Write Every Day: 01 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 1 November 02019.

We're back! If you're not entirely sure what Write Every Day is, think of it as a traveling carnival of people who camp out at a different journal and do daily check-ins about what they've written that day. There's no minimum requirement, nor any insistence that you have to check in every day to continue. Come as you are, tell us what you've done, when you've done it, and if you have to take a day or two off, that's fine, too. Say as much or as little as you want about what you've been doing in writing today!

And it's National Novel Writing Month! More than a few of us are giving it a go to try and write 50,000 words in the thirty days afforded to November. That works out to an average daily word count of 1667 words every day. About an exchange fic and a half (generally, some of them have higher word counts than others) a day of writing. Editing definitely comes later in this regard in a lot of the advice afforded for NaNoWriMo. starandrea offers some advice on how to win NaNoWriMo, which starts with not trying to write the book that's been in your head forever, but instead, a story that you just intend to write. And one that you don't have to share with anyone, so that way, you don't have to worry about making it good. It can be 50k of pure id-drawer-fic, and that's fine.

ushobwri will have an entire calendar's worth of prompts and things to help see if the words will keep coming. And, if you want to do something that's a smaller writing goal (minimum drabble, which is more than WED), there's mini_wrimo.

If you are engaging in other creative activities this month, teigh_corvus has opened St. Hap's Coffeehouse and Wayward Home For Plot Bunnies for those who would like a place to do check-ins that isn't here or is for other things than writing.

I am not participating in any official word-count Wri-Mo anything, but I will grab my pompoms and cheer the rest of you that are along the way. I have posts to write, prompts to fill, and soon enough, assignments on the way that will ask for my attention and writing. If I took into account all the words I've written just this year in fiction, I've already jumped my 50k yearly average (mostly thanks to two very long form works), so everything here is basically graaaaavy!

Today's writing includes doing a little more work on an assignment I've figured out the fandom and the eventual action for, but that I'm doing a lot of writing before they get to the action for exposition in the same style as the source material. They're not yet ready to move on to the action stage, so I'm waiting for them to feel like they've been briefed enough to go out into the field. So that'll help the word count of the eventual finished product.

Here's the tally so far:

Day One: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umaodoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[lferion]

Am I first? Really?

Day 1 -- 562 words of Lamps/Hostages, a very indulgent Silmarillion fic that is growing a plot and side bits at a frightening rate.

Reported wordcount to mini-wrimo as well.

Thank you for hosting again!

[silveradept]

You are first today!

Interesting how a single idea suddenly spouts into a fully-fledged thing, isn't it?

[bladespark]

I'm not doing NaNo, but I'm doing a Trans Bingo story challenge and also want to polish off at least one story I owe my Patrons, so I have lots of writing to do this month! Writing every day seems like a good idea.

A very solid check for today at 2.9k words.

[silveradept]

That's a good amount for today. Well done. (And also, yay for those who give you patronage and get neat stories in return.)

[cornerofmadness]

only 368 words for nano. Not off to a good start

[silveradept]

Better than 0, though! And, really, just about all the stuff I see on NaNo puts some pretty heavy emphasis on "write now, edit later!" so as not to break any momentum. I know for some of us, that's easier said than done.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. Well part of it is a 2 hour trip to and back again from the nano group and since we're friends who haven't seen each other in weeks spent more time chattering than writing. This is year 15 for me so it's not a year i plan to lose on. Still, would have liked a stronger start.

[silveradept]

Ah. That's a long trip. Cuts into the amount of time available to do the writing.

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah I live an hour from everywhere

[yasaman]

Thanks for hosting again! :D

I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I've set myself a couple goals for the month beyond just writing every day: edit the WIP I finished a draft of in September and get it posted, and finish at least one other WIP, which will, hopefully, stay in the 15k-20k range wordcount-wise.

Today's writing: 408 words on the WIP! I didn't have enough of a stretch of uninterrupted time today to work on editing my draft, so that'll have to start tomorrow.

[silveradept]

Excellent for both words and goals.

[alexseanchai]

1100 words and a bunch of smirking devil emojis. None of the words are on the thing I meant to start NaNo by trying to finish, or on the thing I have been planning for a couple months to be my NaNo.

[silveradept]

That is often the way of things. Hooray for words all the same.

[china_shop]

Woohoooo! Thank you so much for hosting this month! Yay! <3 <3 <3

I decided not to do Nano or Yuletide, and instead focus on finishing some of my WIPs, so I don't stumble across them still lurking in my WIP folder in 5 years' time. :-) But first, I'm in the middle of a series of parallel time travel fixits (a different character gets sent back in each one), currently working on #4, with three more to go after that.

Day 1: (You've already counted this -- thank you!! -- but I want to boast! *g*) I wrote 2,473 words (that is a LOT for me!) and finished the first draft. :D :D :D

Day 2: Reviewed and edited the draft, adding 990 more words. It's now just over 7k. Phew! Also had a few little crumbs of ideas for time travel fic #5, which is good because I'm going to start working on that tomorrow, probably, maybe. *tries to turn the crumbs into a cake*

[silveradept]

That's a very good set of wordcount there. Hooray for being more than halfway done with the time travel sequence.

[china_shop]

Thanks! <3 <3 <3

[auroracloud]

Thank you so much for hosting this month! I'm still available if you need an emergency back-up or something, but lately I've been struggling so much with commitments and time management that it's better if someone else can do it. Hopefully next year I'll have my stuff figured out enough to make a decent host again. :-)

I signed up for mini_wrimo (it is on DW rather than LJ, by the way; I'm not sure if it's on LJ as well, though) to do the minimum of 100 words per day - specifically I aim to write 100 words of my ongoing novel draft every day. I tried this approach this week and found out it exponentially increased my work on my novel, as I've been struggling with that since the end of the summer and have tended to work on other projects instead. But it turns out as long as I try to write a little of the novel every day, it progresses and I don't struggle with the writing as much. It seems to work better at the moment than just adding a sentence or two. I may write anything else as well, as long as I get 100 words of my novel written. So I'm using mini_wrimo to specifically track my progress on the novel, with the hope that a whole month of this challenge will set me on the right track. :-)

Anyway, on the 1st I wrote 180 words of the novel, and worked a bit on my Yuletide sign-up. Since I was terribly sleep-deprived, I didn't try for anything more.

[silveradept]

Right. I saw that there was a DW miniwrimo, but apparently, my brain decided it did not want to help me remember it, but instead take a back seat and laugh at me for missing it.

Good progress on the writing, and I like that you can do anything else that comes to mind, so long as you get the small goal in somewhere.

[auroracloud]

Brains are weird! I totally get that sometimes your brain just won't give you information it has. It's fine, but I figured I'd make a note about that for the benefit of others who might find that community useful.

[st_aurafina]

I wrote for Day one: 1400 words

[silveradept]

Yay! Good things.

[bookherd]

Hello! I'm doing NaNo this month, and since I'm checking in with daily wordcounts over there (and also tracking my progress in a spreadsheet), checking in over here as well just feels like one too many steps before bedtime. So I'm dropping out of WED for this month, but please accept my heartfelt thanks for hosting again, and I'll see you here in December!

[silveradept]

I think there may be a lot of people following that example. Thanks for stopping by, and we'll see you in December. Check back in around the end of the month to see who is hosting next.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay! Thank you for hosting us this month! :-)

I did NaNo for ten years and loved every bit of it. I still miss the experience and get all nostalgic this time of year, but it doesn't work for my writing purposes anymore.

I added 355 words of dialogue to the notes I've been putting together for a short story idea. I say "short story," but honestly, this thing isn't sure what it wants to be when it grows up. We'll see. :-)

[silveradept]

I never make guesses about how long a work is going to be until it's been made into a draft. At that point, I start checking to see if it makes minimums.

[ysilme]

That's one of the sad parts of NaNo for me now: not going throught he mutual craziness and cheerleading with you! ;o) *hugs*

[alexcat]

I have 197 today. Have company and was out most of thew day. Not doing Namowrimo - novemeber is not a good month for it for me.

[silveradept]

Yay, words!

Yay, company, too, if they're good company.

[umadoshi]

Day 1: 550 words!

[silveradept]

A good day, first or otherwise.

[carenejeans]

Hello! Thanks for hosting.

I'm not doing Nanowrimo, but am working on a novel I started during Nanowrimo several years ago. I'm following auroracloud's example this month and writing at least 100 words a day on this novel, no matter what else I do. For Day 1 I managed to write 402 words on the novel. 8-)

I also did some work on my ongoing (and on and on!) nonfiction project.

[silveradept]

Yay for small bits of progress.

Did I know about the nonfiction project? What's involved?

[azurelunatic]

I started a story that needs writing.

[silveradept]

Well done.

[ysilme]

Thank you for hosting this month, and congrats to already crossing your yearly average mark! *\O/*
I suppose I'm going to be one of the lastest to call in every day, due to the time difference; your post came up at 5.30 a.m. my time, and even extreme night owl me is in bed by then. *g*
It's my seventh year of doing NaNo, and I'm having any intention to win it also for the seventh time, hopefully without further hindrances like the stomach bug that laid me low this week. I'm at least feeling more like writing now, and even had a good enough first NaNo day yesterday, with 2k (2069) words for my NaNo project and additional 1011 words of nonfic freewriting. My NaNo project also laughed me in the face already in the very first paragraph, and after a miserable night (I'd started at midnight) and some grumbling about the obstinacy of my characters, I had a virtual writing epiphany, and suddenly a whole new world grew inside my head and flooded my brain. Just not for the planned NaNo novel, which was supposed to be a short fantasy novel, but for my main original fantasy WIP. That one was born five years ago also as a NaNo project, but never really took off after that initial start. Now I have so many ideas my brain is on fire, and I switched to writing them all down as my NaNo project, either as notes, drafts, or, if possible, short tales and such, to also have a storytelling part of the NaNo writing.
I'm also quite happy to find that I've exceeded my yearly writing goal I expected until now; I planned 150k for the year, including NaNo, and hoped for 200k, and am now at 170k already.

[silveradept]

Excellent first day, and words are words. There's a good chance I'll be posting them when I remember to, which probably will mean late at night (or early in the morning for you) on several days.

[chanter1944]

Finished, and posted, a poem that went from unformed consideration to fully drafted in two days. It came out to just over 1100 words, and it's over thisaway!

Not my best work, but it's something.

[silveradept]

Words are good, all the same.