Write Every Day: 15 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 15 November 02019.

How about that! We're halfway home, if you're on the NaNo train. That's still plenty of time to get everything done on the schedule that you want, naturally.

Today, I ended up playing Stunt Professional by doing programming in a different location on nearly zero preparation or warning. The nice thing about being a mid-career professional is this particular kind of stunt work is really easy to do so long as you have the space and access to a couple of resources, which I did. Much appreciation from the location where I was Stunt Professional, and from there it was mostly just meetings. I didn't quite get everything I wanted done, but that's because I went and was a Stunt Professional, and that work will keep until I get back into the office next.

Writing-wise, I put another chapter into the backburnered project, since an ending for the assignment project hasn't materialized yet, and I'm probably going to think about how the next chapter of that will go. I also continued to dither about whether or not to post the next installment of a series, because while the plot works entirely, it gives a fairly significant characterization shift to someone compared to canon, and it moves the tone of the entire series from somewhere fluffy-ish to something decidedly not. Then again, I have a work where someone has explicitly said they found the characterization dark, but they enjoyed the work all the same. So I think I'm just getting nervous about it for no reason. Some people will like it, some people won't, and maybe some people will stop reading it, if there are any further installments that show up (there haven't been so far, so, *shrug*)

My writing projects seem to be taking a turn toward the darker recently. That's not bad or wrong, just interesting to observe. Half the fun of posting work is posting stuff that comes into your head and that you put effort into. And then seeing that there are people who like it all the same.

I also poked at my stats for the year so far, and this year is turning out to be prolific, in terms of words produced in fiction efforts, and also the year where a single work is responsible for about 10% of my total kudos count. (There's your one-hit wonder, right?) And also, the year I went out into a megafandom and came back okay, with lots of people apparently enjoying things enough to leave a kudo, a comment, or a bookmark that just says "perfect". (It's not marked as a Rec on that bookmark, though. Which seems oddly charming.)

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, ysilme

Day Fifteen: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for so many good words this year! Go, you! :-)

I played around a bit with the second fest fic and added 172 words or so to that, bringing it to what I think is more or less the ending. It's hard to tell with this one, as it's more a meditation or a moment-in-the-life sort of thing and not strictly a narrative, at least not the sort you could chart on Freytag's Pyramid. (Can you tell I'm an English teacher by day? *g*)

[silveradept]

Thanks.

I guess I can tell by not knowing what Freytag's Pyramid is. But that might mean I have something interesting to spring on a relative who also teaches English and see if they can explain it to me.

[sylvanwitch]

If you'd like to know, I'd be happy to bore you with the details. *grins* Otherwise, I'd be curious to hear what your relative says. I don't know if it's a universal tool, but I'm pretty sure it's taught under different models and names in other places.

[silveradept]

Sibling called it the plot mountain and explained what it was, so I definitely knew what it was, just I hadn't heard it by that name.