WIP Challenge Day 27, Thursday

[jagnikjen]

So how goes the writing today?

~ Awesome
~ Great
~ Good
~ Okay
~ Hmmm...
~ Awful
~ Nonexistent

Discussion topic... I think we covered this at some point, but I can't remember. :/

Do you name your chapters? If so, why?

Comments

[devilc]

I haven't written yet but I feel good.

I also finished and posted a Strike Back story late last night.

[rhi]

It's going ridiculously well, on three stories in rotation. One keeps sparking ideas that go into the next, so I'm switching back and forth. It's a very odd feeling.

And nope, I rarely name chapters. It's like Aspirin's quotes in the Myth books -- if you start, people expect you to go on. ;->

[jagnikjen]

No writing for me again today, probably.

I don't title my chapters because it's hard enough to title the fic. :) None of the fiction genres I read have chapter titles so it never occurred to me. Plus chapters shouldn't need titles to convince the reader to keep reading--the chapter hook at the end of the previous chapter ought to do the trick. :)

[gemais]

Yesterday went well, and I've got to keep that ball rolling. I agree it's hard enough to come up with one title in the first place!

[sylvaine]

Haven't written anything but have been plotting some of the details of my next fic.

Whether I name my chapters or not depends entirely on the fandom and the genre I'm writing in. So, for instance, I did name my chapters in the one Harry Potter fic I wrote, because JKR did so too, and I was trying to keep the writing style as close to canon as possible while deviating wildly on characterisation. Usually, though, I don't bother.

[linaewen]

Nothing happening yet, but I'm feeling good about my prospects for writing later today. So I'm hoping for at least a good if not a great!

I don't name my chapters while I'm writing or when I post for the first time. I usually go back and give a name to chapters afterwards, when I am posting them to the archive -- for the really long fics, at least. Shorter ones don't often get titled chapters. I think I started doing it because other writers were doing it at the archive I was using, and I rather liked the idea. It is a pain sometimes thinking of one, but not too bad for the most part. For my longer fics, I also find it's helpful to me as the author in figuring out what's what just by looking at the title. I often need to check back and remind myself of something I wrote so I don't make a mistake down the road, or need to figure out when a certain character first appeared, that sort of thing. So the titles are more often than not for my own benefit, even as they serve as a wee synopsis and possibly a hook for the reader.

[linaewen]

Let me change that to awesome! I did some reorganizing of my outline and that gave me a fresh way of looking at things, so after writing some 750 new words (for a total of 1,344), I think I might have a complete chapter at last! What a relief it is to finally be moving on this particular WIP again, after being stalled for more than a year.

[lacygrey]

Awlful writing today because of work and other commitments. Had what seemed like a good idea for fixing scene one, but it didn't work in practice. Still not enough peaceful editing time.

Sometimes Ive named the parts of my fics, other times not. I don't feel strongly one way or the other, except it's easier to find my way around a draft if things have labels on them.

[lilly_c]

Today was somewhere between okay and good. Got some writing done on my TGW fic and also some outlining done on my smallfandombang fic. I guess I was lucky that I had no seminars this afternoon and a long(ish) gap between my last lecture and an appointment that allowed me time to get some work done.

The only fic I have chapters on is my huge WIP and some are named, some aren't. I rarely write anything long enough for it to have chapters, let alone name them.

[elistaire]

No writing today. Still doing some beta work. It's a looooong story.

I don't name my chapters. In fact, I almost never have chapters at all. I post lump sum all the way.

[xpaperplanex]

No writing today, but I looked over my halloween fic with a friend and got it set for posting on Monday.

I name the chapters in some of my fics. I find naming chapters way easier than naming the whole thing. I like names because they're a tiny summary of what happens in the chapter. Or they get people worrying, or they're amusing in some way. I first started naming them with a crackfic, which lent itself to all sorts of amusing chapter names.

[bay_alexison]

Got some last minute editing done on my Big Bang and had send the first four chapters (Chapters 1-3 finalized while Chapter 4 is a rough draft) to the mod and Chapter 4 to my beta. Also, edited my Halloween fic and send that to my beta. Yay for able to get edits done and sending them! XD

Before I would name the chapters because in the fandom I was in almost everyone was. Sometimes chapter names are great for mentioning a bit what it's going to be about or once you get a theme going. My Big Bang though I haven't given the chapter names as I'm unsure how to go about that and I don't think the chapters needed the names.

[sharpiefan]

I find it hard enough to name my fics, let alone the chapters - although I did so in one multi-part fic which ended up with ten chapters all titled after something to do with the weather at sea - Entering Safe Harbour, The Calm Before the Storm, Eye of the Storm, that kind of thing. It was really difficult when getting towards the end of it, although I always knew that the last chapter would be titled Entering Safe Harbour. The rest ended up a complete jumble of things. I really ought to go through and re-title them so that the order gives the impression of the storm building. (Which would be the other reason I don't title my chapters!)