Write every day! - July 2022 - Day 12
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zwei_hexenPSA: I'm changing posting times; I'm currently working (quite successfully) at improving my badly broken sleeping pattern so my old posting time doesn't work well any longer. In accordance with sylvanwitch I'm going to roughly post about 10-12 hours earlier, about noonish on CET.
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, bluedreaming, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 3:badly_knitted, bluedreaming, 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, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman,ysilme
Day 7:badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 8:badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 9:badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 10:badly_knitted, bluedreaming, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 11:badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 12:china_shop, 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: I was very tired when I sat down to write yesterday, aiming for an alibi sentence, but it still became 246 words of the new chapter. It was essentially rewriting and rephrasing parts I was already mostly satisfied with, so easy enough. ;op
sylvanwitch here: I looked over my "favorites" list on Duotrope to see what might be next for submissions and was reminded that I have to write a one-page synopsis of the weird western novella in order to submit it to a publisher in the UK (it was rejected by the publisher I'd originally written it for). I also added 270 words to "The Factory," which is nearing its conclusion.
sylvanwitch I'm going to roughly post about 10-12 hours earlier, about noonish on CET.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, bluedreaming, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 3:
badly_knitted, bluedreaming, 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, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman,ysilme
Day 7:
badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 8:
badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 9:
badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 10:
badly_knitted, bluedreaming, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme
Day 11:
badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme Day 12:
china_shop, 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: I was very tired when I sat down to write yesterday, aiming for an alibi sentence, but it still became 246 words of the new chapter. It was essentially rewriting and rephrasing parts I was already mostly satisfied with, so easy enough. ;opsylvanwitch here: I looked over my "favorites" list on Duotrope to see what might be next for submissions and was reminded that I have to write a one-page synopsis of the weird western novella in order to submit it to a publisher in the UK (it was rejected by the publisher I'd originally written it for). I also added 270 words to "The Factory," which is nearing its conclusion.
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Date: 2022-07-12 04:16 pm (UTC)Day 12: About 600 words, handwritten. Being in the office is a good thing, because apparently if I can't mess about on the internet when work is slow I will write fic in my notebook instead :P
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Date: 2022-07-12 06:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2022-07-12 04:45 pm (UTC)The I pottered about in the garden. Hopefully I'll have the tree removers booked soon.
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Date: 2022-07-12 06:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-12 08:01 pm (UTC)Thank you! I have actually completed my GYWO pledge! Anything I write from now on is a bonus.
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Date: 2022-07-12 08:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-12 09:31 pm (UTC)That's a shame, but you're still doing a lot of writing-related work, even if it's not producing many words. Maybe next year if your still doing editing you'd be better off with counting writing days instead of words.
There's always the chance of fanfic sneaking in of course, should inspiration hit. Fanfic is sneaky that way. ;)
Good luck with your editing and submitting! I hope you soon start getting things accepted for publication.
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Date: 2022-07-13 01:22 am (UTC)Day 12: Today I am grateful for fans who do all the work of collating references to things so that I can enter search terms and learn what places in a sprawling canon I need to revisit in order to do canon review. Also I have a rough idea of what I'm going to do with that story, probably, now that I've reminded myself of what was said in canon about the topic.
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Date: 2022-07-13 03:46 pm (UTC)YAY for fans who do that sort of work! And yay for canon research in the service of fanfiction!
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Date: 2022-07-16 01:18 pm (UTC)Yay for research success, particularly in this way, and for idea and plot building!
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Date: 2022-07-13 04:42 am (UTC)only 150 words on Digging Up Bones as today was just extra
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Date: 2022-07-13 03:47 pm (UTC)I hope your vacation is a good one and that it inspires more words in you! :-)
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Date: 2022-07-14 03:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-13 05:26 am (UTC)Jul 12: Today, thank goodness, I do not hate my story anymore. Still needs a chunk of work, sure, but whatever was happening last night seems to have passed. Celebrated by adding a little scene and having thoughts about what I'll need to add elsewhere to improve the whole. (Adding those things, however, is tomorrow's problem!)
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Date: 2022-07-13 03:48 pm (UTC)YAY for not hating your story! And YAY for adding words and figuring out what needs doing next. I'm so glad you're feeling better about your story!
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Date: 2022-07-16 01:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-16 02:06 pm (UTC)Well, this man being a miser, he was always interested in getting something for nothing, so he bade the miser to come in and make him some soup.
So the beggar did. He set the stone to boil, all the while talking about how wonderful the soup was going to be. The miser hung on his every word and watched very closely, eager to taste this miraculous soup.
"But you know what would make this soup really good?" asked the beggar. "A carrot! If only we had a carrot, then you would really see how amazing this soup can be! The soup is very good without it, of course, a carrot is in no way necessary! But one time I had a carrot to put in it, and my goodness! You have never tasted such soup!"
Well, the miser was perhaps able to spare a carrot...
And so it went, the beggar talking up his wonderful soup made from just a single stone, and meanwhile wheedling out of the miser a marrow bone, an onion, some potatoes, some bay leaves...
Finally the soup was finished. The miser was very impressed. It was so tasty! And to think, it was made with just a single stone!
Of course the miser couldn't leave it at that, just give the beggar a bed and send him on his way in the morning! No, he must have this wonderful stone for himself! This wonderful stone that made soup out of nothing!
The beggar did not like to part with his stone, as it was the last thing he had from his mother, but finally he consented to sell it to the miser and left the house poorer a magic soup stone, but with a tidy little bag of coins in his pocket.
Of course, as so often happens, the day came when he had spent all the coins and he found himself destitute again. Hungry and seeking a bed for the night, he spied a handsome stone by the side of the road...
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It's one of my favorite folk stories.
Anyway, in this analogy, my brain would be the miser insisting that it has no words! No words! And certainly none to spare for my story, no, no! While my craftier Write Every Day self is the beggar, insisting that we don't need any words, no one is asking anyone to write, of course not! But I just happen to have this lovely magical
stonealibi sentence here! We'll just put that down and call it quits -- but you know what would make this alibi sentence especially wonderful...?(no subject)
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Date: 2022-07-14 04:37 am (UTC)thanks!
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Date: 2022-07-14 08:35 am (UTC)(And ooops, we both made a blunder but it came out right: I had you already in my tally listed for the 13th, as I'm keeping you one day in advance in my prep txt file, like all the regulars, and you commented on the before-last entry (likely due to my schedule change). *g* )
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Date: 2022-07-14 08:40 am (UTC)♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2022-07-14 08:31 am (UTC)That is for the 12th, I assume? You didn't state the day and your comment is dated for the 13th, but you also commented on the entry for the 13th, and as the word count is different this seem to be two different tallies.
Please remember to always comment to the most recent entry and to state the day of your tally if it's not for the date mentioned in the post, thank you!
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