check in day 31

[lilly_c]

Sorry I missed yesterday, I somehow forgot that it was my week to host.

How is the writing going today? What about the last couple of days?

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Today I

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wrote
6 (75.0%)

edited
2 (25.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
2 (25.0%)

planned
0 (0.0%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
3 (37.5%)

Discussions: what are you working on this week? Have you met any of the goals you set for the month?

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[olivermoss]

I'm currently working on the second writing exercise in the Le Guin book on writing.

I didn't meet my monthly goal, but I did do a lot. Maybe if I am focused on February I can get back on track.

[lilly_c]

Books on writing sound interesting, I just haven't found one that works for me.

We're all about restarting here and taking breaks when needed.

[olivermoss]

Some of the books I've read I've deeeeply disagreed with, and some of the books deeply disagreed with each other. I didn't get much out of some of the books I read, except just to know why some people say certain things about structure. Turns out, in addition to people being high perscriptivist about grammar and spelling, some people are perscriptivist about structure as well.

It's like now I know why people kept saying my story needed X, even though X would undercut the themes of the story.

[snowynight]

I am working on my messy original wip. It's 7k of outline and unconnected snippets

[lilly_c]

Those snippets and outline will eventually turn into something coherent though.

[snowynight]

Hopefully they will.

[lilly_c]

Trying to finish a fic for snowflake. I didn't really set a specific writing goal for the month but I did fly past my word count target.

[stefanyeah]

Proud to proclaim I have not touched Pokémon today but weng through all 6 chapters of Tartarus Lullaby. I might have not reached my initial goal of starting to post within January, as I'm going to stick to my Wednesday/Saturday routine, but I got my story into a postable state.

Now I only wish Ao3 had the option to schedule posts so I could set up everything and not forget about it.

[lilly_c]

Having a posting routine for something that's finished is good.

AO3 needs more features.

[stefanyeah]

It is. I've picked it a few years ago and when I've got something multi-chaptered I just stick to it forever now. :D

Yes.
I've got postybirb which can post to a lot of websites and offers scheduling, but sadly, no Ao3 support.
I use Ulysses for writing, and that can post directly to a few blogging sites, at least some of them allowing scheduling. Alas, no Ao3 support. And now that I know how easy things could be, how much could be automated if set up properly, I'm a little frustrated about Ao3 not allowing that.

I even had to create a draft to create a series so I could put a link to Ao3 into my Pillowfort template…

Also, Dreamwidth doesn't like texts from Ulysses. Ulysses uses markdown which doesn't quite get recognises by DW, and the exported html has little things that just don't work out in DW and I could not figure out what to do about it.
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