Write every day! - July 2022 - Day 6

[zwei_hexen]

Tally:
Welcome post

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

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

Day 3: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 4: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 5: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 6: china_shop

Day 7: mific

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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ysilme here: Today's quote was chosen by Sylvanwitch who also took the pic. As for my tally, there wasn't much writing time today with an addtitional three hours training session I needed to do, so I started out with an alibi sentence and ended up editing another small chunk of the WIP. Nearly no new words as there wasn't much to change, though. ^^

sylvanwitch here: I had another long day of adulting today, but I came home determined to submit *something*, so I investigated a magazine, wrote a cover letter, and submitted one of my favorite stories, which has been rejected at four other places. Maybe it's what this publication is looking for. I figure it can't hurt to try, anyway. So that was my writing for today.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

July 6th - a 500 word challenge ficlet.

Then 2 hours in the garden, wrestling an out of control rambling rose. So far I think the rose is winning, there doesn't seem to be any less of it than there was three days ago =/

[sylvanwitch]

I follow a writer and gardener on Twitter who swears that roses are the devil's own plant, and I think she's probably onto something there. ;-) Good luck wrestling that rose into submission!

Also, GO YOU for getting in words when you've got the infernal project out in the garden going on. *grins*

[shadaras]

Day 6: beta-reading <3

[zwei_hexen]

YAY! I like beta-reading as fandom community-building. Go, you!

[ljm]

Day 6: three (3) alibi sentences.

[sylvanwitch]

Three is more than none! Yay!

[sanguinity]

Today's quote: the difference between the right word and the wrong word is one of the reasons I like using OneLook's reverse thesaurus so much -- it's pretty good at taking the almost right word (or phrase!), and managing to come up with the right one that I had been groping for, but couldn't bring up to the surface.

ysilme: I like it when an alibi sentence multiplies!

sylvanwitch: Well done on the adulting and good luck with the submission!

Jul 6: 340 words, still attempting to bridge from the new to the old. Not there yet, but perhaps soon?

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you!

And good luck to you with the bridge! I have every confidence it will be brilliant!

[ysilme]

...is one of the reasons I like using OneLook's reverse thesaurus so much -- it's pretty good at taking the almost right word (or phrase!), and managing to come up with the right one that I had been groping for, but couldn't bring up to the surface.
I hear you on that! TBH this is something I'm sometimes struggling with the most in writing in English: I know that the word I'm using or which I found isn't right, but I'm unable to judge which alternative might be the one I need, as I'm not familiar enough with them in the given context, and/or my native British speaking beta disagrees (I generally attempt to write British English), or the word that's most suitable just feels wrong to me without me being able to explain why. ;op As I also said in a WED conversation last month? to somebody (I'm afraid I can't remember, it might have even been you *blush* ); I used to not care so much about these fine details, as my English wasn't as good as it is now, and I was just glad to know it wasn't off-putting to the readers. But with increasing proficiency and vocabularly also came increasing insecurity as well as perfectionism.XD
Good luck for successful bridging today! *\O/*
Edit: just read your update, yay!!!

[sakana17]

Day 6: Alibi edits.

[ysilme]

Alibi for the rule! ♥

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! You're getting it done, even if it's painful (re: icon). You rock!

[cornerofmadness]

love the pic and the quote.

good luck with the publication. I need to submit a few things this weekend too.

Day 6 215 words in adding to a scene in the trailer park story and 800 words on Digging Up Bones at long last

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! It's a long-shot, but I really love this story, and I want it to find a home.

YAY for getting back to the project of your heart after finishing the anthology story!

[marvelouscity]

Day 6 - alibi sentence.

[ysilme]

♥ *hugs*

[sylvanwitch]

You are making words--making the habit and the time to write those words. No matter how few they may seem, the habit is what counts. You're awesome!

[chanter1944]

A little work on one project, some editing across another one, and some journaling off DW for day 6. :P

[sylvanwitch]

I like that you spread out your tasks--that's great! Go, you!

[lferion]

6 July - 2 Haiku, which I will either use for Fan Flashworks or Scribbles and Drabbles

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, excellent! YAY!

[yasaman]

Day 6: 501 words on WIP 1, and 104 words on WIP 2!

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent progress! YAY!

[regshoe]

Day 6: Re-drafted the short fic I wrote earlier this week, 1,300 words.

[sylvanwitch]

Wow, excellent word count! You rock!

[luzula]

Go you both for squeezing some writing into busy days!

On the 6th, I wrote 300 words on my longfic. Total wordcount 52,200. Could have written more but I left it until too late in the day, I won't make that mistake today...

[ysilme]

Thank you! I hope the time-management works better for you today!

[china_shop]

7th: 536 words, plus some Youtube research, plus a couple of pages of notes from a phone beta on my auction fic. (Why is plot so difficult? /whine)

[ysilme]

*hugs* *sends help to wrestle down the plot muse* ♥

[ysilme]

Yay for getting all that done despite the adulting! ***hugs*** I'm keeping my fingers firmly crossed for the story! ♥

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you, my friend. It's one of my favorite stories, and I'd love for it to find a home.

I hope RL gives you more writing time today, if that's what you'd most like. *hugs*

[trobadora]

I missed a few check-ins, but I've written a little every day (3rd to 7th), mostly still random worldbuilding snippets for a thing I'm not writing right now but that I hope to write some day.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for writing every day and for words towards a new future project. I hope you're enjoying this part of the process and that it's luring you onward to more wordsmithing. :-)