Write Every Day: 14 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 14 November 02019.

Today I got to check off another couple items on the List of Infamy with regard to my profession, which I believe advances me further toward the goal of being a Real Librarian (as opposed to one who has not yet seen enough of the underside of the public to be thought of as Real, which is a terrible metric to measure anyone's customer service bona fides with.) There are some poor life decisions that people make, and sometimes those decisions get made in public around us and we deal with the consequences of those decisions. Which is to say, if you leave behind proof that you are doing illegal things in the library, you probably should just count it as lost rather than trying to retrieve it from the desk staff, hoping they won't recognize it for what it is.

Writing today wasn't stalled so much as it was me having to spend a lot of time doing other things, but, having not learned my lesson about it the last time, I wrote the first six sentences of what will be songfic number two so I had something to show off at St. Hap's. In theory, this should be an easier thing, because I'm working off song prompts instead of fic prompts, right? (HAAAAA. Tell that to the 18k of not-lyric that came from the first songfic and how long it took to get done.) Thre's an ending to the fic I found the plot for yesterday lurking out there somewhere, but I don't have it now, so I'm going to go work on other things and wait for it to arrive. After I get done with the other weekly project. And possibly stuff some food in my face, because tonight was a late night for me, and I have yet to give myself a substantive dinner before bed.

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, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Fourteen: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman,

Comments

[sanguinity]

Nov. 14: wrote. To the tune of 1800 words and a finished draft, which has since been sent to beta.

Oh, and I also got a job offer today. Which means that soon I'll be doing a full time job plus commute, so we'll see how that affects my writing habit.

[silveradept]

Yay for the chunk of word count. Also, congratulations on the job offer! Commute can be a real chunk of time to either write or not be able to write, depending on what you use to do the commute.

[sanguinity]

Bus and streetcar! There's an hour lunch break, too, so we'll see what I can do.

[silveradept]

Sounds possibly productive, assuming you can write on devices or on buses.

[sanguinity]

I've been known to write longhand when I'm away from my laptop. Never that many words at a go, but if it's catch-as-catch-can anyway...

[silveradept]

Yeah. Sometimes you get what you get and that's all you can get.

[china_shop]

Day 15: Posted time travel fic #4 (YAY!) and wrote an angsty poem for fan_flashworks. Also sat in a cafe and free-wrote about five pages on time travel fic #6, most of which is terrible, but I'm hoping it will kickstart things tomorrow. *fingers crossed* :-)

[silveradept]

Good things all around!

[umadoshi]

790 words! ^_^

[silveradept]

Hooray for words!

[lferion]

Day 14 - got a drabble and the bones of what seems to be a pretty bleak poem.

[silveradept]

Good for words. Is bleak the emotion you were looking to evoke there?

[alexseanchai]

Partially sorted out a plot structure.

[silveradept]

Excellent! Now if the computers would just behave.

[azurelunatic]

Another day of feeling uninspired when I sat down, and cranking out words regardless.

I have amended the dice technique to include Skittles. Line up 20 Skittles next to the 20 sided die. Rotate the die to keep count of how many Skittles are fair game for consuming. 100 words = 1 Skittle.

[silveradept]

So it's turning into NaNom for you?

[azurelunatic]

Yup!

[treonb]

I won't have time to write today

but, yesterday, Day 13 - about 400 words (altogether now 24.6K). I finished a first draft and sent it for first impressions. I also need to research a few more things before posting. I intend to post the fic in chapters, so I hope to start soon and rewrite as I go.

[sylvanwitch]

On Day 14, I added 525 words to the second fest fic I'm working on.

[silveradept]

Yay for words and fest fic!

[yasaman]

Day 14: didn't get much editing done on the draft before I got too sleepy, only managed to get 1/3 of the way through one section for a net of 30 words. However, I did also get 1,709 words on the WIP, which was nearly all for a scene that took a somewhat surprising emotional turn. Surprising in a good way! But still, hadn't quite planned for it.

[silveradept]

Sometimes they just sneak up on you and you go "no, that makes sense, how did I not notice this was going to happen before?"

[redsixwing]

HOW is it nov 15.

>>if you leave behind proof that you are doing illegal things in the library, you probably should just count it as lost<<

...I admit, I snickered at your phrasing here, but sympathies on having to deal with that.

I went and wrote three sentences upon seeing this post. I have written today. Hopefully I'll get more. The Yuletide fic has taken a turn for the sort of major onscreen hurt that is typical of canon; I'm hoping I can pull off both the hit and the upswing.

[silveradept]

Hooray for words, and also, I think you can pull off the necessary parts.

[cornerofmadness]

ahahahaha that reminds me of the young woman when I was still in med school who was wearing a halter moniter (think of it as a mobile ECG) because her 'heart was racing and she didn't know why' in the hospital. She spiked an arrthymia and I went to see why and she was doing coke off the hospital tray. I think I found your problem....

It was a BUSY day. I finished the final edits for my Christmas novella and got them back. (and got my cover whoo hoo, looks great)

I finished my fandomtrumpshate story and of course nanoed for a total of 3012 words

[silveradept]

That is certainly one way of finding out what was going on with someone, yes. But at least now you know?

Yay for busy days and finishing projects.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. And yep now I knew

[auroracloud]

Let's see... *checks notes* Some handwritten pages for the so-called ambush project (which has been laying low the last few weeks, maybe it's planning a new ambush, but anyway, got it out last night), 112 words of novel just to get my 100-word-a-day minimum, some more editing of the femslash fic... And uh, 881 words of a tropey fic based on a random prompt generator that someone on my friends list was graciously doling out fic prompts from, for characters I requested. It is very very tropey indeed. I got too tired to finish it, but I'll try to finish it soon and post it without thinking too much, as I believe that to be the spirit of the game.

So, at least yesterday was accidentally quite a productive day!

[silveradept]

Yay for productivity!