Write Every Day: Day 3

[the_siobhan]

THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS PEOPLE

This is my office, where I am currently working from home and also where I write, blog, and draw. As you can see, it's also my gym, my yoga studio and in the spring it's where I sprout the seedlings for my garden because it has the best natural light in the house.



I also used to like to go out for the occasional Saturday afternoon "laptop and beers" either by myself or with a small group of friends, but obviously that hasn't happened for a while. Hopefully quiet pubs and coffee shops will still exist once the apocalypse has finally stopped apocalypting.

So where do you write? Do you have a designated spot? Clear some space on the dining room table? The breakroom at work?


Day 3 Tally:
china_shop, alexseanchai, alexcat, sylvanwitch, sakana17, thevetia, nafs, lferion, cornerofmadness, phrenk, solo, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, yasaman, brainwane, trobadora, ysilme, sanguinity, silveradept, iberiandoctor, firecat, carenejeans, auroracloud




Day 2:
china_shop, shadaras, falkner, luzula, badly_knitted, alexseanchai, trobadora, saki101, sylvanwitch, brainwane, thevetia, lferion, cornerofmadness, nafs, sakana17, yasaman, solo, phrenk, auroracloud, ysilme, sanguinity, silveradept, alexcat, iberiandoctor, firecat, carenejeans


Day 1:
china_shop, sylvanwitch, luzula, badly_knitted, trobadora, falkner, alexseanchai, silveradept, shadaras, sanguinity, thevetia, nafs, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, alexcat, marvelouscity, saki101, yasaman, solo, auroracloud, phrenk, shopfront, brainwane, dreamwriteremmy, ysilme, iberiandoctor, firecat, carenejeans

Let me know if I missed your name at any point. And participation is always open, so jump in with a comment any time.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

a tanka at jjhunter's How Are You? (In Haiku)

also tiny progress on "j'ai reve" and small progress on where the firelight fades

[alexcat]

For day 2, I got 1682 words and Day 3, 418.

Tired and afraid to look at the television.

[the_siobhan]

Well done! I'll add you to both days.

Also, yes. I'm avoiding anything to do with news until the weekend at minimum.

[the_siobhan]

That haiku is awesome and also entirely relatable.

[sylvanwitch]

The light in your workroom is lovely! I can see why you enjoy spending time there.

I have a workroom, as well, with a big old enamel-topped farm table for a "desk" and bookshelves and an altar with a burbler fountain on top. It has lots of candles for the winter to bring light to the darkness and a killer computer sound system for playing moody instrumental music too. It's a cozy space that I really love. In the summer, I open the window, right outside of which is a cedar tree, where I'm frequently visited by inquisitive chickadees and the occasional thick-headed woodpecker who thinks the vinyl siding is the perfect place to hunt for bugs.

ETA: 592 words today before I got swept up in staring avidly at the election results, which I Must. Stop. Doing.

[the_siobhan]

Oh that sounds lovely! The only downside to my place is that the view overlooks the railroad tracks behind my house. (Although they are putting in a railpath, so I am looking forward to that.)

And I hear you about the election. I'm trying to avoid obsessing until everything is counted.

[china_shop]

Ooh, I love your purple walls!

I have a computer desk in my living room, with cats, kitchen and a view of the harbour all nice and handy. Occasionally I'll decamp to a cafe or the library with my phone and my bluetooth keyboard. :-)

4th: 500 of some of the clunkiest words I've ever written, on a Yuletide treat. I might try to fix them later, but right now I'm working on my weekly update post.

[the_siobhan]

Ooo, I love the sound of your view. I overlook the railroad tracks that run commuters out to the suburbs. And the construction crews that are hammering and drilling night and day.

Well done on words, clunky or otherwise. :-)

[sakana17]

Day 3: Two alibi sentences.

I used to do most of my writing sitting up in bed, but having the laptop at hand wasn't good for my sleep cycle. Now I sit on the sofa and use a lap desk.

[the_siobhan]

I don't know if it's the way my bed is set up but I've never been able to get comfortable sitting up in bed, even to read. I've tried to read myself to sleep on nights when I have insomnia but the positioning just defeats me.

Well done on getting some words down.

[thevetia]

Day 3: One alibi sentence on the designated story and some more notes on the long AU story. This has not been a day for concentrating.

I am most productive writing at the dining room table, which is now my general working table for everything. It's next to the french doors looking out into the back yard and gets the best light. But I spend more time sitting in an armchair by the front window with my laptop on a lap desk.

[the_siobhan]

This has not been a day for concentrating.

Oh boy. No kidding. Good for you for getting some progress made regardless.

You're the second person to mention a lap desk - I might have to look into those.

[nafs]

Day 3: 356 words, all typed.

I alternate between writing on or in bed and writing on the couch in the livingroom, which is more or less the space I'm also working from home, although I have graduated to using my office chair in the living room during the workday instead of the couch (I hate my office for reasons and cannot work in there).

[the_siobhan]

That's unfortunate about your office.

To be fair it took me a long time to get this space set up to be comfortable. Previously I was in the living room with the cats (I'm allergic) and the clutter and the noise and it just wasn't working for me. I would never have taken a picture of that.

Well done on words!

[lferion]

Day 3 - 160 words about me and suspense. (Spoiler: I really hate it)

I write mostly at my desk in my livingroom, which is set up as a workspace with two desks, on for the work laptop and the other for my Mac. I also write on my phone, and in a pinch on paper, Phone and paper can happen anywhere.

[the_siobhan]

Two desks sounds handy - the only downside to this set up is that there is no clear dividing line between work-for-pay and work-on-what-I-like.

And I hear you about the suspense. I feel like all of 2020 has been saturated with it.

[cornerofmadness]

I wrote 5876 words today, stress does it to me I guess

[the_siobhan]

Wow! That's impressive!

I'm sorry about the stress. For everybody, really.

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah seriously and thanks

[satoyan]

Day 3: 2,287 words. I expected very little from today, considering, but toward the end of forcing out my 1,667 nano words I found a bit of a natural spurt. :D

[the_siobhan]

I love when that happens. Well done on words!

[solo]

My tally for yesterday: 809 words. Finally writing is happening.

[the_siobhan]

Look at you go! Well done.

[badly_knitted]

I envy you your beautiful space!

I have a cheap flatpack desk crammed into a corner of my bedroom, which is where I spend most of my time as I live alone and my room is the warmest and has the best light, and the best view. It's... cosy.

Nov 3rd - 1309 words, two challenge ficlets and a smidge of work on a story I want to expand from the 500 word limit of the challenge I originally wrote it for. It's gonna get smutty, y'all!

Also managed another 24 rows on my sleeve which is finished except for casting off. Then I can start sewing all the bits together and knit the neckband...

[the_siobhan]

Cozy sounds good to me, this room has been freezing for the past week. The temperature here finally broke double digits today.

Well done on words (and knitting)!

[badly_knitted]

I've done my share of freezing, had a couple of weeks before I could put my heating on where I was sitting here wrapped in so many layers and still feeling frozen.

Thank you!

[luzula]

I write most often on the sofa! But before coronavirus, I got a lot of writing done on public transport to and from work, because I didn't have internet on my laptop there, and so there was less distraction...

Wordcount for 3rd of November: 800 on poly fic + 200 on Yuletide treat
Total wordcount on poly fic: 32,900

Finished off the Yuletide treat! And did a little communication with my beta on the poly fic. To give myself some accountability: I should get started, even if only very little, on my actual Yuletide fic on the 4th...

[the_siobhan]

I used to Duolingo on the bus. I have failed miserably at staying caught up ever since I stopped commuting.

Well done on words!

[greylock]

I love your purple walls too!

[the_siobhan]

Are you participating or just commenting? :-)

[greylock]

Drive-by commenting!

[greylock]

I love your purple walls too!
And your trunk! I always wanted one... I think you have given the Gin Palace.. I was going to say less than stellar rating, but I guess when you live in a house you see the cracks, and old houses... whatchya gonna do?

What are in the small jars above the computer? They look sealed, so I guess not the seedings? The souls of the vanished?

[the_siobhan]

This is the part of the house where I spend all my time so I put a lot of effort into keeping it clean and in good repair and a nice place to work. Trust me, the living room does not look this good. Yet. I'm working on it.

Those jars are actually old incense resins and mixes.

[greylock]

Houses are impossible.

[the_siobhan]

Yeah, keeping up is like a full-time job all on it's own.

[greylock]

*looks at cracks in ceiling*

Well...
I can't remember how old the Gin Palace is, but I know it's beside a train line.
My house is 60-70yo (I think) and is on a busy road.
Just in the year I have been here I've had so many surficial cracks appear.

But you were being rhetorical!

[shadaras]

I did write on day 3! I wrote a drabble treat and also a 1.5k giftfic for an exchange.

I mostly write at my desk or while sitting on the couch. Especially right now, when I don't have anything really happening, it's about convenience more than anything else. (Occasionally, when I cannot sleep because a scene is in my head, I sit next to my bed and write on my phone until I get enough down that I can actually sleep.)

[the_siobhan]

Well done on writing!

I used to keep a notebook next to bed to jot down dreams. I should start doing that again.

[yasaman]

Day 3: too busy doomscrolling last night to check in (things look better this morning!), but I did manage 102 words on my Yuletide fic yesterday.

:-)

[brainwane]

Yay for 102 words for your Yuletide story! :D BTW yours is one of the familiar names in this comm it made me happy to see when I arrived.

[the_siobhan]

Well done! It's hard to focus when things are stressful.

Where I write, plus checkin.

[brainwane]

I wrote 560 words last night, surpassing my 400 words/day goal comfortably!

I have a little home office setup in the corner of the living room. At first this was just a chair and a nightstand. A few months ago I bought a cheap used bureau that worked okaaaay as a standing desk, and this led me to try a few other setups and finally get and set up a proper desk. So now that's where I write. I have my laptop's built-in monitor plus a secondary monitor, a separate keyboard with nice clicky keys, and a mouse -- this is quite a switch for me as I haven't had that kind of setup in many years, since before I started my own business. I have a view out the window and I can see trees, and that's really nice. And YES to natural light!

Re: Where I write, plus checkin.

[the_siobhan]

That sounds quite nice! The only thing missing from my setup is the view from the window.

Well done on your words!

[trobadora]

Tiny bit of work on FemslashEx for the 3rd. It's very slow-going.

I write mostly at my desk in my living room. Exceptions are very rare.

[the_siobhan]

Some pieces are just like that. All progress is good progress.

[ysilme]

OMG, your space looks so organised and neat! I only manage that rarely, and never for long... *g* But I'm also not the only one using it, and not the most contributing factor to the un-neatness by far. ^^
We have a "study" where both of our desks are and the larger part of our books live, also the room where I do the majority of my desk work and my writing during the day; also the reason why the spouse is doing home office at the dining room table, as he's having conference calls every day and I can't concentrate when he talks. But other when I'm doing NaNo or writing for a deadline, most of my writing happens in the late evening, when I'm in the living room at my laptop which I otherwise mostly use for gaming, or, in the summer, the same on the terrace outside. On the regular but not frequent occasions when I'm doing catsitting and have the morning shift (we're a voluntary assosiaction, taking care of each other's pets), I take my phone and a bluetooth keyboard and get some writing done on that while keeping the furries company for a bit longer. But if needs be or I'm in the mood, I'm writing literally everywhere, which is why the keyboard is a fixed item in my handbag, together with a power bank. ^^ I've once written the final version of an exchange story with on my laptop while my spouse drove us to Sweden. *g*

[the_siobhan]

I promise you, this is the only part of the house I manage to keep organized - I defend it like my cave.

[ysilme]

*g* That is comforting. *hugs*