Write every day! - March 2022 - Day 2

[zwei_hexen]

I forgot to mention the daily entries will usually go up around midnight on CET, I hope that won't be a bother for anyone. (Ysilme)

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: badly_knitted, bluedreaming, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, luzula, phoenixfalls, regshoe, shadaras, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 2: china_shop

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ysilme here: I was too busy for more than an alibi sentence on my current WIP beyond lots of meta and a blog entry - but words are words, after all, and words were written. My goals for March are finishing a short WIP I commited to with the challenge, and hopefully also create some fanworks for Back to Middle-earth Month, including new inspiration for existing WIPs, or new parts for existing series started at older rounds of the yearly fest. I also have the next long chapter to write of a published WIP, and to work at my magnum opus WIP, but if I manage anything of either remains to be seen. ;op

sylvanwitch here: I moderated the student writing club today, and we modified a neat exercise from an old Writer's Digest, which was a big hit and led to yet another original short story start, with 521 words of story and notes for the rest of it.

Comments

[regshoe]

Day 2: 700 words of ghost fic!

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent work! Wooo-hooo! :-)

[badly_knitted]

March 2nd - Very hectic day, but I squeezed out 502 words, 2 doubles drabbles and some work on an existing fic.

[sylvanwitch]

Fantastic work, particularly for finding time to write those words in the midst of all the busyness! Go, you! *\o/*

[luzula]

I'm a bit tired, but I managed my usual 500 words! Total word count 23,200.

[sylvanwitch]

Wow! That's awesome, particularly given the tiredness. Go, you! :-)

[shadaras]

ysilme - Meta and blog entries totally count! *cheers you on*

and I hope you're doing well too, sylvanwitch! :)

Day 2: Finally commenting on my fffx gift, a bit of poking at zine fic, and going "...right okay" and dragging my head around to think about what I need to write for id pro quo. And a bunch of reading! :D

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much! I had a good writing day. :-)

And yay for a bunch of reading and every other awesome item on that list! Go, you! You rock!

[ysilme]

Thanks! :o) The unfortunate thing is that I'm using these to procrastinate from writing fic. ;op But the last few days have been so many ways of crazy I'm grateful I did manage to do some alibi sentences at least.
You sound quite producive as well, go you! *\O/*

[ljm]

Day 2: Missed day 1, but wrote 515 words on the second.

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, you're here now, and that's what counts--and WHAT a count! YAY for words--and so many of them! :-)

[ysilme]

Yay, good result! :o)

[chanter1944]

In with a similar tally to yesterday, 100-ish words and a handful of edits.

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent work--slow and steady wins the race! You rock!

[ysilme]

That's the way to go, well done! :o)

[phoenixfalls]

Mar 2nd: Just a single sentence, still just meeting my goal. . . but it was a whopping 31-word sentence today! \o/

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, that's more words than you'd have had if you hadn't written any, and that's what this community is all about. YAY!

[silveradept]

I need to check in for both Days 1 and 2, both spent writing plenty on this that are not fiction, but one of them is fiction commentary, and the other involves fictional worldviews, so they both count.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY, they absolutely count! As you know, we have a pretty flexible definition of words and how to count them. Good to have you here!

[bluedreaming]

ysilme: meta and a blog entry; that’s a lot! All the best with your goals!

sylvanwitch: the exercise sounds like it was really cool. Cheers for words!

Mar 2: a few sentences into the second part of the triple drabbles.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you kindly! And YAY for sentences--words are words, and you're writing them! YAY!

[sanguinity]

March 1: 170 words

March 2: 150 words

Goals for March: Same as ever, just showing up and wording words, and trusting that eventually I'll have something worth showing for it.

sylvanwitch, what was the writing exercise, can you share?

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for words! Slow and steady wins the race, I've found, particularly when I'm distracted and/or emotionally unsteady. I hope the writing is helping. *hugs*

The exercise was from Writer's Digest Jan/Feb 2021 edition, page 52. They'd had a contest earlier asking people to write the first sentence to a story that would relate to a photo prompt. The prompt photo featured four people holding what looked like a pool of energy (light swirls, sort of) at four more or less equidistant points. We each had to choose a sentence from the winning ten opening sentences and write something related to the sentence.

[cornerofmadness]

816 on the sapphic horror short (go be horrific story. You're meandering to the point)

351 on Digging Up Bones

[sylvanwitch]

Haha! I relate to your instructions to the horror story, for sure! And YAY for so many good words!

[yasaman]

Day 2: waiting for beta feedback before getting some more progress in on WIP 1, so switched over to write 1,312 words on WIP 2 today!

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, that's fantastic work! You're super productive! YAY!

[lferion]

2 March - poetic noodling on the Fan Flashworks Black and White challenge, the Tolkien Short Fan Works March prompts of New Life and Acrostic form, with some B2MEM ideas as well

[sylvanwitch]

Wow! I'm impressed by your range. That's awesome work! Brava/o!

[carenejeans]

Day 2: A bunch of research, followed by a bit of ruminating about what I might write about Leigh Brackett for an old-school print SF fanzine. Poking at the idea of some sort of comparison of one each of her SF, mystery and western novels... we'll see!

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck with noodling out what you're going to write. I always enjoy that part of the process, and I hope you do, too. YAY!

[china_shop]

yslime: Best of luck with your goals for the month! *pompoms*

sylvanwitch: Yay for the start of another short story -- that's awesome! (I'm curious about the exercise. :-)

3rd: I wrote a Dreamwidth post.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much!

I'm happy to share about the exercise, though it's a bit hard to explain. The exercise was from Writer's Digest Jan/Feb 2021 edition, page 52. They'd had a contest earlier asking people to write the first sentence to a story that would relate to a photo prompt. The prompt photo featured four people holding what looked like a pool of energy (light swirls, sort of) at four more or less equidistant points. We each had to choose a sentence from the winning ten opening sentences and write something related to the sentence.