Write Every Day: Day 5

[talkingtothesky]

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)
Day 3: alexcat , alexseanchai , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop , cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (15/15, so far)
Day 4: alexcat , alexseanchai , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop , cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (15/15, so far)

Today was emotionally rough for me, and it affected my writing. I had a bit of a freakout over the novel project, eventually managed 300 words of brainstorming for it, then swerved back to prompts again for the rest of my 1k. That resulted in another two new story ideas. I really need to figure out how to let go and have fun with the novel the same way I do with short prompts. But I'm just really blooming intimidated by it. What I might do tomorrow is start with the prompts as a warm-up and then try the scary thing.

Anyway, that's me. How was your day 5?

Comments

[yantantether]

552 words - it hasn't been coming easily over the last few days, but hopefully having a bit more time over the weekend will help.

[talkingtothesky]

That's an excellent wordcount, especially while they're being shy. I'm crossing everything for you that the weekend will be good.

[falkner]

370 words, yay!

[talkingtothesky]

Yay! \o/ You are doing so well!

[cassini]

[i hope that works for you - completing a novel is so far out my comfort zone, it's probably in another star system, i'm cheering you and all the other people working on big discrete projects. if i couldn't hop from idea to idea and actually had to commit to a thing, you could kiss goodbye to my wordcount. perhaps that's why my 15k thing stalled so suddenly after i had the clever notion to knot the narratives into a single storyline. *headdesk* ]

[aside from that, it's been a silly day here with two two hour naps, work and spidery shenanigans, so today's wordcount is 450 over two different things ]

[talkingtothesky]

Awww I'm sorry your story stalled! I don't so much commit to one thing as say 'this is my main focus for the month' but then leave myself room to dabble with lots of other things, if the mood takes me. Otherwise, like you, my words would disappear. I can't concentrate on just one thing for very long, but if I can make a tiny bit of progress on it each day, amongst other things, that helps me feel productive.

I'm envious of those naps :D Well done on gaining words despite silliness!

[sylvanwitch]

Day 5 was more noodling around with the long poem fragment I started yesterday. I'm kind of enjoying it. It's restful. (It's dark fantasy, but in a, ya-know, restful sort of way. ;-)

[talkingtothesky]

I'm so glad your writing is helping you relax!

[cornerofmadness]

Hope tomorrow is better for you. I wasn't around a computer most of the day.I got about 6 handwritten pages though

[cassini]

[six handwritten pages? i'm tired just thinking about that ]

[cornerofmadness]

Ha thanks. I can handwrite like I'm on speed, it's typing that's slow

[falkner]

I am the opposite, yet I prefer writing by hand when possible. Quite frustrating to spend hours handwriting and then literally only a few minutes converting it to digital.

[cornerofmadness]

Snort. Well truthfully I CAN type fast. I just don't compose in my head as fast when typing as I do when hand writing

[talkingtothesky]

Thanks. And 6 pages is awesome!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks

[enemyofperfect]

So much sympathy! Writing longer works can really be so intimidating.

Another paragraph for me. This scene would be so much easier if I could just figure out where the exposition belongs, grr.

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you for the sympathy, much appreciated.

Dear pesky exposition, find yourself a position already!

Congrats on the paragraph, I hope things slot into place soon.

[china_shop]

Sorry you had a rough day! :-(

*cheers on the scary thing*

For me (6th), I wrote 126 words on a random different ficlet. ZERO FOCUS, but some words, at least.

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you <333

Cheers for words even when they insist on being random! XD

[st_aurafina]

720 for me - It was a weird unsettling night for me. Ugh, brains.

[falkner]

*hugs*

[talkingtothesky]

720 is awesome! You are a word machine even when the brain has other agendas.

[silveradept]

Definitely words went down on a links post, which then got tidied up and posted, so that's good. There's an assignment coming out soon that will be able to occupy my spare thoughts, but for now, it's only, you know, three or four projects to bounce between.

[talkingtothesky]

Well done with posting and multitasking! I hope that assignment gives you a bumper crop of words.

[alexcat]

Sorry for being so late but I did a lot of words! 1047!! And finished part one of a little darkish STONY on a bright note.

[talkingtothesky]

Woooooo! Fantastic wordcount!