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What Is Write Every Day?
A roving writing support community, with a bias toward encouraging a daily writing habit. It's a decentralized community, without moderators or a fixed home; hosting duties are passed around among members of the community.

carenejeans hosted the first half of April; I'm hosting the second half, starting on the sixteenth. (By my time-zone: tomorrow.)

zwei_hexen keeps a list of who volunteered to host when.. No one is yet scheduled for May -- it could be you!

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Housekeeping
As host, I'll be publishing daily check-in posts, distributing encouragement in the comments, and keeping a tally of who checked in what day. I'm in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7), and plan to post the daily check-in during my evening. (About when this post went up.) I know my proposed posting time is very late for many people, so don't feel you have to wait for the new day's post -- just check in on the most recent post whenever is convenient for you. Whatever post you use, please include what day you're checking in for, so I can keep the tally straight.

I'll also be using a consistent tag for these check-in posts ("write every day") so feel free to block or follow that, depending on your interest.

If you have any questions, or wish to check-in ahead of tomorrow's post, the comments are open! Welcome!

sanguinity

Back in 2014 I published a fusion of Elementary and Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century called "Persistence of Memory." It was always meant to be a longer story, but because of the urgency of due dates (it was written for the

holmestice exchange), it was necessary to publish the first chapter as a stand-alone.

Which worked fine. Over the next little while I wrote a second chapter, and bits and bobs of a third, before laying it aside for other writing projects. Except for some excerpts on tumblr, I never published any of the continuation, wanting to wait until the whole thing was finished.

Now, twelve years later, it seems silly to have that second chapter just sitting in my WIP file, unavailable to people who might care about it.

Perseverance

Elementary x Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Joan, Sherlock, Robo!Watson
Fusion, Angst, Wrong Watson Feelings
~9000 words, Gen, No warnings apply.

Joan Watson has had her life ripped out from under her, a kidnapping and cryosleep marooning her in the twenty-second century. At least Sherlock is here—and, due to some blackly humorous twist of fate, so is Jamie Moriarty.

And so is a compudroid that calls itself Watson.

Joan rebuilds her life from the ashes. And maybe catches an international criminal mastermind along the way.

A couple of notes:

This will not make sense without having read "Persistence of Memory" first.
This is very much a work in progress: updates will happen whenever they happen, and I make no guarantees of completion.

That said, most nights I'm watching a double feature of a SH22C episode and an Elementary episode, and in the last couple of weeks I've written new words on chapter three (or what will be chapter two of Perseverance). The main obstacle to finishing this was my main obstacle twelve years ago: I've got to work out a bloody casefic for it. That said, I've written a handful of casefic in the last decade, so I know more now about how to do that than I did then. So we'll see how it goes!

goodbyebird

+ They landed safely huzzah! Science!!

+ Graveyard Keeper is free on Steam for a short while.

+ Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species.

+ Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth.

+ Forest growth in the EU outpaces harvesting.

+ Elusive nightjar birds making remarkable comeback, conservationists say.

+ Discovered the on board kiosk stocked my favorite potato chips this trip \o/

Current Music: RAYE - Skin & Bones.

goodbyebird

ECLIPSE. April 6, 2026. Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed.

First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon

Following the current Artemis mission + rolling around in art and nature photography is keeping me going atm. Slingshotting in space!

+ The seagulls are napping and grooming on our windowsills a lot and it's been a treat. I often find myself watching Bird TV. With the stains on the glass they don't seem to notice us there, so you get a wild animal puffing up and resting 30cm from your face. Always a delight.

+ If like me you're still enamored with Project Hail Mary and need images to make icons from,

theskyisnew's got you covered 👎

+ Sad Starfleet Academy got cancelled, though I strongly suspected that would be the case. What I didn't expect was that they'd already finished shooting season 2. So that's something. Probably a cliffhanger nightmare but I'll take it.

( Letter from Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. )

+ Already considering rewarding myself with a purchase after the trip. The Embodied Ecosystems TarOracle is looking like a strong contender, both for the art/theming, and the chunky guidebook it comes with. But then there's the fanmade X-Files tarot I spotted that's calling to me. Hmm. (I finished season 1 btw. Mulder didn't know lycanthropy transferred through bites/scratches?? Press x-files to doubt. S2 will have Scully revert back to not believing in aliens, huh? I remember being extremely annoyed back in the day and surely that can't have been based off s1. Mulder's hot takes have been deserving of a defenestration sometimes multiple times per episode.)

+

3weeks4dreamwidth is coming up, but I honestly feel there's not enough interest to make it work. I'm going to have to give it a think.

+ I'll be home in two and a half weeks so I'll just cling to that for now.

Current Music: Anjimile- Like You Really Mean It

grammarwoman

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, I have fallen deep into "Heated Rivalry". It's so refreshing to be only a few months late to a TV show fandom's debut! I absolutely love every part of it, from the steamy love scenes, to the tropealicious romance arc, to the gorgeous and talented leads, to the unhinged interviews with the cast (Hudson Williams, you horny chaos gremlin, never change), to the showrunner Jacob Tierney and his uncompromising vision of a gay love story with passionate love scenes that doesn't end in punishing tragedy, as well as his media savvy and whip-smart presence. The only thing that could have made me love it even more is if they had hired some of the old gang from the Seacouver Acting Mafia. David Hewlett as a crotchety coach? Tahmoh Penikett as a hockey enforcer? Throw us a bone here, Jacob!

I love everybody in this bar and have a ridiculous number of tabs open and a huge swath of fic marked for later on A03.

In no particular order, here are some of my favorites:

Gay Hockey Show
An absolute gem of a filk + vid (do I need to call them edits now? Fuck I'm old). This had me literally clapping and kicking my feet. I may have hit octaves only my dog heard with my squees of joy.

Shane & Ilya - We Found Love [Heated Rivalry]
Do you ever get lost in new relationship energy and every song on your playlist could be the soundtrack for a vid? And then sometimes you get lucky enough that someone has already had your brilliant idea and done a fantastic job so you don't have to? Yeah, that's this one with Rihanna's "We Found Love". I swear I watched it on repeat for a week to get my micro dopamine hits for this show. I really want to learn how to incorporate dialogue and audio from the source with the vid song to be able to make something like this.

clear to a hedgehog by magneticwave
An AU where Boston Raider Ilya Rozanov wonders if his casual fling Doctor Shane Hollander thinks he's actually in the Russian mafia. If I could send the author flowers and accolades and beg for more of this, I would. Delicious prose, fantastic character voices, super hot.

the secret society of stick handlers by gurlsrool
A screamingly funny epistolary series which had me shrieking so loud my husband was laughing at me.

So yeah, that's where my brain is at. What are you up to?

Current Mood: cheerful

kuwdora

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Write Every Day: Intro

[fic] Joan Watson in the 22nd Century

Moonscrolling.

Moon's haunted.

Heated Rivalry - I wasn't using that attention span for anything anyway

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