The daily writing game continues

[diisha392]

Hi, I made it here finally! I was mldeichler over at KBoards (so I guess I won't still be posting there, Lynn).


I wrote a few dozen words this morning on my WIP. It is not going to be anywhere close to done by the end of October.

[Lynn]

LOL. I just posted there because I didn't want to abandon anyone still playing the game there. Guess I can move on now.

Another day for me, with 1000+ 2000+ words today, so Yay! Finally a bit of a breakthrough after just chipping away at things for weeks.

[Lynn]

Wrote a couple of hundred words, but they were decent words and I have no overwhelming urge to delete them so ill count that as a win! 

That's always worth a dancing banana. 

So ... life happened, and no writing was done in however many days since I posted. Oh, life, you silly old thing -- you're just full of surprises.

Anyway, just wanted to say that I will be shifting to encouragement / cheerleading mode for a while until writing can happen again.

Good job, everybody! Keep up the streaks!

Cheerleaders are always welcome. :icon_smile:  Not that I'm not sad for you. :icon_frown:

[elleoco]

Sunday, 9/23 - 1088


Woohoo! I've finally managed four figures again.


[Avoiding the temptation of dancing bananas here.]

[Lynn]

Sunday, 9/23 - 1088


Woohoo! I've finally managed four figures again.


[Avoiding the temptation of dancing bananas here.]

    :icon_razz:


I can't believe how much I love those dancing bananas.

[Lynn]

As long as no one pops up to say the prize thing is a bad idea legally speaking between now and tomorrow, I'll try to get that post with the prize stuff up tomorrow.

I'm about to call it a night and I don't want to mess it up.

[Misti]

2.5k and calling it a day.

[David Wisehart]

Day 14 - 597
Total - 24,531

[VanessaC]

Was on a roll over the weekend, sat down this morning, got about 164 words done and the dog decided to go mental - I now have a crater in my garden.  And the day job needs attention before I can get back to the writing. 

[Royal Editorial (Katie)]

Hi again! I'm still playing, even though it took me a few days to transition here from kboards.

My copyedit offer still stands - I would have PM'd you to set it up, Lynn, but you seemed to want to keep out of the prize stuff If somebody has stepped up to organize that, let me know and I'll get in touch with details.

Congrats to everyone who's been getting their words!

[Lynn]

Yes, yes, yes, I'm perfectly happy for people to do what they want here. :D

Organizing and leading are not the things I do best, tbh. I am generally a one-person show here. I go against the grain, don't listen to anybody, and do all my own editing, proofing, covers, tech stuff, etc. In other words, I do not work well with others, lol, although I do try to be friendly. 

[tdecastro31]

Day 15 - 2,809
Total - 12,557

[Lynn]

Forum was down every time I tried to get on yesterday so this is my post to say another day of writing done yesterday. 1500+ words. SO glad to finally be making some progress.

[tdecastro31]

Day 16 - 2,849Total - 15,406

[David Wisehart]

Day 15 - 4,062
Total - 28,593

[idontknowyet]

I wrote 2 sentences yesterday, but I couldn't get on to post.
I'm already over 400 today. I'm hoping to get over 2k today, but well see.

[elleoco]

Got the blank page trying to get here one day, and today couldn't log in until I tried a workaround posted on KBoards.


So I'm going to post this now rather than wait until I have tonight's words to add:


Monday, 9/24 - 1074

[Lynn]

Same here. I'm posting while I can, but I'm still writing. So far today 1000+ words. I think I finally posted about yesterday this morning when I could get in, so I believe I'm all caught up.

We're almost to the end of the month when other people can jump back in.

I'm happy to say that this has been working great for me, despite a few really pathetic days. I'm going to ride this thing until there's no road left.

[elleoco]

I'm happy to say that this has been working great for me, despite a few really pathetic days. I'm going to ride this thing until there's no road left.

Tuesday, 9/25 - 1,148


Me too. It's pathetic how panicky I've felt about being unable to get to this thread last night and today. You'd think it held some kind of magic motivation elixir.

[David Wisehart]

Day 16 - 1,376
Total - 29,969

[tdecastro31]

Day 17 - 564 (and counting)Total - 15,970

[Lynn]

To support the game, Dennis Chekalov is offering a generous developmental editing prize for 4 winners for the first two months of the game! (That's 8 total winners over the first two months.)

Up to 3,000 words of the beginning of the manuscript (must be the beginning of the text, which really only makes sense anyway!).

He'll do basic developmental editing which will be about 350 words of comments for every 1,000 words of manuscript.

If you like what he does, posting a testimonial in his forum thread here is a nice way to show your appreciation but it's not required, of course.  Welcome, but not required. :D

Finally, Dennis says he works with all genres but specializes in mystery/thrillers and sci-fi/fantasy. So something to keep in mind.

Not every winner is going to need or want this kind of editing, so people who are interested will need to say so at the end when identifying themselves as winners of the game, and IF there are more than 4 of you, I'll do a totally random drawing for the prize.

Seriously, it will be totally random and if any issues crop up, people complain, etc, the whole thing'll be scrapped. Just putting that on the table. I don't do mediation or conflict resolution for anyone except fictional characters and my own too-argumentative-for-their-own-good children. :D I have no idea where they got that trait. :o (Okay, maybe I do.) ;)
 
This is a very generous offer, though, so take advantage of it if you win and enjoy having someone do some developmental editing for you! 3000 words of a story can really get you started.

Just to reiterate, so there are no misunderstandings or unreasonable expectations, this is developmental editing NOT proofreading or line editing.

Here's his link on this forum in case you want to see what he usually charges for this and those of you needing the motivation of a prize can see the value: https://writersanctum.com/index.php?topic=150.msg1250#msg1250 .

Now, any questions, I suspect Dennis will be happy to answer them in PM, or if you want to post here, that's fine with me. I'll do my best to tell you what I know.

Thank you for supporting the daily writing game, Dennis!

[Dennis Chekalov]

 

[diisha392]

Awesome offer, Dennis


I've managed to write each of the last few days but it has only been a dozen or so words each day (today's total is currently 3).


Eventually I'll get back into the groove

[idontknowyet]

That's a generous offer than you!

[idontknowyet]

Wrote 4 sentence today. They were decent sentences though so I'm sorta happy.

[Lynn]

[Lynn]

Today was probably the hardest day yet for me. I waited until super late to get started and have managed to write a paragraph, which I pretty much deleted afterward, but I wrote fiction. Now I'm logging out so I can go back to it and see if I can try again. Who knows where I'll end up, but I am in for today. Whew. That's 17 out of 17 days of the game for me, plus a few extra.

[ragdoll]

I kept meaning to join at ye olde boarde but didn't. Quite happy to see it started up here. I'll start tomorrow. (No, seriously.)
 

[elleoco]

Wednesday, 9/26 - 851

[David Wisehart]

Day 17 - 6,537
Total - 36,506

[tdecastro31]

Day 18 - 1,588Total - 17,558

[tdecastro31]

Day 17 - 6,537
Total - 36,506

Nice day, David

[idontknowyet]

I'm over 250 today who knows where ill end up, but I wanted to post now just in case I forget.

[idontknowyet]

Day 17 - 6,537
Total - 36,506

Day 18 - 1,588Total - 17,558

Wo you guys are doing amazing keep up the good work.

[diisha392]

Another dozen words. This month's total is sad.

[ragdoll]

9/27 = 361 (day one of joining the thread)

[Lynn]

I have written.    My muse is on the other side of that wall. I'm still hoping to break it before I call it done for today. We shall see how hard my head is.

[elleoco]

Thursday, 9/27 - 658

[David Wisehart]

Day 18 - 843
Total - 37,349

[diisha392]

About two dozen words written along with time spent trying to get my book formatted for Nook (cannot get the indents to work, I'm beginning to think my time will be more productive grading papers).

[idontknowyet]

I'm over 750 words so far today probably more to come but well just leave it at that. Happy to see soo many people keeping up the daily writing. 

[tdecastro31]

Looong day...but I forced myself to punch out 162 words for Day 19.  Total will have to wait as I haven't entered into my spreadsheet, and I'm going to bed.  Write on everyone.

[elleoco]

Friday, 9/28 - 1,167


Started early and quitting early. Only one chapter to go on WIP! Need to do some mulling over to decide how to approach it.

[ragdoll]

Friday 9/28 - 0
whelp...

Great job to everyone who wrote today!

[Lynn]

Not as many words as I wanted today but nearly made it to the 1000 mark. Maybe I'll get there eventually. The night is young.

[David Wisehart]

Day 19 - 562
Total - 37,911

[VanessaC]

Spent most of this week in crisis resolution mode at work - just one of those weeks - so no writing done from Monday until today (Saturday).   However, 725 new words so far today and I'm on the home straight for the first draft.

[tdecastro31]

Just spat out 124 words.  My total is now - 17844 thru Day 20.  I may not add any additional words to that 124 today :(.  I am heading to Atlanta for a concert later, and I have a lot of family obligations before doing that. So another day with not so many words, but words nonetheless.

[elleoco]

Saturday, 9/29 - 415
Sunday, 9/30 - 344

Was that the end of our first month, or are we going 10th to 10th? One way or the other, this was the first time I wrote something every day for almost three weeks in several years.