silveradept | Write Every Day: 06 November 02019

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 6 November 02019.

Civic engagement was on my mind yesterday, in the sense of the first Tuesday in November is the day when most general elections happen in the United States.

petra offered drabble commentfic in various fandoms for those who had voted in their last election, whether that was on the specific day or whenever the last election was for a person. (May still be offering?)

I suggested the Great British Bake-Off, since the era that would be written in was the one where Mel and Sue were the hosts, and there was a lot of puns about bread involved in the 100 words. Which I could read in Mel and Sue's voices, and it was delightful. A great reward. (My state no longer gives out "I Voted" stickers, but instead has a tear-off strip at the top of the ballot for someone to work with, which is far less fun than being able to sport something about one's civic engagement. I personally would love for them to mail out stickers like "I Voted: It's like punching a Nazi, but safely," but there's that pesky thing about being nonpartisan. Admittedly, I would have thought that "Nazis deserve to be punched" was a nonpartisan sentiment, but these are the times we live in.

Today, in writing, I bounced through a couple different assignments. One is just getting started in its shape, so it's in the proving drawer at the moment. Another, I have an idea for set pieces and things that will be happening further on in the piece, aiming for a specific goal, but I have to fill the intervening space, and I'm following my own advice on this matter: Write the thing, no matter how odd or off it seems, so long as it gets you there, and then let your beta have at it to help you figure out if it makes any sense at all later. Draft first, revise second, tinker third. It's served me reasonably well so far, and it is likely to continue doing so as I run through this stretch of assignments. Still one more to arrive soon, and then it's going to be a little bit of a juggling act for the next few weeks.

Here's the tally so far:

Day One:

alexcat,

alexseanchai,

auroracloud,

azurelunatic,

bladespark,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

lferion,

ofmonstrouswords,

sanguinity,