Write Every Day - Day 1
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luzulaIn December I am hosting Write Every Day. Welcome, everyone!
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! We’re an open-minded, nonjudgmental group of people who enjoy writing.
What do I have to do?
We’ll post each day with a little bit about our writing and a running tally of participants. All you need to do is drop by the comments on the most recent tally 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?
Absolutely not! Fanfiction, original fiction, screenplays, blog posts, meta, academic writing, morning pages, reviews, editing, letter-writing, nonsense poems, bucket list: if it feels like writing to you, it counts!
Do I have to participate all the time?
No way! You can come and go at your pleasure.
Do you have any goals for the month? And let me know if you did any writing today.
As for me, I have certainly not been writing every day myself the past week, because feelings have been interfering with my writing brain. I was well on the way to meeting my 150K pledge at Get Your Words Out, but after two weeks of writing almost nothing, I think I'll cut myself some slack and let that goal go. I'm currently at 134K, so given my normally-functioning brain, I could do it, but, well.
I will make an attempt to write tonight, though--actually I have a fic sitting pretty much finished, so the easiest thing to do would be to edit and post that.
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! We’re an open-minded, nonjudgmental group of people who enjoy writing.
What do I have to do?
We’ll post each day with a little bit about our writing and a running tally of participants. All you need to do is drop by the comments on the most recent tally 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?
Absolutely not! Fanfiction, original fiction, screenplays, blog posts, meta, academic writing, morning pages, reviews, editing, letter-writing, nonsense poems, bucket list: if it feels like writing to you, it counts!
Do I have to participate all the time?
No way! You can come and go at your pleasure.
Do you have any goals for the month? And let me know if you did any writing today.
As for me, I have certainly not been writing every day myself the past week, because feelings have been interfering with my writing brain. I was well on the way to meeting my 150K pledge at Get Your Words Out, but after two weeks of writing almost nothing, I think I'll cut myself some slack and let that goal go. I'm currently at 134K, so given my normally-functioning brain, I could do it, but, well.
I will make an attempt to write tonight, though--actually I have a fic sitting pretty much finished, so the easiest thing to do would be to edit and post that.
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Date: 2024-12-02 12:05 pm (UTC)I've been doing not-NaNo in November (as in, doing the challenge but no longer tied to the NaNoWriMo organisation/website), but it didn't go well. I finished and even with a day to spare, but the creative writing part went really badly, and I didn't meet part of my set goals, which were finishing two or three smaller WIPs. Part of that was my voluntary job springing an unexpected amount of work on me which also was consuming an unusual amoung of brainpower, part was physical exhaustion from the ongoing project of cleaning out Siljan's mum's house. For December - and likely the months to follow, too - my goal is to get back into a good writing mode, since that got lost sometime earlier this year, and also because 2025 will bring major changes to my daily hours and rythm. Since I'm still quite busy I'm starting easy with falling back on my Nostalgia project, taking an old stories I've written several versions of and bringing this together to one draft at least, if not written "story" - story in that context would most likely mean large part draft with finished scenes in-between, but a continuous narrative. These stories tend to be my comfort writing, meaning I'll go back to them and write out more scenes, or add more draft, but most are really open-end.
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Date: 2024-12-02 01:57 pm (UTC)