Write Every Day, December 14

[bladespark]

I am full of holiday cheer!

And by "holiday cheer" I mean mulled wine. This post is a bit late today not for brainweasels or lack of spoons, but because I was at a planning meeting for a Perchtenlauf!

Since you probably haven't heard of that, it's a northern European winter holiday tradition, related to things like the Krampus or the Mari Lwyd, which involves monster costumes, chanting, ringing bells etc. in order to scare the winter dark away. So we all dress up as various monsters and march through the streets making as much noise as possible. It's very fun! Today we had a meeting to plan the route, and about half as many people showed up as RSVPd, so there was a *lot* of mulled wine to go around. :D

Only an alibi sentence today, because of that, but tomorrow should be more productive. And I did get my editing done yesterday! Wooo!

How are you all doing?



Dec. 1:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, lilacsigil, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme


Dec. 2:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, lilacsigil, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec. 3:
alexcat, alexseanchai, bladespark, china_shop, cornerofmadness, bookherd, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec. 4:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 5:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 6:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 7:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 8:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, lilacsigil, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 9:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 10:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, st_aurafina, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

Dec 11:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 12:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

Dec 13:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Dec 14:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

Comments

[sierranovembr]

I also produced an alibi sentence today. I was rather proud of it considering the mountain of chores I am digging out from under.

That celebration sounds very fun! Enjoy it :)

[bladespark]

Thanks! And some days anything is a major victory.

[china_shop]

Ooh, yay for mulled wine and dressing up as monsters! (And congrats on getting your editing done, too! \o/)

15 Dec: I started the day at 2,816 words, deleted 802, and ended at 3009 words, so I wrote 995 today. (And having done that calculation, I may have to go and write another 5, just to get to a nice round 1000. *g*)

[bladespark]

Hah! The allure of round numbers... But that's great! :3

[the_siobhan]

That sounds like a marvelous winter tradition.

I'm working on my original piece. I feel like I'm dragging every word out with pliers, but it's going. 270 words so far.

(Tonight's writing soundtrack: Plague Vendor)

[bladespark]

Oh man, the ones you have to fight every word... Good luck!

[sanguinity]

500 words! Which makes the story complete enough that I sent it to beta.

[bladespark]

That's awesome! \o/ Congrats!

[cornerofmadness]

A percehtenlauf sounds like a blast as does mulled wine.

I managed 276 words on that damnable spicy advent story + 2131 words on come undone

[bladespark]

Oooo. That's some great words! Congrats!

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

[nafs]

Ooh that sounds like a ton of fun!

I have been working for approximately two hours and wrote six pages, but cannot tell the actual word count because it is 1 am and I am going to sleep in lieu of typing it up. I started an exercise where I was giving each scene a title and putting it on an index card so I can physically see where everything is, and early on in that I got an idea for a scene that was not on the list and paused to write it.

[bladespark]

Huh. The index card thing is a neat system. (I like that you can sorta-kinda do that in Scrivener, I've used it for an attempt at a CYO Adventure story, but never finished it.)

[yasaman]

Day 14: braved the holiday shopping masses to go out to do some shopping today, and wrote 636 words when I got back!

[bladespark]

Wooo! Sounds like a win on both fronts there!

[lferion]

101 words on the HLH piece, which was more than I was expecting, given the day, so that's a win. Glad you got your editing done. Mulled wine sounds splendid.

[bladespark]

One takes victories where one can find them, I think. So yay, victorious over words today. (And it was, thanks!)

[alexseanchai]

alibi sentence, I guess? like it hit me that there's a particular comparison that wasn't in firelight yet and really needed to be, and now it is in there

but like I woke up with the entire next scene in my head in its full shining glory, solved the problems with the character interactions that were giving me fits, every word perfectly placed…

and the first thing I had to do today was get Thea-kitty to the vet (because, as the vet told us Thursday evening, they cannot wring out a tail and get a usable urine sample, and we were probably the last appointment before the vet closed for the day)

and by the time we were halfway there, I'd lost most of the scene

and then NaNo afterparty and then fetch Thea back from the vet and I basically haven't had any brain since

though also I did finally put words to a bit that's been in the back of my head for a while? it's not likely to ever be a fic (it's spun off of somebody else's fic and not in a way I think I can either make it my own thing or do something creative enough with the other writer's thing to justify asking permission, and if they have a blanket permission statement I haven't found it) but it's fun and now it's in words

[bladespark]

Oh god, I HATE when you have it all in your head and you lose it. I have gotten up at 2am because I was I was running story ideas in my head while being an insomniac and suddenly had a good idea, and I was so scared of forgetting it if I slept. It's so frustrating! But I'm glad you got something fun out, at least. Best of luck recreating your previous idea! Who knows, maybe the next version will be even better?

[alexseanchai]

one hopes

[bookherd]

Hooray for holiday cheer! I had a mug of glögg the previous evening, and felt very cheery indeed (though good friends and good food were probably more significant factors, mood-wise).

Day 14: I managed to actually spend a real chunk of time writing today, thanks to peer-pressure (a write-in with friends). Hooray! Not super impressive in terms of wordcount, but I did some research and started a new chapter!

[bladespark]

Very hooray!

[sylvanwitch]

The Perchtenlauf sounds amazing! I hope you have a fantastic time!

My husband is a Dutch-Indonesian immigrant to the US. His mom grew up on the island of Sumatra, in a tiny village that was completely obliterated by the 2004 tsunami. (My MIL and her family had to flee Indonesia following the end of the Japanese occupation, but she loved her hometown and often spoke of it.)

Anyway, on St. Nicholas' Day when she was a child, Krampus would visit the local school and would climb through a window into a classroom and then put into a sack and carry away a "bad" child while also beating said child with a stick!

For a few years running, that child was my mother-in-law. She didn't find out until years later that that was because Krampus was played by her mother, who would use burnt cork to darken her features and put half-potatoes in her cheeks to make them look malformed. And she chose my mother-in-law because my MIL was a pain in the butt, according to said MIL herself. (She was the youngest girl and her father's favorite. Her mother's mother, who was Chinese and practiced traditional witchcraft, once tied my MIL to a tree and set a fire at her feet to 'smoke the demons out'. It didn't work, according to my MIL. ;-)

Anyway, that was a ramble, but of all of my MIL's many amazing tales of her childhood on Sumatra, the Krampus story is one of my favorites. My MIL was a neat lady, and I think she'd have appreciated me sharing it with you. I KNOW she'd have loved to watch your Perchtenlauf!

On a different note, I added 757 words to the Bond/Q story yesterday. It's turning into a thing other than the thing I had been planning, but that's okay--I like the mystery! Lol!

[bladespark]

Oh my, that is quite the story! In the train-wreck-watching kind of way, tbh. Yikes, your poor MIL!

Also, huzzah for words. Hope the story comes out well in the end. But I find myself that the ones that develop minds of their own are often the best ones!

[pyramidsandelephants]

Perchtenlauf sounds amazing - I'm all for various ways of scaring away the winter and that sounds like so much fun!

[bladespark]

I've only done it once so far, and it was amazing! Though if it had been above freezing I think I would have died, marching so far in a ridiculously hot costume.

[trobadora]

For the 14th: I finished a thing and sent it to beta!

[bladespark]

Wooo! That's great! \o/

[auroracloud]

Wasn't as much online as usual this weekend, so I forgot to check in for the 13th, but I wrote words on the ambush project and enjoyed it!

On the 14th I continued writing a short story for the possible anthology call (or just because, if I don't get it finished on time) and added about 100 words in the novel again.

[bladespark]

Huzzah! Good luck getting everything done in timely fashion.

[silveradept]

I wrote my December Days post and posted it, but it was otherwise a busy day and I didn't get anything else done.

[bladespark]

Given the length and depth of them, a December Days posts is still quite an accomplishment!

[alexseanchai]

what bladespark said