March 2021, Day 5

[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!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No new words for me. I had a very exhausting day and when I found some free moments I voted for therapeutic paper embroidery. You can check out the results on my own journal.

However, I did think a bit about the other story on my plate for this pico session — it just didn't lead to any actual writing. Still, I might switch to it in the next days, as all I'll have to do is to reshape a canon scene to fit the crossover I'm working on. Not that that would be easy, but at least I have something to work with. *fingers crossed*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it counts.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

As long as something comes out of the thinking. Which, sadly, hasn't happened so far. *le sigh*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Darn.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I find spending time thinking whilst doing something unrelated, in my case knitting, can result, a couple of days later, in having the whole scene in your mind ready to write it down. I can see the paper embroidery having the same effect.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I hope you are right. I'm still waiting for the miraculous results. *g*

[elmey.livejournal.com]

It's actually nice to have a couple of stories in mind so that when you get stuck on one, the other might loosen up and let you move forward.

Do you feel that the stories are thematically far enough apart that they don't interfere with each other when you think about where you're going with them?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Lovely embroidery! I hope the writing is better tomorrow :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Clinic notes for me today. When I had time I listened to CME (Continuing Medical Education).

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Clinic notes totally count!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

:)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Clinic notes must take up a good portion of time every week. And there's no escaping that work! Is CME required or something you're doing on your own?

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yes. Because computers make everything easier and faster, you know. :/
Required. Not actually sure how much because i usually go way over the requirement.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

The sort of writing you have to do to get paid... I know all about that.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yep

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I did another of the Dol Amroth drabbles about children dressing up.

So the first one is here (https://tolkien-weekly.livejournal.com/1294933.html).

The second one is here (https://tolkien-weekly.livejournal.com/1295336.html).

And the third one is now here (https://tolkien-weekly.livejournal.com/1295521.html).

Now to consider 'bandage' :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

All three are lovely, but my favourite is the third one. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think I like going back to Dol Amroth now and again because I love writing about the sea — it tends to turn up in at least one of any set I do about Imrahil's family.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I like the imagery in all of them, but particularly in #3. The sense of play and the way the children interact is very strong in all of them.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The third one took me a while to get right — I am really pleased it worked so well for both you and wiseheart.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh well done! I think the third is my favourite too :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I do like to write about the family at Dol Amroth — I think because it gives me a chance to write about the sea and the sands :)

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Rough day. I tweaked an outline and added about 100 words, but not feeling super motivated on it at the moment.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's 100 words more than I wrote. You still rock.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I reckon 100 words is a good amount for me most of the time :)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I consider 100 new words a victory! Especially when nothing is coming easily.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Those days do happen.... {pats shoulder and offers chocolate}

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Day 5. (This is posted after the fact, but I'm putting it in to record my progress — or lack of!)
Reboot story. It’s just not clicking. One hour's worth of wool-gathering.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh I know that feeling of not clicking :(

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

It's a struggle (for me) to even want to try to write when I find myself second-guessing and disliking what I've come up with. Blah. Oh well, the solution is to keep going, find a bit I do like and try to add to that. Sooner or later (hopefully sooner, as there's a deadline involved) things start working. Just have to push through these doubtful days.