March 2020 - Day 1

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

I'll put up the daily post in late afternoon or early evening, CET.

Comments

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I have begun work on an idea for my Easter Egg story. Mainly playing with an idea, trying a few things. I have two notebook pages done for today, plus a good amount of thinking time, running through the what-ifs while things gel a bit more.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Good start! You're working with notebook and pen(cil) then, not computer? I tried that, but am able to keep things in better order (in terms of lines, ideas etc) when I type--I think mainly because I don't transcribe the handwritten notes quickly enough and things get lost.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's a good start, what-ifs are very important plot-wise :)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I hope it comes together for you!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Hooray for ideas! That's always the hardest bit for me.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

It's Sunday so the morning is the Sunday paper and coffee in bed :) So did nothing particularly substantial, but went through some old files looking for some lines and a picture that I thought I could use for my Easter Egg story. Found them. Now I have to think...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Finding it was good! I tend to scribble something down and it doesn't matter if it's on a scrap of paper or somewhere on the computer, finding it again is a headache so often... and of course, with a memory like a sieve, I can never quite remember it :(

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Happy and prosperous thinking.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That's a good start! Play with the prompts, and now you've come up with something more! Good luck with the thinking. I must say, the paper and coffee in bed sounds much more appealing:)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Think! Think hard!

Sounds like a nice morning, though - does the paper come to you, or do you have someone to send out for it? :-)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Today I was at an event shared with our sister church here on the island. Having spent time preparing and doing crafts with the children who were there my brain is fried.

I am just about up to writing a few comments :(

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That sounds reasonable - maybe you can write up the event and later get some fiction out of it :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Doing craft with children is exhausting. Fun, but exhausting.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a serious expenditure of energy! Hey, it's not like comments don't take a certain amount of work either.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I can undesrtand how working with kids can do that!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I love that you're popping in for comments! *waves hello*

And I love Sallymn's idea about writing about the event. It's a great way to get some writing in!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a good way to spend the day, just the same.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Not a great start - unexpected visitors and a minor household emergency cut into my time, but I did manage to dig out the "description journal" I started some time ago (I saw this article suggesting it, and thought "I should do that, started it with one of the many many notebooks I have around the house and then....fell away what with one thing and another) and start a description of one of my visitors ("she had a long, superior face like a vaguely confused llama and kind dark eyes") and a couple of people ("pale stone-coloured eyes and a smile that seemed to have been painted on and then forgotten") I want to use for inspiration in stories.

Because I have come to think that short fiction is what I do best and therefore what I want to try and do when I retire, I also want to hone and sharpen my descriptions - people, things, places - to make them shorter and more vivid, so the journal will I think come in handy.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Those are great descriptions! I can practically see these people with my mind's eye.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea. Love the confused llama description.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Those are good! It's hard to describe people with short brushstrokes like that; I like what you're doing.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No writing was done today (not even the typing up version of it) because I was struggling with the design of the last quiet book page. It's more or less done now, so I have tentative hopes for tomorrow.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

But yay for getting the book done.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Hello all. I had a horse show two hours away today, so no writing for me. :)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Horse show sounds fantastic. Do you have winter weather? or are they in an indoor arena?

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Most of what I did yesterday was playing with pictures - and walking on a very cold little hill once the wind died down a bit - but I managed some scrappy words at the end to get me going.

102 words, Saturday's walk.

Moncreiffe Hill's main claim to fame, really, is as the hill which the main road hugs for a while as it comes into Perth, before throwing itself across the river at Kinnoull Hill instead.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

At least you got some exercise. I spent most of my day curled up in my chair with the cats and the fireplace.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I'm a little late, well, a lot late due to recuperating from a dinner party on the 29th.

Yesterday, I edited and put up Want to See What Trouble We Can Get Into? on AO3 - 851 words written in response to a prompt from cornerofmadness

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Dinner parties are a lot of work! Great job editing and posting a story on top of it :)