Write Every Day: 08 August 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 08 August 02019.

Apparently, I stumbled onto something wise yesterday in comparing writing to breadmaking. Sometimes you have to work a lot at it, kneading it, working it, stretching it, getting it into shape and adding the ingredients at the right time, and sometimes you have to leave it alone in a warm drawer or a hot oven and wait until its ready.

Not every day is going to be 3000 words toward a novel. Sometimes the ideas need some rest and to prove in the background until they're ready for what happens next.

I am apparently taking my own advice on this for a bit - I wrote this entry, and some kind words in the program, and the weekly roundup bits, and I might go back at the WIP that's not exchange-related for a bit tonight, but I'm not really running hard in the words department right now. Maybe when some more source for the Giving of Grief gets in, I'll start knocking down a few thousand words of WTF at a time.

People who have checked in with writing 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_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 3: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yasaman, ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 5: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, shopfront, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 6: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yasaman, ysilme.

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

I like the breadmaking analogy. I think it's quite apt, and I can definitely relate to it, as well. My trouble is that I often don't want to leave it alone; I get impatient and antsy. This is a good reminder that leaving it alone is an active part of the process, even if it feels like the opposite.

I spent most of yesterday visiting with a friend, and when I got home, the editing just didn't want to happen, so I ended up writing a poem about the things that were distracting me from the editing. I figure that counts for words, anyway.

[silveradept]

That totally counts as writing, and sometimes doing something else is the easiest way for us to give a story the time it needs to settle and otherwise get ready for the next round of work.