Write Every Day June 2023: Day 0

What Is Write Every Day?
Exactly what it sounds like. Every month a different person plays host to a community who encourage each other to write on a daily basis.

zwei_hexen keeps a list of past and future hosts here. There is a need for hosts for some of the upcoming months, so feel free to sign up if you are interested in hosting.

My job as a host is to post an entry every day, keep a tally of who is participating, and in general be encouraging and supportive. I will tag every post Write Every Day so those posts are easy to skip for people who are not participating.

Who can participate?
All are welcome to comment on any check-in post to say that you wrote that day. Or didn't, maybe you wanted to write and life got in the way and you want to talk about that. Victories, challenges, process, blocks - all are good topics to raise. If you'd like to cheer on or commiserate with someone else, please do - conversation is encouraged.

What kind of writing?
Whatever you like. If you want it to count, it counts.

How much do I need to write?
Any amount counts. The traditional minimum unit is an "alibi sentence" - a single sentence that lets you check in and say you've written today. But you don't have to write new words, either: research, editing, transcription, outlining, and other activities that get you closer to a finished draft all count.

How often do I have to check in?
Drop in or out at any time, or check in for several days at once, if you like. Please respond to the most recent post and say what day(s) you're checking in for, so I can keep the tally straight.

What does the tally look like?
For each day, I list the people who checked in that day, and I publish the tally-to-date in every check-in post. (Please keep an eye on whether I got you down correctly!) You can use the running tally to recreate your performance for the month, but it's not going to be readily visible that one person wrote most days and another wrote only a few.

Welcome aboard!

welp i guess summer just hit Toronto

Ugh. It's hot. Don't want to do anything.

time flies slowly

( Questions Of Days )

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How the fuck is it June tomorrow?

It hit 30 C here today, so I guess we're solidly into Toronto summer. I was hoping the insulation would be in by the time we started feeling like we need the air conditioning but obviously that's not happening.

Contractor was supposed to be here today, but I got a call from one of his guys saying he's dealing with medical tests instead and we'll see him on Tuesday. The dude went through major surgery less than six months ago, I guess I can't really complain.

Today was also the last day of my May vacation days so I'm back to work tomorrow. I spent them all doing appointments and shopping and organizing instead of, you know, vacationing, but it was all stuff that needed to be done. I even cleaned off the front porch, so I can sit outside in the shade when the house gets too hot to stand. Maybe invite somebody over for a socially distanced beer.

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Took the Old Man out yesterday for An Adventure - we used a the streetcar to take him downtown to go shopping for new shoes. It went way better than I expected, we timed it for mid-workday so both transit and stores weren't at their busiest and we were able to get him around fairly easily. I don't know that I would want to do it alone if it were to a new location though - there were a few times I had to send people on exploratory missions to figure out how to get some place before trying it with the wheelchair. But he handled it all with aplomb and then we went and had lunch on a patio and after he said he'd had a good day.

We agreed that he needed new shoes because he is trying his strength at standing up out of the chair and I want him wearing something with more traction than his slippers so he has a slightly lower chance of landing on his ass. (He's not supposed to, but that's not about to stop him - he has already gotten himself yelled at for getting out of bed by himself when he got tired of waiting for somebody to come and get him.) So if he's going to do it - he's going to wear non-slip shoes.

Maybe I should get him a helmet.

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Tomorrow I start my turn as host for Write Every Day, which is literally the only trick I have ever found to get me to actually write every day.

I'm sure that would tell me something if I thought about it hard enough.