Magnificent Seven Writing Festival

my_daguerreotype_boyfriend has a lovely picture of Sam Clemons from 1950 today - when he was 15 in the year 1850! It makes me wonder a.) how awesome any of our boys would look in a daguerreotype *g*, and b.) if Josiah or Chris might have known him when he was young man, before (or perhaps during?) the Civil War. 

Thoughts? (Stories??)

How are we doing with words?  I'm still dabbling at editing more so than writing . . .

(eta - link to pic)

This has come up a couple of times on Daybook (Van's had some really good comments about the same program that is mentioned in this article, Dragon Naturally Speaking - and, seriously, who can't get behind a program with Dragon in the title??).

Elizabeth Craig, however, suggests using using one of these programs as a writing tool, to get stories down, especially, as she suggests, when " The story doesn’t cooperate. Your schedule goes haywire with unexpected stuff popping up.  Kids come home sick from school.  There are activities all hours of the day and night." 

Her suggestions are good, especially her quote from Katie Ganshert about one of the other advantages of the recorder:

"The beautiful thing about this method is that it completely silences the dreaded internal editor.
There’s no back space. There’s no flashing cursor. There’s no blank page. There’s no critical little man sitting on your shoulder, reading each sentence while tutting and shaking his head.
There’s just a red record button."

What's not to love about it, especially if it transcribes? 

So - any writing today?  I am working on editing a few things which means not a lot of words but a lot of thinking . . .

I got caught up in stuff yesterday and missed the day for which I am especially sorry - especially as the stuff I got caught up in had nothing to do with the fun and joy of writing (though it did sort of resemble some of the anguish and chore of it. *G*)

How are we all doing?

I did find this lovely article, though, "8 Ways to Flesh Out a Characeter":

Some of them we've talked about before, here or on Daybook:( Some ideas for getting to know the guys )


How goes the creativity, now that Spring is creeping in (with its insidious pollen) on many of us?

So for Sunday - character study of Vin!  And words, too, if you're managing to write (I"m working on it now!)

This has been really great and I want to thank all of you who have been hanging in there with me!  I'm thinking that we'll take next week 'off', BUT I'd love to pick up either the week after or the first week of April (After Easter?) with either another daily writing count or some other exercise?  Anyone interested and/or have suggestions?

Everybody hanging in there?  Caiti's character studies have been wonderful - and very inspiring.  I've been working on my own though they are coming much more slowly (world developing as well as character studies). 

I've managed about 400 words today, so far.  How are you guys doing?

My day has been - well, see the icon (and isn't it a great one?  Thanks Randi!)

I had great plans, and family got in the way, as so often happens.  I hope to get a lot done tomorrow - lines in a story (and actually, I had one of *those* dreams last night which may be completely rewriting the current story), as well as character studies actually on paper ( had a lot of great thoughts about Nathan in my AU universe today, but they haven't made it to file yet, darn it!)


For Wednesday - JD: what a great guy and such a wonderful catalyst!  How do we see him in canon and other universes too?

And words??  How are we doing??

I was somewhat successful today; I got most of one of the wonderful, very indepth character sheets from epguide done for Chris in a sci-fi AU I'm working on - these sheets are very detailed!

I also got about 300 words added to my second attempt at a bingo story - not as good as I'd like but not all bad.

How are you guys doing?

For Tuesday - how about a study of Nathan, any AU and/or canon?