Write Every Day - Day Nine

[cornerofmadness]

For me it bears thinking upon the fact that Stephen King (and presumably others) feels the same way about his stuff as I occasionally do about my own.


How's it going? I hope to write today but right now I'm fighting an insurance battle and I'll be lucky if my head doesn't explode. The call center person at Medicare basically called me a liar because no way medicare could be showing up as my primary insurance since I don't have medicare. Yes I know that ma'am but it is because of a snafu with another same named/same birthday person in Texas and ALL my bills are getting messed up because of it. raptor shriek


ETA - I edited and posted a Lucifer ficlet that was supposed to be for fandomgiftbox and got 783 words on Bound by Fear


If I forgot you on a tally, let me know. And let me know what day you're commenting about





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

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

Day Three - sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, lferion, phrenk marvelouscity, sanguinity iberiandoctor silveradept shanachie_quill

Day Four - sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, lferion, marvelouscity, sanguinity nafs iberiandoctor, silveradept shanachie_quill, phrenk


Day Five - sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, lferion, marvelouscity, sanguinity nafs iberiandoctor, silveradept shanachie_quill, phrenk

Day Six - sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, lferion, marvelouscity, sanguinity shanachie_quill, phrenk, thesebonesaregood, silveradept

Day Seven- sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, lferion, marvelouscity, sanguinity shanachie_quill, phrenk, thesebonesaregood, silveradept



Day Eight- sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, china_shop, spikedluv, lferion, marvelouscity, sanguinity shanachie_quill, phrenk, thesebonesaregood, silveradept

Comments

[spikedluv]

It's good to know we are not alone.

Good luck with your calls. It sounds like a nightmare.

I did not write anymore last evening because I got a book in the mail I wanted to read.

Day 9: Today I typed in the short fic I had written and edited, adding words at both stages. I don't expect to get any more writing done today because I'm gonna finish that book! *g*

[cornerofmadness]

A book in the mail is an excellent reason to set aside writing for a while but yay to what you did get done.

And yes I find it helpful to know I'm not alone

[badly_knitted]

Watched a hedgehog rooting about in the garden but didn't do much else. The rain came along later than forecast.

Sept 9th - 797 words, a challenge ficlet and a double drabble, plus some editing.

[cornerofmadness]

HEDGEHOG! You have no idea how happy that makes me.

Glad you got some writing down too.

[badly_knitted]

Delighted me too. I knew there was one about because my neighbour had seen it, but then she saw one come into my driveway and under the side gate and she alerted me. It had stopped so I carried it to one of my wood piles. That was a few weeks back, so seeing it a second time, in daylight again, was a treat. It had been at least 15 years since I'd last seen one.

[cornerofmadness]

That is so cool. We don't have wild hedgehogs here

[badly_knitted]

Yeah, another of my American friends said they're not indigenous over there. Numbers have declined over here so I'm glad to see there's at least one about.

[cornerofmadness]

No they are not in either North or South America. I had heard about their declining numbers so very glad you have one ambling about.

I also love that your badgers look like they'd invite you to tea and ours look like they'd cut you for a bent dime (I am curious I should look to see if they are actually genetically related)

[badly_knitted]

It's really sad, hedgehogs are such fascinating creatures. I nursed one back to health once after it got caught in the cricket nets at school.

Bagers are also amazing and it sickens me that the government keeps having them culled because of bovine TB.

If you want to know more about badgers, there's a book I read, a true story by Chris Ferris about her nights studying her local badgers. It's called The Darkness is Light Enough, and it's fascinating, it really opened my eyes.

[cornerofmadness]

THanks I'll look up that book

[badly_knitted]

I hope you can find it, I learned so much from it.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[sylvanwitch]

OMGs! This Texas thing has gone on for years now! I can remember you talking about having called multiple times in the past. What a nightmare! I'm sorry you have all that stress on top of everything else.

I managed 204 words on the short story today (ETA: Day 9). Too tired to focus otherwise, and I don't want to screw this up.

[sanguinity]

I hope you catch some R&R soon -- sounds like back to school has wiped you out!

btw, you asked me to let you know when I start posting the Hornblower fake married thing. First chapter went up today! Until Death or England Do Us Part

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. It's a little harder to stand in class than I thought but on the other hand I also expected it to be harder than it is in a way

Oh thanks! Hey is the the Ioane Gruffydd version? I really enjoyed that

[sanguinity]

Ioan Gruffudd, yes, although this is based on book canon -- TV canon never got as far as Flying Colours, the show running out of money and support several books earlier, damnit. (And yet the fans live in hope!)

Flying Colours is the book where they end up prisoners of Napoleon, slated for execution. My story is an AU branching off halfway through the book: they've escaped their guards, but are only just figuring out how to get out of France. Also, gay marriage is a thing in Napoleonic France, because I said so.

[cornerofmadness]

Oh very cool. I have to admit it, never read the books (this is not my usual cuppa but I thought the show was well done). I do not remember who Bush is but that's okay. I'm looking forward to finding time to try and read

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you for the kind words and also *squees*! Just in time for the weekend! Have bookmarked! Than you for letting me know!

[sanguinity]

You're welcome! I very much hope you enjoy!

[cornerofmadness]

yay for getting some done. Yeah you've been around a lot for Texas Dana. I feel like I should go there and meet her

[shadaras]

Day 9: Some meta, some fic; less of the former than I'd like and more of the latter than I expected. :)

[cornerofmadness]

Very nice!

[sanguinity]

Sep 9: Pressed post on chapter 1! Also, more editing. Editing editing editing of a very messy chapter.

[cornerofmadness]

Excellent and good luck with editing

[marvelouscity]

Day 9 - another alibi sentence.

[cornerofmadness]

that's good

[marvelouscity]

thanks :)

[satoyan]

Day 9: perhaps a paragraph.

[cornerofmadness]

Excellent

[lferion]

9 Sept -- 200ish words answering comments, actually substantive answers. Also got feedback on the things I did yesterday and have posted the Fan flashworks one. Currently posting the SWG one, which is a tad more complicated.

[cornerofmadness]

nicely done. Good luck with posting the complicated story (just did that myself)

[china_shop]

10th: rewrote one fic, after getting beta comments, and wrote 376 words on another. I feel like I'm juggling a lot of balls atm.

[cornerofmadness]

I hear you on the balls in the air. Good job!

[luzula]

Wordcount for 9th of September: 200
Total wordcount on established relationship fic: 38,500

Super busy day yesterday, so not much time for writing. But I got words! So sorry about your insurance battle. : ((

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. It's a long going battle with an impossible dragon to slay.

good job on the words!

[ysilme]

Another quote I can strongly agree with! So true. Same here, too; it gives me a strange kind of motivational boost to hear that a writer of such renown makes similar experience than little writing me. *blushes*
OMG, that raptor shriek is only too justified! What the actual fuck? *sends tons of sympathies and explosion-preventing headgear*

Had a new plotbunny jumping at me yesterday (9th) ending in about 500 words of notes and me being half excited, half annoyed - I don't have time for this right now, but I so want to write it! *g* It's actually a combination of two prompts for the exchange I wanted to write treats for, so I might end up with a late treat after all.

[cornerofmadness]

Right? my life. But yes I think it DOES help to know that we are not alone in our writing struggles.

excellent work on all of this. Oh I know that I don't have time for this but want to write it now dilemma