Write Every Day - Day Three

[cornerofmadness]

How's it going? Day two I ended up with 1060 words on Bound by Fear. Nice to meet other late night writers and all you morning ones too. Let's not forget you afternoon ones! I was listening to Lou Diamond Phillips talk about writing his book and how he scribbles lines at work in between things and I thought yep this is me. One of my better pieces of writing advice is find what works for you, thinking on a writing friend who was super into An Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and insisted morning pages were the only legit way to do it. I'm like yeah...no. You do you.


On the technical side of things, turns out you can't schedule posts on DW (it occurs to me all my modding work was over on LJ and other times doing WED I didn't mind when I posted these so never tried scheduling) so there may b e a bit more variance in when they go up. I figure no one is going to mind tremendously. Also let me know in the comments what day you're posting about, thanks. Ironically using @ works to link the names in DW but not LJ ah the mysteries of coding.

And if I forgot you on a tally, let me know.

ETA - Day three I managed 1262 words on a prompt fic, Slither (Prodigal SOn) and posted it + 710 words on Bound by Fear

Day One - sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, trobadora, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, shanachie_quill, lferion, phrenk marvelouscity, yasaman, nafs, sanguinity

Day Two - sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, lferion, phrenk marvelouscity, yasaman, nafs, sanguinity

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[shadaras]

Day 3: Meta meta meta :D I might not get much fic-writing done today, but I'm happy about having the meta finished up.

[cornerofmadness]

good job on getting the meta down

[spikedluv]

I did managed to get some words written last night, so yay! (700 or so based on what I typed in this morning.)

Day 3: I did get some words written this morning. The last few lines to end the fic referenced above, and a paragraph or so to end another fic that I re-read/edited this morning. I have high hopes that I'll get more written this evening from working on one of the challenges I have going. *fingers crossed*

[cornerofmadness]

great job, good luck on getting more done

[spikedluv]

Thank you!!

[silveradept]

Days 1-3 are about trying to add queue to the weekly project and do some work on the projects due at the end of the year. I think I have some ways forward on most of those things, so it's a matter of getting the words into place more than anything.

[cornerofmadness]

sounds great, good luck

[luzula]

Wordcount for 3st of September: 500
Total wordcount on established relationship fic: 36,000

Managed to write earlier this time! And congrats on your substantial word count.

[cornerofmadness]

great job and thanks

[sylvanwitch]

Yeah, I'm not a morning pages person either, so I relate to what you say here. It's always good to be reminded that there is no One True Path to being a writer. :-)

On Day 3, I added 512 words to "The Blacksmith's Daughter" outline, largely character appearance descriptions and a lot more notes on setting, which I hadn't given much thought to until now. I have zero artistic skill, but I'm going to have to put together a sketch for reference, or I'll forget where I've put the major rivers. ;-)

[cornerofmadness]

Yay for all that. God I hear you. I need to map out homes half the time in my stories

[badly_knitted]

Sept 3rd - 1049 words, a 1k challenge fic and a bit of editing on two fics for posting.

My word count for the year is now 240240, much to my amusement.

[cornerofmadness]

excellent and I love it when numbers turn out like that

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

So do I *grins*

[ysilme]

Late night writer here, too; but due to the time difference it's not at noticeable with WED etc.
805 words for today's tally, partly for additional scenes and notes on two of the WIPs I'm supposed to write, partly for the Drawer WIP.

I can totally relate to that meme! Happened to me last year; a MD in a YT documentary series I watched last year was one of my charas to absolute perfection. I'm quite pleased that I now also have an image for him, and I don't know if it's just me (some things work differently in my Aspie brain as I know) that I don't have a clear visual idea of how a character looks like, and don't care much about shape, eye colour, hair colour and the like beyond some basic physical things, but still have a very clear "image" of that person. Until I saw that MD I hadn't known my "image" could be that detailed and precise, I just thougth I didn't visualise my charas like NTs do.

I'm also fully with you on "find out what works for you". I love morning pages, for example, as a way to a) write longhand, b) write something about me personally without writing diary, and c) get things off my mind or heart. But my "MPs" are mostly written during the day or late at night, only occasionally, and not much like they were introduced. They're just another tool for me I adapted to my needs.
Besides, I honestly think that the worst piece of writing or general advice is that "X is the only/legit/best way to do something", no matter what and how. We're not machines and our brains aren't carbon copies of each other. (Thankfully! LOL )
A few years back, I've gone more or less fully digitally with anything I wrote, down to grocery lists (evernote). The sad thing was that my handwriting was decreasing due to lack ofpractice; I'm also left-handed and write generally rather illegible, which was one of the reasons I started to do morning pages to stay more used to writing longhand. (I need to add that longhand for me means writing cursive with a fountain pen; I only recently learned that it's not or no longer normal for US students to learn cursive, but it's standard for any German child, including writing with ink and a fountain pen. Being lefthanded and writing with fountain pens is a bit more tricky than for righthanded people, so a bit more training/ keeping in practice needed.)
Last year, I also started Bullet Journaling, and although I'm writing that with a fineliner part of its appeal was writing longhand again daily. I've now developed a new appreciation for writing with pen on paper, and am just right now experimenting with yet another new-to-me tool also for writing: a perament notebook with digitalising option. Mine is a RocketBook, you write with erasable ink pens on special polyester pages, and can scan them through throught the app and have everyhting with just two clicks in your cloud drive folder as a PDF. Since I forever lose handwritten notes this is perfect for me for general note taking, and for writing I intend to use it for the occasional scribble or even doodle or drawing, which I often do for groudn plans, items, lists, relationships or such arbitrary stuff, but didn't find a good way to have it easily available at any given point in my writing file. (To link back to my remarks about Campfire and in what way it doesn't work for me, this might be just the additional tool I was missing so far.) And also, hey, new gadget! XD

[cornerofmadness]

Yay for another late night writer.

I'm with you. Saying there is only one way to do it is a disservice and dangerous advice. I've been doing this a long time and I've seen that often and I always call it out. I had another person (this one I never did like) in a writer's group who had gone to Clarion's writing workshop and if they said it there it was Gold. He used to hound me for not outlining. I was over the moon when Steven King came out with his book on writing where he doesn't outline and I put that in this dude's face (which I usually wouldn't do but he was such an obnoxious arse)

Ooo I have never heard of that Rocketbook thing. I hand write A LOT, even with the nerve damage to my hand because I literally can write nearly anywhere and I find that I do think about the story differently if I hand write vs type it. You are not wrong, America did get rid of cursive BUT I think they brought it back at least in many schools after a backlash.

[ysilme]

I also write kind of everywhere, but mostly on my phone, sometimes with a bluetooth keyboard - I'm lefthanded and can only write longhand with a sufficiently large surface under my hand, which is difficult on my lap. Sometimes I also make audio recordings, like when on a walk or so.
I got this one but there are a several other types and sizes, from pocket-sized to large notepad. I don't know if this is relevant for you, but somewhere it said it's not so useable for lefthanders because the pens take a moment to dry and because of the ring binding on the left side, but I had no issues whatsoever which is rare. You need to use this type of pen only, I believe, to be erasable, but they have them in many colours, as highlighters, and all are refillable, which is perfect for me.

[cornerofmadness]

I cannot write on a phone. I literally can't see the screen clearly ever so that's a no (not to mention wifi is so bad here it wouldn't be able to save reliably)

That is really neat tech. I'm not sure I'd use it but I think it's really cool thanks for sharing it

[china_shop]

3rd: 624 words and a bit of editing to finish and treat and send it to beta.
4th: 177 words. Hard going today, after a bad night's sleep. Think I'll leave it at that.

[cornerofmadness]

Yay for finishing and getting it to the beta. Hope you got better sleep by now

[marvelouscity]

Day 3 - rewrote part of my 1 pager, then sent it off. Fingers crossed.

[cornerofmadness]

Excellent. Here's hoping!

[sanguinity]

Sep 3: Added a few more words to the ending of chapter 2. Still not happy with it, but I'll have some uninterrupted time to actually think about it tomorrow, so fingers crossed.

And yes, I'm 100% with you on finding what works for you. It can be useful to hear what others do, in case one can usefully borrow or adapt it for oneself, but there is no one true way universal to all writers.

[cornerofmadness]

Hope you get that bit to where you want it.

Exactly this. You get too many would-be authors getting caught up in the idea that there's one true way and that's not their way. You need to play around with it and find your path

[lferion]

3 Sept - 1580 words on TRSB1. I need to get to the end of this, so I can post it. I have the other one to finish too!

[cornerofmadness]

Best of luck in finishing. That's a fantastic step towards getting it there

[satoyan]

Day 3: two sentences.

[cornerofmadness]

good for you!

[sanguinity]

Sep 4: Successfully rewrote the ending of chapter 2, hooray! I knew I just needed a little undistracted time to throw at it. And I rewrote/edited/finalized an announcement for one of the comms I run.

ETA: And edited chapter 3, hurrah!

[cornerofmadness]

excellent