Write Every Day: Day 2

[talkingtothesky]

 I've managed another 1,100 words today. Hoping I can keep this up all week and all month, my Camp goal is very attainable if so. Being realistic, I will probably burn out, slow down and/or flounder around, though. :P

Tally

Day 1: alexcat , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop , cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (14/14, so far)


Are the fish (words) leaping out of the stream at you, or are you hunting under rocks for snails?

Comments

[cassini]

[nice work on getting past 1K! not having work today, i was writing on and off between 1-9am and managed 1.2K in 100 word pieces, and it got me thinking about 'drabble' as a definition. i'll probably throw out some words about that later ]

[for now, gotta get to the shops before they all close, can't keep writing and cleaning without fuel ]

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you! And nice work to you too, I often find breaking things down into 100 word chunks very helpful. Would be interested in reading your drabble definition.

[cassini]

[still meeting people on dw, but every person who's used a keyboard can always get together and bond over the feast-or-famine of the writer's experience ]

[if i get something written on 'drabbles' i'll probably link it in day three's checkin, and maybe on the final check in i'll chase down my general blogging wordcount for the month for a bonus to the total ]

[yantantether]

That's a great total! I made myself giggle on the tube this morning because of something I was writing - hopefully other people will find it funny too, not just me :D

1117 words today.

[talkingtothesky]

You made an excellent wordcount, and even better when they are funny words! That's a wonderful feeling, I'm glad you experienced it :)

[auroracloud]

I did some research reading and various character notes for my novel.

Impressive word count for you for the day, congrats!

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you, and yay for character notes and research! Very productive tasks.

[falkner]

I was out of the house until 9pm today, and I came back dead tired, so all I wrote was an alibi sentence. Still something, though.

[talkingtothesky]

Wow, well done for having the willpower to write a sentence even while exhausted! You rock.

[sylvanwitch]

Look at you go with all those words! Wooo-hooo!

Today, the fish bit only after I baited the hook with words picked at random from The Vampire: His Kith and Kin, by Montague Summers. (I grabbed it off a nearby shelf.) That led to a little SGA fanfic (424 words).

[talkingtothesky]

Ooooh, thank you for mentioning that book, will have to see if I can get my hands / eyes on it. Congrats on your successful fanfic fishing strategy :)

[alexseanchai]

I have no idea where the fuck this is going but I've spent 2700 words so far to get there

[talkingtothesky]

This comment made me grin! You seem so angry about that incredibly impressive wordcount. I hope the direction of your story becomes clear soon.

[alexseanchai]

😅

[cornerofmadness]

hunting under rocks. 139 words. sigh

[talkingtothesky]

You persevered and gathered the reluctant words regardless!

[china_shop]

That's a great word count! *\o/*

For me, for the 3rd, just an alibi sentence. My WIP is getting bogged down in "I have no idea how to get out of this mess I've made." I might take a break and write a flashfic tomorrow...

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you! \o/

Fingers crossed that taking a step back helps you see the wood for the trees in the WIP.

[enemyofperfect]

45 words today, again squeezed in last thing before bed, but I'll take it!

[talkingtothesky]

That's perfect, keep things ticking over, one or two sentences a day is all you need for this challenge.

[carenejeans]

Good word count!

I'm er, herding fish? ;-) I spent some time rearranging files in Scrivener, moving various bits into a better story flow (I hope. Yeesh). The only word count change I made was negative: I deleted stuff here and there. Including some old brainstorming. *coff*

[ysilme]

I love the term "herding fish"! XD

[talkingtothesky]

You can totally herd fish, dolphins do it all the time :D Well done for tidying up your workspace so you can see things better.

[ysilme]

Yay for your writing achievement! I keep my fingers crossed this works out for you. I found it relatively easy to make the daily word count during the main NaNo, in the last two years even mostly my self-set goal of 2k, but also really only then, and not on a second month in the year. *g*
Yesterday went really well. Instead of editing the mentioned drawer fic I stared a new part of it and wrote nearly 1k for it.
(You might want to check your code; the line of the tally doesn't break so only the first nine (in my case) user names can be read.)

[talkingtothesky]

Yeah, I can hit high (for me) wordcounts during April, July and November, but I'm much slower in the other 9 months of the year.

Congrats on your 1k for the drawer fic!

Oh no! What should I be doing with the code? I've only done a comma-separated list and let it wrap to the next line when it wants. I can see all the names no problem?

[ysilme]

Your entry for day 3 is fine, so I think you can just ignore this entry. Do you do spaces after the commas? I know that I do, but I don't know if that makes a difference - would also depend if you're writing it in code in the html window (or an external text editor like I'm doing it) or in the rich text window.

[silveradept]

Salmon jump for me. Got through the rest of a book in giving grief to, so that helps my queue significantly, so that I can be sick, like I am, without worrying about my posting schedule.

[talkingtothesky]

Awwww, glad the words cooperated so you can rest a bit.

[alexcat]

608 on an aimless sort of Stony thing.

[talkingtothesky]

Great work, thanks for checking in! I'm getting the tally updated now so you'll be there :)