Write Every Day: 26 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 26 November 02019.

Time is a funny thing, both running at high speed and slowly. After all, it seems like an eternity ago that we were on 1 January of this year, wondering what would happen this time. To some degree, the answer finally seems to be, in my personal life, "what we were expecting," even though what actually happened was far more chaotic than that. But it's the first year in a few where I feel like the year progressed in such a way that now that it's nearly finished, I am not dreading the appearance of December and the associated festivities. I still choose to not see decorations that are specific to the December holiday, because Feast has not yet happened, and one does not celebrate feasts out of order. But the inflatable snow-being went up today, and the wind was cold after work, and while there will never be enough snow for my tastes where I am, that is now something that can be looked forward to, as well.

I had despaired a few years ago that I had lost my holiday spirit, because I could not muster any sort of joy at the prospect of the December holiday. I still don't necessarily have holiday spirit, not in the same way that people throw themselves into the decorations and the feasts and the gifting, but at least this time, for this year, I can look upon those things and nod, and the feeling in the pit of my stomach wondering how I will get through the season is gone.

It's nice.

In writing, I put down a significant number of words on the backburnered plot, realizing the chapter I was writing was absolutely in the wrong place in the narrative, and juggling the words until it was slotted in the correct space and the story once again cohered. It looks like it's almost finished. Once this chapter gets taken care of, I can go back and write the final scene and see if I can stick the landing on the end.

I've occasionally glanced at my writing statistics for this year, because apparently this is the year where I got moderately involved with a big fandom, increasing both wordcount and kudo count by a large margin, thanks to that fandom stopping by in significant numbers. This year looks on track toward almost triple what I would normally have written for AO3, and just about all of it can be attributed to deciding to go forward with enough confidence that the writing will find an audience, and then watching as the numbers come back and say there's enough interest to continue going along with the ideas as they come into my head. Or as they come along by prompts for exchanges.

It's also been interesting to look and see that the ones that I'm particularly proud of or really enjoyed writing aren't necessarily the ones that got a huge amount of numbers associated with them. That doesn't make them any less good, but it really illustrates the truth that finding something the audience likes is often significantly a matter of luck on top of the skill that someone brings to the table. Because that one-shot I dashed off as a lark is still nearly 10% of my total kudo count and still collects a few bits here and there. So, yeah.

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

Day Sixteen: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

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

Day Eighteen: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Nineteen: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

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

Day Twenty-One: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Twenty-Two: alexseanchai, auroracloud, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Twenty-Three: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trascendenza, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Twenty-Four: alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trascendenza, umadoshi, yantantether, yasaman, ysilme

Day Twenty-Five: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yantantether, yasaman, ysilme

Day Twenty-Six: alexseanchai, azurelunatic, bladespark, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yantantether, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[bladespark]

I wrote! Weird centipede-aliens FTW. (Still not what I should be doing, but oh well, at least the patrons have historically liked this stuff.)

[silveradept]

Sometimes you want to please the people who give the monies.

[sanguinity]

Nov. 26: did substantial revision on one project, but didn't make much forward progress in getting to the end. Also published the story I got beta comments back about yesterday.

[silveradept]

Yay for publishing and for revising.

[alexseanchai]

talked with a beta about trying to revise the bodyswap to cohere with post-"Miracle Queen". much less editing required if it's vaguely pre-"Ladybug", but as beta said, I want to write the next bits with no Fus to give.

also, half credit for starting my Spicy Advent fic. (did not actually, because Thea wanted to cuddle, which made everything in that vein too awkward to attempt. but tried.)

[silveradept]

Spicy Advent, huh? Sounds higher-rated than many things.

Having no Fus to give sounds like it will make a lot of other things work better.

[alexseanchai]

Not necessarily, but that is the general idea, yes. In unrelated news, femslash_kink just opened for prompting.

remember the diary box from "Darkblade"? 😈

[yasaman]

Day 26: 525 words on the WIP! had a slightly less long day at work today, but had to run some errands afterwards, so not so much time to write today.

[silveradept]

Words are still words, so yay for that!

[umadoshi]

at least this time, for this year, I can look upon those things and nod, and the feeling in the pit of my stomach wondering how I will get through the season is gone.

This is lovely to hear. *^^*

557 words tonight!

[silveradept]

Hooray for words.

[sakana17]

Nov. 26: 673 words.

[silveradept]

Yay, words!

[yantantether]

Yay for finding the right place for your chapter!

About 850 words for me today - I've been having fun this week writing little ficlets for a fannish celebration, as well as the other fic I'm working on.

[silveradept]

Sometimes a lot of small projects is what we'd like, instead of working on only a few big ones.

[azurelunatic]

I got an alibi sentence or two in. And I did write on the 23rd.

[silveradept]

Got the 23rd noted, and the 26th.

[china_shop]

Day 27: 507 words on time travel fic #6. I meant to finish the first draft today, but I couldn't keep my eyes open. Hopefully tomorrow.

[silveradept]

Sleep is often a valid life choice, even when it interferes with fic writing.

[ysilme]

it really illustrates the truth that finding something the audience likes is often significantly a matter of luck on top of the skill that someone brings to the table.
So very true. If I went by statistics and the attention I'm getting for my fic (not), I'd better give it all up and never touch any creative writing again. I often need to remind myself forcefully that I'm not writing in a very active fandom, am writing in quite a remote corner even for that fandom, and am writing anything but mainstream, and seem to write in a fandom corner where people have become even more feedback-shy than on the average. As a consequence, and also through my own reading and other fannish experiences, I've learned early on that the number of comments or kudos has nothing to do with the quality of the writing. I'm only getting very little feedback on anything I write, but most of this shows me that indeed I can write, and not bad either, and that I can touch people's , draw out their emotions, and give them some decent entertainment.

For my tally: a bit over 900 words for both the 25th and 26th.


Could I ask you for a favour, too? I'm currently pondering to buy the Campfire pro software, as one of the NaNo winner goodies is an offer for 50% off. I'd like to ask if somebody of the WED participants has already made any experiences with it. Could you perhaps post this question with your next tally entry, please, so everybody sees it? Thank you!

[silveradept]

Yeah. It's a nice ego-boost to be writing in a big fandom where you can achieve big numbers, but not everybody in every fandom is the same way, and some of the things I really thought of as good works haven't been seen by many, much less commented or kudoed on.

Yay for words, and yes, I'll put the question up in the post for the 27th.

[chanter1944]

A couple of paragraphs on one project, and some poking at another that unfortunately didn't go much of anywhere. Yet.

[silveradept]

Not yet, but it sounds like it might be sleeping just a tad longer than the alarm before bursting awake into fullness.

[sylvanwitch]

As an inveterate disliker of a certain Xtian holiday celebrated post-Yule (the feast I privately celebrate), I can empathize with what you describe here, especially the regaining of some positive feeling toward said holiday. I also heartily agree that decorations for said holiday shouldn't make an appearance until AFTER this week's feast day.

I edited the fourth of the fest fics and then posted both three and four on Day 26.

This month has flown by.

[silveradept]

It has gone quickly, it seems.

And yes, while I realize that commercial enterprises often sell the things before because that is how they get them into people's hands to decorate on time, I still feel that December holiday decorations should wait until at least past Feast before appearing. But I am also a person who does not engage in a lot of decoration, unlike the other people I am around. And I must be at peace about that, as well, as my own grumpiness and experiences don't get to intrude on their joy.

[lferion]

Day 26 - 200ish words on two different scenes in Lamps, one of which established a character's hair color, which was different from what I had thought. It's always interesting when a character says, "No, it's *this* not that." for whatever this and that are.

Inflatable snow-being :-) I like that.

[silveradept]

Sometimes, those character declarations help resolve plot conflicts for me, so they're almost inevitably helpful.

Snow-beings are generally non-gendered, so it doesn't make sense to refer to them with a default masculine pronoun.

[cornerofmadness]

I lost most of my holiday spirit too and miss it.

I don't want to peek behind the writing curtain, too much fanfic not enough original fic here.

I got 2515 words last night

[silveradept]

I would enjoy having it all back, yes, but I think it's on the slow path for healing, given how much it was a difficult affair for so many years.

Unless the original fic is how you pay the bills, I don't see much of a problem with "too much fanfic."

Yay for words!

[cornerofmadness]

I'm sure you're right about it.

Yeah I actually AM a published author so... (but no it's not my main source of income) I've needed this year off to be honest hence the too much fanfic


thanks

[azurelunatic]

As more good memories accumulate, I think you will relish the oncoming season accordingly.