Write every day: Day 5

[luzula]

Home all day, still busy, but definitely an improvement! I only got an alibi sentence, though. I'm at a scene transition and not quite sure what comes next.

Tally:
Day 1: luzula, china_shop, trobadora, badly_knitted, goddess47, sylvanwitch, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, carenejeans, ysilme, chestnut_pod

Day 2: luzula, goddess47, garonne, badly_knitted, sanguinity, alightbuthappypen, trobadora, sylvanwitch, china_shop, the_siobhan, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, chestnut_pod, carenejeans, ysilme

Day 3: luzula, china_shop, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, trobadora, goddess47, sanguinity, chestnut_pod, the_siobhan, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, garonne, alightbuthappypen, carenejeans

Day 4: goddess47, badly_knitted, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, garonne, alightbuthappypen, china_shop, chestnut_pod, trobadora, cornerofmadness, carenejeans

Day 5: china_shop

Bonus farm news: We have excess pumpkin. Things made so far: soup, grilled in the oven, fried patties, sweet pie, savory pie, grilled in the oven with different spices, gnocchi, and wine.

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

I hope the muse gives you lots to work with for the next scene! :-)

On Day 5, I added 378 entirely filthy words to "Dixon and the Detective." Someday, I assume they'll leave Dixon's apartment, but they haven't managed it yet.

[badly_knitted]

Mmm, pumpkins!

Dec 5th - 1023 words. Work on an unfinished expanded ficathon fills, an expanded 1character sentence, finished a random fic I started a couple of months aga because it fitted the new prompt at one of the challenge communities, worked a bit more on my still unfinished fic (now over 9.2k), minor edits to a fic for posting. Phew. Progress on a lot of things!

[goddess47]

I'm not a huge pumpkin person, so it's a good thing you know what to do with them! LOL

Not knowing what comes next is hard! Can you skip it completely and come back to it later? Sometimes, those tricky transitions aren't even needed... something to think about!


Day 5: wrote today's AdventDrabble and figured out that the Teen Wolf prompt would not fit into the fic I was writing, so I wrote a 350 word ficlet for it... I know no one will turn down an extra ficlet!

[chestnut_pod]

Phoning it in with an alibi sentence… I had to do real life errands all day.

[trobadora]

Checking in for the 5th.

[nineveh_uk]

How do you make pumpkin wine? And what does it taste like?

[brithistorian]

I've been busy as well. Last night I was so tired that I went to bed about 3 hours earlier than usual, missing the entirety of my usual writing time. Today I was still super-busy, but tonight I stayed up long enough to write out of sheer stubbornness.

Day 5: 1114 words of "Madame Park's Academy II" — an entire scene written, in which two of the students start to get to know each other and in which they learn something about the differences between a secret society and an organized crime syndicate.

[sanguinity]

Pumpkin curries are quite tasty!

Good luck with the scene transition! I know you have a trusty beta, but if you want a second person to talk it through with, shoot me an email.

Dec 5. Alibi sentence!

[cornerofmadness]

I love pumpkin and all that sounds good.

four hours of lab exams today = 2900 words for me

[carenejeans]

Day 5: I was tired after a busy day and it was a chore to write, sigh. But I got a bit over 200 words.

Yay, pumpkin! All of that sounds really good. 8-)

[luzula]

Ha ha, well, I'm too tired today after a very full day, but tomorrow I'll have a writing session with my beta reading. Hopefully that'll help.

Glad you're having fun with the smut. : )

[luzula]

Progress on a lot of things, indeed! : )

[luzula]

Sometimes, those tricky transitions aren't even needed... something to think about!
True! Maybe that would help.

Good work on the bonus ficlet! : )

[luzula]

Well, that sounds productive in another way, at least!

[luzula]

Got it!

[luzula]

Well, I'm learning that you can make wine from just about anything--just add water and sugar and let it ferment. But in fact there are a fair amount of recipes for pumpkin wine online. I roasted the pumpkin in the oven first, to get the most out of the flavor, but OTOH that makes it pretty viscous even after I strained away the pumpkin after a week. I'll probably have to strain it again after it's finished fermenting. Oh, and I also added whole cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom. It's not done yet, but after a week it tasted like a cross between pumpkin pie and mulled wine?

[luzula]

Well, that's a lot of words on a day when you were busy and tired! \o/

[luzula]

Huh, good idea! Yeah, I bet that sweetness goes well with curry-type spices. I'll definitely try that.

Oh, it's only a small snag, not an actual problem--I'm sure I'll get past it.

Good work putting words on the page! \o/

[luzula]

It's like they pay you to write! : )

[luzula]

Well done! : )

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Some days it just works out that way.

[cornerofmadness]

given how well the anatomy students listen to me maybe the uni should shift me into teaching writing

[luzula]

That assumes they would listen better when taught writing, which is not always the case in my experience...

[cornerofmadness]

No they don't. As a professor, I can more or less take other classes for almost free (it's like 10 bucks or something) so long as I'm not degree seeking. I've taken literature classes here (I almost had that as my third degree when I graduated way back when) and to my shock they weren't even making them read the books any more. Just passages.