Wednesday Check-in

[linaewen]

I missed yesterday's check-in post -- sorry!  Did anyone have anything encouraging to report, or was Tuesday a day of drawing your breath to try again today?

Here's a worthy quote on writing from a favorite author of mine:

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. 
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

That said, how is it going for you today in combining those words in potent fashion?  Are you getting words actually written?  Are you looking for the right words by doing research, fact checking or outlining?  Are you thinking about your story while in the midst of other work that has become more demanding at the moment?  Let us know how it's going, so we can rejoice, encourage or commiserate with you!

Comments

[linaewen]

I got nothing accomplished yesterday, other than moving through other projects so that I can be free later in the week to be free of them! As for today, I'm traveling for much of the day so may not get any writing done, but I plan to think a few things through while I sit in the car, so writing will be on my mind.

I'm looking forward to a long weekend away starting tomorrow in a place where I'll have lots of free time -- so I am extremely hopeful of making lots of progress with my WIPs this weekend! I just have to get out of the habit of ignoring them for more pressing tasks. ;-)

[in_lighter_ink]

Nope, nothing accomplished yesterday... we'll see how today goes. Real life has been obfuscating my words more than usual, too.

I'm really enjoying the quotes, by the way!

[littlebutfierce]

No writing yesterday, but today I wrote a draft of a ficlet for fic_promptly -- I'm really finding it useful, some days, to just go through their lonely prompts & pick one & try to write it. Most of the time there's nothing good about the random stuff I come up w/, but it's still writing fic. And some of it is revisable!

I only wish I had the energy/tenacity to go through their lonely prompts more often.