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Yesterday was supposed to be visit parent day, but his wife had some respiratory symptoms, so we put it off. Hopefully next week.

So as well as noodling around[1] with housework and bills and such, I spent my day off doing research. Which basically means watching old Peter Davidson[2] Dr Who clips on YouTube because I want to re-use one of his villains. Then I wrote 300ish words.

[1] See what I did there?
[2] I initially wrote that as David Peterson, and it took me the longest time of staring at it before I figured out why it looked wrong.

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Day 7 Tally:
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To the shock of exactly 0 people, the contractor was not done on Tuesday. I can hear them still thumping and sawing away in the basement.

Who knows what's going on down there at this point.

My usual practice is to do most of my cooking on the weekends. I'll throw together a meal that makes lots of left-overs and then graze on that for the following week. Bonus points if I can put some in the freezer so I can mix it up a bit. Last weekend I made a bean chili and that was dinner last night. Turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

Trying to decide what I'll experiment on this weekend. Maybe something with noodles.

Another 100ish words last night while listening to bands recommended by Bandcamp. Speaking of which, Bandcamp is donating all their proceeds from Friday's sales to Musicares's fire relief initiative. I have a few items in my shopping cart ready for tomorrow.

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Day 5 Tally:
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Only an alibi sentence yesterday as Monday nights are watch-movies-with-the-girlfriend nights. We are working our way through the Star Trek movies as I haven't seen most of them, and last night was The Undiscovered Country. Much better than The Final Frontier from last week.

I think Lord Brock might have gone a bit deaf. (Honestly, mostly because he no longer seems to be able to hear me shake the treat bag.) I've noticed that he only seems to know that I'm home when I turn on the hall light. I experimented last night by leaving the hall light on while I was out and I was actually able to take my coat and boots off and unload my knapsack and get myself a tea brewing before he realized I was home. I knew the exact moment he figured it out because I could hear him start yelling from the upper floor and then he yelled all the way down the stairs and into the kitchen to find me.

He is hilarious.

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Saturday is chores day. Yesterday I did laundry, got caught up on some of the piles of dishes left over from the week (because I couldn't run the dishwasher with frozen pipes), made an appointment to get an energy audit done on the house and started sorting out the piles of paper I've been shoving into a folder labelled "taxes".

And then I wrote a couple of paragraphs while a cat sat on my lap and did his best to keep me from using my hands for anything that wasn't petting his ears.

I expect today to be more of the same.


Day 1 Tally:
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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.

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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.

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Welcome aboard!

Apologies for the late post today, I stayed up a little later than I should have last night and had maybe um, one too many beers. I have no regrets.

Starting tomorrow July 16, Write Every Day check-in posts will be moving to zwei_hexen. See the intro post here  to see how it will work. I'll post my summary of July 1-15 in a day or two to catch late check-ins.

I wasn't home all day yesterday, so only a single lonely alibi sentence. But I made good my promise to throw a sketchpad into my bag and did some basic sketching on the bus. And look what I found!



I had the vague idea that I had some of my old art supplies in one of the boxes in my bedroom so I went digging and found this. It's old, the box itself is from an old antigen kit that snagged when I worked in a lab in the 90s. I don't even remember where I got half of the stuff in it, but I'm delighted to find out it's full of charcoals, I used to love playing with charcoal.

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Day 14 Tally:
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I did some transcribing last night and the inevitable editing that happens whenever I look at what I've written. I also dug out my sketchbook again and started with some very basic warm-ups. Hoo boy, am I rusty. I definitely want to do more of that. (Is there an art every day?)

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I'm at the office today, so a quick check-in post and I'll get caught up later.

Saturday is chores day. I had a productive day and a quiet night in with a glass of wine. I got some editing in and 300+ new words. I'll probably do the same thing tonight.

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Day 8 Tally:
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Last night was a much shorter walk to pick up a plant that somebody was giving away. I now have a truly enormous sage in my office window and it smells amazing.

I spent some time thinking about how to get my characters to where I want them to go, and managed to put down about 500 words before bed.

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Day 6 Tally:
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