Write Every Day: Day 1

[luzula]

In December, I am hosting Write Every Day. What is this, you ask?

What is the Write Every Day challenge?
Write Every Day is just what its name says: We challenge each other to write, every single day. Our goal is to encourage one another and provide the accountability and/or motivation that some of us find very useful in keeping the words flowing. However, there's no obligation and no pressure, and if writing didn't happen for you on any given day, there won't be any judgement, just support and sympathy!

Who can participate?
Everyone is welcome, regardless of whether you have participated before!

What do I have to do?
I’ll post each day and keep a running tally of participants. All you need to do is drop by the comments on the most recent entry to let us know how you’re doing. Please know that you are never obligated to check in. Also, if you'd like to comment on someone else's comment but aren't checking in for yourself, that's perfectly fine too. We're really easygoing 'round here, and conversation is absolutely encouraged.

Is there a word limit or quota?
Nope. Write as little as an “alibi” sentence (just what it sounds like—a sentence you write to say you’ve written, an alibi for the day, as it were) or as much as you’d like. All word counts are welcome!

Is there any restriction on the kind of writing I can do?
No! Fanfiction, original fiction, screenplays, DW posts, meta, academic writing, reviews, editing, letter-writing, nonsense poems: If you can write it, you can count it!

Do I have to participate all the time?
No! You can come and go at your pleasure.

I will (usually) be posting in the morning European time. If you don't say otherwise, I will assume that you meant to check in for the same date as the post. If you want to check in for another date, please say so. And please always use the last post for checking in, even if it's for past dates.

Alright, go forth and write! And come check in afterwards. : ) Optional question: do you have any goals for the month?

Comments

[trobadora]

I usually (try to) write in the evening, so I'll properly check in for the first day tomorrow. In the mean time, thank you for hosting this month! ♥

[luzula]

My pleasure! <3

[sanguinity]

Goals: Yuletide, and maybe some more ACD Holmes microfic? But largely: write every day.

Dec 1: Early morning insomnia, which sucks on its own terms but sat least I got some good words worded.

[luzula]

Good for you making fic lemonade of your insomnia, but I do hope you get some sleep tonight!

[chestnut_pod]

What good timing! I need to buckle down and finish my last qual essay in the next couple days, and then I should try to wrap up James Herriot in Valinor.

[luzula]

Two excellent goals, good luck with them! : ) Perhaps I shall read the next chapter of James Herriot in Valinor as bedtime reading.

[regshoe]

James Herriot in Valinor

Oh, that sounds amazing XD *goes to read'

[luzula]

Much recommended! : )

[regshoe]

My goals for December are to finish my Yuletide assignment and write at least one treat!

Day 1: Redrafted more of the Yuletide fic—it's getting there.

[luzula]

Excellent goals, they are mine also! Good luck with the redrafting.

[luzula]

Day 1: And I have FINISHED the draft of my Yuletide story! \o/ Edited the whole thing today and sent it to beta.

[sanguinity]

Woo-hoo! *does the sent-to-beta dance*

*additionally considers estimating wordcount via how many days you worked on it x 500*

[luzula]

Ha, I suppose I have no hope of avoiding your detective skills! (Although I could have been lying, and in fact only worked on Yuletide for a week and then worked on other things...I have in fact lied that way in the past. *g*)

[sanguinity]

Heh, we shall see!

[ysilme]

Congrats, that's awesome! *\O/*
*joins in the sent-to-beta dance* *agrees to the word count calculation* ^^

[luzula]

Thank you! : D It is a relief to be done with my main Yuletide story.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you so much for hosting us this month! I'm excited to be here. :-)

My goal for December is to break 150K for the year. Since I am beginning the month at just under 142K, I don't think that should be too difficult.

Today, Day 1, I added 520 words to the novel "outline" (which is, in several places, really a zero draft).

[luzula]

Welcome! : )

That sounds like both a pleasing and a realistic goal! I think I've been averaging about 150K a year since 2020, since I got into my current fandom.

[scribe]

Wooo, thank you for the impetus! I wrote a smidge of a D&D-related project, which I would not have done without this post.

[luzula]

Yay, I am pleased to be of use! : )

[badly_knitted]

Yay, thank you for hosting!

Goals... ummm, to work some more on the werewolf fic I started last month, and hopefully write something for newyearcntdown

Dec 1st - 939 words, a challenge ficlet and editing on a couple of fics, one of which has been posted. The other one needs a better ending and coming up with one was taking too long.

[luzula]

You're welcome! I also have a werewolf WIP, though I've laid it aside for Yuletide. Good luck with yours. : )

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I'm a bit stalled with mine, but it's already over 12k and I have so many notes for dialogue I want to include at some point!

[shadaras]

My goals are very simple: Finish all the winter-holiday exchange fic I have due this month. xD And maybe write some non-exchange things too!

Day 1: ~1k of new prose, and another ~800 additional words as I edited another fic.

[luzula]

I think that is the goal of a lot of us this month, me included! And wow, that's a lot of words.

[yasaman]

Hello again! Thanks for hosting this month!

Day 1: I've got two active WIPs going right now, and I managed 444 words on one, and 1,336 on the other.

[luzula]

Hi and welcome! : ) That is an impressive wordcount, go you.

[china_shop]

Thank you so much for hosting!

I have ridiculous goals, including treats for fandomtrees and maybe Yuletide, but my first goals are 1) to finish a WIP that's the final in a series (which I'll refer to as the threesome fic), 2) to finish and post the story I was going on about last month (*g*), which is currently at beta, and 3) to write something for each of the fan_flashworks rounds in December.

1st: lots of edits, and finally sent the-story-I-was-going-on-about-last-month back to beta. \o/
2nd: 313 words of flashfic, written and posted for the last November round.

[luzula]

My pleasure! Those are ambitious goals, but I see you're making good progress on them. : )

[muccamukk]

Goals of the month are to finish at least two yuletide treats, write my HBO War holiday exchange fic, and an Advent fill for Top Gun. Every single one of these is due on the same day.

Day 1: Wrote 400 words on Yuletide Treat #2, which is a meandering mess of a thing.

[luzula]

Well, at least you won't have the trouble of keeping track of different deadlines. : ) Good work on the treat!

[yhlee]

Thank you for hosting!

Goal: make actual progress on a contracted novel. :/ Mostly the difficulty is health.

Day 1: ...I wrote 600 words of fanfic instead. I may have to drop fanfic-writing in favor of the contracted linguistics sci-fantasy, sadly.

[luzula]

Welcome! Yes, I am familiar with the problem of being obligated to write/do something, and procrastinating by means of fanfic...best of luck with it.

But meanwhile, I am here to congratulate you on writing, whatever it is! : )

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks for hosting, day 1 - 1300 words on a chapter that won't find an ending

[luzula]

Welcome, and good job writing! : ) I hope you get to that ending soon.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[silveradept]

Checking in for Day 1, wrote the first of my December Days series for this year and made sure my assignment had fewer weird decisions and typos before turning it in.

[luzula]

Good work writing and editing! : )

[anavkour]

checking in for day one a tad late, finished what ended up being a 1.3k word fic intended for rainbowlists that i still need to work up the courage to post

my goals for the month are to find the joy in writing by myself again! it's been a while, and i have some new stuff to chew on to get my writing muscles back into gear. also to try out scrivener, since i still have a trial running

[luzula]

Welcome, and those sound like excellent goals! : )

[lferion]

1 December - added a bit to a long-term wip, tried to add to a current piece but I need to figure out how far I am taking it.

Goals -- maintain the fan flashworks streak, write some Yuletide drabbles, figure out what I am doing for the Silmarillion Writer's Guild Nov-Dec challenge.

[luzula]

Good luck with your goals this month, they sound fun! : )

[carenejeans]

Thank you for hosting!

My main goal for the month is to keep working on a few essays I'm struggling with, but also to have fun and write a bunch of drabbles and flash fiction (maybe post something to fan_flashworks?).

Day 1: A bit over 800 words. Some of that was a bunch of frustrated whining that I had to get out of the way before getting down to work on the actual essay. But at least it worked. ;-)

[luzula]

You're welcome! : )

Hee, I'm glad the frustrated whining worked to get you going.

[ysilme]

Thank you for hosting December! ♥
After my extraordinary writing November (I finished NaNo with 80k and wrote far more than I ever did before) I plan to take it easy for a while. For the first time in over a decade I don't have any deadlines looming, assignments coming or mod duties schedulded, and my goals are mainly having fun, working at my larger fannish and original projects (haven't yet decided if at one in particular or just generally fiddling around, doing research and working at the basics), and finishing at least one of my smaller WIPs. I also plan to cut back my writing time a bit after several months of intense writing, to make room for the odd needlecraft projec for Christmas. *g*

[luzula]

You're welcome! : ) Oh, those sound like lovely goals, I hope you have some nice leisurely fun writing in December.