Checking in on Day 26 and 27

[linaewen]

My apologies again for not being on top of the check-in posts this week.!  Real Life is taking the ball and running with it at the moment, and I'm not able to keep up at the moment.  ;-)  Hopefully after today I'll do better at posting and commenting on what you've already shared.

In the meantime, we're checking in for yesterday and today!  So report any writing progress you've had in the last couple of days -- or otherwise, if like me you have been otherwise engaged.

Today's possibly somewhat helpful quote:

See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up.
Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know. 

1.  How as it been going for you lately?

• I'm writing!
• I'm researching!
• I'm editing!
• I'm taking a break!
• I'm wishing I had time to write, but I'm just too busy with other things...

2.  Do you have a word count for the day or a snippet of a thought or a conversation you want to share?

3.  On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most positive, how are you feeling about your writing efforts today -- and why did you choose that number?

4.  The "answer if you feel like it" question:  Do you find experiences from real life work their way into your writing?  Is this a good thing for you or bad?

Comments

[anehan]

1. I'm writing! At last! I haven't been really writing in such a long time that it feels alien to be doing it now. I should be concentrating on planning my manowrimo fic, but then I read an old fic by lysapadin and got Ideas. She graciously gave me permission to write a spin-off, so that's what I've been doing for a few days. Finally I'm managing to write something that doesn't threaten to turn into a novel-length fic and which I thus have a chance of finishing some time soonish.

2. No word count for today yet, because I'm in the middle of writing. But have a snippet from a couple of days ago:

However, the two-year peace was shattered. Keigo's mother took to hinting at the subject every so often, and even his father said in his terse way that Keigo had better get cracking and produce an heir.

“After all, we know that there's nothing wrong with either you and your wife, so I don't understand what the delay is,” he said.

3. I choose 7. What I'm writing is not the height of good writing, but nevertheless I'm writing!

[linaewen]

Just to be writing, no matter the quality, is such an encouraging thing, isn't it? Hope it continues and that very soon it will be comfortable again and not alien.

Your snippet is very thought-provoking; I feel sorry for Keigo -- not fun to have the folks bugging you about something like that!