Write Every Day: Day 3

[talkingtothesky]

Was a bit of a struggle to reach 1k today but I got there eventually. I finished a paragraph on 995 and those last five words were far more difficult than the others!

Tally

Day 1: alexcat , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop , cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (14/14, so far)
Day 2: alexcat , alexseanchai , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop , cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (15/15, so far)

 

Comments

[yantantether]

736 words for me today - my characters are currently rolling around in a bush together but I don't have a ton of inspiration for what's going to happen next. That's for tomorrow!

[cassini]

[no matter what the context 'my characters are currently rolling around together but i don't know what's happening next' is so relatable XD ]

[talkingtothesky]

Pfffft that sounds hilarious! Hope you figured out where to take them next, maybe somewhere they can get the leaves out of their hair? Great wordcount!

[falkner]

416 words today divided between two stories. I seem to be in a phase of just adding words to whatever WIPs I feel like without actually finishing anything...

[talkingtothesky]

Adding words to various projects without committing to any particular one is my default state, I sympathize!

[cassini]

[pixel art devoured at least three hours of my writing time this morning, as i turned to my image inspiration after struggling to drag 100 words out of myself, and i really worried that might have been it for the day. i was so tired when i got an rp message at 2pm(?) that inspired me to try jotting down a start to the scene i had plotted with that character. uploaded that from the phone after some sleep, and it was an even 700 words - that fic is now at an unedited 15K. therefore, day 3, 800 ]

[i did write a conversation starter on what a drabble does, exactly and i'd like to try writing a bit more of that scene i started, but i'm going to wait until after midnight and put it towards day 4's wordcount ]

[talkingtothesky]

Wow, you have an awesome variety of techniques for harvesting words! Will head over and read the drabble meta when I finish replying to comments :D

[alexseanchai]

I outlined bits? Sort of? I know substantially what happens in two crucial moments prior to the earliest bit I wrote yesterday, anyway; the structure of this is a sequence of outside PoV vignettes and therefore these crucial moments can only be hinted at in-text. I also have several notions of what next. Problem is they contradict.

(I gotta get Minuit screaming "Where the fuck have you been?" the moment she sees him, and subsequently hugging him within an inch of his life and asking what he did with his hair, in text somehow, though.)

And I don't know if I can drop into the PoV of the police officer looking at Adrien's phone without rethinking my structure, because of necessity that's a scene Adrien isn't in. I also don't know if I can revisit any of the existing seven PoV characters (or other OCs), or if I can't. Gaaaah.

[talkingtothesky]

Congrats on tackling a thorny outline! Making decisions on which contradicting ideas to run with is one of the hardest parts, imo. Keep at it, hopefully things will untangle and become clear soon.

[alexseanchai]

:)

[st_aurafina]

I got 1616, and I've pretty much joined my fic all together now. I will be writing all new stuff tonight instead of patching, which will be an interesting change of pace.

[talkingtothesky]

Look at you go!!! Every time I check the cabin I'm like WOW you leaped forward. (Which is good news for me, because maybe I'll get to read the finished fic sooner, hehehe.) Well done on bridging all the gaps, I hope you enjoy being able to explore new parts of the plot next :)

[sylvanwitch]

Go you! Yay for sticking it out for those last five impossible words. :-)

I wrote a 244-word exercise during the writers' club I run for a small group of students at school. It's always fun to hear what they come up with, and I usually have a lot of fun myself as well. Today, we picked random words from the bible and then had to use them in a story. I managed to work Moab, unblemished, events, drew, and obscure into a little satirical bit about Satanism, bestiality, and proper English ritual sacrifices. ;-)

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you! I'm trying to be a bit stubborn about hitting 1000 words or going a bit over, because the little extra words accumulate.

Wow, Satanism and...huh. Lucky it didn't come to 666 words, then, I suppose? :D

[enemyofperfect]

An alibi sentence and an earlier bedtime are what I've got today. *faceplants gratefully*

[talkingtothesky]

Nyawwwww. Enjoy your well-earned rest. <3

[cornerofmadness]

The day I was barely home turned out to be the best so far (not saying much mind you)

393- finished flash fic that I now have to trim

225 words for wipbigbang

105 words on the thing I was supposed to be working on. sigh.

[talkingtothesky]

You wrote lots of words AND made progress on the thing you meant to do! Not bad at all.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[carenejeans]

I know what you mean about struggling to get five more words to get to a goal. It's like your brain suddenly goes, "words? what are words, earthling?" and refuses to cough them up.

So to speak. ;-)

I did more "herding" -- reorganizing and deleting. And will do more tomorrow! And the next day!

[talkingtothesky]

That's the spirit! Keep persevering! :D

[auroracloud]

I spent a lot of time writing notes and outlining for two different short story ideas. By my calculations ended up with over 1000 words of notes! Maybe my muse has taken to this "actually write short stories" plan. We'll see!

Also a bit of research reading for the novel again.

[talkingtothesky]

That sounds like a very productive day all round! Well done.

I keep meaning to do short stories myself but I'm struggling to predict how many words things actually need? Just need practice, probably. Don't want to start a short story collection and then find I've got five fledgling novellas on my hands, y'know?

[auroracloud]

I keep meaning to do short stories myself but I'm struggling to predict how many words things actually need?

I totally know what you mean! I tend towards wordiness, and usually when I start something that I believe is a short story, it ends up wanting to be more of a novella or a long novelette, and then I run out of steam because I didn't plan as much as something of that length needs from me. I've had more practice with short fiction when I've done fanfic exchanges etc. because I rarely have time for anything long in the time-frame of the exchange, and I have an incentive to finish! And I've also been reading more original short stories, especially after I discovered all those modern SFF zines (including their podcasts, which allow me to "read" a story while on a train or cleaning or knitting or something). So I'm hoping I'll start to learn to think also in short-story length, because some stories will work better explored in a shorter length, and I don't have time to write a novel out of all the ideas I get! I still don't know how to predict length (though I do okay-ish with fanfic, but there I already know many of the variables, like characters and the world), but maybe it'll get easier if I manage to write a few of them!

[alexcat]

400 drabble words and 611 on the meandering thingie!

[talkingtothesky]

That's awesome, very well done! \o/

[silveradept]

Turns out I had to stick a conclusion onto something I had already thought I completed, so that puts a few hundred words in the bank, without having to move forward on a different story that just needs writing.

[talkingtothesky]

Oooh I find conclusions so hard! Well done for wrapping that up.