Write Every Day: 13 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 13 November 02019.

Today, I got to manage a group of people who were in the workspace because school let out early and a lot of them don't have a place to go until their grownups get back. So we let them play games and hang out and otherwise have a place for themselves, a little extra space, because we usually have a few more of them than usual because of the early release. It's very low-key, and I good-naturedly get myself thrashed at the latest Super Smash Brothers. This is another one of those situations where because I often end up playing against people who are really rather skilled, I have no conception of what my actual skill is. I have slotted myself into the space of being Mid-Boss, where I am better than the casual player and the occasional dilettante, but people who are playing their best characters will inevitably end up beating me. I also play with random character selection, because it makes things fun. I think something that's also helped things be fun is that I don't have to hang a part of my identity on being good at these kinds of games, which is something I felt I was trying harder for at my university years. But again, because everyone was far better than I was at just about everything, it was a frustrating experience. (It also happens to be that everyone insists on playing the game without the fun involved through the chaotic management of skills items, and stages. So many people think it's "skill" only in whatever abilities the characters have, but there's significant skill in being able to identify and use items to your advantage and deal with what they produce. It's also true that my game improves significantly with items on, so I'm prejudiced, but still, it's in the game for a reason, why not use it? But no, they don't like the randomness of what happens with some of the items, and the ability of others to very quickly turn the tides of battle and snatch victory from defeat. Whatever. I don't have to care about how well I do, and occasionally, I even win one or two.

In writing, a lovely thing happened. I kept writing and writing and then, I found the plot to my assignment [Video, Mr. Holland's Opus, montage and congratulations to a wrestler in band who after some time and training, is able to find the beat.], which means I'm probably getting to the point of getting through what I had sketched out in my head I wanted the characters to do. "Getting through" is relative, of course, because to do the thing I'm envisioning, it still might take a thousand or two of words (or more). But it's nice to know that the tried and true technique of writing until the story reveals itself has worked again. Or something like that.

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, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

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

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

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

Day Twelve: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Thirteen: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[alexseanchai]

sounds like a fun afternoon

re writing: *cackling gleefully*

[silveradept]

It was. Very low-key and relaxing.

[china_shop]

Woohoo! Yay for finding the plot!!! *\o/*

Day 14: I took a thorough pass through fic #5 and am feeling a little morose about it, though it's probably 98% there. I think it might need to sit a day or two. And al this editing has stolen my momentum. I want to get back to first-drafting #6, and I keep veering off to twitter or other things...

Maybe tomorrow. Or maybe inspiration will visit me overnight. *crosses fingers and keeps notebook handy at all times*

[silveradept]

Always the possibility that inspiration will strike in an idle moment. Or after enough sleep.

[sierranovembr]

Today I added more than 600 words to a collaborative project. That felt really good!

[silveradept]

Ysay for words, especially on a collaboration.

[cornerofmadness]

only 154 words for absolutely no reason. ah well

[silveradept]

But those are still words toward the tally, so they're good.

[cornerofmadness]

they are but it would help if I could focus. Thanks

[sanguinity]

Nov. 13: wrote. Good day, too -- 1300 words. (It would have been nice if that was on the project with a deadline, but ah, well.)

[silveradept]

That is a good day with words. And yes, too bad that it's not on the project with a deadline, but...you're just working on some other unknown deadline, right?

[yasaman]

It's always such a great Eureka! moment when you figure out plot! :D

Day 13: 1,620 words on my WIP, plus I edited one section of the draft for a net of 54 words there.

[silveradept]

Isn't it just?

Good sets of words there, too.

[azurelunatic]

I was tired but got in a good 2000+ words. I'm still about a week ahead of par.

[silveradept]

It's nice to be ahead of par when you're doing things.

[alexcat]

Nov 9 - 194
Nov 10 - 816
111 -13 I was in rhe hospital.

[silveradept]

Oh, goodness. Is everything okay now?

[lferion]

Day 13 - 700+ words! Mostly on Lamps, some on some work things that were actual writing.

Yay for your story plot finding you!

[silveradept]

Yay, that's more than a few words!

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for finding the plot! That sounds like a delightful moment in the process, and I hope it engenders a bunch more like it! :-)

I wrote 440 or so words on the next fest fic I have to do. It came from a surprising place and is a different sort of story, and I am loving it very much. In fact, I rather wish I didn't have gainful employment today, so I could instead just inhabit that space.

[silveradept]

Sometimes, it would be nice to stay in our worlds for a bit longer than we are allowed to. But good for words and for creating a place that's nice to stay in.

[ysilme]

That's so lovely! ♥ *hugs*

[umadoshi]

Day 13: 264 words. ^^

[silveradept]

Hooray for words!

[carenejeans]

Still doing the fic/nonfic two-step! 8-)

The fic is still in pieces, but I have hopes...

[silveradept]

So long as the pieces start coming more together, you'll be great.

[redsixwing]

The chaos is half the fun of Super Smash for me, too. (And I say this as someone who is lousy at fighting games as a whole, and Super Smash in particular.)

Yaaaaay finding the plot! Also, I loved that movie so much as a kid. I hesitate to watch it again, just because I don't know how it'd stack up now and I don't want to spoil the memory.

I have made words today. Hopefully I'll get some more later on.

[silveradept]

I don't think of myself as particularly good at it, but I do like when the chaos factor gets revved up with it. Although there is such a thing as too much chaos, when I lose sight of my own character in all the fun.

I liked the movie when I was younger, and I also wonder whether the Suck Fairy has left traces on it.

Hooray for word!

[auroracloud]

486 words on the novel! Plus some nominal editing of the Femslash Ex fic, but my mind was extremely unavailable for anything more productive than reading fanfic last night, waaah.

[silveradept]

That sounds pretty normal, yeah. But words!

[ysilme]

Congrats on finding the plot solution, that's awesome! *\O/* I hope the writing will now behave accordingly, too. ^^
For me, it's thankfully been a much better writing day yesterday than the day before. 3,5k all together, with "just" 2k for NaNo, but at least I managed my self-set word goal again. I'm working at the self-motivational issue with moderate success y th- but better than nothing, right? But I also decided to allow myself to work at another of my current WIPs if I'm getting stuck again. I'm rebelling anyway, and the narrative part of the Novel project is stuck from missing world-building all around. I've written down several thousand words of notes on what I figured out so far, or what ideas I had. But I find you can't just create a whole new world on the go and write a well-working narrative at the same time - or at least I can't, as there is so much of my world I have no ideas about yet. I think I'd probably do better using auroracloud's approach and work every day at least a bit at the project, but don't limit myself to it, because what I'm really missing right now is the joy and drive of the NaNo-related writing of a continuous narrative.

[silveradept]

That sounds like a sensible solution to the issues before you. Keeping the joy might be more important than managing the word count.