End of January!

[farad]

Everybody still writing?  I am, though it's not as much (school kicked in, first papers have come in).  I do have a story almost ready for the International Fanworks Day is anyone wants to beta.

I also - well, I can't say discovered, as it was recommended to me a while back, but over the past few days I've gotten around, finally, to walking again and to listening to podcasts, and I started in on a series called "Writing Excuses". It's a panel discussion with four pro sci-fi and fantasy writers, each ep about 15 minutes long, and some good stuff - some of it I know already, but some good ideas about writing in general (recognizing passive voice by adding 'by zombies' to the end: if the sentence makes sense, you have passive voice.)   Anybody got any other podcasts on writing that they like? 

How's everyone else doing? Still writing??

Comments

[solosundance]

Well I wrote on sixteen out of thirty-one days this month and clocked up about 6,000 words. The annoying thing is that I still haven't managed to finish what I wanted... that was why it was satisfying to grab a daybook prompt a week or so back and just run with it.

I have two current stories near(ish) completion and two others which have been languishing since I was working on them back in November for miniwrimo.

My aim for next month is to write endings!

Thanks for the podcast link, I may give that a listen.

[farad]

THAT is an excellent plan - and yeah for you for the words! That's great! I love that you have already finished and posted one - but I notice that I have not seen a second story yet . .. ;)

[0ftgx]

I like the tip about adding "by zombies" on the end to identify passive voice! Fun! Now I'm going to be mentally adding that to the end of all my sentences during edits, as a check. *g*

[farad]

I know! I love that too - and 'by dragons' also works. As does 'be Ella Gaines' . . .

[randi2204]

Hee! I like that check for passive voice. Very nice. :D

Writing - well, I managed to write all but 4 days of the month just finished, and got about 5800 words. Nothing finished (my eternal gripe), but a bit closer on 3 or 4 than I was before. Progress is progress!

[farad]

That is wonderful!! Yea for writing that much! I was doing all right until Monday when grading sucked by brain away. I have though continued listening to the writing podcasts and I have some ideas that I hope to apply soon.