Write Every Day - 13 August 02019
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Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 13 August 02019.
I'm feeling a little bit nervous that the recipient for my exchange story didn't like it. I know that there are people who wait until author reveals (or just about) before they comment on works, but when they do that, it's sometimes nice to get a heads-up comment that they're going to wait or have to do some other things before they can get around to commenting on it. Then again, I've had some exchange stories where all I got was a kudo, and some where I didn't get any sort of feedback at all. Considering they hadn't exactly provided me with any map past the pairing they wanted at that point, I suppose it wasn't on me to somehow read their mind and provide them with a perfect work.
Without any kind of feedback, I don't even know if the recipient read the story and had any opinion on it at all. I liked it, I think it was a good work, but since it was supposedly written to a prompt, it would be nice to know what the person providing the prompt thought about it, y'know?
I finished up my first post of the first two chapters of the new Giving of Grief target, and it really does look like it's going to be a retread of the same story from a different perspective, which I suppose is one way to make money on books. They're always slightly displaced, though, so that they start earlier or end later than the other book, and so you feel like the story progressed at least a little from the new perspective. Considering that I'm in it for the social commentary and taking a look at how the author handles certain situations, I'm less chuffed that the plot isn't going anywhere, but I think people who are fans of that series would have significant problems with this overlap approach.
This WIP that I'm wrangling also keeps threatening to misbehave, for perfectly acceptable reasons, but I keep having to come up with reasons why not to let certain characters hare off and do the thing that they desperately want to do. Or, possibly, have already done but aren't admitting to anybody. It's good, in that I'm shepherding them along the plot, but bad in that I keep having to give them excuses to stay on the plot.
How's your writing going? Less "wrestling gators in the swamp", more "tea parties with famous wrestlers, pinkies out!"?
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lferion,
magnetic_pole,
sanguinity,
shopfront,
silveradept,
sonia,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 2:
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alexseanchai,
athaia,
auroracloud,
carenejeans,
chanter1944,
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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,
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magnetic_pole,
sanguinity,
shopfront,
silveradept,
sonia,
sylvanwitch,
talkingtothesky,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 4:
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alexseanchai,
auroracloud,
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carenejeans,
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lferion,
magnetic_pole,
sanguinity,
shopfront,
silveradept,
sonia,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 5:
alexcat,
alexseanchai,
auroracloud,
carenejeans,
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magnetic_pole,
sanguinity,
silveradept,
shopfront,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 6:
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auroracloud,
carenejeans,
chanter1944,
china_shop,
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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,
magnetic_pole,
sanguinity,
silveradept,
sylvanwitch,
talkingtothesky,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 9:
alexcat,
alexseanchai,
auroracloud,
carenejeans,
china_shop,
cornerofmadness,
lferion,
magnetic_pole,
sanguinity,
shopfront,
silveradept,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 10:
alexseanchai,
auroracloud,
boxofdelights,
carenejeans,
china_shop,
lferion,
sanguinity,
shopfront,
silveradept,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 11:
alexcat,
alexseanchai,
carenejeans,
china_shop,
cornerofmadness,
lferion,
sanguinity,
shopfront,
silveradept,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 12:
alexcat,
alexseanchai,
carenejeans,
chanter1944,
china_shop,
cornerofmadness,
lferion,
magnetic_pole,
shopfront,
sanguinity,
silveradept,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 13:
alexcat,
alexseanchai,
azurelunatic,
carenejeans,
china_shop,
cornerofmadness,
lferion,
magnetic_pole,
sanguinity,
silveradept,
sylvanwitch,
yasaman,
yslime.
I'm feeling a little bit nervous that the recipient for my exchange story didn't like it. I know that there are people who wait until author reveals (or just about) before they comment on works, but when they do that, it's sometimes nice to get a heads-up comment that they're going to wait or have to do some other things before they can get around to commenting on it. Then again, I've had some exchange stories where all I got was a kudo, and some where I didn't get any sort of feedback at all. Considering they hadn't exactly provided me with any map past the pairing they wanted at that point, I suppose it wasn't on me to somehow read their mind and provide them with a perfect work.
Without any kind of feedback, I don't even know if the recipient read the story and had any opinion on it at all. I liked it, I think it was a good work, but since it was supposedly written to a prompt, it would be nice to know what the person providing the prompt thought about it, y'know?
I finished up my first post of the first two chapters of the new Giving of Grief target, and it really does look like it's going to be a retread of the same story from a different perspective, which I suppose is one way to make money on books. They're always slightly displaced, though, so that they start earlier or end later than the other book, and so you feel like the story progressed at least a little from the new perspective. Considering that I'm in it for the social commentary and taking a look at how the author handles certain situations, I'm less chuffed that the plot isn't going anywhere, but I think people who are fans of that series would have significant problems with this overlap approach.
This WIP that I'm wrangling also keeps threatening to misbehave, for perfectly acceptable reasons, but I keep having to come up with reasons why not to let certain characters hare off and do the thing that they desperately want to do. Or, possibly, have already done but aren't admitting to anybody. It's good, in that I'm shepherding them along the plot, but bad in that I keep having to give them excuses to stay on the plot.
How's your writing going? Less "wrestling gators in the swamp", more "tea parties with famous wrestlers, pinkies out!"?
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Date: 2019-08-14 05:35 am (UTC)Or, possibly, have already done but aren't admitting to anybody.
LOLOLOL
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Date: 2019-08-14 05:48 am (UTC)You know how plots get. Characters start having already done something that they're not supposed to do for another couple chapters.
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Date: 2019-08-14 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-08-14 06:01 am (UTC)To be clear, the boat my character is on isn't that boat -- there were maybe fourteen boats that left Southampton for New York that April -- but still, I rather will need to address that boat in the text somehow. But if I'm lucky, that boat might solve the plot-and-pacing problem I've been struggling with this last week or so. We can hope so, anyway.
Unfortunately, the contractors became very distracting right around then, so while I did get a couple hundred words written (and I count myself lucky to scrabble together even that much, given the ruckus), I didn't get far enough along to discover how that boat will change things, for better or for ill. Maybe I'll find out tomorrow, contractors willing.
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Date: 2019-08-15 01:25 am (UTC)A sort of extreme case is a Highlander fic I wrote, where Duncan, who was born on the Winter Solstice, doesn't want to celebrate his birthday -- so his two friend/lovers decide to celebrate every OTHER December holiday with him (until he relents and they all have fun, coff). I had to research a bit for the holidays, and made a doc for each one, in order. So I could see when the various festivities should take place, and write the plot and character stuff to match up. That's a special case, but shows how you can use Scrivener to keep an episodic short story on track.
And since I revise so heavily, I like to have versions (in case I change my mind and keep stuff I've deleted, or change the structure back, etc.). These are easier to keep in a Scrivener file. There's a "duplicate document" feature, so it's easy to make a copy with a right-click. I stick the old versions in a folder, usually labeled something clever like "old versions."
Also, you can use it a sort of notebook. I've taken to doing that recently. Not sure how it will work in the long run, but so far it's been handy to have my scattered notes in one place. I've been working on several short things in one Scrivener -- when something is close to done, I copy-paste it into a Word doc and finish it from there.
This is just my quirky way of doing things. It probably wouldn't work for everyone!
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Date: 2019-08-14 06:25 am (UTC)*sends tea, chocolate and fortitude*
14th: Got beta back on kissing ficlet #2 -- basically "add more feels!" -- and have just rewritten it from its original 1083 words to 1641, so... more than half as long again! Need to read it through again before I can send it back, but first several days' worth of dirty dishes await my attention. ;-P
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Date: 2019-08-14 03:05 pm (UTC)Sometimes life happens. Sometimes I wonder if the accounts in question are just there as exchange signups to capture gifts with (of course, they presumably also write gifts) and they don't actually intend on interacting in any way at all, which is just weird.
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Date: 2019-08-14 01:26 pm (UTC)Sorry...rambling. I spend a lot of time thinking about navigating social spaces, whether they're RL or virtual (or, since that dichotomy doesn't precisely work for me, maybe say "meatspace," as I've seen Seanan McGuire use recently, and virtual space).
Anyway, I'm glad the shepherding is going well, if only it means the sheep aren't dead, never mind obedient. ;-)
I edited the first half of the last chapter of the ambush project and then realized I need a new first chapter, so at least I know where I'm starting when this round of edits is done. *laughs weakly*
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Date: 2019-08-14 03:08 pm (UTC)Many exchanges have their protocols in differing forms of spelled out, and are taken care of in differing ways, so maybe I'm just unlucky.
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Date: 2019-08-14 05:18 pm (UTC)Me having no internet is working out. I wrote 3418 words on Like Stone
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Date: 2019-08-15 02:07 am (UTC)And yeah, it looks like they haven't even looked at it, so maybe something happened. I don't know.
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Date: 2019-08-14 09:44 pm (UTC)I really hope you got lots of lovely feedback by others to at least make up for it a bit! *hugs*
For my tally, it's only two vs. one alibi sentences for the 12th and the 13th each. Our DSL router broke, or rather the Wifi part of it. It*s still within the warranty, but due to an earlier error of the internet company (they accidentally booked it on my father's account) and brand new laws on necessary authentification getting the replacement sent out was a tedious and draining, two-day long process which left me with nearly no energy to write.
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Date: 2019-08-15 02:22 am (UTC)We'll see what feedback comes of it - when I looked, it looked like no other person had actually looked at it at all, so this one might go by the wayside until reveals by just not being anyone's cup of tea.
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Date: 2019-08-15 01:00 am (UTC)So, much fuming and no writing.
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Date: 2019-08-15 02:09 am (UTC)I hope after all the cursing and computer woes, everything's fixed.
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