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!

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[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]

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 :)

[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.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

The correct route is definitely important.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay doing something!

[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]

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.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Doing something sounds good to me!

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Great job!

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

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

[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).

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[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.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Indeed, they are!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, well done!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[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

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[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'.

[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!

[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.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

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

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.