Write every day! - July 2022 - Day 7

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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, trobadora, 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, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 6:badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman,ysilme

Day 7: china_shop, mific, trobadora

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ysilme here: 230 words while editing another part of the WIP. Today's quote choice and image are by me; I made them a few years ago already, one of my favourite ever writing quotes.

sylvanwitch here: I researched more submissions venues today and found a themed call that might work for a story I have only in its first draft and which is 2000 words too long for the publication. So, I spent considerable time editing it today, getting 3/4s of the way through it and cutting out more than 1000 words. I don't know if I'll find more words to cut, but as this is only my first pass edit, I may very well do so. The deadline is Monday, however, so I have my work cut out for me, no pun intended.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

July 7th - 514 words, a 500 word challenge ficlet and a smidge of editing on two ficlets.

Also wrestled down three more massive rose branches and chopped them up.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for success in both writing and rose-wrestling! I wish you thorn-free tomorrows in both endeavors. :-)

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! With luck I'll be wrestling the rose again tomorrow, still another 6 or 7 branches to pull down, but progress is being made.

[sylvanwitch]

What a lovely image and a fantastic quote! I can see what it's a favorite of yours! :-)

[ysilme]

Thank you! ♥ And good luck with the word cutting, too. 2000k sounds a LOT! *hugs*

[shadaras]

Would it be possible to put the writing quotes in plaintext either above or below the image? A lot of the time I need to squint at the image to see the quote properly (due to the contrast between text+background not always being great, among other things), and I've got pretty good eyesight. ^^;

ysilme - Don't you love when editing adds words? xD Nice work! :D And it is a good quote, too; I love Carl Sagan. <3

sylvanwitch - Oh wow, that's a lot of editing! Nice job with the cutting so far, and good luck with the oncoming deadline! <3

Day 7: Finished beta-reading for my friend, and wrote a 1k exchange fill!

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! And yay for so many words! Go, you!

(I’ll let ysilme answer your question about the quote text. Ysilme does our posting.)

[ysilme]

Thank you!
About the quote/image and readability: I'm using DW for image hosting for the first time, and the descripiton of the image which also contains the quote doesn't seem to appear when acutally using the image, although I've got no idea why/for what purpose the description then is intended; I'm rather going to put them in the alt-part of the image from now on for accessibility reasons.
However, isn't clicking on the image working for you? The images in the entries are just thumbnails as I don't want to spam people's reading lists with larger images. I forget to put in the link of such an image on occasion but I just checked and all seem to work; and even then right-clicking should bring you to the original size.

Edit: I just tested something and realised onyl now that the alt-text of images isn't displayed when hovering over the image. It used to be for HTML code, although how long ago I can't say as I didn't pay attention to the resut for a long time. ;op
I'll put the quote also in the entry text if you can't access the original image size.

[shadaras]

...it simply does not occur to me to click on the images? They're a size that seems like they could be full-sized images? xD; I see the disconnect between my thinking and yours!

[ysilme]

*g*TBH I'd click on any image if I have difficulties discerning it, which is often the case as I'm visually impaired. ^^ Are you good with clicking on the images or would you still prefer having the quote in writing?

[shadaras]

xD It's easier for me to initially parse that there are quotes on the images if they're also present in plaintext, tbh. Like, once I realise that there's a quote, I can read it? I just... don't notice most of the time. ^^

[ljm]

Day 7: Four sentences.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay! That's more than yesterday, if I'm not mistaken, which means progress! But even if it were only ONE sentence, it would still be great because you're keeping your hand in. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with the editing. I added about 140 words to the trailer park editing and got 380 one Digging Up Bones

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you!

YAY for more words! I hope the writing (on all fronts) is going smoothly for you today.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[mific]

Managed 864 words today on the Captain America fic. Mostly dialogue, which is easiest for me. It's 8 July where I am.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for so many words! And YAY for dialogue! I love writing dialogue too!

[sanguinity]

That's a good quote. It's just stunning to me that someone can write a bunch of words in a book, and I, years later, can pick up the book and find out a ton of thoughts this stranger I'll never meet had. I can do it even after they're dead. Truly mind-blowing.

ysilme: Hurrah, words!

sylvanwitch: Ouch, 2000 words is a lot to cut. Good job on the first 1K, and wishing you the best on finding another 1K!

Jul 7: Spent time editing chapter 7!

[sylvanwitch]

It *IS* mindblowing, and it's the chief reason I pursued the PhD and then became an English teacher--I love the (sometimes hazardous) intersections of an author's life and their work. I love grounding literature in its time and place (and also acknowledge the value in cutting it free of those constraining variables). Anyway, I'm rambling, but this is to say THIS, SO MUCH!

Thank you for the good luck--I'm going to need it!

And YAY for editing! YAY!

[marvelouscity]

Checking in for day 7. A few sentences.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay! Words! That's awesome! I do truly hope the writing comes easier for you if that's what you'd like (I don't want to make assumptions--maybe you're out having a fabulous time with friends, for instance).

[marvelouscity]

thanks! man, I wish I could say that I haven't been writing because I've been out having fantastic adventures ... but no, it's just been hard lately. but I'm still showing up so I guess that's what counts. or something lol

[yasaman]

Day 7: 332 words on WIP 1, and 202 words on WIP 2 today!

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! Words! And so MANY of them! You rock!

[regshoe]

Day 7: Back to the White Cockades fic—450 words, and I think I have a better idea of where the story is going from this point onwards.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, excellent news! And great word count, too! Good luck in your progress with it.

[lferion]

7 July - 120 words on TRSB. Kind of disjoint words, but words nonetheless

[sylvanwitch]

Words, indeed! Eventually, you can smooth out the rough bits if need be. I'm glad you got words down!

[garonne]

Day 6: 250 words

Day 7: 620 words

That quote has become my new favourite quote!

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent work on both days but especially on Day 7!

[china_shop]

♥ ♥ ♥

Day 8: 143 words on the fic, a draft of a meta post, and a ton of dishes. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

YAY on all three counts, but an especially big yay for doing the dishes! (That's one of those depressingly regular chores that I do but only grudgingly.)

[luzula]

Sounds like you were both productive, although sylvanwitch, that editing sounds a bit painful!

I got 500 words on my longfic, total wordcount 52,800.

[sylvanwitch]

It IS painful but also illuminative. And, of course, I've saved the earlier draft in case this doesn't work out. ;-)

Wow, excellent daily quota and overall wordcount too! YAY!

July 7 check-in

[the_siobhan]

Almost forgot to check in! I did about 150 words yesterday.

Re: July 7 check-in

[sylvanwitch]

YAY! Excellent work! Go, you! :-)