Write Every Day: Day 1

[tomakeanoffer]

Today is the start of my hosting WED, so below, find all that stuff.  Briefly, in related news, I got another story acceptance, which was super exciting, as it was a venue I really liked the look of.  I need to still sign the contract and such but I will be doing that tomorrow, so yay!

Anyway, onto the WED stuff...

What is Write Every Day?

Write Every Day is a challenge where you make the effort to well, write every day.  A host (me!) is responsible for putting up a post each day in a month for you to come check in, talk about your writing (or lack of), cheer people on and all that jazz.  The host will keep a tally of people who've been writing and will put up that tally on the next day's post as a way to encourage people ot keep a streak going..

Checking in every day isn't mandatory though!  However, if you want to come drop into the comments and flail about your troubles with writing, that's perfectly acceptable as well. 

What I personally enjoy about this challenge is that there's no minimum word count.  People do alibi sentences and that still counts.  The point is to chip away a little each day, so even if you only write a few words, it still counts and that is awesome.

Goals:

If you have some goals you'd like to share for the month, feel free to do so  This is a big writing month for so many people because of NaNo but I personally am not shooting for that goal.  Instead, I'm aiming to get four to six short stories drafted and edited by the end of the month.  We'll see how it goes but I have hope!

What are you aiming to accomplish this month?  And if you have no goals, that's fine too.  Do whatever works best for you. 

Today's Writing:

I didn't get much sleep last night, so I'm posting this early, that way I can nap.  I got about 900 words of my 'Queer lady makes friends with ghosts and eventually the living' story and talked about working on a few other things over the next few months with friends and for myself.

Not too bad, considering I was having a hell of a time starting my brain up today.

How did you guys do?  Anything interesting pop up in your writing today?   And if you couldn't get words out, what's got you stuck? Maybe someone in the comments might have some helpful hints.

Comments

[auroracloud]

Thank you for hosting this month!

I was having an angsty day at work, and relieved some of that angst by writing a bit of a scene in the blank pages of my planner, for the novel that I thought I was putting on worldbuilding hold. I clearly don't know which novel I'm working on. Maybe I just have to work on more than one at once? I don't know how many words because I didn't type them up yet, and I don't yet have a general idea of how many words per page I write in the planner, as I do with my regular writing notebook.

Then in the evening I took yet another of the cuddle themed prompts I've been having fun with, and wrote 583 words on a new one. At some point I should probably start editing and posting these cuddle ficlets, but at the moment I'm having fun writing that one.

I signed up for mini_wrimo to write at least 300 words every day, so there's that for goals. Real NaNoWriMo goals are too high for me, but that one is manageable but should still push me to work a little more on my stories than I sometimes do. For more definite goals: Write my public_call assignment, finish and post some of those prompt ficlets I've been writing, and hopefully start properly working on one novel manuscript or another.

Ooh, your queer lady ghost story sounds great! I'd love to read such a story! I've been thinking about writing queer ghost stories, too, or just generally queer Gothic fiction.

Also, congratulations on your story acceptance, that's super awesome!

[tomakeanoffer]

Personally, I would totally do multiple projects at once. It's how I operate most of the time because it helps when I get stuck on one. I usually have one story I am actively writing, a few on the backburner/worldbuilding, and at least a few characters that are just floating around that I need to put somewhere at any given time.

I cheer you on in all your goals though! May you manage all the things!