Write Every Day: Day 20

[luzula]

Well, sometimes a deadline makes you productive: my beta reader ideally wanted my Yuletide treat yesterday, and so in a heroic burst of writing I added 2,000 words to it and got to the end! It's barely alpha-read, but I sent it off. Of course today I'm paying for it with stiff shoulders... How is your writing going?

Day 1: china_shop, sanguinity, regshoe, luzula, sylvanwitch, scribe, badly_knitted, shadaras, yasaman, china_shop, muccamukk, yhlee, cornerofmadness, silveradept, anavkour, lferion, carenejeans, ysilme, trobadora, chestnut_pod, miss_ingno, chanter1944, the_siobhan, garonne

Day 2: china_shop, ysilme, yhlee, sylvanwitch, regshoe, badly_knitted, shadaras, alexseanchai, miss_ingno, muccamukk, cornerofmadness, china_shop, yasaman, chestnut_pod, sanguinity, silveradept, chanter1944, lferion, carenejeans, the_siobhan, luzula, garonne

Day 3: china_shop, yhlee, ysilme, regshoe, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, shadaras, china_shop, silveradept, chanter1944, sanguinity, scribe, muccamukk, cornerofmadness, lferion, yasaman, carenejeans, sanguinity, chestnut_pod, luzula, garonne

Day 4: china_shop, badly_knitted, regshoe, sylvanwitch, shadaras, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, the_siobhan, yasaman, lferion, carenejeans, luzula, chestnut_pod, ysilme, chanter1944, silveradept, garonne

Day 5: china_shop, yhlee, regshoe, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, shadaras, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, lferion, yasaman, chestnut_pod, silveradept, garonne, chestnut_pod

Day 6: chanter1944, china_shop, ysilme, sylvanwitch, silveradept, badly_knitted, garonne, yhlee, alexseanchai, shadaras, chestnut_pod, lferion, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, yasaman

Day 7: sylvanwitch, regshoe, badly_knitted, china_shop, garonne, shadaras, chanter1944, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, yasaman, lferion, yhlee, ysilme, silveradept, chestnut_pod

Day 8: china_shop, yhlee, badly_knitted, regshoe, sylvanwitch, silveradept, shadaras, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, yasaman, alexseanchai, lferion, chestnut_pod, ysilme, chanter1944, garonne

Day 9: silveradept, chestnut_pod, shadaras, lferion, china_shop, alexseanchai, yhlee, badly_knitted, sanguinity, regshoe, sylvanwitch, ysilme, cornerofmadness, chanter1944, garonne

Day 10: silveradept, the_siobhan, china_shop, garonne, badly_knitted, regshoe, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, shadaras, chanter1944, yhlee, cornerofmadness, yasaman, alexseanchai, lferion, ysilme, chestnut_pod

Day 11: silveradept, garonne, chanter1944, the_siobhan, china_shop, ysilme, regshoe, yhlee, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, sanguinity, shadaras, chestnut_pod, cornerofmadness, lferion, yasaman

Day 12: silveradept, garonne, chanter1944, alexseanchai, ysilme, china_shop, regshoe, yhlee, badly_knitted, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, shadaras, cornerofmadness, chestnut_pod, yasaman, lferion

Day 13: silveradept, ysilme, garonne, lferion, yasaman, china_shop, regshoe, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, sanguinity, shadaras, alexseanchai, chanter1944, yhlee, cornerofmadness, chestnut_pod

Day 14: silveradept, ysilme, chanter1944, yhlee, china_shop, badly_knitted, regshoe, garonne, sylvanwitch, chestnut_pod, sanguinity, shadaras, cornerofmadness, yasaman, lferion

Day 15: silveradept, garonne, ysilme, shadaras, china_shop, badly_knitted, regshoe, yhlee, sylvanwitch, chanter1944, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, chestnut_pod, lferion, yasaman

Day 16: ysilme, lferion, silveradept, garonne, badly_knitted, regshoe, alexseanchai, yhlee, sylvanwitch, shadaras, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, chanter1944, silveradept, china_shop, yasaman, chestnut_pod

Day 17: chanter1944, lferion, china_shop, badly_knitted, regshoe, sylvanwitch, chestnut_pod, ysilme, yhlee, shadaras, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, yasaman

Day 18: yhlee, china_shop, regshoe, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, shadaras, chestnut_pod, chanter1944, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, yasaman

Day 19: yhlee, china_shop, regshoe, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, chestnut_pod, shadaras, cornerofmadness, china_shop, sanguinity, yasaman, lferion

Day 20: china_shop

Comments

[yhlee]

Yay for finishing!!

Day 20: alibi paragraph on the linguistics sci fantasy for now, but I hope to get in more later, plus some noodilng at screenplay stuff.

[ysilme]

I hear you on the deadline motivation! :op Go you getting out so many words and finishing the story, that's totally awesome!

I currently find it hard to focus on any of my projects since there's no deadline looming, but so much to do in holiday prep with limited energy, but at least I'm getting things done, if not exactly writing things. ;op
Day 18: 680 words of nonfic plus some fic editing including a few new words
Day 19: 79 words for the nostalgia project + 1,2k writing-related nonfic

[regshoe]

Oh wow, well done! :D

Day 20: Finished editing the treat and sent it to beta.

[badly_knitted]

Well done, that's a lot of words!

Dec 20th - 614 words of festive smut. Just needs a final edit, and then it's done!

[alexseanchai]

20: sometimes doing more research means gotta scrap a funny line about wanting to avoid hat hair, bc it turns out going outside with uncovered skin in that city within a month in either direction of the date of this event is asking for frostbite; yeah he's canonically only seen with less-than-perfect hair when he's been either exercising for hours or out drinking all night, yeah he's never been seen wearing anything even vaguely hatlike that isn't a flower crown, and yeah it's funny to have him say he's Russian and therefore immune to cold, but he is not going to risk frostbite

and sometimes doing more research means the flight I'd already decided for other reasons that this character is taking turns out to be a characterization choice with some weight to it, bc it's on a low-cost airline (and booking intercontinental flights day-of and business- or first-class is something he has canonically already done without seeming to give a moment's thought to the expense, and someone did a meta that concluded that—even with that and other big-ticket impulse purchases he makes onscreen—he's more than familiar with money stress and he's made sure he'll never have to worry about money again, and nonetheless in canon he is content to fly coach when doing so eases his boyfriend's money stress), and also turns out to be much funnier, bc exactly two airlines use Terminal 2 at KIX bc even most of the low-cost airlines prefer the higher operating cost of using Terminal 1, bc if it's raining when passengers are going between Terminal 2 and their plane, the airport lends them umbrellas

also I found what chapter 2 was missing and I fixed it, but I am still trying to figure out how to get chapter 3 to get going

[sylvanwitch]

Boo for stiff shoulders but YEAH for a complete alpha draft!

Today, my holiday break started after the faculty Xmas party, so I am officially On Break, and to celebrate, I wrote 702 words on the novel.

[shadaras]

Day 20: Alibi sentence

[cornerofmadness]

You and I had similar bursts of deadline inspired mania. I wrote the last 1250 words to finish the math horror

[yasaman]

Day 20: 237 words on the one WIP, and 1,060 on the other! Lopsided today, alas, but still progress!

[sanguinity]

Dec 20: Alibi sentence.

[lferion]

20 December - a somewhat random drabble and a short free-form poem for the Solstice. Posted the poem to the fan-flashworks amnesty. How is it the Solstice already?!

[china_shop]

Wow, congrats on finishing!

21st: 709 words on my gift fic. (Several thousand words in, and I still haven't got to the point where I can incorporate the prompt. /o\)

[luzula]

Thank you! : D And good job getting in some writing already.

[luzula]

Thanks! : D That's totally legit, sometimes you have to focus on getting other things done--and I see you're getting some good word counts anyway, even if it's non-fic.

[luzula]

Thank you! : D And good work getting the treat to beta.

[luzula]

It really is, for me! Some people here in WED routinely get those kinds of word counts, but for me it's exceptional.

Yay, festive smut! \o/

[luzula]

Lots of research and thinking about characterization, I see! Good work.

[luzula]

Yay indeed! \o/

And I'm glad you're on break, good work with your novel writing!

[luzula]

Well done not breaking your streak!

[alexseanchai]

I figured out an alternate funny, too: it must be cold cold, Victor's wearing a hat

[luzula]

*deadline-meeting high-five*

Good work! \o/

[luzula]

I'm so impressed by your high word counts! \o/

[luzula]

Alibi sentence! \o/

[luzula]

I know! Going to see if I can manage my solstice ritual tonight, which is to go out camping and sleep outside.

Good job writing! \o/

[luzula]

Thank you! : D

You're still 709 words closer to incorporating the prompt, though. Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Same here, especially these days.

I hope it will be appreciated!

[chestnut_pod]

Oops, late entry, but Day 20: 100 exactly.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[luzula]

Got it! : )