Write Every Day: 10 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 10 November 02019.

Today, I accomplished things in other than writing, a practice I usually refer to as "backburnering", because while I have a great few opening lines for this thing I want to work on, I still haven't yet figured out the gist of the story as things are going along. Some of the details will revel themselves to me over time, but it's sometimes nice to have a general idea of the place you want to go when you let the characters loose to play. I spent my time effectively and well, by which I mean I collected several achievements on a game that I'm not really sure I'll ever be able to do quickly enough to collect the speedrun achievement on it. Because a single successful sequence of it can take an hour or two if you stop and think about things as you go along and engage in the tactical necessities for it. Ah, well. Still, useful progress today on that.

Also spent time clearing out some tabs, and did some shopping, and also, after have realized that a fic I wrote predicted something that happened in the canon about a half-season later than when I had set the fic. And the pairing hasn't happened yet, but still, it's kind of weird to find out you have guessed correctly about a future canonical event entirely by accident.

Today is also the tenth day of November, so for the NaNo folk, they're hoping to be a third-way through the novel they intend to write, with a target just shy of 17k. I have written longer fic than that this year, but we're soon going to be getting into "longer than my longest fic" territory, even if we won't be getting into "longer than my longest series" until we're almost done with this month.

Here's the tally so far:

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

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

Day Three: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Four: alexcat, alexseanchai, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, redsixwing, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Five: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Six: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Seven: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Eight: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Nine: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Ten: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[auroracloud]

I missed a couple of check-ins, mostly because I was focused on writing a story for Femslash Exchange from the scratch on the deadline day because the first story I started just wasn't working out, and my health and stuff were conspiring against me. Uh, anyway, on the 8th I wrote a couple of hundred words of my novel before rushing off to another town to go to theatre with a friend. On the 9th I wrote, um, over 2000 words of the said Femslash Exchange story before asking for an extension so I could finish it; plus I managed to get in my slightly over 100 words of the novel. And on the 10th, another 800+ words to finish the Femslash Ex fic draft, because that story didn't want to be short; plus another ca. 100 words of the novel.

So now all I need is to get the Femslash Ex story from a garbage first draft to decent story before the reveals!

[silveradept]

You can do it! (That's a very fast turnaround time for a draft.)

[auroracloud]

Thank you! Yeah, I normally take longer than that to put together a first draft, especially one of that size (3K words). Deadlines are wonderful (if stressful) muses.

[silveradept]

As someone who has picked up a pinch hit our two, I confirm this. They're good when you need to make something in a hurry.