Write Every Day: Day 5

[the_siobhan]

An early check-in today. I'll be taking the Old Man to some appointments and I'm not sure what time I'll be home tonight, so I'll catch up when I return.

Day 5 Tally:
china_shop

Day 4 Tally:
china_shop shadaras diamond_for_the_stare sylvanwitch ljm chanter1944 boxofdelights cornerofmadness sanguinity lferion regshoe badly_knitted ysilme yasaman trobadora luzula

Day 3 Tally:
china_shop regshoe badly_knitted shadaras silveradept luzula diamond_for_the_stare sylvanwitch alexseanchai sanguinity lferion ljm chanter1944 cornerofmadness elusis yasaman boxofdelights ysilme trobadora

Day 2 Tally:
china_shop shadaras diamond_for_the_stare sylvanwitch sanguinity lferion chanter1944 ljm cornerofmadness marvelouscity regshoe yasaman boxofdelights luzula ysilme badly_knitted the_siobhan silveradept trobadora

Day 1 Tally:
regshoe badly_knitted china_shop trobadora luzula diamond_for_the_stare sylvanwitch ljm shadaras sanguinity boxofdelights lferion chanter1944 cornerofmadness marvelouscity yasaman ysilme silveradept the_siobhan


Let me know if I missed your name at any point. And feel free to jump in any time.

Comments

[regshoe]

Day 5: 500 words (exactly, which I thought was funny :D ) on a short fic idea I've had for a while, letting the longer WIP sit for a day.

[the_siobhan]

That's a nice round number. Well done.

[badly_knitted]

Aug 5th - 600 words, a double and a quadruple drabble.

[the_siobhan]

Excellent word count! Well done.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, it was more than I expected to get written!

[sylvanwitch]

On Day 5, I added 233 words to Laci Waxwing, so I feel a little less like I've totally abandoned it. ;-)

[the_siobhan]

Well done. :-)

[luzula]

Wrote my 500 words, total wordcount 63,000.

[the_siobhan]

Well done!

[diamond_for_the_stare]

More editing on the story to submit. We're at the stage where I change a thing one day then change it back the next. >.> Getting close!

[the_siobhan]

Oh man, I do that all the time.

[trobadora]

Only an alibi sentence for the 5th.

[the_siobhan]

Good for you for getting that alibi sentence down.

[shadaras]

Day 5: ~800 words of exchange fic :)

[the_siobhan]

Well done!

[ljm]

Day 5: Seven or eight alibi sentences and a couple edits.

[the_siobhan]

That's pretty good for an alibi day! Well done

[china_shop]

Hope the appointments went well! <3

Day 6: 1040 words, and I'm stopping for the day.

[the_siobhan]

It did, but it was a looong day.

That's a great word count. Well done!

[china_shop]

♥

[sanguinity]

Aug 5: A few hundred words.

[the_siobhan]

Well done!

[marvelouscity]

Day 5 - alibi sentence.

[the_siobhan]

Good on you for getting that alibi sentence down.

[boxofdelights]

Didn't write today.

[the_siobhan]

Better luck next time. :-)

[silveradept]

Got to check in for Days 4 and 5, where I successfully threw penguins on one and set myself up to throw penguins properly on the other major issue. Now I just have to actually do the writing all the way through.

[the_siobhan]

I am intrigued by your penguins. Are they actual penguins in your story or are they a euphemism for something?

[silveradept]

"Throwing penguins" is my shorthand for "I wrote myself into a corner and now I'm getting out of it, regardless of whether it makes sense with the rest of everything," based on a story Brian Henson told about Jim Henson working in the Muppet Show: if they ran into a spot where they couldn't think of a way out, they blew something up, had one Muppet eat another, or threw Muppet penguins into the scene, which was both funny and got them to the end of the scene.

[the_siobhan]

You know, that's a solid strategy.

My gf has a short story which includes a quote from I think Dashiell Hammett where he says every time he gets stuck he just writes "Two guys walked into the room and opened fire".

[silveradept]

That would certainly work.

TV Tropes attributes the idea to Raymond Chandler as the person who did it first, but first is not necessarily best or from the person you want it to be.

[yasaman]

Day 5: 326 words on WIP 1, and finally returned to the exchange treat we'll call WIP 2, which I started last month but couldn't quite finish, to write 662 words. Hoping to finish that one by the end of the weekend!

[the_siobhan]

Very good progress!

Day 5

[ysilme]

Not a bad day for me, writing-wise, though no fic writing happened: but more writing-related long mails and a handful of comments about a writing issue, adding up to about 800 words, and then it was claiming time for Scribbles & Drabbles 2022. I got the three claims I wanted and happily revisited my original ideas for them, although I didn't take any notes. Also, the heat wave broke, and between some wind and an overcast sky temps became deligthfully cool again which was SO GOOD. *feels reborn*

Re: Day 5

[the_siobhan]

Oh very nice. I'm glad you finally got some relief.

Well done on all your progress!