July 2021, Day 8

[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]

Only a few new words today — barely a few sentences, nothing snippet-worthy. I'm working myself up to the big finale, and it's very hard to find the correct way to there.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's easier to write the finale and figure out how to get there afterwards? Or is that not possible in this case.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This is one of those rare cases when it is not, unfortunately.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

The correct route is definitely important.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Especially as the location where the finale will take place plays an important role, and I've just changed my mind about that.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been there. Good luck finding the path!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll really need luck for this one.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling :( But the end is, clearly, in sight, it's just getting around a few bends in the road on the way.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Your word in God's ear, my friend. Your word in God's ear. *sigh*

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Good luck. Sometimes it turns out that you don't need as much build up as you think you do - I hope you find the way, anyway!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

We had hail come down half an hour ago. Is this the end times or what??

Other than that....
I've been putting in some time on my story in the mornings, not a lot of readable writing yet, but notes, snippets of dialogue and sentences I might want to use and some minor location research. It actually feels like I'm doing something :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay doing something!

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Doing something sounds good to me!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Notes, snippets, and location research are definitely 'doing something'.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Indeed, they are!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Ooh, hail. We've just had odd outbreaks of thundery rain. Sounds like you're making good progress towards the writing stages, too.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I've finished out my essay and posted it. Now I'm just waiting for the IT guys to put a picture on it. :)

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Great job!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, well done!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Wrote 1k today! Writing some Harry/Draco for old time's sake. It's fun! I may finish this one tomorrow if all goes well.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oops — nearly forgot to check in!

Words written — approx. 500. Words deleted because I think it needs a different POV — approx. 500 :(

But I did beta half of the epilogue of the 39 chapter story I have been beta-ing over the past months. I am afraid it has probably taken me at least as long as it took ellynn_ithilwen to write and translate into English. And I finished the beta this morning (day 9).

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to finishing the beta! That must have been gargantuan work.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think it was over 95,000 words — it is posted at SOA (http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=7697) — where they don't put a word count

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Oh no! But at least you know something about the story that you didn't know before...

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I went for a fairly enormous walk, and then in the evening I was busy fixing my knitting, which had gone All Wrong (twice), and watching a programme about John Buchan. So not a very writing kind of day. Eventually I wrote a few scribbly kind of bits about a statue put up to commemorate the first written rules of golf. 104 words.

The rules were written for a competition held on Leith Links in 1744 and won by the surgeon John Rattray, who thereby became 'Captain of the Goff'.