Write Every Day: Day 2

[regshoe]

Check-in post for 2 May. Please say what day you're checking in for, to avoid confusion about timezones, and let me know if I've missed you in a tally.


Tally for the month so far:

Day 2: china_shop, regshoe, ysilme

Day 1: amedia, badly_knitted, black_bentley, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, muccamukk, phantomtomato, philomytha, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, ysilme, zero_pixel_count


My check-in for day 2: Continuing chapter 16 with 700 words.

Comments

[philomytha]

Today (2/5) has not been such a successful writing day as yesterday, but still, I did do some writing. A couple more paragraphs added to this story, and the plot is inching forwards towards a conclusion.

[regshoe]

Well done, and yay for getting towards the conclusion :)

[badly_knitted]

I admire your ability to write such long fics.

May 2nd - 946 words. a 500-word challenge ficlet, a quadruple drabble, and a bit oe editing, just not on the fic I'm supposed to be working on this month *sigh*

[regshoe]

This is the first thing I've written longer than 20k—it surprised me :D Thank you—and good job on all those things today, despite them not being the one you're supposed to be working on!

[black_bentley]

Checking in for day 2: I've managed at least another 1.5k on my h/c assignment :D I've also done some ruminating on the plot, and I think I've got a decent handle on it now.

[regshoe]

Wahey, what an excellent amount of h/c :D And yay for the plot also.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

A triple drabble for sweetandshort.

[regshoe]

Hooray, well done :D

[garonne]

Hello :)

Check-in for Day 1: 390 words

Check-in for Day 2: 280 words so far (my usual goal is 500 words a day, so I need to make an effort before going to sleep!)

[regshoe]

Hello, nice to see you! And good work for those first two days—I hope the rest of the evening's writing went well :)

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent progress, you! :-)

On Day 2, I added 589 words of shameless smut to chapter 12.

[sanguinity]

Woo-hoo, shameless smut is the best kind of smut!

[china_shop]

3rd: 570 words on my exchange fic, and 176 words on a little Korean ficlet.

[regshoe]

Wahey, well done on both of those!

[vendettadays]

Great work on chapter 16!

Day 2- 1046 words today for both my HA assignment and to my non-exchange fic!

[regshoe]

Thank you :) And well done on both of those, that's great!

[sanguinity]

May 2: 650 words!

Damn, I don't know what I was thinking when I started this thing (news flash, I wasn't thinking anything beyond "hee hee ho ho"), but I'm a hairsbreadth from 9K right now and am clearly going to crack 10K. And who fucking knows how many beyond that, because do I have an exit plan? No. I do not have an exit plan.

[regshoe]

This sounds like a fun fic :D However many more words it ends up being, I hope it goes well, and well done for today's words!

[shadaras]

May 2: About 1k on exchange fic. The end is in sight!

[regshoe]

Hooray, well done and good wishes for getting to the end!

[phantomtomato]

Day 2: wrote until I was poised on the precipice of a sex scene, and now I debate whether to start it tonight or do the whole thing tomorrow.

[regshoe]

I find that stopping just at the start of a definite next bit can make it easier to jump back in the next day—but then there's that vs. continuing while the inspiration is there... Anyway, well done for today's writing, and I hope the sex scene goes/has gone well whatever you decided :)

[chanter1944]

Something like 300 words for day 2. :D Fic ideas came calling.

[regshoe]

Hooray for ideas, and well done for those words :D

[amedia]

Day 2

I also wrote one comment on AO3, yay. :-)

Also mucked around with various fic files...

When I was going through and making slight revisions/additions to the draft last night, I had a feeling something was missing - I was sure I remembered writing a bunch of other stuff - tonight I went looking and found another draft with a lot more material that I had since written! I'm too tired tonight to combine the drafts, but I emailed them both to myself in case I lose one or the other (or chunks thereof) in the combining process. I tried Word's automatic combining feature, but it assumes that one document needs to dominate over the other, and they really need to take turns being top and bottom.

(I email myself drafts every time I make a change, for this very purpose. If I hadn't found the document, I could have dug it out of the email.)

I also formatted for printing the prompt fic I of which I recently completed a first draft (so TODS can beta-read), only to find out that printer thinks it's offline. This happens now and again; I'm just too tired to mess with it tonight. So I emailed that to myself, too. (If I happen to print it at work tomorrow, no one will notice. *shifty eyes*)

[regshoe]

Yay for a comment and fics, and hooray for finding that second draft! Best of luck with combining them. And very wise to back everything up with emails (I use USB sticks, and try to remember to update the stored files reasonably often while writing/making changes to a draft). Oh dear, printers are a hassle—no, I'm sure no one will notice :D

[cornerofmadness]

Day 2 about 130 words

[regshoe]

Well done!

[lferion]

2 May - two haiku to go with a necklace I am making for the new fan-flashworks challenge

[regshoe]

Haikus and a necklace, that's very cool! Well done :D

[yasaman]

Day 2: 339 words for me today!

[regshoe]

Yay, good stuff!

[luzula]

Wrote 400 words yesterday on the longfic, but then was too tired to comment when I got home! I taught an evening course on the history of navigation last night... Total word count 47,100.

[regshoe]

That sounds like a cool evening class, despite being tiring! And good job on those words :)

[carenejeans]

Good work on Chapter 16!

Day 2: About 650 words, more or less. The word count went up and down. It was a bit of a rant, and I'd think eh, maybe tone that down a bit, then get mad again and tone it back up. ;-)

[regshoe]

Thank you :D And well done! Hee, that sounds like a thoughtfully-constructed rant and I hope it was worthwhile :)

[ljm]

Day 2: Busy day, so I just got in 8 sentences.

[regshoe]

Well done getting those sentences in despite the busyness!