Write Every Day: Day 1

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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.

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Late checkin just for goal accountability purposes - don't add me to the Nov 1 tally belatedly or anything as I didn't manage any words - but I'm doing Nano with an original lesbian romance novel that I've had roughly planned out for ages now, so fingers crossed it'll be relatively easy to get underway. I really wanted to get a finished full first draft of a novel by the end of this year, and Nano's pretty much my last chance to get enough of it done that it's doable to finish it up in December, so... fingers crossed! I also have Public Call and I'm still working on my multifandomtrope fic which is due... sooner than I'd like, and I'm not sure if I'll get it done at this rate, but my dcu_bang is also not as far along as I want it to be. But there's no penalty for dropping that last one, so it might be first off the to-do list. I was hoping to finish a late treat for Trick or Treat before author reveals, but at this rate that's also not happening, sigh.

Also thanks for hosting us this month (it's your first time hosting yeah? I hope you have fun with it! :D) and congrats on the story acceptance hee!

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