or playing in your favorite fanfiction pool? Whatever your project(s), please share, if you're so inclined, so we can cheer each other on.

May the Muse be kind and all the words good ones.

(Sylvanwitch)

 

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sylvanwitch here: My goals for the month are a touch amorphous, but at the moment, I'm working on a new original short story, so my short-term goal is to finish it. To that end, I added 213 words to it today and also edited some of what I'd written earlier. I'm feeling my way with the story, so my first task in a session is usually adjusting earlier prose to reflect newer language/ideas.

ysilme here: today has been crazy so I'm talking about my goals tomorrow. I wrote nearly 400 words for a blog entry and an alibi sentence on my current WIP.

Comments

[china_shop]

My goals for the month are 1) to try to find some kind of structure for the fic I'm currently banging my head against (and ideally finish it nice and quickly, rather than adding to my many WIPs), and 2) from 7 March (for RL reasons) to dig back into my auction fic and make substantial progress on that. A finished draft would be excellent, but even two or three more chapters would be positive progress and earn me cake! :-)

1st: an alibi sentence on the head-banging-against fic, a little canon review, and a lot of turning it over in my head, trying to find an angle.

[sylvanwitch]

I've always thought it a shame that we don't have some sort of industry-standard metric for the minutes and hours we spend trying to brain-wheedle our way into a story. It's such a vital part of the writing process, yet it gets no respect at all. *sighs* I wish you the absolute BEST in wrangling your story's structure and on getting what you need to get to on your auction fic. If there's anything we can do to help inspire and/or support you, please do let us know. *hugs*

[badly_knitted]

March 1st - I have written words! 955 of them! 5 Doctor Who drabbles, a bit of editing, and some work in an unfinished fic.

Now I have to go stuff some knitted mice.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay! Excellent work--words and so many of them! YAY!

Also, "stuff some knitted mice" sounds like a dirty euphemism. ;-)

[luzula]

Hi and thanks for hosting! : ) I am working on a Flight of the Heron WIP which is currently 22,700 worlds long. My goal during the month is to finish it (should not be more than 5000 words left), and then get back to my other WIP which was interrupted by the current one. In total I hope to write about 10-15K during the month.

On the first, I did my usual 500 words.

[regshoe]

I have several projects on the go at the moment! I'm currently in the middle of a Flight of the Heron fic about ghosts, and I'd like to get the first draft finished this month; but I also have my assignment for once_upon_fic to work on, and also plan on signing up for hurtcomfortex, so those will take priority soon. Then I have another FotH story which I'm going to exchange with luzula once she's finished her own WIP on a similar theme, and which needs a bit more polishing besides. We'll see how much progress I make on all those :D

Anyway, with all that in mind, on day 1 I wrote 300 words on the ghost fic. Distracted by Shrove Tuesday pancakes and a complicated book review, but a bit of progress nonetheless.

[sylvanwitch]

Pancakes are a totally legitimate distraction, I agree! :-) Yay for 300 words on the ghost fic! Yay for all those lovely projects you have planned, too. It'll be exciting to take that journey with you. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Wow! GO, YOU! I have every confidence you'll finish the WIP. How exciting!

Congrats on the great word count and good luck in the coming writing days! Let us know if you need anything special in terms of cheerleading. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Thought I should get some written today since I have an appointment tomorrow and might not have much writing time.

It's not, I promise! They really are little knitted mice, and I just have 10 more to finish.

[shadaras]

Hello hello! :D Lovely to see y'all again! <3

This month, I should be working on a zine fic, plotting out a minibang fic, and writing for like three exchanges I keep forgetting about. xD

Day 1: Zine work! Also worldbuilding for the minibang. :)

[chanter1944]

Hi there! Popping in with about 110 words, give or take, and a handful of edits.

[bluedreaming]

I don’t have word count goals per se, but I have three drabble prompt comms that I hope to continue to keep up with. (And then general deadlines for mostly podfics.)

Mar 1: a couple of sentences for a double or triple drabble (we’ll see).

[cornerofmadness]

My goals- to be less ridiculous? I just dove in the deep end of short story open calls and I want to do them all so let's hope I can get my focus for them. I also want to work on my novel, the poor thing. And oh I have the long Prodigal Son story going, Digging Up Bones not to mention 2 Pson stories I haven't started yet for charity auction wins.

To that end 604 words on Bones and 150 on a horror short

[yasaman]

I've got a lot of fics I'd like to finish up this month! One is a longish WIP that I tried to finish last month, but couldn't quite manage to get it over the finish line, and I have another three shorter fics I'd like to try to write this month, as a break from yet another, different longish plotty WIP that I've been letting languish for too long. Whew! I'll settle for finishing just one of these, tbh!

Day 1: 406 words on what I'll call WIP 1!

[phoenixfalls]

Hello! I'm new, so please let me know if I inadvertently miss any community norms/expectations.

My goal for this month is pretty much the absolute minimum - a new sentence every day. I really just want to get my brain back into a fiction-writing space; I moved to a job that involves a fair amount of creative energy/output a couple years ago, and have not written anything for fun since.

So in line with that goal, I did indeed write exactly one (7-word) sentence today, March 1st. And I barely think I deserve credit - I thought of the sentence a couple months ago, and just never got around to putting it into the document! But it's in the document now, so, progress?

[carenejeans]

I'm going to try to get back into Write Every Day and checking in here. I flaked out at the end of NOVEMBER for pete's sake and haven't really checked in since. And I was writing, that's the thing. Sheesh.

To start off with a bang, for Day 1 I wrote an alibi sentence! 8-)

[lferion]

1 March - Polished and posted a piece for the current SWG challenge 'Opposites Attract' Contemplated prompts for B2MEM2022, did some thinking about the new Fan Flashworks challenge.

Thank you both for hosting again!

[china_shop]

2nd: Wrote a few notes and had an idea for my fic, and then spent the rest of the day doomscrolling, oops!

[ysilme]

Hi, welcome to the WED challenge at our joint journal! *waves*
This is not a community in the typical sense on DW, as WED is also not having a permanent home, but is hosted by a different hoster in their personal journal (or second journal just for the challenge) each month. Every hoster is doing things a bit differently and might have different expectations or preferences, and we're generally a very laid back group of people linked by the desire to help each other with our writing journey, cheer each other on, and commiserate on our writing woes. The idea behind doing a daily challenge is to create a writing habit, but to what extend and in what way is everybody's own decision, but also to not create additional pressure of any kind. There are no obligations to check in or participate for any particular stretch of time, nor of interacting with the other participants, although you're very welcome to just comment on any entry or comment you feel like, and get to know people. But it's also perfectly fine just to come and leave your tally, no reaction or social interaction required - whatever works for you best, as this is what the community/challenge is about.
We also firmly believe in the importance of alibi sentences as well as writing just for yourself or for your own pleasure, and it is every participant's own choice what they count as writing for one day - fiction, nonfiction, blog entries, reviews, comments, diary entries, or the famous alibi sentences. It doesn't matter if you're writing the same alibi sentence every day - if that brings you even one fraction of a step closer to your next bit of your intended writing, or helps keeping you in a writing mindset, it counts. I've known weeks of this, and while I didn't produce anything worth keeping in those, just doing that helped me feel a little bit better about myself, a little bit less of a failure, and made it so much easier to get back into my next writing project, so it was a definitive win.
So yes, your sentence totally counts, and is progress! Congrats to that! :o)

At our joint account here, sylvanwitch is usually doing the comments while I'm doing the tallies, and all we ask for is what we wrote in the welcome entry: to please always leave your tally on the latest entry (otherwise I might miss it), and to state the date of your tally if it isn't the same date as the entry is for. Using terms like "yesterday" or "two days ago" is complicated when working over several time-zones as we're doing here; we're having New Zealand, Europe and North America to my knowledge, and possibly also more.

[sylvanwitch]

HI! (Imagine that in the high-pitched voice a teenaged girl uses when she sees a friend at the mall because although my normal speaking voice is low, that is, indeed, the octave I reach upon reuniting with someone I haven't seen in a while. :-)

YAY for so many worthy goals for the blustery month of March and GO YOU for doing work on two of those goals on Day 1. You rock! :-)

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! Words! YAY! :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck on your goals for March and GO YOU for working on those drabbles on Day 1. You're awesome! :-)

[sylvanwitch]

So, just an itty bit of work for you this month? (Lol! I mean, the NORMAL insane load you put on yourself!). I wish you many, many good words in March! And good luck on those open calls!

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck on finishing any and/or all of your unfinished fics. If there's anything we can do by way of encouragement, please let us know.

YAY for words on Day 1, and so many of them too!

[sylvanwitch]

Hello and welcome to the WED traveling show! :-)

I think ysilme covered all the technical bases and also offered the same warm welcome I do. If you do ever have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to one or both of us.

Congratulations on your alibi sentence! No matter how many or how few words you write down each day, it's the writing down of them that matters. Good luck in getting back into the daily habit! We're here for you! :-)