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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!"?

People who have checked in with writing on Day 1: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] athaia, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] magnetic_pole, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sonia, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 2: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] athaia, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] magnetic_pole, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sonia, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme.

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

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

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

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

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

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

People who have checked in with writing on Day 9: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] magnetic_pole, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 10: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] boxofdelights, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 11: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 12: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] magnetic_pole, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme.

People who have checked in with writing on Day 13: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] azurelunatic, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lferion, [personal profile] magnetic_pole, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yasaman, [profile] yslime.
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Date: 2019-08-14 05:35 am (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
Some words? Not many words. Possibly all about to be backspaced words? I can't remember where I'd left off…

Or, possibly, have already done but aren't admitting to anybody.

LOLOLOL
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Date: 2019-08-14 05:49 am (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
truth
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Date: 2019-08-14 05:56 am (UTC)
yasaman: picture of jasmine flower, with text yasaman (Default)
From: [personal profile] yasaman
477 words for me! All filling in stuff I left lightly sketched in from earlier writing sessions.
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Date: 2019-08-14 06:01 am (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
Welp, earlier in this chapter I put a character on a boat leaving Southampton for New York in April 1912. Today I was browsing the wiki article for 1912 in the United Kingdom, looking for some period details to include, and discovered that omg I had put a character on a boat leaving Southampton for New York in April 1912. Whoops!

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: 2019-08-14 03:14 pm (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
And I meant to say: I'm sorry your recip is being slow to respond to you. It always messes with me some (and sometimes a lot), when I hear nothing from my recip. There is one person I get matched to fairly often who is always slow to respond, and I've gotten kind of used to it from her -- I've come to learn that she will eventually leave a nice comment, it just takes her four or five days. But when someone new-to-me does it I rather bite my nails over worry that they hate it. :-/
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Date: 2019-08-14 06:04 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
I have not only opened Scrivener, but I have fought past the bizarre error the first time I tried it, opened two old writing projects in other file formats, and started transferring the main one over into Scrivener (and writing new bits as I go).
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Date: 2019-08-14 03:08 pm (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
It's perfect for novels. I appreciate the notecard view for outlining.
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Date: 2019-08-15 01:25 am (UTC)
carenejeans: (Default)
From: [personal profile] carenejeans
I use Scrivener for lots of things shorter than a novel, but I write in a sort of patchwork way and revise a LOT. So I can write scenes out of sequence in little docs, then string them together (there's a handy view where you can see them as they'll be compiled) and move them around. Then I compile them when I'm done.

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 06:13 am (UTC)
lferion: Art of pink gillyflower on green background (Default)
From: [personal profile] lferion
Wrestling, definitely wrestling. Still, 200+ words on the reverse bang (which will need wrestling into some kind of harmony with the other words) and 320 on a fan flashworks piece (3 linked drabbles and a coda)
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Date: 2019-08-14 06:25 am (UTC)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
Ugh, waiting for your recipient to comment (or leave any kind of feedback/indication of having read) is the worst! I tell myself that life happens, and maybe they're having an emergency or something, but it never helps as much as it should!

*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 09:01 am (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Fwiw, I'm a poet, so it tends to come as it comes.
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Date: 2019-08-14 12:23 pm (UTC)
alexcat: (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexcat
One 100 word drabble and 152 words on a Big Bang.
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Date: 2019-08-14 01:26 pm (UTC)
sylvanwitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
I hope you hear from your exchange partner soon, even if it's just to say that they have read the story, because not to do so seems rude to me. I feel like an exchange is one of those virtual spaces in which certain basic protocols are necessary and are, at least to a degree, mutually agreed upon. That is, by the very nature of an exchange, there should be some transaction, right? The person requests a thing, the writer/artist/etc provides the thing, and because this isn't actually commerce, the transaction isn't completed with money or goods and services but a comment, some acknowledgment that the thing was received. Anyway, I'm not accusing the person of bad behavior, precisely, but I do wonder sometimes if there are folks who don't recognize that there is a protocol? No one wants to make responses compulsory, I'd guess, for obvious reasons, but still...responding seems the right thing to do.

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 05:18 pm (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Oh lord I HATE that. Yeah it happens of course and you're like did they hate it? Do they have no manners? Every year there's at least one where I'm left wondering. Hope you hear from them.

Me having no internet is working out. I wrote 3418 words on Like Stone
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Date: 2019-08-15 08:03 pm (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
IT's possible
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Date: 2019-08-14 09:44 pm (UTC)
ysilme: Wordle with writing terms "ranting denial typing pain story decision tea". (Wordle: write every day)
From: [personal profile] ysilme
I'm sorry about your exchange woes. I think it's the shabbiest thing to leave no feedback or only kudos to an exchange gift; a simple "thank you" should be the least; and if you can't reply in a timely fashion you can either let the mods know in advance so they can tell the recipient, or just leave a quick "Thanks and I'll be back with more soon" or so. With those exchanges I kept writing for, it's beein either a requirement to at least thank your recipient, or the mods made sure the recipient would comment if they didn't out of their own volitions, with defaulters not being allowed to participate again (not counting people with justified cause to not react in a timely manner, but those also always seem to be able to at least contact a mod and let them know.) I've frequently been travelling for the reveals of a favourite exchange, but always left a note with the mods to pass on to my author thanking them already for writing something me, and explaining that I'd react as soon as I had proper internet access again.
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 01:00 am (UTC)
carenejeans: (Default)
From: [personal profile] carenejeans
Alibi sentence. Argh. The whole day was a !@#$%&!!! computer-related disaster. One of those days where you spend hours on a computer and NOT in any kind of fun way. Everything conspired against me. My laptop. My internet provider. My effing bank website with the -- wait for it -- new design.

So, much fuming and no writing.
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Date: 2019-08-15 04:15 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] magnetic_pole
LOTS OF WRITING TODAY! Awesome, productive day. A few comments left, as well. M.

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