Write Every Day: Day 7

[regshoe]

Check-in post for 7 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.

It's getting into baby bird season here, and this morning I had a wonderful sighting—a coot (Fulica atra) sitting on its nest, with a little gaggle of adorable scruffy chick heads poking out from beneath the parent bird :D (What coot chicks look like, for reference).


Tally for the month so far:

Day 7: china_shop, regshoe, zero_pixel_count

Day 6: amedia, badly_knitted, cefyr, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, muccamukk, phantomtomato, philomytha, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, ysilme, zero_pixel_count

Day 5: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cefyr, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, kate, lferion, luzula, muccamukk, phantomtomato, philomytha, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme, zero_pixel_count

Day 4: amedia, badly_knitted, black_bentley, carenejeans, cefyr, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, muccamukk, phantomtomato, philomytha, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, stonepicnicking_okapi, sylvanwitch, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, ysilme, zero_pixel_count

Day 3: amedia, badly_knitted, black_bentley, carenejeans, cefyr, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, muccamukk, phantomtomato, philomytha, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, stonepicnicking_okapi, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, ysilme, zero_pixel_count

Day 2: amedia, badly_knitted, black_bentley, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, muccamukk, phantomtomato, philomytha, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, stonepicnicking_okapi, sylvanwitch, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, ysilme, zero_pixel_count

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


My check-in for day 7: After a dispiriting afternoon (housemate doing DIY; destruction to all power tools), I've managed to revive enough to write 550 words.

Comments

[luzula]

Baby coots! I have seen them before, and wondered what those orange tufts are for.

Sorry about the stressful noise. : (

May 7: I edited the concluding chapter of my longfic and sent it to beta; I suppose we'll see what garonne says... Also I wrote 500 words on the new fic; total wordcount 1,000!

[regshoe]

I remember reading about that! Apparently the coloured tufts encourage parents to feed the chicks—the parent birds will feed more brightly-coloured chicks preferentially, which selects for more ornamentation.

Hooray for edits, and I'm sure it's great :) And all those words on the new fic too, well done!