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

[sylvanwitch]

Those itty coots are ADORABLE! Yesterday on my walk, I got to watch three baby grey squirrels chasing each other around the hole in a tree where they obviously nest. SO CUTE!

Ugh, sorry about the DIY noise. That's the pits. I hope the project at least turns out cool, though! YAY for words despite the chaos. :-)

On Day 7, I added 444 post-coital words to Chapter 12, finishing it.

[badly_knitted]

Baby coots are cute! I wish I lived near water so I could watch the waterfowl.

May 7th - 1000 words, 5 double drabbles. That's not what I intended to write, but after I wrote this week's drabble for my drabble community I completely forgot about the prompt on another community that I'd planned to write for and just wound up writing more drabbles *sigh* I need additional memory for my brain.

[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!

[trobadora]

Checking in for the 7th.

[philomytha]

Yay for baby coots, boo for disruptive DIY.

It’s been non-stop here today (7th), so only an alibi sentence, on a project I have been wrestling with for months. Maybe this will be the month I finally unstick it?

[muccamukk]

May 7: finished HA draft, and edited it for a while.

[sanguinity]

May 7: Late last night I finally realised why I was stuck on my Holmes longfic. This morning I made good on that by scrapping 3K words.

The rest of the day was spent in salvaging, retooling, transcribing (longhand that I wrote last month), and writing new words, to the tune of 2400 words. It's not perfect, but I'm in much better shape than I was, and am reasonably confident that I know how to move forward from here, which I absolutely did not before. So... tentatively hopeful?

[shadaras]

Day 7: 1.2k for an exchange fic draft

[chanter1944]

A few sentences for day 7, which I suspect is all I've got for the day, darn it. Not zero, though.

[phantomtomato]

May 7: Wrote 800 words this afternoon in a productive fit. Better than I expected, tbh!

[adore]

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).

Beautiful and adorable. ♡

[cornerofmadness]

day 7 160 words via editing and 1000001 words of test writing or at least that's how it felt. sigh

[yasaman]

Day 7: 829 words for me today!

[kate]

Several hundred words of comments today

[carenejeans]

Day 7: A little over 300 words, plus setting up a Scrivener file for a new project, making folders and adding a bunch of notes to them. That was fun. 8-)

Yay for baby coots! And good for writing even after being blasted by noise from power tools.

[ysilme]

Aw, birdies! 😍 (Thank you for the link, I didn't know the term and have only ever seen coots travelling, I believe.) But sorry to hear about the DIY frustration! *hugs*
Day 7: nearly 1k, most of it nonfic but 129 words working on my fannish WIP, yay! I'm still having these absurd wording issues but tricked myself successfully again: doing something else, just quickly popping into the fic to work at one of the wording issues, after having taken a break for a day, worked at least for issue #1. I might need to repeat that a few time but at least I'm done with that one place and it's a RELIEF. 🤪😝🤪🥹

[lferion]

7 May -- 200ish words on a three word prompt piece for a friend. Pretty happy with it so far, and I know where I want to go with it, so that is a definite win.

[china_shop]

Awww, baby coots!! (Sorry about the dispiriting afternoon, though. That sounds extremely ugh!)

8th: I added about 580 words to my story draft, including finishing it, reading it through and making a few edits, then reworking the ending and sending it to beta. \o/! And I celebrated with rhubarb custard tart, nom! :-)

[silveradept]

Checking in for Day 7, I got some ideas and began writing a little of them, but I still need to get the entirety of the idea down before it tries to run away from me and hide in the depths of my brain.

[ljm]

Day 7: Alibi sentence