kate | Write Every Day: October 2023 Day 16

Secret Santa prompt is a perfect match for me! I brainstormed today and definitely got a few options, now to doodle on them and see which one I can keep going on for a while.

Sad the weekend is over, though. Anybody got anything exciting coming up this week?

Day 1 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

luzula,

lferion,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 2 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvan_witch,

trobadora,

yasaman,

yhlee

Day 3 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvan_witch,

trobadora,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 4 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofhappiness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 5 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

genarti,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

spikedluv,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 6 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

spikedluv,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 7 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

kate,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 8 tally:

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 9 tally:

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 10 tally:

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

spikedluv,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 11 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

ysilme

Day 12 tally:

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

spikedluv,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 13 tally:

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

spikedluv,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 14 tally:

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

spikedluv,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

Day 15 tally:

alexseanchai,

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

lferion,

luzula,

regshoe,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

yasaman,

yhlee

Day 16 tally:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

kate,

luzula,

regshoe,

shadaras,

silveradept,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

yasaman,

yhlee,

ysilme

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Posted by

lferion

15 Oct -- another drabble for Innumerable Stars. Asked for and got an extension.

Posted by

kate

Whew! Glad to hear it! Hopefully now you've got plenty of time for those other drabbles.

Posted by

china_shop

16th: about an hour and a half of editing, and then I sent the fic off to beta. Also spent an hour or so reading through a draft of another thing. Still lots to go, though.

Posted by

kate

There's always lots to go! But that's a lot of good work right there!

Posted by

ysilme

Yay for your prompt being a perfect match! :o)

Day 16: 1,3k for a blog entry, and a couple of hundred words for some editing on the nostalgia project.

Posted by

kate

Oooh, nice, that's a great count for a blog entry!

I hope it's good - if I end up biffing it I feel even worse if it was a good match. But still have hope at this point!

Posted by

the_siobhan

I kind of fell off the planet mid-September, but I'm trying to get back into it now. I managed a blog post last night, so I'm going to count that as my starting point.

Posted by

kate

I know how that can be! Congrats for getting back on the horse!

Posted by

regshoe

Oh, yay for a good prompt! I hope the Secret Santa continues to go well :D

Day 16: Set up the CSS for posting the longfic on my website and uploaded it as a draft on AO3. And fixed an apostrophe (there's always that little bit of editing to do...)

Posted by

kate

Thank you! I hope so too. :D

Lol, always more editing, for sure. Congrats, you're so close now!

Posted by

sylvanwitch

This is the Mondayest of Mondays, and I'm already tired. I did my writing--438 words--over lunch because I have an evening work obligation. *sighs*

Posted by

kate

Oof, I know how that can be! I have rehearsal tonight, so I'm doing this catch-up now so I only have to do the new post when I get home. Congrats on getting your words in early!

Posted by

badly_knitted

Yay! Good luck with picking an option and sticking with it!

Oct 16th - 855 words. 4 double drabbles, and a spot of editing on a fic for posting.

Posted by

kate

Woo, that's super impressive, way to go!

I've got it narrowed down to two possible modern AUs... we'll see what I think as I talk my way through it on the way to rehearsal tonight.

Posted by

badly_knitted

Thanks!

Sounds very promising!

Posted by

silveradept

Life happens at certain speeds, it appears, and mine has been full bore. Still, checking in for days 6-16, progress on assignments, signups, book club, and more. Soon to be new assignments, of course, and other such things, but apparently my brain needed the brainpower for WED check-ins on some other set of tasks. Whee.

Posted by

kate

I hear that! I am doing okay with managing the check-in posts so far, we'll see how it holds up to work travel later this month. Congrats on keeping all the plates spinning though!

Posted by

alightbuthappypen

Day 16: 368 words on the interminable wip. I aimed for 300 again, and having the slightly higher goal seems to be working, so that's something.

No plans this week, except to get through it 😬

Posted by

kate

You can do it! Sometimes making it through is plenty of accomplishment. Way to go on surpassing your goal, though!

Posted by

luzula

I'm glad you got a good prompt! \o/

Day 16: Wrote 500 words of werewolf fic; total wordcount 29,800.

Also spent about 40 minutes trying to research what regulations there were around religion for an officer in a mid-18th century Scottish army regiment. Was it okay for him to be either Episcopalian or Presbyterian? Finally found an article which sounded relevant: "The Realities of Toleration: Army Chaplaincy, Religious Politics and Scottish Military Experience, c.1690–1763". Not available freely online, so I abused my university access to request it. I bet the university library is wondering why someone in the math department needs that...

Posted by

kate

Thanks, I am super happy about it, I can't wait to figure it out!

Wow, that's some cool research, way to go! I bet those librarians have seen it all though. :D

Posted by

yhlee

Yay for a good prompt!

Day 16: five pages of screenplay and now I have to deal with some other stuff, but hey, progress. :D

Posted by

kate

That's right, progress is progress! And 5 pages is nothing to sneeze at!

Posted by

china_shop

17th: tiny sequel-to-a-thing ficlet, and the start of a fun sequel to that, totalling 980 words, plus an hour+ edits on a thing that I'm bogged down on.