zwei_hexen | Write every day! - July 2022

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ysilme here: 45 words on the last chapter of the WIP, plus pondering my bingo card and noting down ideas for possible fills, and seeing which unused older plotbunnies might fit. I'm still surprised how much I'm movitaved by this. ;op

sylvanwitch here: 454 words on a new original flashfic. The idea came to me the other night in the shower, and I made a pretty thorough outline to get the whole thing down. Now, it's just a matter of translating that into effective horror prose. My plan is to bring it in under 1K. So far, so good.

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From:

regshoe

Day 18: Started re-drafting the Flight of the Heron/White Cockades crossover, 1,200 words.

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sylvanwitch

YAY for next drafts and for so many new words too!

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ysilme

Yay for drafts, and a great word count! *\o/* I'm unfamiliar with White Cockade, is it another book of the period? Googling for it brought only rose varieties without further detail. *g*

From:

regshoe

Yes, it's another historical novel about the '45—written by Edward Prime-Stevenson in the 1880s. Here it is!

From:

badly_knitted

July 18th - 723 words. A drabble, 3 double drabbles, and a tiny bit of editing on a fic for posting.

I'm quite comfortable indoors, but outside is stifling and airless. Definitely a day for staying in. Not that I've achieved much. It's not the weather for it. I'm not overheating, but I still feel drained.

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sylvanwitch

Ugh, that's just the worst kind of weather, and I wish you a cool front pronto! I think your plan of just doing as little as you need to is a good one.

Also, excellent word count! :-)

From:

badly_knitted

Thanks. Writing was a struggle today. Even though I wasn't over hot indoors, my brain felt like all the cogs were sticking. Coming up with ideas for my Monday drabbles was ridiculously hard.

Got my window open now the sun's set but it's not making much difference.

One more day, then the weather is set to drop nearly 20 degrees.

From:

ysilme

Go you, that's a great word count for miserable weather! Good to hear you're comfortable enough inside. I'm still comfortable, too, but that won't keep if the heat continues; once it no longer cools down at night we're going up to 27, 28°C inside, too. We're living in a very well-insulated woodframe house - but it's insulated against cold, so build to keep the warmth inside. The positive side is the walls don't store heat, so once it's cool/breezy at night we get the temperature down quickly enough. But the negative side is that there's also no period of the walls still emitting coldness so the difference to outside isn't as large as it's with the typical brick houses of our region. Again on the plus side living in this house has made us both much less susceptible to heat drain, and we deal with heat and hot nights much better than before. I used to not being able to sleep well over 21°C, and not at all over 25°C. Now I'm not even sweating at 27°C and am still under the coverlet.
I hope it'll soon get better again for you!

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badly_knitted

It's 38C here right now, and my room is starting to heat up. It's a 1930s brick house so it doesn't hold the heat well, which isn't great in winter, but is helpful in hot weather. I'll probably retreat downstairs in an hour or so. It's cooler down there. I've left the curtains closed for the last 2 days to block the heat out. It's still making my feel lethargic though.

From:

ysilme

Good grief, that's really extreme, particularly for Britain! *gentle, non-warming hugs*
What really helps is short, lukewarm showers particularly when sweating, and having a nearly wet small towel or dishtowel to lay in your neck, on your head or over your naked feet to cool down, or putting the feet in a basin of lukewarm water. We're getting all kinds of tips all the time, but I found these do really work. Stay safe!

From:

badly_knitted

I haven't had a working shower since the pipes burst 12 years ago *sigh* Wet cloths are very helpful though. I'm turning off my computer in a minute to retreat downstairs with a book. It's much cooler down there.

From:

luzula

ysilme: glad you found a good motivation tool! : )

I wrote my 500 words despite there being small kids around for a lot of the day! \o/ Total wordcount: 56,400.

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sylvanwitch

That's excellent progress! YAY! Go, you! You are a champion focus-er! *grins*

From:

ysilme

Thank you! Congrats to a great word count and writing happening under these circumstances, too!

From:

shadaras

Day 18: Alibi sentence

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sylvanwitch

Yay for words, especially if you’re not feeling them!

From:

sanguinity

Jul 18: A page and a half of longhand in the hammock, in between watching birds. (A very handsome flicker landed nearby and ate some Oregon grape -- of course it needed my full admiration while it did so!)

From:

regshoe

Of course! Aww, flickers are beautiful—that sounds like an ideal way to write :D

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sanguinity

He was very dashing, black and white with a red moustache and red underneath his tail! And it was a very nice hour indeed, except for the mosquito bites. :-D

From:

ysilme

That sounds quite comfortable for writing! XD Is a flicker a kind of wood pecker? I'm unfamiliar with the term and the dictionary isn't very helpful for once.

From:

sanguinity

Yes, it's part of the woodpecker family! It was a male red-shafted flicker, much like this one.

From:

sylvanwitch

I love flickers! We mostly have the Northern variety hereabouts. They're very LOUD when they want to be. *grins* YAY for words in the hammock!

From:

marvelouscity

Day 18 - reworked a couple of beats in the outline.

From:

sylvanwitch

Excellent progress! YAY!

From:

cornerofmadness

Day 18

100 words on Digging Up Bones

770 words of original nonsense

From:

ysilme

Great word count, go you! Original nonsense sounds fun. ^^

From:

cornerofmadness

thanks

From:

sylvanwitch

Fantastic! YAY for nonsense! Sometimes the brain just needs to get it all out, yeah?

From:

cornerofmadness

sometimes it does

From:

china_shop

*cheers you both on* You both sound so productive, yay!

19th: 837 words, and I've finished fixing up most of the earlier to-fix things. (Oh, except for one I just thought of. Note to self.) Now it's all forward and onward to the end! *fingers crossed*

From:

ysilme

So do you, yay! *\O/*

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sylvanwitch

That's fantastic! YAY! And thank you! *crosses fingers with you*

From:

yasaman

Day 18: just 242 words on WIP 1 today! the night got away from me and now it is bedtime!

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sylvanwitch

Time can be tricksy that way, can't it? YAY for words!

From:

lferion

18 July -- today was a day filled with driving, but I have managed an amnesty sentence, and a great deal of thinking about Story while I was driving. Hopefully I will be able to turn thoughts into words before I forget how they fit together.

From:

ysilme

Good to hear writing happened, no matter how little of it was written down. I find driving very productive in that regard, too, but mostly can't remember when I've got leisure to write it down, so I'm trying to make a stop and start the recording app on my phone in such cases to catch my thoughts.