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.

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[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]

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...

[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 :(

[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]

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.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

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

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I have notebooks and odd paper files for some things - odd scraps of ideas, the descriptions below, lists of names - but I do the writing on the computer....

[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 :(

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Gosh, do I know the feeling! Half my life is spent with wandering around our (fairly small) flat, looking for things I'm certain should be just here or there... only that they aren't.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I always write down everything by hand first. Something I don't actually have on paper doesn't really exist for me. Yeah, I know I'm a dinosaur, but I started writing at the age of 10 or 11 when computers didn't even exist. Plus, hand-writing works during electricity failures, too. *g*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

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

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

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

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

But yay for getting the book done.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I do some heavy editing as I go along, so yeah, it's easier to write on the computer. I keep thinking there's got to be a more efficient way, but if there is, it doesn't seem to agree with me.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I had a general idea of where to look this time--it was a prompt I left at some point. I knew the visual and the general idea worked for the story I'm trying to write, and I wanted to remind myself of what I was thinking back then. I always seem to have a (very) vague story in mind when I give prompts.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

It's never where you remember leaving it is it!

[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.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

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

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Those pages take a lot of work--both creative and hands-on. I saw the picture of the laundry room--so much wonderful detail!

[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.