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silveradept) wrote2019-08-02 08:20 pm
silveradept) wrote2019-08-02 08:20 pm
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Write Every Day: 02 August 02019
Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 02 August 02019.
A quick reminder that we do not discriminate here about what qualifies as writing, and there is no obligation to participate every day.
One of the many stories I've heard from author Seanan McGuire is a useful way of keeping track of how much writing you've been doing in a given day. While there are places out on the Web that draw from the rich corpus of pet pictures to give us motivation to keep putting words on the page (electronically speaking), Seanan has a suggestion that works outside of screens and websites and can also be used if you have writing periods interrupted by floofs, pets, smallings, or any other part of your life that demands your attention.
Most people have some form of dice available to them, whether part of board games or part of their extensive collection of polyhedral stones in varying colors, designs, and abilities to roll correctly when threatened.
The nice thing about dice is, unless you're getting them from a Formula De box, they count up from 1 to whatever number they need to. And, because we're humans (or at least close enough to humans that we'll be mistaken for them on the street), we like to think of things in nice round numbers, like 100s.
Seanan's suggestion is to grab the die that best matches your writing goal for the day in 100s of words (d4 or d6 is pretty good to start with, but I'm sure there are people that want to use d20s and d30s Or are keeping track of NaNo progress with a percentage die and a d10.)
Then:
For the math-inclined folks, you can set long goals for work and such by using combinations of dice, and when you roll your 100s die back to 1, you add one to your loop die and start again, and when you've returned back to 1 on both dice, you've reached your goal.
It's a slightly nerdy way of keeping track, but it also sets it in place if you like to compose in notebooks or other things that don't give you immediate feedback about your wordcount.
Today, I tried to eat big chunks of the remaining narrative in the Giving of Grief, but I didn't get through it all. I did add some posts to the queue, though, and I'm running down to the end of this story, so that I can at least get going on something new / fresh soon.
How is your writing going? Good things abound for you?
People who have checked in on Day 1:alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 2:alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shhttps://www.dreamwidth.org/editjournal?journal=silveradept&itemid=784824op, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman
A quick reminder that we do not discriminate here about what qualifies as writing, and there is no obligation to participate every day.
One of the many stories I've heard from author Seanan McGuire is a useful way of keeping track of how much writing you've been doing in a given day. While there are places out on the Web that draw from the rich corpus of pet pictures to give us motivation to keep putting words on the page (electronically speaking), Seanan has a suggestion that works outside of screens and websites and can also be used if you have writing periods interrupted by floofs, pets, smallings, or any other part of your life that demands your attention.
Most people have some form of dice available to them, whether part of board games or part of their extensive collection of polyhedral stones in varying colors, designs, and abilities to roll correctly when threatened.
The nice thing about dice is, unless you're getting them from a Formula De box, they count up from 1 to whatever number they need to. And, because we're humans (or at least close enough to humans that we'll be mistaken for them on the street), we like to think of things in nice round numbers, like 100s.
Seanan's suggestion is to grab the die that best matches your writing goal for the day in 100s of words (d4 or d6 is pretty good to start with, but I'm sure there are people that want to use d20s and d30s Or are keeping track of NaNo progress with a percentage die and a d10.)
Then:
- Start your words die on 1.
- Write 100 words.
- Turn the die to the next number.
- Write another 100 words.
- When you've flipped the die back to 1, you've met your goal!
For the math-inclined folks, you can set long goals for work and such by using combinations of dice, and when you roll your 100s die back to 1, you add one to your loop die and start again, and when you've returned back to 1 on both dice, you've reached your goal.
It's a slightly nerdy way of keeping track, but it also sets it in place if you like to compose in notebooks or other things that don't give you immediate feedback about your wordcount.
Today, I tried to eat big chunks of the remaining narrative in the Giving of Grief, but I didn't get through it all. I did add some posts to the queue, though, and I'm running down to the end of this story, so that I can at least get going on something new / fresh soon.
How is your writing going? Good things abound for you?
People who have checked in on Day 1:
alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 2:
alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shhttps://www.dreamwidth.org/editjournal?journal=silveradept&itemid=784824op, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman
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And then making an ebook, I have used Calibre to good effect, but that is also about 10x as hard as it "should" be.