November 2021, Day 18

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This 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]

Absolutely nothing for me today. I had a hectic day and felt unwell at the same time, so it was all about survival.
But there's always tomorrow.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I saw your post, at least you made through to the evening! Better to rest up for tomorrow.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, I got my sh*t together and finished the baking with one day delay. 😄

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better tomorrow - sending you karmic lemon'n'honey...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that might help.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Quite a lot of procrastiknitting — and 360 words on the WIP so far :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

procrastiknitting — I love that word! Had to copy and past, though, as I doubt I'd be able to spell it. ;))

360 words are good!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I might post a picture of the procrastiknitted item on this community when it is finished :)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see them! I tend to crochet and cross stitch when I don't want to face real chores :)

And you still got some words in there, so not a bad day.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I love the word — and the idea! — procratiknitting. I think I'll adopt it!

(I also love your icon)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am an expert in procrastiknitting :) Feel free to adopt the word! Also, thank you.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I had a pretty good morning, maybe 300 words or so — not in chronological order mind you, but a series of short interstitial segments that introduce longer scenes. I think the format will work out pretty well, and it helps me focus on the underlying emotional arc.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sounds great. Go for it!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

My tutor mentioned that a writer she knows writes down scraps/sentences/ideas on separate bits of paper, then tosses them up and just sees where they fall and if that can be used ti put them together. It sounds like fun, but I don't know how much use it would be...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I had to do more freewriting exercises for my course, so used the People Travelling with a Death Worm (which has become decidedly smaller and less deadly, if not even slightly less ugly) for it. 400 words, and they're heading into an ancient abandoned city.

I don't know if the Death Worm will stay a Death Worm as I keep writing or devlop into some other sort of cryptid (with, for instance, legs :) but we'll see.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

400 words and an ancient abandoned city? Double win!

But now I would really like to know what a Death Worm is.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Big and ugly and thankfully legendary/imaginary :) I have a feeling the sand thingies in Dune were based on the cryptid legend, there's a page of information — and very unpretty pictures — https://allthatsinteresting.com/mongolian-death-worm (URL).

My imaginary version is a miniature one so not as completely deadly... I've got this picture (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/cryptidz/images/f/f0/Death_worm_5.jpg) in my head, but may change it later (maybe merge it with a medieval dragon picture, I love them). I do wish I could draw...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I got a Page Not Found message. Is that perhaps a members-only LJ community?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Drabbit, no I must have messed up the URL. Try this (https://allthatsinteresting.com/mongolian-death-worm), it's from the All That's Interesting website.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Day 18: Another busy day from end to end. But I read the script to The Monks of St Thomas Affair (MFU) and have a good idea of what I want to do.
So tomorrow that's the first thing I will write.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Where did you find the script? Do you have copies of them? Just curious, I'm not about to read it )
I'm glad it gave you ideas!

RE: !

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Here's a link:

MFU Script Archive (https://mt3143.wixsite.com/mfu-script-archive?fbclid=IwAR2G14eQmvA53fiH1olLpgpSq0S4JxnVGZVzHZGyT27BTJrYRJRMU8Z3Fkw)

Well, I didn't do any writing today. I've had what I thought was a migraine all day, all night and am just out of it.
Now I'm thinking it could be a reaction to the flu shot I got yesterday. But I hope the ideas work out. I'm still not really thrilled with the story idea but I've got to write it and see what happens.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Having the scripts is a good idea — when I go and watch the episodes, I end up watching more and more and... there goes my day :) I imagine the script on paper would make it easier to concentrate and to get the details right (not freezing and running back needed ).

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I wrote a wordy post yesterday — and three posts to my Dreamwidth/ElJay today — one of which was fannish...so hopefully that counts, lol!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Of course it counts! Words are words!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Than I count those posts as Words for the day, lol!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

It counts!! Posts can take up a lot of time.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

The fannish one did (but it was fun to do, so I rather didn't mind!)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Everything Counts (I am making up names today, so I am all for Everything Counts.)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

LOL! Making up names is totally Wording. I approve.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

147 words on a traveling day! Better than I expected tbh.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Every single word is a piece of victory!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Good for you! You're staying in the groove.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's good! I get nowhere in travelling... not even when I buy a Travel Diary, which remains sadly empty.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Too much busyness - an online talk about the ways mountains have been mapped, and then the fiddle class, where we were trying to figure out how to record ourselves doing something for the end of term.

But I did make a start on writing about a little exhibition the NLS had, about a lady called Henrietta Liston, who went to Constantinople as the wife of the British ambassador in about 1800, and wrote about her travels. 107 words.

On the walls were a few slightly more tangential things - I liked a map of Constantinople showing all the embassy buildings clustered on the northern peninsula, but even more interesting was a page of diplomatic code, both for the Stephen Maturin link, and as an insight into the kind of things that you might want to say.