Write Every Day: Day 15

[the_siobhan]

I checked a few of you in for multiple days and although I think I got everybody, my brain is a fried egg right now. So please do let me know if I missed anything.

Today's topic is one that would not have even occurred to me in the Before Times, but the roommate has been playing podcasts while he works and they have piqued my interest.

I know nothing about what's out there, so tell me about your favourite podcasts. About writing? By writers but not talking about writing? About something completely different unrelated to writing? silveradept has already mentioned Start With This by the creators of Night Vale and I am definitely going to be checking that one out. What else is out there that you think is worth listening to?


Day 15 Tally:
china_shop, alexseanchai, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, trobadora, luzula, yasaman, sanguinity, shadaras, brainwane, nafs, sakana17, cornerofmadness, phrenk, lferion, silveradept, firecat iberiandoctor, ysilme, auroracloud

Day 14:
china_shop, ysilme, sylvanwitch, trobadora, badly_knitted, luzula, alexseanchai, shadaras, sanguinity, nafs, brainwane, cornerofmadness, yasaman, lferion, sakana17, phrenk, shopfront,silveradept, firecat, ysilme, auroracloud

Day 13:
china_shop, shopfront, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, alexseanchai, sylvanwitch, nafs, cornerofmadness, lferion, yasaman, phrenk, sakana17, silveradept, ysilme, iberiandoctor, trobadora, sanguinity, auroracloud

Day 12:
china_shop, sylvanwitch, shadaras, brainwane, silveradept, alexseanchai, thevetia, yasaman, zulu, sakana17, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, lferion, phrenk, badly_knitted, saki101, ysilme, iberiandoctor, trobadora, luzula, auroracloud

Day 11:
china_shop, firecat, badly_knitted, luzula, sylvanwitch, shadaras, thevetia, sakana17, brainwane, sanguinity, yasaman, cornerofmadness, china_shop, nafs, lferion, saki101, alexseanchai, phrenk, firecat, shopfront, silveradept, zulu, trobadora, ysilme, iberiandoctor, auroracloud

Day 10:
china_shop, badly_knitted, luzula, sylvanwitch, alexseanchai, shadaras, sanguinity, brainwane, nafs, firecat, yasaman, cornerofmadness, sakana17, saki101, lferion, phrenk, auroracloud, iberiandoctor, silveradept, thevetia, trobadora, ysilme

Day 9:
china_shop, shadaras, sylvanwitch, alexseanchai, sanguinity, saki101, nafs, yasaman, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, phrenk, badly_knitted, ysilme, silveradept, solo, carenejeans, auroracloud, iberiandoctor, luzula, brainwane, trobadora

Day 8:
china_shop, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, luzula, saki101, silveradept, sanguinity, shadaras, thevetia, brainwane, nafs, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, yasaman, phrenk, alexseanchai, firecat, auroracloud, ysilme, solo, carenejeans, iberiandoctor, trobadora

Day 7:
china_shop, shopfront, falkner, badly_knitted, luzula, trobadora, sylvanwitch, shadaras, nafs, brainwane, sanguinity, lferion, yasaman, sakana17, phrenk, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, firecat, saki101, silveradept, auroracloud, ysilme, iberiandoctor

Day 6:
china_shop, ysilme, trobadora, luzula, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, saki101, sanguinity, shadaras, brainwane, nafs, alexseanchai, cornerofmadness, yasaman, lferion, sakana17, phrenk, shopfront, silveradept, iberiandoctor, firecat, solo, carenejeans, auroracloud

Day 5:
china_shop, badly_knitted, luzula, shadaras, sylvanwitch, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, lferion, brainwane, saki101, phrenk, firecat, ysilme, shopfront, yasaman, carenejeans, houseof9cats, thevetia, robadora, silveradept, auroracloud, trobadora

Day 4:
china_shop, shopfront, luzula, alexseanchai, shadaras, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, ysilme, sanguinity, saki101, silveradept, nafs, yasaman, thevetia, sakana17, cornerofmadness, lferion, phrenk, solo, iberiandoctor, firecat, brainwane, carenejeans, auroracloud, trobadora

Day 3:
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

[shopfront]

Oops, forgot to check-in yesterday. I haven't written for the 15th, but I did manage some editing on the 14th at least.

[alexseanchai]

Writing Excuses, featuring Mary Robinette Kowal and Brandon Sanderson and a couple others I forget

(this is not a check-in; please hold)

I am not getting very far trying to characterize Chloé in nine lives, but I gotta. I don't think she's particularly important to most of the course of the story, but she was vital in the point at which this AU diverged from canon, and I want to explore the consequences—and distract thereby from the important stuff other characters are saying while she's present and the point-of-view character. also I woke up to some positively delightful comments on the nine lives bit I finished up after checking in yesterday and posted around midnight.

[sylvanwitch]

I am not a podcast listener, so I'm afraid I have no recommendations. I really am very low-tech. :-)

Today, I added 1160 words to finish Chapter 20.

[badly_knitted]

I'm afraid I've never listened to any podcasts. It would be impossible on my noisy laptop anyway. Half the time it sounds like a motorboat revving up. *sigh*

Nov 15th - 1391 words, a double drabble, a short but smutty challenge fic, and a tiny bit of editing. Lots of writing, but only 16 rows of knitting.

[trobadora]

For the 15th: I worked some on my holmestice fic. Mostly trying to figure out the outline, but some (very few) actual fic words, too.

[luzula]

Wordcount for 15th of November: 800
Total wordcount on poly fic: 38,500

Also sent the Yuletide fic off to beta!

[china_shop]

My favourite writing podcast is Writing Excuses. The episodes are only 15 minutes long (ish), which I really appreciate.

16th: 1056 on my yuletide treat, which was not supposed to be this long! Where is the ending?!?

[yasaman]

Day 15: 599 words, and I finally wrapped up this fic!

Re podcasts, it's not writing related, but my latest favorite fiction podcast is Old Gods of Appalachia. The narrator's got a great storytelling voice, and it's delightfully spooky.

[sanguinity]

I've been enjoying Queer As Fact, an international queer history podcast based out of Australia. I also enjoy Big Finish's Doctor Who audioplays -- I've been slowly working my way through the Eighth Doctor's stories. (Some people mean "audioplays" when they say "podcasts", right?)


Nov 15: I wrote a bunch of words, finishing a story, and then I published it.

This now puts me over 55K-published-words for the year! (Most years I publish 55-65K words, just as a matter of course. I wasn't expecting to make that range this year, what with the new job and all, and then the pandemic happened and everything got super weird. But here I am, 55K published words, and I almost certainly have one more story in me before year-end, woot!)

[the_siobhan]

Totally counts! Well done on your work and I'll add you to yesterday's tally.

[the_siobhan]

Oh cool, thank you!

Good luck with the struggle. And congrats on the positive feedback!

[the_siobhan]

It's new to me too.

Well done on words!

[the_siobhan]

Well done on words!

[the_siobhan]

Well done on your progress!

[the_siobhan]

Well done!

[the_siobhan]

Oh excellent, I will definitely check that out.

Well done on words! Even if they are kinda getting away from you. :-)

[the_siobhan]

Congrats on finishing! Well done.

You know, you are about the third person to recommend that podcast to me, all people from different circles. I am definitely going to have to check it out.

[the_siobhan]

Queer As Fact sounds interesting. And Big Finish is one of the ones the roommate listens to so I've heard some of it in snippets.

Congrats on publishing! That's amazing.

[shadaras]

I'm not great at processing purely audio input, so I don't really listen to podcasts. :)

Today I wrote 600-some words for my longfic and started properly planning out my fic for highadrenalineexchange

podcasts and checkin

[brainwane]

Today: 554 words, yay!

A few podcast recommendations I made a few years ago, entirely not about writing. I think "Say Why to Drugs" is the one among those that I really wish more people knew about -- great material and not enough people have heard of the show!

And some music podcasts I like as ways to introduce me to new artists. "The Roadhouse" is great for blues.

[nafs]

I'm not big on podcasts - I was listening to Writing Excuses for quite a while on china_shop's rec but it was part of my walk to the train station in the morning and well *gestures at world*

Mostly unrelated to writing - although Neil Gaiman was the guest for an episode so perhaps that counts - I do like David Tennant Does a Podcast With... which recently wrapped its second series because apparently being in lockdown with his wife and five kids couldn't stop David from working. (Two series of Staged, the podcast, voice work for Ducktales and various bits and bobs... the man never stops.)

Day 15: typed up some of what I wrote over the past week and added at least 150 words while I typed.

[sakana17]

Day 15: 1110 words.

[cornerofmadness]

I did listen to Night Vale for a couple years but fell out of the habit. I also listen to My Favorite Murder, Murder Squad and Morbid.


I managed 4,035 words today which is pretty amazing for how crappy I felt.

[lferion]

Day 15 - how are we already halfway through November? 129 words on a post, with notes and musing about the Balloon piece. Which keeps growing. Though I didn't add any new actual words today.

[satoyan]

Day 15: 2,349 nano words. If things keep going smoothly, I think I'll get far enough in the next couple of days to be changing POV again to #3 of 5.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[silveradept]

I listen to a fair few podcasts, many of them political in one way or another, and then others like Night Vale Presents things and Twenty Thousand Hertz (about sound design and interesting sounds). David Tenant Does A Podcast With... is also fun and I am really backlogged on my listening because I usually use it as commute and driving stuff and it's been a hot second since I've had a long drive to myself.

Checking in for Days 14 and 15, accomplishments in clearing tabs and adding to assignments. I think the one with the closest deadline is in complete draft form, so that's good. On to making sure the others get there soon.

[the_siobhan]

I have to admit I tend to dip in and out, so I have to rewind if I realize something interesting is going on. china_shop's 15-minute ones sound perfect for me.

Re: podcasts and checkin

[the_siobhan]

Oh very cool, thank you.

Well done on words!

[the_siobhan]

I think I heard of Tennant's because I am currently going through a watch-everything-Michael Sheen-ever-touched fan period and he was on an episode.

And I loved Staged. :-)

Well done on your progress!

[the_siobhan]

Well done!

[the_siobhan]

Well done on words!

[the_siobhan]

I know right!

Well done on both words and planning.

[the_siobhan]

Well done on words!

[the_siobhan]

That's two recommends for Tennant so I'll definitely have to listen to that one. :-)

Well done on your progress!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[greylock]

I'm not one for podcasts, but I have dabbled in two: Fusion Patrol (SF TV, especially older stuff) and Appendix N Book Club (obviously, talking about old books, but with some
RPG game I have never paid too much attention to as a spine).

I find them engaging when I can DL them to my MP3 player when walking at lunch, but they won't rock anyone's world.

http://appendixnbookclub.com/

https://fusionpatrol.com/