Write Every Day, December 24

[bladespark]

Merry Christmas Eve! (Or Merry Christmas to those of you over in Australia, New Zealand, etc.)

Assuming you celebrate it, at least. I'm not super into Christmas (not like it's Christ's actual birthday anyway!) I'm more fond of solstice, but it's nice to have time with people you care about, to exchange gifts, and so on. :3

Alas, I am still sick, but we've decided to open presents tomorrow with the kiddo, and just save Grandma's present for our visit there come New Year's, so Christmas will happen here after all. JJ is making prime rib for us, even!

Also happening, drinking mead. Turns out hot mead with lemon (honey and lemon, lol) is amazing when you're sick.

Didn't write yesterday, probably won't today or tomorrow either. I admire the dedication of most in this group, who solider on to at least get their alibi sentence no matter what. I don't quite have that fortitude!



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, ysilme

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, ysilme

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

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

Dec 15:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 16:
auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 17:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 18:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 19:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 20:
auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 21:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 22:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Dec 23:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

Dec 24:
alexseanchai, , bookherd, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman

Comments

[alexseanchai]

where the firelight fades has officially crossed 40K!

*revises total length estimate to 50–55K*

[bladespark]

Wooooooo! That is a *heck* of a lot of words!

[alexseanchai]

also I've been working on this since start of May

[sanguinity]

Merry Christmas eve!

Revised that one part of the story that was bugging me. I should look at it again when my brain isn't stupid with a headcold, but today I am stupid with a headcold, and am holding here.

[bladespark]

I feel you on the sick-stupid. But revision is still useful. :3

[sylvanwitch]

I'm a solstice person myself, but my family celebrates Xmas, and that's when the hubs and I exchange, as well, so it's sort of an extended period of stress and giving--lol!

I'm sorry you're sick, but I'm glad you're still opening gifts tomorrow for your kid's sake. That makes it sort of a longer Xmas holiday anyway, and no kid would mind that! :-)

It's also totally okay if you don't make words every day. You do what's right and good for you.

Merry Christmas Eve to you and yours! I hope you feel better each day.

Today, I added words to the Bond/Q fic, and they FINALLY got to the sexytimes. If this is any indication of how the rest of the story is going to go, it's going to be a long remainder of the year. ;-)

[bladespark]

Thank you! And yay, sexytimes. :D

[greghousesgf]

I'm an atheist but I'm also a hedonist so I'll celebrate anything. :)

[bladespark]

Hedonism is the best philosophy. *raises wine glass*

[greghousesgf]

clink

[sierranovembr]

I wrote a few fic recs for posts over the next few days (doing a 12 days of rec-mas on my tumblr).

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

[bladespark]

I saw that. :3 Awesomeness!

[nafs]

tbh approximately 80% of the motivation to do *something* related to the novel every day even on days when it feels broken and impossible is that if I do something and then tell you, you will respond. So even on days when you can't make yourself write, you're helping other people write and that's important.

Today I poked wikipedia a bit about the history of alchemy and took a few notes - mostly I wanted the time period around which it would have gotten started in Europe. I don't need an actual historical event to kick off the whole thing but I need a realistic sense of scale.

[bladespark]

Awww, that's nice to hear! I do try to be encouraging and positive in my replies. But I am genuinely impressed by everyone! So much good stuff being written, and so much effort going into at least writing something every day by so many of you!

I remember doing some research for historical things. Quasi-historical, it's all magic and vampires, but it's fun to get at least some sense of what was going on in the world at the time.

[cornerofmadness]

Hope you're feeling better. Happy holidays.

I got 609 words on one 12 days of ficmas story and 227 words on another one.

[bladespark]

Thank you!

And woo, words! That's pretty good!

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

[yasaman]

Day 24: squeezed in 284 words after a long day at work and a long drive.

[bladespark]

Woot! More words!

[sakana17]

December 24: After a drought, 1926 words.

[bladespark]

That is a lot of words!

[bookherd]

Day 24: 78 words. Not expecting to make significant progress anytime soon, just keeping my head in it because if I stop, it'll be much harder to get started again.

[bladespark]

I hear you. But words are words, and the momentum matters too.

[lferion]

Day 24 - I managed a proper Yuletide Treat! Precisely 1000 words (10 connected drabbles). Written at the very last minute and posted juuuuust under the wire. I will have to go back and properly do tags, but what is there is enough to be going on with.

[bladespark]

Nice! Round numbers are so satisfying. :D And yay for finishing it, too! \o/

[china_shop]

Day 25: Alibi sentence and more Yuletide beta. :-)

[bladespark]

Awesome sauce. People who beta are the very best people. :D

[frith]

Try mulled wine: wine combined with honey, lemon and cinnamon and served hot. I don't drink wine but I like mulled wine.

[bladespark]

I had mulled wine at the Perchtenlauf (winter holiday thing) last week. It was great!

[silveradept]

Wrote a December Days post, and added a little bit to Songfic #2. Admittedly, much of the December Days post was showing off something kind of tangentially related to games, but it felt important at the time.

[bladespark]

Hey, it still counts! :3

[silveradept]

It does still count.

[alexseanchai]

it is important!

[silveradept]

Glad you think so.