Write Every Day: 02 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 2 November 02019.

Criminy! It's November. That means I've got a month before the December Days writing challenge. Every year, I usually take the month of December to talk about a single topic in its various permutations here and around. Topics in the past have included my day job, the process of writing, and a three-year project that was talking about each of the 78 cards in a baseball Tarot deck.

Consider this a solicitation of suggestions for topics to write about. I can also piece together some shorter topic sequences into it so that the whole month gets done, but I really enjoy having a dingle topic to examine in depth during December, where possible. You may only know me through the WED posts, but don't let that be a barrier to making suggestions. You might spark what the eventual topic becomes.

Today, in writing, I went back to a non-assignment work and added some more words to it, getting this particular bit closer to its end, and just having a good time writing it. I like to have a good time when it comes to writing. The ideas come easier and the writing goes better when I'm not freezing up and trying to figure out how to power through a section that's just not writing.

Here's the tally so far:

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

Day Two: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ofmonstrouswords, redsixwing, sakana17, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, teigh_corvus, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[carenejeans]

I wrote a little over 550 words on the novel. That's a good wordcount for this, since I'm planning to trick myself into getting it done by writing little bits on it every day. ;-)

And then some slogging on the nonfiction project. You asked about this; I'm working on an annotated bibliography on Mount Diablo, a local landmark. You'd be surprised at how much writing goes into what's basically a list of books and articles. Lots of little synopses, just to start. I found much more than I (or anyone) expected, which means I'll probably go over deadline. That's not a big problem, but I would like to finish it. Even though I'm having a lot of fun doing it!

[silveradept]

Small bits gets it done where trying to do a lot more would just get in the way.

That sounds like a neat project, and an unexpected wealth of information makes it better to work through.