Write Every Day: October 2023 Day 31

[kate]

This is it, folks, the last check-in of October! Tallies are back, so please check them and comment here with anything that might have been missed (I did not go back and update previous posts - I always adding things to the newest one, which is now this final one).

It has been wonderful hosting this and I hope to do it again next year, perhaps in a slightly less crazy month. :)

For myself, I actually had a bit of inspiration and wrote a whole paragraph of potential trick-or-treating fic that might or might not be done in time for Halloween/Wei Wuxian's birthday. :)

For next month's check-ins, check out zwei_hexen!

ETA: Reading comprehension fail, it's not zwei_hexen for November 1, it's sanguinity!

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, spikedluv, sylvanwitch, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 16 tally: alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 17 tally: alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 18 tally: alexseanchai, alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 19 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, regshoe, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 20 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 21 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, starandrea, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 22 tally: alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, <kate, lferion, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 23 tally: alexseanchai, alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 24 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 25 tally: alexseanchai, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 26 tally: alexseanchai, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, sylvanwitch, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 27 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, sylvanwitch, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 28 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, spikedluv, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 29 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 30 tally: chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

FINAL DAY!!! Day 31 tally: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Comments

[sanguinity]

November check-ins will be at sanguinity for the first half of the month, and then with china_shop thereafter!

[kate]

Thank you! I misread the convo between you and china_shop, my mistake. It's updated on the post now!

[china_shop]

I've had a great month. Thank you so much for your awesome hosting!! *showers you with appreciation sparkles and sends you a virtual gift basket* <333

[kate]

Me too, thank you bb! <3 <3 <3

[trobadora]

Thank you so much for hosting this month! I dropped out of checking in because I failed completely at anything other than allibi sentences - I didn't even get to the point where I could try, really, and it was just too depressing - but hope springs eternal and I will try again in November. Hope to see you around at WED! ♥

[kate]

Yeah, I am in a similar place. Feeling really sad tonight because I started a Halloween fic (just a paragraph) and was unable to do anything with it in time to post. :(

We'll get there! Hang in bb! We can do it! *\o/*

[trobadora]

*hugs* Sorry you're in this place too. Here's hoping for November!

[kate]

*hugs* you too!

[sylvanwitch]

Is there no Day 30 check-in? Did I miss it? I’m late anyway, but I did write on Day 30, 151 words. I can come back here to report on 31 later.

Thank you so much for hosting us this month! You’ve been awesome!

ETA: As one-half of zwei_hexen, I wanted to say that we are NOT hosting in November as far as I know.

ETA2: Day 31, very busy! But I added 107 words to the outline.

[kate]

No, apparently I missed October 30th entirely? That was concert day/date night so I'm not surprised.

Got you for both days, and I've updated the post to point to sanguinity. Reading comprehension fail on that front.

[sylvanwitch]

Haha, no worries! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. And you were SO busy this past weekend, so it's totally understandable! :-)

I hope you've recovered somewhat from all the busyness! :-)

Thanks again, so much, for hosting us!

[lferion]

30 October -- a haiku, and working away at the actual matching for the exchange, having done the data entry.

[kate]

Aw, haiku! Those are my favorites. And congrats, matching exchanges is tough!

[yhlee]

Thank you so much for hosting!!! ♥

Oct 28 - no writing. :]
Oct 29 - no writing. :]
Oct 30 - 500 words on linguistics space opera.
Oct 31 - lol alibi sentence, hoping to write more after I get CAFFEINE.

[kate]

You are most welcome - it was good to interact with a bunch of writers, even if I didn't really get any writing done myself. Hope the caffeine was both delicious and helpful!

[regshoe]

Thank you for hosting this month, and hooray for a spooky paragraph! \o/

Day 30: 700 words.
Day 31: 300 words.

[kate]

You are most welcome, and thank you! Great wordcount to end the month!

[luzula]

Hey, thanks so much for doing the work of hosting, and I wish you more writing inspiration in future!

Day 31: 500 words of Yuletide fic!

[kate]

I'm happy to do it, and thank you!

Yay Yuletide words!

[alightbuthappypen]

Absolutely horrible week, no writing done, and I continue that trend today, but wanted to check in just to thank you for doing it this month! I definitely wrote more than I would have done without it :)

[kate]

I'm glad to have helped a bit, anyway! Hang in there, and here's to a productive November!

[badly_knitted]

Yay, words!

Thank you for hosting! This has been my best month of writing this year, although today, not so much. Halloween is time consuming.

Oct 31st - 564 words. A quadruple drabble, and editing on chapters 5 & 6 of the spook_me fic.

[kate]

Halloween is time consuming! Congrats on getting it done though, plus editing!

ETA: I don't have you for the 30th and I missed the post that day; I'm assuming you wrote, but can you confirm?

[badly_knitted]

Thanks.

It was exhausting and I still have stuff to put away.

[shadaras]

Thanks for hosting through this spookiest of months! :D

Day 31: Alibi sentence

[kate]

Haha, happy to do it!

Good job getting something down anyway! Here's to a productive November!

[chanter1944]

Tagging in for days 30 and 31.

At least 200 words, though I wasn't keeping close track, for day 30.

100 words or so, I think, and some editing for day 31.

Thank you for hosting! :D

[kate]

Happy to host, and great job getting those end-of-month words! Good luck in November!

[silveradept]

Curling on for Days 29-31, a lot of book club and responding to comments, bit also banging a presentation into publishable form so I could release the text early for those who might want to read beforehand.

[kate]

Great work for the end of the month! Good luck in November!

[sanguinity]

Thank you so much for hosting us this month!

Oct 31: Comments on four Trick-or-Treat stories (three of them gifts for meeeeeeeeee!), plus an alibi sentence.

[kate]

Eeeee, gifts! Excellent words! Happy to host, and thank *you* for hosting beginning of November!

Day 30 & 31 check-in

[the_siobhan]

Thank you for hosting!

Mostly the past couple of days have been poking through my WIPs, doing some minor edits & spelling corrections and trying to decide what I want to focus on in November.

Re: Day 30 & 31 check-in

[kate]

You're most welcome, and good luck figuring out your November stuff. Are you doing NaNo?

Re: Day 30 & 31 check-in

[the_siobhan]

Not this year. November is always busy for me, although I did manage to pull off NaNoWriMo summer camp one year.

[cornerofmadness]

Since Day 30 is missing this is me checking in for then and the 31st about 1K between the two and thank you for hosting

[kate]

Got you for both days!

Happy to have hosted, and best of luck for a productive November!

[yasaman]

Day 30: 439 words
Day 31: 327 words, plus some belated comment replies.

Thank you for hosting this month! ♥

[kate]

I was very happy to host.

Great words to wrap up the month! Good luck in November!

[ysilme]

Thank you so much for hosting October, it's been fun! I'm looking forward to you doing it again if you find a good month (or half of one) for you, too. Yay for writing happening for you, too!
Here's my tally for the missing days:
Day 28: 3,2k, Nostalgia project + NaNo prep
Day 30: 1,5k, Nostalgia project
Day 31: 300 words + NaNo prep; the latter took up most of my writing time yesterday.

[kate]

Woo hoo - strong end to the month!

I look forward to hosting too, even though I didn't do much, it was nice to see people achieving stuff and cheer them on!

[lferion]

31 October -- wrote the assignment letter for the fest, and finished the matching. Now I just need to send out the individual emails.

Thank you so much for hosting!

[kate]

Woo hoo, congrats, that's awesome work!

It was my pleasure - lots of great folks in this crowd and I like hearing what people are doing. :D