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

[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! 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 ).

[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!

[regshoe]

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

[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!

[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.

[lferion]

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

[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. ;-)

[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 )

[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]

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

[regshoe]

Great stuff, well done!

[regshoe]

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

[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 :)

[sanguinity]

Your timeline is very handy, thank you! I keep thinking I should do something similar for GitN, seeing that I keep having to delve into that to work out other parts of Ewen and Keith's timelines, but I think I am not so systematic as you -- I tend to work out the one question I need an answer to, make a note somewhere, and move on.

The Wounded Name is another one I think I should do a timeline for. Not that I've written for it much, but I have the impression it's like FotH: every event happens on a well-defined date, and it could be reverse-engineered with a little effort.

[regshoe]

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

[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!

[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

[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

[regshoe]

I did both the FotH and Raffles timelines while re-reading the book(s), noting down all the references to times and dates as I went (a meta method I enjoy generally—it enlivens a re-read!). I have vague ideas of doing one for Kidnapped at some point, though I've only just re-read that, so it'll probably be a while until the next time—I think it'd be fun, because (the impression I got from my re-read is that) it is dated quite precisely but all the dates are relative rather than absolute until near the end, so you'd have to work backwards and extrapolate. I support any plans of yours to make timelines for GitN and/or TWN!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[luzula]

Nope, not a secret! : ) But I think you might not be interested in it...it's a sequel to this fic of sanguinity's. My fic won't have dubcon, but it will be about the aftermath of dubcon. (It's a trope where both of them are pulled along by the mating heat of their wolf companions.)

[regshoe]

I see—no, I'm afraid I won't be able to read that. I am sorry, especially after the longfic <3