Write Every Day: Day #9

[auroracloud]

Today's writingI finished Yuletide! That is, the first draft. It still needs to be edited like whoah, and I hope I can cut down a good bit of it because it measures almost 7K at the moment and that's too much. But the first draft is done! The beginning of today was crappy, and I didn't even try to write, but in the afternoon I slept and felt much

Comments

[trobadora]

Congrats on finishing Yuletide, that's fantastic! You have plenty of time left for editing. (Why is 7k too much, though? Longer fic is great!)

I had a pretty bad day yesterday - went to the doctor because of a stubborn cough that wouldn't go away; got meds; got knocked over so badly by the meds that I wasn't fit for anything the entire rest of the day. I just about remembered to scribble down an alibi sentence, at least.

Today, I tried a lower dose and it didn't knock me over quite as badly, so I actually got a bit of writing done after all. But still, ugh.

[ysilme]

Ugh, stubborn cough sounds nasty, and meds that knock you out so much even more so. I hope you'll better soon!

[trobadora]

Thank you! I'll take the cough over the side effects.

[auroracloud]

Thanks! It's a relief not to have to be as busy with the editing as I did in the case of my Public Call fic. :-) And it's not that it's too long for a fic in general, I love long fics; it's just that I don't think this story has enough content for that many words. :-) I usually write sprawling first drafts that benefit from taking away some excess stuff that doesn't add anything. I'm pretty sure some things get explained twice in this draft. ;-)

Ugh, that sounds really unpleasant situation! I hope your cough gets better without you needing to be knocked over by such meds, that sounds quite awful. Glad you were able to get a bit of writing done despite it.

[miss_morland]

Congrats on finishing the draft! \o/

About 750 words for me, but the damn story still isn't done. *sob*

[ysilme]

*pats on the back encouragingly*

[auroracloud]

Thank you! Good luck at getting yours done. I know how you feel...

[esteliel]

Congrats! My Yuletide ended up at 7k too I think, but I still haven't edited it. /o\ Instead I wrote 1k of a different fic today.

[auroracloud]

Well, that sounds good, too! I anyway like to take a bit of time between first draft and editing if possible, it makes it easier to look at it with a clear mind.

[avon]

Yay for yuletide progress. Still working.

[auroracloud]

Thanks. :-) Sorry, I'm maybe just tired and don't understand comments, but did you say you wrote or not?

[cornerofmadness]

Congrats on finishing the yule story. Day nine netted 390 words on my yule story but I'm at a spot that need thinking. Parties are fun to be at but less fun to write.

[auroracloud]

Thanks. :-)

Sometimes you need a bit of time to think your writing through. :-) Well, at least you know what's fun about parties, then. I only like the sort of parties I and my friends have, which mean tea and food and chatting about geeky things. My experience of the more normal parties is "too many people, too much noise, and why isn't there more music you can actually dance to, and everyone expects me to be getting drunk and thinks I'm somehow flawed for not doing so, and to be honest being drunk would probably be the only way to tolerate them when they're drunk, and I think I'll go home and read something now".

[cornerofmadness]

Honestly that's half of my parties too though I drink too and dance. I can morph into whatever I need to be for that time whether or not it really interests me