Write every day! - July 2022 - Day 21

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sylvanwitch is going to travel for the next few days, so replies to your comments and tally reports might be delayed.


“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” — Annie Proulx

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, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 9: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 10: badly_knitted, bluedreaming, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 11: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 12: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 13: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 14: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 15:: badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 16: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne,lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, mific, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 17: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 18: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 19: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 20: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 21:

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: The image and the choice of today's quote are by me. For day 20, after a miserably hot day and a training session I had to go to, I wrote an alibi sentence evolving into 257 words I'll be deleting again as they're no good. ;op

sylvanwitch here: My house is in total chaos, but I sat down and worked on the flashfic some more. I did a full edit and tightened it up a lot, but it's still about 40 words over 1K and I need an ending (maybe one or two sentences). I'm going to use tomorrow's long drive to percolate ideas for the final lines. Meanwhile, I'd say I added and subtracted 200 or so words.

Comments

[china_shop]

21st: half a Dreamwidth post and 1100 words on the WIP. :-)

[ysilme]

Go you, that's a lovely word count! *\O/*

[sylvanwitch]

OUTSTANDING progress! Go, you! Wooooooo-hooooo!

[ljm]

Day 21: A couple hours of editing, and a few hundred new words for scene 15.

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent work! YAY! YAY! YAY!

[garonne]

Looking forward to reading it!

[ljm]

Thanks :)

I know I've kind of gone AWOL again, but I do have a pretty long scene that is close to completion, where the pace picks up a little more. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you!

[regshoe]

sylvanwitch, I hope you have a nice time on your travels!

Day 21: 1,200 words of re-drafting, and I've reached the end of the first chapter. I think I'll try to divide the fic into chapters as I go this time, rather than leaving it to the very end as I've done before.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much!

That’s fantastic progress you’re making!

I have also learned the hard way about dividing things into chapters as I go, so I appreciate what you’ve said here. :-)

[luzula]

Aww, sounds like you both did a good job managing any writing at all!

I did my usual 500 words; total wordcount 57,800.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! 😁

And excellent, steady progress, as usual for you! Yay!

[badly_knitted]

July 21st - 528 words. A 500 word challenge ficlet and tiny edits to two fics.

[sylvanwitch]

Terrific work, as usual! :-)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you =)

[shadaras]

Day 21: Not quite 3k, because it's battleshipex time and everyone is ridiculous about that exchange-game. xD

[sylvanwitch]

Woooooooo-hoooooooooooo! *\o/*. Look at you go! Awesome!

[sanguinity]

ysilme: Even when you don't keep the words, you're that much closer to words you will keep!

sylvanwitch: Have a good drive, and may the perfect final lines come to you!

Jul 21: Another few paragraphs in the hammock at lunch, accompanied by a hummingbird who was fascinated by my bright orange top.

[regshoe]

You have the best companions for your writing :D

[sanguinity]

There was a hummingbird nest two houses down that fledged two babies this spring; we kept a protective eye on it the entire time there were eggs and then nestlings in it. No telling if this was one of the babies, but I had warm protective feelings about it in any case.

[regshoe]

:O A hummingbird nest, that's so cool! Aww, I hope this was one of the babies, coming back to say hi after you watched over it.

[ysilme]

Yay for continued hammock writing! This should become the default summer/hot weather writing! XD (I can't do it myself, though; I'm left-handed and can't write without a solid surface under my left arm, so writing away from any table-like surface isn't really happening. Using a bluetooth keyboard with my phone would be an option, but for that I need to sit up, and our hammock is hung too lounge-y for that. But I have good WiFi on the terrace, so sitting outside under the pavillion is very nice as well.)
And yes, indeed! I've learned that when the right words won't come, it's more helpful to write words-that-will-be-deleted than no words at all - you can't improve what's not there, after all. ;op

[sanguinity]

It really is a wonderful way to hang out and daydream while writing. Writing on a notebook on my thigh is a little inconvenient -- my handwriting is a mess, and I am going to have a time when it comes to transcription -- but it's no less convenient than writing on the bed with my cat insisting on hugging my writing arm for snuggles.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much on both counts!

And YAY for more hummingbird-adjacent paragraphs! :-)

[marvelouscity]

Day 21 - I have a headache so just an alibi sentence. But I got some good career news today, so I'm going to try to let that fuel me in writing some more tomorrow.

[ysilme]

Oh, that's wonderful news, except for the headache, of course! Congrats to the career news and to writing happening despite a headache!

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for the good news, but BOO! for the headache! I hope the latter is gone as I type this. :-)

Good on you for even doing a sentence when you're feeling poorly!

[cornerofmadness]

Day 21 635 of witchy plotting

I missed your vacation plotting issues. Why is this so stressful? You saw me go nuts about it. hope you have fun

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, WHY? I think for me it's that we're out of practice, not having really gone anywhere (but to an out-of-state funeral, which totally doesn't count) since summer 2019. I used to be much better about planning things. BUT, I will say it took me a really long time to find a cabin in some mountains that was available when we wanted it, wasn't suspicious for any reason, and was in our price range.

And YAY for so many words! That's great news! YAY!

[cornerofmadness]

You make a good point and for me it was even longer since I've done this. I hope your cabin in the woods is a fun time and nothing like what happens in the cabins in the woods in my stories

[lferion]

21 July - 52 words of more notes.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for notes! YAY for words! *grins*

[yasaman]

Day 21: 701 words on WIP 1 today, and some notes and basic outlining for the rest of WIP 3 so hopefully I can get back to that one this weekend.

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent progress on #1 and GO YOU for #3. *sends you happy writing vibes*

[ysilme]

I salute you for writing despite the house being in chaos just before your trip, that's awesome - and much more sensible in my book. Stories are more important than cleanliness and order! ♥ I wish I could do that, too... ;op

[sylvanwitch]

Honestly, around 1:00am this morning, I just gave up on the cleanliness part. Order is going to have to be Good Enough. Lol!