Write Every Day: Day 17

[luzula]

Intro/Welcome/FAQ

Tally:
Day 1: china_shop naraht rushthatspeaks badly_knitted osprey_archer garonne regshoe chestnut_pod hogwartstoalexandria scribe cathexys luzula isis sylvanwitch ljm vendettadays chanter1944 bluedreaming sanguinity cornerofmadness nnozomi marvelouscity ride_4ever yasaman lferion shadaras ysilme silveradept boxofdelights dhampyresa

Day 2: china_shop rushthatspeaks shadaras badly_knitted vendettadays hogwartstoalexandria osprey_archer tei regshoe luzula sylvanwitch nnozomi isis silveradept chestnut_pod ljm chanter1944 cornerofmadness sanguinity bluedreaming marvelouscity ride_4ever yasaman naraht lferion ysilme garonne boxofdelights dhampyresa

Day 3: china_shop garonne osprey_archer regshoe badly_knitted scribe naraht luzula sylvanwitch isis alexseanchai shadaras chanter1944 ljm chestnut_pod bluedreaming vendettadays boxofdelights cornerofmadness ride_4ever china_shop yasaman sanguinity marvelouscity lferion ysilme hogwartstoalexandria silveradept dhampyresa

Day 4: china_shop naraht ysilme tei badly_knitted regshoe hogwartstoalexandria luzula garonne isis shadaras dhampyresa sierranovembr sylvanwitch osprey_archer rushthatspeaks chestnut_pod vendettadays bluedreaming ljm cornerofmadness chanter1944 sanguinity ride_4ever lferion yasaman silveradept

Day 5: alexseanchai china_shop badly_knitted sylvanwitch silveradept tei regshoe naraht sierranovembr luzula garonne shadaras osprey_archer chestnut_pod isis chanter1944 ljm sanguinity bluedreaming cornerofmadness ride_4ever yasaman lferion dhampyresa hogwartstoalexandria ysilme

Day 6: china_shop osprey_archer naraht regshoe luzula badly_knitted garonne dhampyresa sylvanwitch boxofdelights hogwartstoalexandria chestnut_pod shadaras ljm bluedreaming sanguinity cornerofmadness ride_4ever yasaman marvelouscity lferion ysilme silveradept chanter1944

Day 7: china_shop badly_knitted vendettadays regshoe silveradept naraht luzula osprey_archer hogwartstoalexandria ljm shadaras chanter1944 bluedreaming cornerofmadness chestnut_pod yasaman sanguinity ride_4ever lferion sylvanwitch garonne ysilme

Day 8: china_shop badly_knitted regshoe naraht luzula sylvanwitch sierranovembr isis osprey_archer ljm shadaras chestnut_pod chanter1944 bluedreaming sanguinity cornerofmadness vendettadays yasaman lferion ride_4ever garonne hogwartstoalexandria ysilme boxofdelights silveradept

Day 9: china_shop garonne badly_knitted tei hogwartstoalexandria regshoe osprey_archer naraht luzula sylvanwitch ysilme boxofdelights shadaras ljm isis chanter1944 bluedreaming cornerofmadness sanguinity yasaman ride_4ever lferion silveradept

Day 10: china_shop regshoe silveradept osprey_archer naraht chestnut_pod badly_knitted sylvanwitch luzula ysilme shadaras ljm bluedreaming cornerofmadness sanguinity yasaman ride_4ever lferion alexseanchai garonne chanter1944 hogwartstoalexandria

Day 11: china_shop osprey_archer regshoe chestnut_pod badly_knitted luzula garonne naraht shadaras sylvanwitch chanter1944 ljm cornerofmadness bluedreaming ride_4ever sanguinity lferion yasaman hogwartstoalexandria ysilme isis silveradept

Day 12: china_shop hogwartstoalexandria badly_knitted sylvanwitch regshoe chestnut_pod naraht luzula shadaras chanter1944 yasaman bluedreaming sanguinity ljm cornerofmadness lferion garonne ysilme isis silveradept ride_4ever

Day 13: china_shop tei badly_knitted sylvanwitch regshoe luzula garonne naraht ysilme hogwartstoalexandria sanguinity shadaras ljm chanter1944 bluedreaming cornerofmadness boxofdelights chestnut_pod yasaman lferion marvelouscity isis silveradept garonne ride_4ever

Day 14: china_shop naraht isis regshoe silveradept sierranovembr badly_knitted sylvanwitch garonne yasaman shadaras ljm chanter1944 bluedreaming cornerofmadness chestnut_pod sanguinity lferion luzula ysilme

Day 15: china_shop regshoe luzula naraht badly_knitted garonne sylvanwitch thesebonesaregood shadaras yasaman sierranovembr ljm bluedreaming sanguinity cornerofmadness lferion ysilme chestnut_pod chanter1944 yasaman

Day 16: china_shop luzula badly_knitted regshoe chestnut_pod sierranovembr naraht sylvanwitch sanguinity shadaras chanter1944 ljm bluedreaming cornerofmadness ride_4ever lferion garonne

When you check in, please use the most recent post, and if you're checking in for a different day, say so. You can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone. Good luck with your writing today!

Comments

[china_shop]

17th: couple of hundred words on a new chapter of a WIP. :)
18th: 949 words, and I've finished the additions, yay!

[regshoe]

Day 17: 450 words, and I think I've reached a bit of a turning point in the plot.

[luzula]

I wrote my 500 words, before it was late in the evening! Total wordcount: 17,000.

[badly_knitted]

Feb 17th - 689 words. 5 Doctor Who drabbles and edits on a fic for posting.

[sylvanwitch]

On Day 17, I did some significant editing on another original short story that I'm going to submit to a horror market. It was a fairly new story and still in working draft, and the ending, in particular, needed heavy edits. I think it's in much better shape now, and I'm hoping to get it submitted tomorrow.

[china_shop]

Yay, go you!! *\o/*

[osprey_archer]

Wrote a bit on the Secret Project today! Back after an unintentional hiatus in which I went to visit my parents and forgot the charging cord on my laptop, so there went a few days... but hey, vacations are good for us, right?

[shadaras]

Day 17: Meta! Also fic because I wanted to procrastinate on the meta. xD

[ljm]

Day 17: 340 words

[chanter1944]

Roughly 250 words for today. :)

[cornerofmadness]

1326 words on DIgging Up Bones for day 17, that'll hold me if I can't get anything in after the little hand surgery tomorrow

[bluedreaming]

Cheers on another 500 words!

Feb 17: I recorded and edited a 10 minute podfic and did the cover. Feeling pretty pleased.

[ride_4ever]

Handwritten notes for the tomato sauce recipe that I'm in the process of creating.

[sanguinity]

Feb 17: Went back to Lost Honour, transcribed a bunch and cleaned up that slew of alibi sentences I wrote.

[yasaman]

Day 17: did a ton of work writing today, so alas only 119 words of fun writing on WIP 1.

[chestnut_pod]

Just scraping in, but I did it! ETA: oops, for day seventeen!

[silveradept]

Got to check in for Days 15-17, with progress made on getting an entry done in time and in continuing to fill 3SF prompts on the second page. (And leaving nice comments for Chocolate Box works.)

[luzula]

Well done, and have fun with your new WIP! : )

[luzula]

Oooh, interesting, and I shall look forward to eventually reading it. : )

[luzula]

Thanks! : D

[luzula]

Look at you go, you're so productive! \o/

[luzula]

Cool! Have you had any luck with earlier submissions you've talked about?

[luzula]

Oh no! That happened to me once, and it was incredibly annoying. But good work today.

[luzula]

Hee! Even your procrastination is productive. : )

[luzula]

That's good progress! : )

[luzula]

Good work. : )

[luzula]

Good work, and best of luck with the surgery!

[luzula]

Thanks! And good work, I also did some podficcing today. : )

[luzula]

Creative work of another kind! \o/

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I'm trying my best =)

[luzula]

This is a Hornblower fic, right? Although from the title, it sounds like Broster would have enjoyed it too. *g* Anyway, go you! \o/

[luzula]

Alas, I'm sorry you don't get paid for your fic writing! But good work. : )

[luzula]

Yep, I assumed that's what you meant. Good work. : )

[luzula]

Got it! And go you, leaving nice comments. : )

[sanguinity]

Yup, working title "Hornblower's Lost Honour" -- which shows every sign of being its real title, I've called it that for so long. I started it just before the pandemic, and it's currently 60K and maybe 2/3 done? Perhaps? I'd like to get it done this year, but it goes in fits and starts, so we'll see.

Premise: there's a canon story in which, to prevent Napoleon's escape from St. Helena, Hornblower swears to a lie on his honour as a gentleman. Of course the sacrifice is justified -- what is his honour against the threat of the world enveloped in war again? -- but he goes into deep mourning for his honour and attempts to resign his title and commission. (He even refuses to shake hands with people, for how contaminated and betrayed would they feel to have shaken hands with a man without honour???) Forester walks it all back at the last second, but hey, what is fic for if not to make characters live with their decisions?

And yes, I have thought about it when discussions of Broster and honour come up. I don't know if it would appeal to Broster's fans, but it is nice to know that Hornblower isn't the only character who is a dramatic little bitch about his honour. (Muttering indistinctly into his pillow about his honour is DEF something Hornblower would have done in his 20s, had he anyone to mutter TO.)

[(Anonymous)]

Let's see...the novella I submitted in October was rejected a couple of weeks ago, I think? (Time has no meaning anymore--lol!). Um...I think I have two short stories out, and I haven't heard back on either one. I'm submitting a third this weekend and then will start looking for more markets. I'm not giving up on the novella yet, either. I'm hoping to find a home for it. Maybe that'll be my project once I get this short story submitted. Thank you for asking! :-)

[sylvanwitch]

D'oh! That anonymous response was from me. :-)

[luzula]

Yes, I figured! Anyway, I hope you hear something positive about the ones that are out. : )

[sylvanwitch]

That's truly kind of you. Thank you! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[luzula]

Well, I enjoyed your previous Hornblower longfic, so I would definitely give it a chance! : )

Many of Broster's such plots involve people thinking that a character has done something dishonourable, but here's a character actually doing it. Which sounds like fun to explore!

I do sometimes wonder how the way we fic writers write honor for our iddy, slashy purposes compares to the actual 18th century (or 19th century in this case) reality of it. Of course the real version did have the stuff about keeping one's word and returning obligations, but as I understand it, it also had men being ridiculously quick to take offense at imagined slights ("You took my seat at the theater! I must have satisfaction!"), and probably some pretty misogynistic aspects as well (women's behavior reflecting on men's honor). And probably there are aspects of it that I will never understand, as well.

Ha ha, not that I am going to stop writing 18th century men angsting about their honor…