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

[sanguinity]

My main reservation about doing WED when I joined last month was that I do need time for the bread to proof, as you put it, and generally only have productive writing days every other day. But my writing habits had been shifting so that I seemed to be doing a lot of daily fiddling instead of every-other-day get-this-scene-down blitzes -- and anyway, alibi sentences exist, so I could still do my natural every-other-day rhythm, if that kicked back in. Happily, the alibi sentences fit very naturally into my rhythm of "some days I write and some days I consider possibilities for what I'm going to write next."

Speaking of alibi sentences, we just got back from vacation:

Monday August 5: Alibi sentence.

Tuesday August 6: 300 words.

Wednesday August 7: Alibi sentence.

Thursday August 8: Alibi sentence.

All of these, btw, were on a sequel to that story I couldn't quite finish before I left for vacation. I'm not sure I the proposed sequel is even a proper story? It's just something I'm enjoying noodling at, in a potentially-going-nowhere sort of way. But whatever, it's vacation, having fun going nowhere is all but the very definition of vacation!

[silveradept]

It is indeed the definition of vacation, and we are glad you are finding the rhythm that works for you.