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

[auroracloud]

313 words on the novel, yay. I'm uncertain whether they're something to keep or not, but basically I was using them to try to work another previously written snippet into the overarching plot, such as it is.

I also handwrote a few notebook pages of the ambush project (ie. a surprise sci-fi story that I started writing during my Dublin trip just to see what I could do with an inspiring thing I'd seen, and somehow it morphed into sci-fi of undetermined length; I've no idea yet if it plans to be a novel, a novella, or simply a longish short story / novelette).

I also managed to write enough of my Yuletide requests to be able to sign up, though I plan to add at least one other fandom today, and add a letter as well. But at least I'm not doing the "last-moment sign-up, all request details are in the letter which is still a placeholder" thing that I've done in some exchanges.

I'll try to come back later with writing topic suggestions! I haven't got any ideas now, but it's fun to brainstorm ideas about that kind of stuff.

[silveradept]

Excellent. Good for words and for making the sign-ups behave like you want them to.