March 2022, Day 9

[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!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Two measly sentences today. But at least I've typed up a couple of pages, which meant lots of editing during the process, so it's good.

[artemis10002000]

That's important work you did!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's what I keep telling myself. *g*

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That is a good amount of work! Way to go!

[wiseheart]

One year later, FYI: I'm unable to access LJ right now, so I've temporarily switched the March session here.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

The typing up has to be done, so it's good to get it out of the way!

[artemis10002000]

My hope for tonight is to get some more editing done (ideally, get the rest of chapter 5's first draft edited, but ch5 is the one that needs the most rewriting and expanding as I was impatient to finish the draft, so I expect it to go slowly even once I can make myself go back to this task.)

I'm also brainstorming my assignment for a fic exchange I have signed up on. I had been pretty clear on what I wanted to write, but going through the requests beyond the ones we matched on, I realized I actually have more options for what I could write for them than I had expected, several of which are tempting. So I will have to look into that.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual!
Sorry, no idea how to say that in English. *g*

[artemis10002000]

Haha, neither do I

But yes, that sums it up

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the editing and the brainstorm for the fic exchange!

[artemis10002000]

Thank you!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh but how much better to have several choices you like, rather than only ones you... don't...

Best of luck with the brainstorming!

[artemis10002000]

Thank you! I ended up not getting anything from my plans done last night but hopefully today.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I kept trying with the two Merlin ficlets but they are simply not working... so I put them aside and picked another prompt to do something quick and messy, about 400 words but it came much easier. So I'll revise it tomorrow and try for another. Plus I went and did a couple of the exercises in my course.

Not in all a lot (and I am a bit miffed at the ones I couldn't get to work but eh, if three goes don't do it, it's probably not gonna be done. Oh, and I counted up, the failed attepmpts were something like 850 in all... ouch)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's not a bad word count — and who knows, perhaps after some hibernating the Merlin ficlets will work out, too!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I found another and managed to write it, will put the details on the next post :)

[artemis10002000]

Not bad at all! and these words you are stuck on aren't lost, I'm sure you'll get back to them eventually.

The WIP I'm currently working on is one I had to shelve for nearly a year

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Mind you, because of my packratty hanbit of never throwing anything out, I have WIPs on my external HD going back oh I do not want to think how long.... they'll never be finished (except never say never) but I can't quite throw them away/delete them.)

Maybe they'll come in handy for harvesting bits and sentences and ideas for new stuff :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have one like that. My husband and I were writing it together from two points of view, back in the Buffy fandom, and it got to 17 chapters — around 50,000 words — then we were both distracted by other things. The last written chapter was posted in my journal in 2008 but I can't bring myself to delete it from the WIP file.

[wiseheart]

Quick info one year later: I can't access LJ right now, so I've temporarily switched the March session here.

[artemis10002000]

I'm sure these words will become useful at some point, even if like you said for ideas.

I can't ever bring myself to delete snippets of writing either, not even for fandoms I have fallen out of love with.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That's a really good amount of work, whether you wind up putting some stuff aside in the end, it's still writing!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

It is — and at the very least I can call it practice!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Drive by hi as I get home from choir. :)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

*waves* Have a good evening!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Hi back!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I got a couple more paragraphs added tonight. It's a let down, I'd been on quite a roll, but I have a good amount to work on revising, and hopefully the story will come together in the next few days of revisions.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I hope so, at least you got some done :)

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

251 words today, which feels like an accomplishment since I languished at only 19 words for most of the day.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

It is an accomplishment, well done :)

[gavinf1980.livejournal.com]

I've got Covid, so am doing writing/editing at times during the day just to keep myself occupied.

Lately, I've managed to edit three chapters of my book.

I've also started a new X-Files fan fiction; its inspired by Hitchcock's "Lifeboat": A group of people are adrift on a raft somehwere at sea, after their plane makes an emergency landing, and the Cigarette Smoking Man climbs on board.