Write Every Day: March 1

[alexseanchai]

Welcome to the challenge! sylvanwitch and ysilme explain it more thoroughly: tl;dr this is to encourage participants to write daily and be supported, supportive, and accountable about it. No pressure! :)

Got any writing plans this month? I have vague notions of writing stuff for the Miraculous Ladybug fandom event marinettemarch, but right now my head is pretty thoroughly consumed by the ML angstfest I'm titling "stake everything I am on a dream (and it's counterfeit)". If it clocks in under 20K I'll be astonished.

*cheers everyone on*

Also, here is a cute cat photo!


(I haven't figured out how to get my phone's white balance off auto yet, or what it even thinks it's doing sometimes. Everything in this photo is excessively yellow, except the blanket, which is about the right blue.)

Thea is such a help to me.

Comments

[yantantether]

Thanks so much for hosting this month!

718 words for me today - some of them while crammed onto an overcrowded and hot tube platform with hundreds of other people as the Victoria line backed up, so goodness knows what they're like, but that's what editing is for :D

[alexseanchai]

Wooot! And it's easier to edit words than a blank page, so. :)

Also, that must've sucked.

[cornerofmadness]

Ooo love your icon (and great word count)

[alexseanchai]

Ha, I got words down.

...118 of those words are a slight elaboration upon [fight scene goes here], because I don't know how that goes in much detail but I do have a grasp on how Gabriel reacts to what it shows of Adrien and Marinette's individual and collaborative fighting styles and also this facet of their relationship dynamic. But hey.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words! You'll get there. You've got this. Keep at it! :-)

[alexseanchai]

:D

[falkner]

This is my first time taking part, hi!

My plan for the month is to write as much as possible for my drabble collection, and hopefully complete it (23 more to go after today.)

Wrote 100 words today.

[alexseanchai]

Welcome to the chaos!

Sounds like a great project. Themed? *\o/*

Yay, words!

[falkner]

Thank you for the welcome!

Kind of, every drabble pairs the main character with a different person, so it's fun to try and get all the different characterizations and relationships across in just 100 words :D Here's a link! (the fandom is a manga called Katekyo Hitman Reborn)

Btw, your cat is very cute and please give her pets for me.

[alexseanchai]

Sounds like fun!

Shall :)

[azurelunatic]

Caaaaaaaaat.

I need to find my Bluetooth keyboard.

[alexseanchai]

*\o/*

[sylvanwitch]

Thea is a beauty! (We're cat people too. There's nothing like a cat on the lap to make me feel better.)

I wrote 792 on the ambush project. We're post-climax but Things are Still Happening. I'm not quite sure where it's going, exactly, but the villain's dead, so there's that.

[alexseanchai]

:D

Excellent! *\o/*

[china_shop]

Kitty! \o/

Thanks so much for hosting! :-)

My goals are three flashfics (to keep up my posting streak on fan_flashworks) and some progress on WIP #2 AKA the prehistoric curtain fic. All of those are in Guardian fandom.

I'm in New Zealand, so usually a day ahead of everyone else. I wrote an alibi sentence on the 1st, and about 300 words so far today (2nd), both on one of my flashfics.

[alexseanchai]

Cool cool cool!

[cornerofmadness]

What a cute kitty.

My plans for this month is to work on two holiday stories and a charity auction fanfic.

So instead I wrote 507 words on my novel which is still good.

[alexseanchai]

:)

Words! Woohoo! And hey, it's writing, it counts!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. Oh they count. I need to be doing that novel too but it doesn't have a deadline and the holiday stories do

[auroracloud]

Aww, kitty! She looks so soft!

I spent a fair amount of time on historical novel research, but that didn't lead to actual words being added to anything yet. However, I also started working on a short travel writing assignment for the sort of travel writing challenge I'm slowly doing with my friend.

I think my goal for March is getting a novel idea into an actual writing stage. Most likely the historical novel will be the first one ready enough for writing, because I have more ready background knowledge for it than I have for my sci-fi ideas. I know from experience that the best way to get myself to write a novel-sized thing regularly is to give myself a reasonable deadline for starting. Otherwise I can spend forever in research and brainstorming and planning. And I'm going to have to do more research after the first draft stage anyway, when I know more about the story and the characters!

[alexseanchai]

Research is also a key part of the writing process. *nods*

Good skill and best luck!

[carenejeans]

Thank you for hosting!

I spent most of the day working on my nonfiction project (it was fun -- I lost track of the time).

Then I wrote about 200 words of kind of aimless fiction. Doodling, really. 8-)

[alexseanchai]

:)

Woot! Fun good :)

[silveradept]

Words from yesterday weren't necessarily toward fic, although there was some thinking about that, but instead helping a teacher find the Batchelder Award for great book for children in translation and each of us giving some mutual encouragement to the other about their skillsets.

[alexseanchai]

That totally counts! \o/

[trobadora]

Thank you for hosting!

I was very busy with other stuff yesterday, so I only managed an alibi sentence.

[alexseanchai]

It counts! *\o/*

[talkingtothesky]

I keep having alibi sentence days, but that's okay!

Thank you for hosting us, and thank you for the cat pic, she is so beautiful. ♥

[alexseanchai]

That is definitely okay!

She's adorable, I love her :)

[navaan]

500 words on a oneshot that sprang up.

[alexseanchai]

Well done!

[alexcat]

1596 - Steve/Nat - they've been eating my brain.

[alexseanchai]

I know that feel. Well done!