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

[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.