April 22, Sunday Check In

[enemytosleep]

Another day has come and gone, so now it's time to check in. \o/

How many new words did you write today? Did you reach your goal? Were you editing instead? Researching? Or was today a day of rest?

This week, I'll be sharing a writing exercise or warm up each day. Feel free to post your results here if you wish (or link us to them).

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Let's start the week with a warm up! Music has been brought up many times before in this group, so hopefully this warm up will be handy for many of you.

Set your mp3 player to shuffle (or whatever playlist device you have available). During each song, write a drabble inspired by that song. When the song is over, the drabble is done! Begin your next drabble with the next song, no pausing or stopping the player in between to edit (no repeat either!).

The idea is to let the words flow at a steady pace without your self-editing filter restraining you. You'll likely need to edit and add to whatever you've started later on, but after a few songs you should hopefully be in a good rhythm and be ready to word dump on your standing WIP!

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[linaewen]

I've been doing research today, mostly trying to figure out a name for a new original character who will star in a short piece I'm doing for a challenge in May. I'm probably spending way too much time on it since he's not too likely to ever appear again after this, but it seems important to give him a good name, nonetheless. I've got some possibilities, so now I have to try them on for size and see what fits him.

Maybe I'll try this writing warm up method with my new character once he gets his name!