March 2021 - Day 9

[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!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No new words today but I typed up the finished scene, just in case I'd be able to actually use it. It's mostly about character interaction and manly bitching. *g*

Excerpt:

In the end it was a sizeable group that gathered in Lester’s office. Aside from the ones he’d summoned, Matt and Philip joined the debriefing, too. As Ianto put it later, one could cut the testosterone in the air with a blunt kitchen knife, with Danny glaring at Matt in a hostile manner, Matt glaring at Jack in annoyance, Jack grinning back at him as infuriatingly as he could manage (which was a lot on a good day) and Philip trying to charm everyone into telling him everything, even matters that weren’t his business.

Especially matters that weren’t his business.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a productive meeting, not :)

I like it, I hope you have a chance to use it!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So do I because it's actually funny. *g*

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I llke that a lot. What a cast of characters:)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Both shows have very quirky characters, which makes it easy to write funny stuff about them. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That is such a good description of the group — I do hope you can use it somewhere. It is funny, and also very easy to visualise.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think I might be able to keep this part. The problems start a few paragraphs down the way...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh Lester is going to have fun with that lot... {veg}

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I found the first few lines of a second Sarah and Duck fanfic (actually the first one I started) while looking for something else, and decided I might add a bit. Still not very sure what's going to happen in the middle, Sarah's thinking is a bit beyond me at times :)
111 words.

“Nope”, she says. “Have to find the blue and put it back.”

I wonder if anyone has drawn a map of their world...

[elmey.livejournal.com]

How did you stumble on this show, and what made you want to write it? I looked it up and it looks like a fun oddity but maybe not so easy to fanfic!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

One of my best friends has a four year old daughter whose favourite show it is, and it's become one of his favourites too - it really is funny for grown-ups as well.

No idea what made me want to write it, though, except that I looked it up on AO3 on a whim and there was only one fic. I was hunting all round the house one day for some Lost Black - a ball of wool - and realised that sounded like something Sarah would do...

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

We don't get Sarah and Duck here, I looked for it during last pico, I think it was — were you writing the other fanfic last time around? I watched an episode on YouTube — adorable.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I may need to check that show out :)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Lots of stopping and starting and deleting and let's try again today. Final result about 150 new words. Not a major accomplishment maybe, but another step forwards.

It's 61F, 16C and sunny outside. Sitting at the computer and trying to write wasn't easy :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You see, that's why I write everything by hand first (among a dozen other reasons). I can sit with my real paper notebook and real pen anywhere and write. In theory. We won't discuss the actual facts here...

As for your word count, after all that struggle it caused you I think it's an important step forward. Go you!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I find sometimes, that if I need to get past a bit of a bump, that taking my notebook and pen to a local coffee shop and sitting writing there works so much better than having the keyboard in front of me. I think there are less other things to do there, and nothing to read or play in the notebook :)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I've tried the notebook and pen method, but it doesn't work that readily for me. It's OK for notes, but not when I'm actually doing text for some reason.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're making forward progress!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

One day at a time? My plot is stupid, but I've decided to ignore that small impediment.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Yup, just keep going with what you have and see where it leads:)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Those sort of days happen....

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Clinic notes so far. Half day for me, so home early for a nap. :)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Clinic notes = words, so check that box off for today!

Yay for half day!
Nap! Yes!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Naps are awesome. Although it was balanced by the two meetings and morning dental appointment. *whew*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm sure your patients appreciate the words written down today. ;)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

:)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Day 9: I worked on another little project today during my writing time. It's not writing on a story, but it's something I want to post on Easter along with my Easter Egg story.

As for my Egg, I haven't worked on it today. I thought about it, but that's not writing. I avoided working on it because I'm feeling so lazy today. But I will work on it for a while tonight right after dinner.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Working on something is all that matters, so go you!

Good luck finding time after dinner. :)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Thanks:) I did work on it after dinner!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just have to go where the muse takes you. Thinking counts, too, BTW.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I am definitely letting the muse lead me by the nose. Lots of words but I have no idea where or if they will land.
At times like this when I have lots of ideas that lead nowhere I just have to go with whatever happens.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

oooh, now I'm curious about the other project. I suppose I have to be patient?
Hope you got some writing time in.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

LOL it's just a funny ha-ha Easter Card, something to do while my Egg simmers in the pot:)

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

I was particular inspired today after I finished reading a longfic in my fandom, and added another 1,150 words to my exchange fic!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is fantastic! Go you!

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

That's an amazing word count. The story you were reading must have been pretty good :)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Wow, that reading was quite the inspiration, for a burst of that much writing! Good for you!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I managed another drabble, but it is slightly out of sequence so I haven't posted it just yet.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Still, you wrote, and that is what counts.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

You're really keeping up with the writing; finishing another drabble is great.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Even better — I did the final one today :)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That's great, another drabble crossed off the project plan!