November 2024, Day 30 - and so it ends

[wiseheart]

This is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it).
May the magic be with us all!

There'll be a wrap-up tomorrow where we can discuss our accomplishments during this session. Until then, let's make the best of our last day together... for now.

Comments

[sallymn]

I have two small pieces ready to go. Now I just need to find a competition or small publishing site/magazine and try my luck... of I am brave enough. Maybe for my Christmas present to me...

[akane42me]

You will do it!!! Let those submissions fly free!
Onward and upward, I have my fingers crossed for you!

[sallymn]

I want to and the people in my writing group, who I told about the shortlisting, are also encouraging me :)

[curiouswombat]

Go for it!

[curiouswombat]

I added another 400 or so words to the second chapter. Here is a little bit (Glorfindel's horses were always, at least in my head canon, given the same name )

He really should have acquired a new Asfaloth, he thought. All their horses had been left behind when they took ship. But, in the meantime, he had brought all his tack with him; and the soft sound of bells, as he rode the perfectly adequate mount from Elrond’s stables, was as gently amusing as it always was.

He remembered a small Arwen worrying that the tinkling sound would alert enemies if he rode to arms, not realising he only put this bridle onto his current Asfaloth when he rode purely for pleasure. How sad, he thought, that Celebrían will never see her daughter again. But it was now only a slightly melancholy thought, no longer a painful one.

I have written a little over 4,000 words this month and I am happy with that. Thanks again to wiseheart; without the impetus to write I may not even have got this story started!

[artemis10002000]

That's a very good word count for this month, congrats!

[curiouswombat]

Thank you!

[wiseheart]

All part of the service. I'm glad we proved inspiring. :)

[heleninwales]

I achieved my target of 10,000 new words which completed the first book of the trilogy and allowed me to make a start on the third book. (Book 2 is already written. Yes, I am writing a trilogy in the order 2, 1, 3, 4.)

Going forward into December, the plan is to reread Book 2 making any tweaks needed now that Book 1 actually exists and carry on with the first draft of Book 3.

[artemis10002000]

10.000 words! You are amazing, congratulations!

[heleninwales]

Thank you! I'm really grateful for a community like this where I can set a much more modest goal than the "normal" 50k words.

[wiseheart]

Congratulations, and good luck with the many tweaks!