zwei_hexen: Sketched feather with text: Write every day Ysilme Sylvanwitch (Default)
[personal profile] zwei_hexen
Gull flying on a blue sky, with the quote by Jane Yolen saying "Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up."

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] ljm, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] mific, [personal profile] regshoe, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 2: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] ljm, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] marvelouscity, [personal profile] regshoe, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 3: [personal profile] china_shop

Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.

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[personal profile] ysilme here: Today's quote is quite fitting for WED, I think. ^^
Again, I need yet to put down words today, as again my usual writing time was productive but yielded no actual words. I did end up with 140 words yesterday after posting the tally, so there's that. Off to exercise those muscles now! ^^ Edit: Rewrote the first part of my current WIP chapter, adding 228 words to my tally. (Why is it sometimes so hard to just sit down and work at what you're supposed to work? *sigh* )

[personal profile] sylvanwitch here: We had a day of hiking and picnicking planned, so I tried to squeeze some words in earlier in the day. I wrote and then deleted 60 words on the hell disco story, and I also researched a couple of submissions venues to see if I have a story that might fit their themes. (Probably not.)

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Date: 2022-07-03 10:37 pm (UTC)
badly_knitted: (Jack - Big Smile)
From: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Flex those words!

July 3rd - 500 words, 3 drabbles and a double drabble.

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Date: 2022-07-04 12:37 am (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
Excellent work! YAY!

*flexes* *goes to eat pie instead*

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Date: 2022-07-04 09:46 am (UTC)
badly_knitted: (Jack - Big Smile)
From: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Ooooh, pie! *grabs plate and fork*

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Date: 2022-07-04 12:31 am (UTC)
shadaras: A phoenix with wings fully outspread, holidng a rose and an arrow in its talons. (Default)
From: [personal profile] shadaras
I missed yesterday's post somehow!

Day 2: A few paragraphs of fic

Day 3: editing my minibang fic

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Date: 2022-07-04 12:37 am (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
That's okay--we know you're good for it! *grins* YAY for writing and editing! YAY!

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Date: 2022-07-04 12:49 am (UTC)
shadaras: A phoenix with wings fully outspread, holidng a rose and an arrow in its talons. (Default)
From: [personal profile] shadaras
Yeah, I'm not worried. :) I'm just surprised that I missed the post somehow. xD

<3

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Date: 2022-07-04 03:07 am (UTC)
chanter1944: a bright blue sky and fluffy clouds (Wisconsin summer: boundless friendly sky)
From: [personal profile] chanter1944
637 words (!!!) for day 3. A very little work on one project, and a fill for the Wisteria Drabble Auction that went kerboom on me in the best way. :) It was meant to be a double drabble, but then it grew. :D

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:40 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
YAY for word explosions! You rock! :-)

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Date: 2022-07-05 03:29 am (UTC)
chanter1944: a cream-colored yellow Labrador lying at the top of a staircase, one paw draped over the top step (mellow yellow)
From: [personal profile] chanter1944
XD Thank you!

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Date: 2022-07-04 03:16 am (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
Re the quote, my therapist used to say (about writing every day) that if you show up for the muse, the muse will show up for you.

[personal profile] ysilme: re your question about why it's so hard... For me, sometimes it's simply that I need more musing-on-it time, and the words won't word until I've done enough thinking about it. But then sometimes it's the wording that gets the thoughts flowing, so... *shrug*

[personal profile] sylvanwitch: Words that you delete are still words! Good job getting that in even on a busy day!


Jul 3: 330 words, working on the bridge from the new scene to the older material.

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:40 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
Thank you! And go you on writing that bridge! I hope the words are flowing for you. :-)

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Date: 2022-07-04 04:02 am (UTC)
ljm: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ljm
Day 3: 407 words of a silly fandom thing.

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:40 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
YAY! Words on silliness are so much fun! YAY!

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Date: 2022-07-04 04:37 am (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Day 3 538 words on the trailer park story

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:41 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
YAY! Go, you! You're going to make the deadline!

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Date: 2022-07-05 04:19 am (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
thanks. I'm hoping.

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:02 am (UTC)
yasaman: picture of jasmine flower, with text yasaman (Default)
From: [personal profile] yasaman
Day 3: 445 words on WIP 1, and 508 words on WIP 2 today!

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:41 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
Wow! Fantastic word counts on both! YAY!

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:54 am (UTC)
ysilme: Oldfashioned round typewriter keys. (Typewriter keys)
From: [personal profile] ysilme
Yay for hiking and picknicking! And even tough without words to keep, you seem to have been prolific enough on the writing side as well!

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:41 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
Thank you, my friend. I hope the words flowed for you eventually in a way that was satisfying (or at least not frustrating). *hugs*

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Date: 2022-07-04 06:01 am (UTC)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
[personal profile] ysilme: Why is it sometimes so hard to just sit down and work at what you're supposed to work? *sigh*
Ha, I know. Brains -- so unhelpful sometimes! (Congrats on working on your WIP chapter, though! Go you!) <3

[personal profile] sylvanwitch: I wrote and then deleted 60 words on the hell disco story
I know that feeling. At least now you know what not to do? I hope the hiking and picnicking was fun! <3

4th: 868 words on my WIP. \o/ Sending chunks to a friend as I go is really motivating. :-) (Also had lunch in the sun with my partner, which was really lovely, especially since it's supposed to rain for the rest of the week.)

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:43 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
Thank you for the commiseration. I think it's that I didn't really feel like writing yesterday, but I "had to," so I did, and then I realized that wasn't at all the direction the story wanted to take, so I deleted them. I just didn't want to accidentally start a THIRD WiP by writing something as an alibi that turned into a story, since that seems to be the way things are going these days.

Also, YAY! That's SUCH a great word count! AND YAY for motivating friends and friendly motivation and for lunch in the sun with your partner. YAY!

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Date: 2022-07-04 08:44 pm (UTC)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
I just didn't want to accidentally start a THIRD WiP by writing something as an alibi that turned into a story, since that seems to be the way things are going these days.

Hee! Entirely understandable. Your alibi sentences are super productive. *g*

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Date: 2022-07-04 06:16 am (UTC)
regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)
From: [personal profile] regshoe
Day 3: 550 words, which didn't come easily—I think I'm still feeling out what the characters are doing and how they'll react in the situation I've put them in, but it's progress.

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:43 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
That IS progress, and it's especially good given the reluctance of them...I know the feeling and can definitely commiserate. Good luck in figuring out the next bit. :-)

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Date: 2022-07-04 06:47 am (UTC)
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
From: [personal profile] luzula
Well, good job to you both for getting some words out! [personal profile] garonne and I both wrote on the 3rd, though not much--it was at the end of a long day of touristing.

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:44 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
Thank you! And good job getting words in given your itinerary! I hope you're having a lovely time!

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Date: 2022-07-04 07:28 am (UTC)
marvelouscity: (Default)
From: [personal profile] marvelouscity
Checking in for day 3. Didn't get a lot done but got a little done.

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:44 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
A little is more than none, so GO YOU! :-)

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Date: 2022-07-04 08:03 am (UTC)
lferion: Art of pink gillyflower on green background (Default)
From: [personal profile] lferion
3 July -- 1300 words on the TRSB! 500ish on detailed notes and background, 800ish on actual prose. I'm kind of amazed.

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Date: 2022-07-04 05:44 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
YAY! That's fantastic! Congrats on the wonderful progress! YAY! *\o/*

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