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hopefulmonsters2021-02-03 02:05 am
Write Every Day: February 3
Good morning!
Posting this before bed again, so no writing for me yet. Yesterday I managed ~200 words on one WiP despite fighting a migraine for most of the day; hoping today holds many more words and much less head pain.
How are the words coming for you all today? Or editing, planning, or noodling? :)
(By the way, please let me know if I make a mistake with any of your names! I write these posts in Markdown so I use the @username function for tagging, which means I'm typing each name every day, and, well, typos happen.)
3 Feb:
china_shop shadaras shopfront falkner luzula badly_knitted sylvanwitch sanguinity alexseanchai yasaman ofmonstrouswords nafs cornerofmadness marvelouscity sakana17 thevetia silveradept lferion phrenk ysilme carenejeans
2 Feb:
china_shop cornerofmadness trobadora badly_knitted shadaras falkner sylvanwitch ysilme alexseanchai yasaman sanguinity nafs sakana17 solo thevetia marvelouscity lferion carenejeans luzula ofmonstrouswords phrenk silveradept the_siobhan
1 Feb:
ofmonstrouswords shadaras alexseanchai ysilme sylvanwitch badly_knitted yasaman sanguinity china_shop nafs thevetia iberiandoctor alexcat marvelouscity cornerofmadness sakana17 lferion silveradept carenejeans luzula phrenk trobadora solo
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(Also as this is my first check-in for the month, belated hello and thank you for hosting!)
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hi hi! you're very welcome!
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Wordcount for 3rd of February: 500
Total wordcount on poly fic: 83,000
Got more words today!
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thank you, it did! i used to get them ALL the time but this was my first one in quite a while. had forgotten how much i hate them, haha.
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Feb 3rd - 929 words on a challenge fic. I'm juggling writing with cross stitch for Valentine's Day, which is tricky. I need to stitch when I have daylight, but that's when I usually write, so...
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after that one i got them a lot, and then they started petering off...yesterday's was my first in a while. i did not appreciate the comeback. XD
that is tricky! are you able to do dictation at all? i've heard of people using dictation for writing and then being able to knit or craft at the same time.
i probably wouldn't be able to do that myself because it would be far too much multitasking for me, but i could see myself doing sprints of writing followed by rows of knitting....
anyway, i hope you're able to figure out a solution. i often find the too-short daylight hours in the winter very frustrating for similar reasons; everything i want to get done needs them!
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I can only focus on one thing at a time, but it's okay, it;'s not like I have to write A LOT. I have a 500 word per day minimum to keep myself on track.
I'm taking a break from knitting to get the cross stitch done. If you're going to alternate writing and knitting sprints, you could join us over at my crafting community,
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am currently trying to figure out where a bit with two side characters goes, since it doesn't go where I originally put it, and how different it will be when I put it there
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Hope you felt better today.
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thank you, i did. my fight against the migraine was victorious. :)
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Yesterday was a crappy writing day for me, just an alibi sentence and the classical writing desperation "I can't do this, this sucks, I'm a total loser, I don't want to write this" - the whole package), but I also got my extension and hopefully more leisure from today onwards. At least I feel somewhat less loser-y today.
(By the way, please let me know if I make a mistake with any of your names! I write these posts in Markdown so I use the
Perhaps you're interested in how I'm doing
I'm using a text editor which numbers the lines on the left (sorry, I have no idea how they're called, let alone in English) which makes things easy. I started to do it in this way as at times, DW has issues with editing entries and scrambles up the code, particularly if you're working with cuts, so I preferred to have my code saved outside just in case anyway; I also found it much easier to put in people reporting in at a later date - and it evolved from there. (I'm also used to writing entries in code as I've done a lot of plain HTML in my day and it's still much more familiar than markdown.)
In my txt file, I'm keeping the lines that are always the same on top, and have a block list of all usernames at the bottom. Then, for every day, I first write the date and put in the link to that entry (this used to be done by everybody but not any longer, but I'm still doing it as I use these links quite often), and then copy the block of current participants underneath.
When going through the comments, I push each username forward with a tab, then delete those who haven't reported in for the day - this also makes the counting easier as I took over counting each day how many out of the lot has reported in (I don't know if anybody is interested in this, but everybody did it when I joined so I kept it *g* ). After that, I just delete the tabs/spaces and have my code block ready to be copied & pasted into the new entry. Afer having perfected this to my own preferences, it now takes me less than five minutes to do a new entry. I hope my explanation isn't too chaotic and puzzling. ;op
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not at all! i actually found it very useful, and now i'm doing a copy and paste thing which is similar. thank you for taking the time to explain it!
*hugs* I have been there so many times! i'm glad you feel less loser-y; please know, those words that your brain screams at you are lies. <3
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(and thank you; i was Not Pleased migraines had made a comeback in my life, but at least it was fairly brief and not as bad as they have been in the past.)