Write Every Day: Day 1

[regshoe]

Check-in post for 1 May! Please say what day you're checking in for, to avoid confusion about timezones.

Welcome to the new month, and happy May Day (for folklore reasons, labour movement reasons or—clearly the most important reason of all—because tonight is the anniversary of That Night in the Hut from Flight of the Heron). As we go into the new month, have you got any particular writing goals or ambitions for May?


Tally for the month so far:

Day 1: china_shop, regshoe


My check-in: Some plot planning for the next chapter of my Flight of the Heron/Kidnapped crossover longfic, and started writing with 300 new words. For the last few months I've been averaging just under two chapters a month, and I'm only just starting a new chapter now and at a point where the plot is getting a bit complicated, so I'm going to set myself the smaller goal of finishing one more chapter this month and see where that gets me.

Comments

[philomytha]

Oh yay, I like it when Write Every Day wanders across my flist. And I have written today (1/5)! Actually I've written more than I realised when I went to get a wordcount for this check-in: 1100 words so far and I plan to write the rest of this scene this evening. I was very stuck on this scene this morning, but I decided that when in doubt, add more h/c, and so far that seems to be a winning strategy ;-)

As for goals and ambitions, I think I'll stick with writing every day. I have exchange fics to write, so I'll want to get those done, and then write whatever is calling to me.

And I had not registered the date of That Night in the Hut - today can definitely be a FoTH Fandom Celebration!

[regshoe]

Hello! That's an impressive word count—well done, and I hope the rest of the scene goes well. More h/c is absolutely a winning strategy, especially on such an appropriate date :D

That's a good set of goals—best of luck with them :)

[badly_knitted]

Hello, and thank you for hosting!

May 1st - 928 words. A drabble, 4 double drabbles, and a bit of editing.

As for goals this month, I'd like to finish a 5-chapter fic I started writing just after Christmas. Chapters 3-5 still need work.

[regshoe]

Hello, good to see you here :)

I'm always impressed by your drabble-writing progress whenever I see your check-ins! Well done, and best of luck finishing that longer fic too, that's a good goal.

[luzula]

In May, I plan to finish the last chapter of my longfic! : D

After putting up that poll I have, ironically, got quite another idea for what to write next...but it will be short, so my goal is to write that and, meanwhile, work out what longer fic to start on after that.

May 1: Wrote 500 words of longfic; total wordcount 146,700.

ETA: And thank you for hosting! <3

[regshoe]

Hooray, good luck with that goal—and well done for today's continuing longfic progress :D

Hee, isn't that always the way with new ideas... XD (of course I am curious about what it is, but I realise you may prefer to keep it secret!).

<3

[sylvanwitch]

I've just started a new chapter in my novel today (Day 1) too! YAY for new chapters in longfics! :-)

My plan for the month is to try to get around 500 words a day on the novel, if I can, though that will not bring me to complete by the end of the month. I just began chapter 12 today (Day 1) with 541 words of pre-smut negotiation.

[regshoe]

*new-chapter high-five* :D

That sounds like a good goal, and good progress on it for the first day!

[zero_pixel_count]

Checking in for May 1st with an alibi sentence before I get an early night.

Plans-wise, I'd like to finish one or both of the short pieces I've been working on (though, odds are, I'll end up doing something else entirely... such is life).

[regshoe]

New ideas do tend to interrupt like that, don't they... :) But good luck, whether you end up doing one short piece, the other short piece and/or something else entirely, and well done for the alibi sentence today!

[black_bentley]

Checking in on 1 May! I haven't done an actual count, but I've written a few hundred words of my h/c exchange assignment. Which does not, as yet, contain any actual h/c...

I'm going to try and write something every day, I've got a couple of exchange assignments and treat in the offing, and a few non-exchange WIPs I'd like to make some progress on :D

[regshoe]

Making progress on both exchange and non-exchange stuff sounds like a nice balanced month! Good luck, and well done for getting closer towards that h/c today :D

[china_shop]

2nd: 371 words at writers' hour today.

My goal is to finish my exchange fic and get my "humour" fic from last year into good enough shape to send to beta. (This might actually mean glaring at it for a week and then shrugging helplessly and sending it to beta as is. I'll see.)

[regshoe]

Sometimes a fic does just need to be glared at! Best of luck with that and the exchange fic, and well done for those words today :D

[ljm]

Day 1: 3-4 hours of editing.

[regshoe]

Wahey, that's great!

[shadaras]

Happy May Day! Thanks for hosting this month. :)

Day 1: 2k on an exchange fic!

[regshoe]

You're welcome, and wow, excellent progress on that exchange fic :D

[muccamukk]

Thanks for hosting this month! I always love when this crosses my flist.

I'm hoping to write my Heart Attack exchange pinch hit, and finish up my big bang this month.

May 1: did 1,200 words on the HA one.

[regshoe]

Hello, and you're welcome! Finishing exchange and bang stuff sounds like a good goal, and that's great progress today (especially for a pinch hit for HA—as exchange fics go that is definitely a challenge :D ).

[phantomtomato]

Thank you so much for hosting! I’m excited to join up this month. :)

I’m hoping to use this WED to push through one story, rather than a bunch of little projects, because longer focus has been my struggle lately. I’m starting from zero, so today I put together a list of my thoughts and an intro scene.

May 1: 1.1k words

[regshoe]

You're welcome, and good to see you here :)

That's a good goal—best of luck wherever this story ends up going, and it sounds like you've made a great start on it today!

[chanter1944]

Tagging in for day 1, following the traveling writing thingie around. :)

Just a few sentences for day 1, but it's not zero.

[regshoe]

Hello! And that's definitely not zero, well done for getting those sentences in :D

[amedia]

Day 1

Yay for your work on your longfic, and best of luck reaching this month's goal! *cheering you on*

I took out a Guardian fic that I was working on before another one grabbed my brain and jumped the queue, as fics sometimes do. Today I refamiliarized myself with it, made a bunch of minor changes, and added 68 new words. I also wrote one AO3 comment.

ETA: This month I hope to revise a fic that my beta-reader has just finished going over, polish (if there's time) and post a fic of which I have a complete first draft for a fic exchange, and finish the one I mention above. Or at least get some more work done on it!

[regshoe]

Thank you!

Well done for getting back to that fic—that sounds like a nice bit of re-starting progress :) And those are good goals, best of luck with them all!

[sanguinity]

The night in the shieling! The most holy of nights!

(Btw, I was just again today using your FotH timeline -- I even have a link to it at the top of my draft, for easy reference!)

May 1: four hundred words!

[regshoe]

That cup of cold water which holds a double blessing... Aww, I'm pleased to hear you're finding the timeline so useful! And yay, well done on those words :D

[cornerofmadness]

day 1 811 words on my long Prodigal Son story

[regshoe]

Great stuff, well done!

[yasaman]

Hello! Thanks for hosting this month! For Day 1, I managed 719 words on one of my WIPs.

[regshoe]

Hello, and you're welcome :) And well done on those words today!

[kate]

Thank you for hosting May!

I'm still noodling on AU ideas for AUgust. just a few words today, but I'm doing a bit every day.

[regshoe]

You're welcome! Noodling on ideas and a bit of progress every day sounds like a good way of getting on—well done for today's words :)

[lferion]

1 May -- processing feelings in poetry. Not what I wanted to be doing, but oh well.

[regshoe]

Never mind, you're still writing! I hope it was a valuable bit of feelings-processing, and well done for making progress :)

[carenejeans]

Hello and thanks for hosting! And good luck with the new chapter of your longfic.

My goals this month are to 1) write a minimum of 200 words a day and 2) check in here every day.

I know there are going to be alibi-sentence days, but I'm determined to get a few things DONE and a few things started.

So checking in for Day 1 with 804 words on various things. ;-)

[regshoe]

Hello, you're welcome and thank you! Those are good goals—steady progress even when there will be alibi sentence days :) And that sounds like some great stuff today!

[ysilme]

Belated happy May day for you, too, and go you for plot planning! That sounds like good progress overall for you. ♥
I've had a bad case of writer's block since January I finally came fully out of last month, and am now slowly gaining momentum again with my writing ToDo-list. I have three shorter WIPs I need and want to finish so I can finally get to my main WIP. My plan for May is to get as far as possilbe with the shorter WIPs but also to get back into working at my WIPs on at least five days of the week, instead "only" working at my drawer fic like I did lately. I'm also working at establishing a new writing routine since I seem to finally have managed to improve my horribly broken sleeping schedule, and to integrate other writing tools more into my routine.
My tally:
Day 1: 48 words for a drawer fic
Day 2: 1904 words of meta (why is this so much easier to write than fic? ;op )

[regshoe]

Thank you—I hope so :) That's really good that you've come out of writer's block and have so many cool plans for your WIPs! Best of luck with it all, and well done for those first two days :D

[vendettadays]

Hi! Thank you for hosting!

RL took over for the last couple of weeks so haven't been able to check in as much in April, but hoping May will be better writing-wise/checking in-wise :D General goals for this month is hitting my 20k word count target, finishing a few exchange fics, and maybe continue with my non-exchange fic.

Day 1 - I was able to bang out a good 4000ish words to my HA assignment and aiming to have a 1st draft finished in the next few days (RL willing).

[regshoe]

Hello, and you're welcome! I hope the RL stuff is calming down, and those sound like some good plans for May. And wow, what a word count for today, well done :D

[trobadora]

Happy belated May Day!

Checking in for the 1st. My plans for May involve two exchange deadlines. *g*

[regshoe]

Thank you! And best of luck with those exchanges :D