Day 30 Write Every Day

[dswdiane]

Intro/FAQ

According to the list of volunteers kept by zwei_hexen for hosting this community, on June 1, the day after tomorrow, goddess47 will start hosting. So all of you should be prepared to move over there.

So, I'll be saying good-bye tomorrow.

My check-in, I had a long conversation and consultation with my other beta reader who loves the direction in which I want to take the story and suggested ways to make earlier chapters more congruent with intended goals. So I've been deleting and rewriting and rewriting--and I just realized that part of the reason I'm doing that to avoid the next session of intense research I have to do to find out what kind of boats would be used to do like a pirate raid on a yacht to rescue someone, how one would operate such boats and at least a minimal knowledge of the strategy and tactics of such a raid. Oh well, project for tomorrow.

PLEASE If I make a mistake and don't count you on a day, please let me know.

Day 30 sanguinity, china_shop, dswdiane, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, ysilme, sylvanwitch, china_shop, carenejeans, goddess47

Day 29 the_siobhan, dswdiane, badly_knitted, sanguinity, china_shop, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, ysilme, cornerofmadness

Day 28 sanguinity, dswdiane, the_siobhan, cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, ysilme, china_shop

Day 27 goddess47, sanguinity, dswdiane, cornerofmadness, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, ysilme, china_shop

Day 26 sanguinity, china_shop, dswdiane, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, goddess47, the_siobhan, carenejeans, ysilme

Day 25 ysilme, dswdiane, sanguinity, china_shop, carenejeans, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, goddess47, the_siobhan, cornerofmadness

Day 24 sanguinity, dswdiane, the_siobhan, badly_knitted, ysilme, goddess47, china_shop, sylvanwitch, cornerofmadness, carenejeans

Day 23 sanguinity, dswdiane, the_siobhan, china_shop, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, cornerofmadness, ysilme, carenejeans

Day 22 dswdiane, goddess47, carenejeans, sylvanwitch, ysilme, badly_knitted, the_siobhan, sanguinity, china_shop

Day 21 dswdiane, badly_knitted, sanguinity, the_siobhan, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, ysilme,

Day 20 china_shop, ofmonstrouswords, dswdiane, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, cornerofmadness, ysilme, sanguinity, carenejeans, the_siobhan

Day 19 china_shop, dswdiane, ysilme, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, ofmonstrouswords

Day 18 ysilme, china_shop, dswdiane, cornerofmadness, the_siobhan, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, sanguinity

Day 17 dswdiane, goddess47, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, carenejeans, badly_knitted, ofmonstrouswords, sylvanwitch, ysilme, china_shop, the_siobhan

Day 16 china_shop, dswdiane, the_siobhan, badly_knitted, badly_knitted, ysilme, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, ofmonstrouswords

Comments

[goddess47]

I'm doing this on a side community: goddess_writes.... but it's good to go!

[dswdiane]

Thanks for the correction. I'll be sure to do label it correctly when I post tonight for day 31.
And thanks for checking in with us.

Enjoy a watercolor painting of woods from Luminosity.

[carenejeans]

Day 29: More prep for the 1000-words-a-day challenge, but mostly worked on good old "Fitz." ;-)

Day 30: Aaaand, I did it! Today was the first day of the challenge, and I wrote over 1,000 words! \o/ Now I have to do it again tomorrow. /o\

[dswdiane]

Congratulations for continuing your work on good, ole Fitz.

And super-duper congratulations on writing over thousand words on the first day of the challenge. \o/ I'm sure you'll be able to do it again and again and again.

Here have a very sweet pic of Mick and Keith obviously getting along.

Days 30 check-in

[the_siobhan]

Thank you for hosting! I have enjoyed your icon gifts. :-)

350+ words tonight.

Re: Days 30 check-in

[dswdiane]

You're welcome. I'm really glad that you're enjoyed the icons.

Congratulations on 350+ words today.

Please enjoy my favorite dragon icon.

[cornerofmadness]

day 29 & 30 about 1200 words between the days

[dswdiane]

Congratulations on 1200 words between days 29 and 30. Good for you.

Enjoy mother birds feeding her chick the way you're feeding your writing.

[badly_knitted]

May 30th - 1375 words. Three expanded ficathon fills, edits to two fics, and some work on another fic.

[dswdiane]

Congratulations on 1375 words across several different works. You sure do keep busy.

Enjoy a dragon, a castle, and a sea. May you always soar high.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I do. It keeps my brain from thinking about other things.

[china_shop]

30th: alibi sentence (because I spent most of the day AFK).

Thank you so very much for hosting!! *showers you with truly appreciative sparkles*

[dswdiane]

Thanks for checking in on a day you were mostly AFK.

And thanks for the appreciation and the showers sparkles. It's mostly been fun.

Ooh, I love your icon. That's lovely.

Enjoy some lovely autumn woods in a watercolor by Luminosity.

[sylvanwitch]

As someone who writes a whole other novel to avoid editing the last one, I appreciate your delaying tactics. ;-)

On Day 30, I wrote an alibi sentence. It was a busy day (good busy), and I almost forgot entirely!

[dswdiane]

lolol to your comment about writing an entire novel to avoid editing the last one. Thanks for your appreciation.

Thanks for checking in for Day 30. I'm glad that you had a busy day that was also a good day for you.

Enjoy Luminosity's watercolor of a Jellyfish.

[ysilme]

Yes, goddess47 is hosting June, but not in their personal DW but in one created for the purpose, goddess_writes .

Kudos to getting much writing work done, even if part of it was for procrastination reasons. ^^ I think even this kind of writing will contribute to improving in general, no matter the reason.

Checking in for days 29, 30 and 31. (You missed me on day 29 although I already checked in on my last time.)
I started another larger revamp of one of my drawer epics and spent today and yesterday pushing around files, characters and other bits and bobs, and jotting down notes, descriptions and new ideas all over, altough I didn't count the words.
My writing platform is Scrivener which allows for a lot of hierarchic structure as well as shuffling things around easily (snippets, chapters as well as whole stories, depeding on how you're setting it up), but particularly for that epic there are so many parts by now that I tend to lose the overview.

[dswdiane]

Thank you for correcting the mistake I made about where we're moving. I will correct that again on my entry later today for Day 31.

Thank you again for reminding me to add you on Day 29.

And thank you for acknowledging that all the work done in rewriting and changing what has been written is an important part of the entire process no matter what the reason for focusing on it. Yes, indeed, taking the time to review and revise as to make the story clearer and more readable is always time well spent.

Icon Antarctic sun shining brightly with a double ring.

Congratulations for working on your one of your drawer epics. All of that is important work also. And thank for your information about Scrivener. It sounds like it's a good platform for keeping things organized and having separate parts to the whole that one can refer back to.

I'm currently writing in Ellipsus which is a great platform for allowing beta readers to make comments and corrections and for merging one's own work with the parts of their editing that works. But I have to keep my outline and time line and snippets in another word processing program (Wordperfect--because I wrote my dissertation in Wordperfect and I understand all of it's functions and quirks)--perhaps because I simply don't know how to use those functions in Ellipsus.

Thank you for all of your comments and help ysilme and for helping to maintain this community. I'm glad I found it.

[sanguinity]

Heh, I *do* have books about pirate tactics and strategy -- but they presume eighteenth century technology, so probably won't serve you. I hope you found out a lot of cool things, though!


May 31. More work on the auction story! 200 words of smut before I decided I didn't like the direction it was taking, tossed it, and wrote a different version of the scene instead. I like the new version MUCH better. 1K words total, 800 of which I intend to keep.

To answer your other question: this auction story is for the person who requested Hornblower, sorry. I still haven't decided on a fandom for the other auction story.

(Icon is a delightfully slashy quote from Commodore Hornblower. In honor of the smut I just wrote in which Hornblower absolutely wants Bush.)

Days 31 check-in

[the_siobhan]

730+ words tonight! I have a solid plot for the next little part of the story, so I just need to get the words down.

Re: Days 31 check-in

[dswdiane]

Congratulations on so many words today and yay for having a solid plot for the next part of your story. I really understand having a drive to get the next part done when it comes to you.

Icon is a painting of a dragon flying over a tree. He/She obviously has places to go. And now so do you. \o/