Write every day - Day 18

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Tally:

Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cittasette, cornerofmadness, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (13/14 so far)
Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, shopfront, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (14/15 so far)
Day 3: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (14/15 so far)
Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (12/15)
Day 5: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (12/15)
Day 6: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (12/15)
Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (13/15)
Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (12/15)
Day 9: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (13/15)
Day 10: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (13/16)
Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme (14/16)
Day 12: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme, yantantether (15/16)
Day 13: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme, yantantether (14/16)
Day 14: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, shopfront, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme, yantantether (14/16)
Day 15: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme, yantantether (14/16)
Day 16: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme, yantantether (13/16)
Day 17: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kara_mckay, navaan, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, trobadora, ysilme, yantantether (14/16)
Day 18: china_shop

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ysilme here: 145 words all in all for me for yesterday. Today I haven't started proper writing yet, but I've spent a surprising amount of time on the B2MeM preparations - finally chose my 10 (not 15, my bad) allowed bingo cards, getting the text-only versions and bringing them in a practical order so I'll know at one glance which prompts go with what number and so on. Because I know myself well enough to know that I'll be so crazy stupid enthusiastic enough to try to use them all if possible. (Ok, to be completely honest I procrastinated like whoa to distract me from some stupid shit going on at my volunteeer job. I'm not involved or affected, but people I care for are, involving major changes for them no matter how it ends. But at least the proctrastination was productive. Several plot bunnies went off to make nests for breeding.)

sylvanwitch here: 1036 on the ambush project. I crossed the 40K line today. Phew!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

So you know how the day before yesterday I wrote meta about why the issues with the latest Miraculous Ladybug episode are insurmountable and therefore I'm writing it out of the canon?

And then yesterday (with assistance from later the day before) I wrote fic addressing those issues as though the episode IS canon?

...today I outlined a sequel to that fic.

[sylvanwitch]

Some might call you 'obsessed.' I just call you a fan. :-) Go you! Write like the wind! (But remember to eat and sleep, too, yeah?)

[alexseanchai]

*waves Cheetos, munches*

Thing is that meta point blank says I do NOT want to engage the emotional consequences of that episode's events. But that's exactly what I'm doing!

...also I am not currently spending forty hours a week, or indeed any hours a week, exchanging labor for currency. That helps.

[kara_mckay]

I'm writing a post about a book I read when I was a kid. Feeling a little under the weather today.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling poorly. I hope that it passes and you feel like yourself again soon. What book, if I may ask?

[kara_mckay]

Oh, I read the article about queer representation in fiction over the years linked in the new metafandom, and it got me thinking about the Rose of the Prophet series that came out in '89. To the present day reader, it leaves a lot to be desired. At the time, I found it absolutely mind blowing. I'll link when I'm finished droning at length about it if you want.

[sylvanwitch]

I'd love to read your thoughts. I've never heard of the series, and now I'm really curious!

[kara_mckay]

OMG, I am so done with this post! https://kara-mckay.dreamwidth.org/33226.html It is long, it contains an image, and it will not let me use a cut tag! As far as it goes, my flist is pretty laid back, but damn, this is a long post to throw out there without a cut.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, hon, I'm sorry to hear that about the volunteer job. I completely understand how upsetting/unsettling it can be even though you're not directly affected. I've had similar sorts of things with my volunteer gig. I hope things work out for everyone you care about. *hugs*

[ysilme]

*hugs back* The worst part is nobody knows yet what's really happening, which of course creates horrible gossip, which in turn is going to make things even worse. I find it difficult not being able to counter the gossip with facts or the truth, although I at least try to sow the seeds of reason and fairness, if you could call it that.
Congrats on going over 40k with the ambus project! *twirls you* I love how the project got that name, too.

[china_shop]

19th: 148 words on the new flashfic.

[sylvanwitch]

I'm thoroughly impressed with your steady productivity, particularly in the face of your pain. Congrats on keeping on keeping on. :-)

[china_shop]

Thanks! <3 I really don't want to lose momentum. *clings to writing mojo, despite everything*

[cornerofmadness]

Holy crap to the ambush project and good luck wih the B2MeM cards


I got 507 on mischief christmas.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words! Is this an original project? (I remember you said something about needing to focus on original stuff.)

[cornerofmadness]

Yes. I've moved on to original stuff. I have two holiday open calls I want to try for so I need to get moving

[sierranovembr]

Day 18 I wrote 590 words on Bingo fill #3. I am thrilled with that - I started with the dreaded blank white page. :D

Can I ask what the “ambush” project means? That’s a fantastic word count!

[sylvanwitch]

That's a fantastic word count from a dead start--or ANY start! :-) Yay!

I call it the ambush project because it ambushed me while I was writing a different long original WIP. I was struggling with that WIP (the lesbian space opera, in my head) when I read a prompt from someone that got me thinking about a little story in a direction different from any I'd wandered before. I thought it would be a quick little thing--have some fun, shake something loose, because I was struggling on the LSO. Well...you can see how that ultimately worked out.

[auroracloud]

Sylvan, your ambush project is now officially within the eligibility of the novel category of the Hugo Awards!


Good luck with your bingo cards and plans, Ysilme! Productive procrastination is fun! :-) Hope you end up with a big bouncy fertile warren of plot bunnies!

I was tired and Busy With Stuff, so I didn't write a lot, but I managed to get back to one of my unfinished ficlets and write 122 more words on that, so yay.

[sylvanwitch]

It was supposed to be a fun little lark, a short story in a genre I hadn't written in before just to shake things up for me on the long WIP I was working on at the time. *sighs*

And yay for words, especially the kind that come when you're tired and have been busy! :-)

[talkingtothesky]

I wrote on Day 18. Both of you hosts are doing really well!

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much! And you're doing well, too, writing regularly. I hope it's a good feeling for you. :-)

[alexcat]

Been so busy writing, I forgot... 569 this day.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for more words!