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Writing Post 2019

If you give anyone coal you lose your rights to the good egg list.

NYR due before you sign up for 2019 Yuletide.
Prompts revealed and Madness opens: Approx 9 November
Default deadline: 11 December, 9am UTC
Assignment deadline: 18 December, 9am UTC
Main Collection Reveals: 25 December (Countdown)

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Join me. It's 12:56 CST here right now. I'm going for 25 minutes at the top of every hour until I'm done. Join in, report your progress.

I have two short stories I'd like to finish today, and two I'd like to spiff up,and I mean to do it 25 minutes at a time.

1:25 pm CST

721 new words in that sprint. I may continue to write during the next half hour because I'm on a roll, but I'll definitely do another 25 minute sprint at 2pm CST.

Even if I'm by myself I'm going to keep posting (no matter how sad it looks to do it alone, haha), and maybe later others will pick it up and continue.

Okay, it's 1:57 pm CST. At 2pm I'll set a timer for 25 minutes and continue on (I didn't write after the last sprint, got distracted).

2:25 pm CST

New words are now up to 1,494, so another 773 words during that last session. I will be back in half an hour!

It's 2:57 CST. Going at 3pm for 25 minutes.

This 25-minute session brought this story's total up to 2,429. The ending is imminent!

Be back at the top of the hour (4 pm CST).

4-4:25 writing session starting now. Going to finish this draft and maybe start tweaking.

Didn't stop at 4:25 but wrote until 4:50 and finished the draft at about 3,500 words.

It's 4:51 pm CST, but that was a long session so I'm going to take a break. I'll be back at the bottom of the hour (5:30 pm CST) for another session.

Feels stupid talking to myself while doing this, but hey, it's productive so I'mma keep going.

You're doing great! I was writing too, this last sprint, and I've got about 1500 words more on my fic. It's bedtime for me here, but I have a lot of writing time tomorrow and I think I might take a leaf out of your book and try this to help me get this fic finished.

Thank you, and excellent job on that 1500 words. Good night!

(And absolutely start this again when you're up and ready to write--anybody feel free to do so. I intend to keep doing this until all my stories are finished and tweaked to my liking. I have a couple treats I want to finish, but the pinch hit draft due before Thursday's got to come first.)

Hope to see you tomorrow.

It's 5:30 pm CST. I'm going to write for 25 minutes, then I'll have to take another break to cook myself something for dinner.

Starting the pinch hit draft which I suspect will involve slower writing thanks to oodles of UST (that gets resolved later, oh yeah).

Good luck to anyone joining in whether you're posting or not!

Got a late start because of a distraction. 272 words to start the pinch hit draft. Not much, but it feels like a good beginning! I think I'm going to deal with dinner and some other things and will start a new "evening" (for me) sprint thread at the top of the hour, 7pm CST. Or I'll join any that anyone else might start! Back in an hour!

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