Write Every Day: February 13

[ofmonstrouswords]

happy lupercalia!

February 13th to the 15th is Lupercalia, an ancient Roman -- actually possibly pre-Roman -- festival of purification. celebrating it today in the ways the Romans did (sacrificing a goat, running naked and bloody through the streets) would probably be frowned upon and likely have unwanted results, so I don't recommend it. however, any modern purification ritual would definitely be in the spirit of the holiday!

(or maybe playing Goat Simulator.)

personally I'll probably stick with a simple shower and perhaps some free-writing. it's snowing again, so no running naked through the streets for me.

how is your writing going today?

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13 Feb: badly_knitted carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness lferion luzula marvelouscity phrenk sanguinity shadaras shopfront silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia yasaman ysilme

12 Feb: badly_knitted carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness falkner lferion luzula marvelouscity ofmonstrouswords phrenk sanguinity sakana17 shadaras silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia yasaman ysilme

11 Feb: alexseanchai badly_knitted carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness lferion luzula marvelouscity ofmonstrouswords phrenk sanguinity sakana17 shadaras silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia yasaman ysilme

10 Feb: alexcat badly_knitted brithistorian carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness lferion luzula marvelouscity nafs ofmonstrouswords phrenk sanguinity sakana17 shadaras silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia yasaman ysilme

9 Feb: alexcat alexseanchai badly_knitted carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness lferion luzula marvelouscity ofmonstrouswords phrenk sanguinity sakana17 shadaras silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia yasaman ysilme

8 Feb: alexcat badly_knitted carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness lferion luzula marvelouscity nafs ofmonstrouswords phrenk sanguinity sakana17 shadaras silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia yasaman ysilme

7 Feb: alexcat alexseanchai badly_knitted carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness lferion luzula marvelouscity nafs ofmonstrouswords phrenk sanguinity sakana17 shadaras shopfront silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia trobadora yasaman ysilme

6 Feb: alexcat alexseanchai badly_knitted carenejeans china_shop cornerofmadness lferion luzula marvelouscity ofmonstrouswords phrenk sanguinity shadaras sylvanwitch thevetia trobadora yasaman ysilme

5 Feb: ofmonstrouswords china_shop badly_knitted luzula shadaras alexcat alexseanchai brithistorian carenejeans cornerofmadness iberiandoctor lferion marvelouscity nafs phrenk sanguinity sakana17 silveradept sylvanwitch thevetia trobadora yasaman ysilme

4 Feb: ofmonstrouswords china_shop shadaras luzula badly_knitted sylvanwitch sanguinity alexseanchai yasaman nafs cornerofmadness marvelouscity sakana17 thevetia silveradept lferion phrenk ysilme carenejeans iberiandoctor trobadora alexcat

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 iberiandoctor trobadora alexcat

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 iberiandoctor alexcat

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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[falkner]

Day 12: wrote about 500 words and then crawled to bed before checking in.

I'm aiming to get more of the same fic written today, but I got myself distracted with random Twitch streams right now...

[ofmonstrouswords]

huzzah for words! and i get distracted with random youtube vids so i know the feeling... :)

[silveradept]

Okay, I'll give you days 12 and 13,because I did a lot of Grief queue work on the 12th and there will be tab cleaning today, along possibly with more Grief work or the 3SF.

Also, since it's Lupercalia, does that mean there will be people writing and/or revealing psychic wolves stories?

[ofmonstrouswords]

got you added to the tally!

and i mean...perhaps? i didn't get any actual physical writing done on the 13th but my lesbian psychic werewolves in space story invaded my brain during my shower, and i got some noodling done on it. so maybe the holiday is responsible for that! :D

[sylvanwitch]

Blessings of the festival to you! I hope you enjoy it, with or without the goat blood. :-)

Today, I edited two more (long-ass) chapters. Yay!

[ofmonstrouswords]

haha, thank you! :D

huzzah for editing!

[luzula]

Wordcount for 13th of February: 800
Total wordcount on poly fic: 88,000

Long car trip today, so lots of time for writing.

[ofmonstrouswords]

huzzah for words!

i wish i could write during car trips, but i'm usually the one driving and dictation has yet to work for me. XD

[shadaras]

Today I have written some number of words in the process of editing others. :)

[ofmonstrouswords]

huzzah for wording and editing! :D

[shopfront]

Happy Lupercalia! I managed some editing today though sadly it's like pulling teeth, I had a groove but I seem to have lost it again, bah.

[ofmonstrouswords]

oh no, i hate losing the groove! congrats on getting some done regardless, though; i know the pulling teeth feeling. i hates it, precious.

[sanguinity]

12: Words!

13: Brainstormed and wrote up 800 words of backstory timeline, in order to get myself out of this corner I wrote myself into.

[ofmonstrouswords]

huzzah words, and super huzzah figuring out backstory that gets you out of corners! :D

[china_shop]

Happy Lupercalia!

14th: 833 words to finish a ficlet. :-)
15th: I should really be working on my wips, but instead I've started a new thing: 611 words.

[ofmonstrouswords]

yay words! and hey, nothing wrong with writing a shiny new story! (says the person who does it all the time instead of finishing wips.... XD)

[marvelouscity]

Another alibi sentence day for me.

[ofmonstrouswords]

yay words! \o/

[cornerofmadness]

Honestly running naked and bloody thru the street would have been an improvement on this day.

I did 1658 words on my long Prodigal SOn story

[ofmonstrouswords]

oh no, one of those days?

hooray for getting so many words anyway though!

[cornerofmadness]

Oh yes, thanks

[thevetia]

I finished the (draft) story! Currently at just over 12k words. Sent to betas and I can forget about it for a while and write something else.

[ofmonstrouswords]

huzzah for finishing and sending to betas! \o/

[yasaman]

Day 13: a net of 206 words' worth of editing on my draft, plus a little bit of noodling around with another WIP.

[ofmonstrouswords]

yay for editing words and noodling! :D

[lferion]

Feb 13 - 400 words on the really-truly last piece for the SWG NYR challenge. And I did quite a bit of work on the spreadsheet I used to keep track of it all.

Tomorrow I should do something for the Button prompt on Fan Flashworks.

[ofmonstrouswords]

yay for words, finishing, and SPREADSHEETS!! (i love spreadsheets)

[carenejeans]

Day 12: I didn't start writing until too late at night, wrote two paragraphs and... fell asleep.

Day 13: I did a bit better today, getting in some editing and revision on various things.

[ofmonstrouswords]

hooray for words on both days!

[ysilme]

You could always sacrifice a baked goat or one made of marcipan! *g* And I'm reminded of something my late grandfather liked to do when we had snow in winter: directly after a round of sauna, not only going outside into the chill air, but roll naked in the snow. LOL (They had one at home.)
Technically, part of my 6k for the 12th have been also written on the 13th, but I'm always counting the time between going to bed, so the only new words I wrote yesterday were comments about the exchange fic to my beta. But I posted the monster a second time, taking care of two chapters of botched formatting (thanks, AO3!), oh and added two paragaphs to my end notes.

[ofmonstrouswords]

oooh, i love marzipan! i actually had some covered in chocolate yesterday, so very appropriate! :D

directly after a round of sauna, not only going outside into the chill air, but roll naked in the snow. LOL (They had one at home.)

oh, nice! i remember doing that after hot-tubbing at a friend's house when we were kids...the kids, not the adults; they stayed in the tub. and more recently when my husband still lived at his parents' place we'd get in their outdoors hot tub during the winter time; it's more fun then! :D

Technically, part of my 6k for the 12th have been also written on the 13th, but I'm always counting the time between going to bed

huzzah for words -- comments totally count, as do posting and adding paragraphs to the notes. :D

and i do the same thing with counting days between sleeping periods, which makes my days REALLY weird. XD

[badly_knitted]

I'm a bit late, forgot to check in last night despite the post being up early, but I'm here now!

Feb 13th - 800 words. It's amnesty week at my drabble community so I wrote 4 double drabbles across 2 fandoms.

[ofmonstrouswords]

no worries; i'm a bit late posting the entry for the 14th! XD check-in whenever you can!

huzzah for words! and 4 double drabbles; nice! (i have yet to write a drabble...not sure i can. maybe i should challenge myself to do one.)

[badly_knitted]

I was absolutely certain I could never write a drabble. Then a fic I was trying to write wasn't working, the theme fit the current prompt at tw100, so I edited a few words out and posted my first drabble. Now I write a lot of drabbles and double drabbles. I still have some that start out as drabbles and take off, but I've discovered I CAN write drabbles if I try, so never say never!

My drabble community is drabble_zone if you want to have a go. It's for all fandoms, 100 or 200 words, a new prompt every Saturday, and regular amnesties where all prompts are fair game.

[satoyan]

Day 13: 233 nano words.

[ofmonstrouswords]

huzzah for words! :D