Write Every Day: Day 8

[talkingtothesky]

Please raise your hand if you're having trouble seeing the end of the tally? Are the lines not wrapping correctly? Everything looks fine on my end, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this. For today I'm going to try doing without all the links and user account icons and just listing everyone's names in text, sorry. (Let's see if it's the cut that's causing it...)

My writing: I managed 1100 words today! 700 on novel planning and 400 from a prompt. I am relieved I can still make my brain work, because I had a really crappy night's sleep. I lost count of the number of times I woke up.

Tally

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

Day 5: alexcat , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop, cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (14 / 15, so far)

Day 6: alexcat , alexseanchai , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop, cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (15 / 15, so far)

Day 7: alexcat , auroracloud , carenejeans , cassini , china_shop, cornerofmadness , enemyofperfect , falkner , sierranovembr , silveradept , st_aurafina , sylvanwitch , talkingtothesky , yantantether , ysilme (15 / 16, so far)

Comments

[cassini]

[without the tag code it formats fine for me, i usually find the name code messes with my line breaks ]

[i'm quite proud of myself for getting close to 8k last week, if i could commit to one idea and then commit to finishing it, i could be productive! but even hopping from idea to idea, i keep returning to one of my big fics so hopefully week 2 i can focus 80-90% on that and pass the 20k mark on that piece ]

[actually spent my usual writing time with my spouse today, but i managed to add 700 to the aforementioned wip ]

[talkingtothesky]

8k is totally fantastic! But I can relate to your frustration that focused in one place, those words could go a lot further. Good luck with the big 20k!

[auroracloud]

Hmm, I think all the tallies look quite normal to me, as far as I can tell.

I wrote a few poems - the first time in months! - and then I wrote something that might sort of be actual text for the short story? Maybe? It's from the middle of things, but still.

I also added a bit to a fluff fic, but I'm too tired to continue and need to crash to bed next!

[talkingtothesky]

Thanks, I wish I knew what's causing this. It could be browser related, maybe? I'm on Chrome and everything has shown up fine every day.

Hurray for poems and short stories and fluff! I hope you got some sleep, after all that. :D

[falkner]

The tally looks fine to me! And words were written today.

[talkingtothesky]

You are brilliant for catching those words!

[sylvanwitch]

I haven't noticed anything wonky with the tally, but my own experience is that formatting the usernames in DW is tricky, for sure, unless you stick to the html window exclusively. (It's a real pain.)

I wrote another 177 on the epic poem I am absolutely NOT writing instead of editing my novel. ;-)

[talkingtothesky]

unless you stick to the html window exclusively
Yeahhhhh, I have not been doing that. I'm going to try to, going forward.

Epic procrastination poem is still words, well done!

[china_shop]

I haven't had any problems with the tally. Also, "tally" no longer looks like a real word to me. :-)

Sorry to hear you slept badly; I hope tonight is kinder to you. And congrats on making your wordcount anyway! *\o/*

Today (9th) I've written 165 words of extremely dreary terribleness. I'm going to metaphorically ball them up and throw them away and try again. (I've also edited and posted a prompt fic, so today hasn't been a complete write-off. Ha, see what I did there?)

[talkingtothesky]

I slept much better the next night, thank you <3

Wooo, go you for posting stuff! And don't worry about the dreary words, sometimes we just have days where the pipes are a little gurgly.

[cornerofmadness]

It looks fine to me (though I think it was wrapping weird yesterday), I got 467 words on my wipbigbang and got my flash fic down to 300 words

[talkingtothesky]

Best of luck with wipbigbang! Good work, editing the flashfic.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[alexcat]

It looks fine without the links anyway - and I'm sure it's a little less work!

I did a 300 word drabble for my month-long drabble project. And my friend Jenny asked for some Steve/Thor PWP and I got that one done too at 1663 words. It may or may not be a one shot.

[talkingtothesky]

Hurray for drabbles and smut! You're being very productive.

[enemyofperfect]

Some of the previous tallies weren't wrapping for me -- or weren't wrapping in some browsers? -- but today's looks fine to me. And congratulations on managing to write despite wretched sleep!

I wrote 270 words on the new fic today, which is such a relief after chipping away at the other one sentence by sentence and word by word. It's so nice to remember that writing doesn't have to be a slog!

[talkingtothesky]

Thanks for the browser tip!

Awww, I'm so pleased that you found a flow.

[silveradept]

All of the summaries have worked for me so far, including this newest one.

I managed to move forward a bit on the assignment bit. I haven't completely figured out where this is going yet, and how much disbelief might need suspending.

[talkingtothesky]

Good luck with the assignment, I hope things click into place soon.

[carenejeans]

The problem with the tally is intermittent for me -- it looks fine on Day 4, but on Day 5 the last line goes off the side of the screen. Weird! It looks fine today.

Today was crazy busy and I'm exhausted, so just an alibi sentence for today.

Yay for your great word count!

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you, and well done for grabbing that alibi sentence in the midst of chaos!

[kara_mckay]

First time I've checked in this month, so I don't know how the tally has been looking.

Wrote a few hundred words yesterday (4/8/19.) I've got myself on a day writing schedule and hope to turn myself around. This year in writing has been... less than impressive.

[talkingtothesky]

Hi! Thanks for joining in. Starting small and being forgiving of yourself while you rebuild the habit is the way to go, I hope.

[sierranovembr]

Another alibi sentence. I can see where it’s going, gah, just need to find actual writing time!

[talkingtothesky]

Oooh, that sounds frustrating, but awesome that you do know WHAT to write!