ext_41457 ([identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] picowrimo2021-03-19 06:56 pm

March 2021 - Day 19

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

[identity profile] magaretnahmias.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Why I can't write stories much less novels.

[identity profile] magaretnahmias.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I just had to find a suitable type of writing for me

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Real life has a way of getting in the way of other more fun things...

Good luck with the new chapter!

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Thinking is still important. *nods*

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I have finished chapter 9! This morning I sat and wrote nearly 700 words. I have also been back though the earlier parts adding a word or two here, taking a word or two out somewhere else. The end result is a chapter that is 2750 words long. So I am ahead of my self-set target to average 100 words a day.

Here is a little bit of this morning's output -

Fully refreshed as she was by a couple of hours sleep after the wine, the dancing, and ‘being swayed by the desires of the body’, she thought it was shame that she couldn’t just reach out and dip her hand into the ice-cold river from here, or she would have paid her beloved back for the ice incident, back in the mountains, with an unexpectedly chilly awakening.

‘I could easily bring you some…’ came a familiar voice in her mind and a slight giggling sound brought her attention to what looked like a tall elleth sitting, almost invisibly, under the trees in the half-light. Nessa!

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you — I am really pleased. Now to go back to betaing for a day or two.

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good stuff! Well done of the wordage too :)

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Go you!

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I got the scripting exercise done — started a new one about a Secret Family Recipe being lost, very silly and very me — and posted. The feedback so far has been positive \o/ so I am happy :)

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Great-Aunt Edna's Death by Not-Chocolate Cake. The family hate it, but everyone thinks they are the person who desreves to keep the family secret recipe and make it for every family occasion as a status thing. Unfortunately the current keeper of the recipe has sadly passed on... and doesn't appear to have written it down. Yes, silly but I had fun writing people's outraged reactions :)

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds fun.

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[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Got my essay done and posted. Yay!

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Very much so.

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[identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Days 18 and 19 — no writing. Two very long days of RL, rising early, having grandchildren all day, late dinners, then just putting my feet up.

It's Day 20 and I have worked on my story for an hour. Writing, filling in the blank spaces and deleting more words.
We're leaving for the day, going for a drive. I will get caught up with posts later today or tomorrow.

Just wanted to pop in and wave hello:)

[identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com 2021-03-24 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It's been hit and miss with making time to write, and when I work on the story, the writing is hit and miss too:)
But I know I will find my way. It's funny how much writing I need to work through until I find the right path to tell the story.

The drive was great, and we went for a good, long hike in the forest, too. The sun was out, and it was very nice weather! So good to get on the trail in the woods, enjoying Spring.

[identity profile] candidlily.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
1k today on my original5k assignment, plus a couple sentences each on my two smut4smut fics!