check in day 7

[lilly_c]

How is the writing going today?

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wrote
7 (58.3%)

edited
3 (25.0%)

posted
2 (16.7%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
2 (16.7%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

had a cheeky break
1 (8.3%)

dealt with life
2 (16.7%)

Discussion: what are you working on this week?

Comments

[lilly_c]

I'm gonna be on nights at work but I'll be posting a new fic for my series sometimes this week, editing is taking a wee bit longer than I thought it would. Likely start planning my fic for unconventionalcourtship too.

[bluedalahorse]

Ooh, that sounds fun! I’ve seen a few people reference unconventionalcourtship on DW and it’s sparking my curiosity as something I may want to try. Not sure it works with my schedule as teaching is a nightmare in April and May, but maybe I’ll follow the comm to see what people come up with!

[linaewen]

I have a new blog article to start working on, now that the last one is done and edited. I also want to get more work in on my fic WIP. I might try to poke at that today!

[bluedalahorse]

That sounds like great momentum! Sending you good vibes for your WIP.

[bluedalahorse]

Juggling two different pieces of writing this week, but hopefully with a light touch:

One, I’m revisiting an old chapter from a longfic that I put aside for a while because it wasn’t working the way I wanted it to. I’m going to try writing a scene from that chapter again to get it going again, but I’m going to try it from a different character’s POV this time.

Two, I’ve got a newer fic rattling around in my brain that I think I can keep to a one shot if I’m smart about it. I let myself write just dialogue and a few notes over my lunch break. Sometimes I let myself be a playwright for the rough draft and fill in the prose during revisions.

[languajix]

That's a great idea! Sending good vibes your way that the POV change helps :D

And good luck on the oneshot!

Same hat on the dialogue process. I'll often be doing life stuff and working through scenes in my brain, and some dialogue will just click and I'll grab my notes app to just get that conversation down. I think it really helps the dialogue feel more authentic, because it's easier to focus on the character voices.

[spacedogfromspace]

Working on some book reviews, a weekly challenge ficlet, and... whatever fanfic I feel like working on I guess. I want to try and write 35k this week (I probably won't but goals are goals)

[languajix]

Good luck! Sounds like you're keeping busy, that's great :D

[blackiceboba]

Any progress is good progress! Good luck!

[languajix]

I really need to get my fan_flashworks entry started this week.

I'm also needing to polish up and finish the last chapter of my current WIP. I'm going to have a busy couple of weeks, starting next Sunday, so I want to have it all ready to go. A couple thousand more words or so. I hope I can manage that.

...and I just got brave and reached out to someone with a small proposal for a (fanfic-esque) collaboration project between the two of us, and that person accepted! So I'm going to be prepping for that a little. I'm so excited.

[blackiceboba]

I have a fic for an event at the end of the month and one that's for a small fandom that I recently got an idea for and I want to finish either of those this week. And also work towards my word count for the month. I'm trying to write a certain number of words every month even if it's not towards something that's going to be ready to be posted right now. I have a lot of LONG fics in the works and I'm trying to spend most of this year just working on them.

[fleetsparrow]

I wrote today! A whole 500 words! And I posted it for the fandomweekly prompt this past week!

Yesterday, I did some summary/prompt-gathering for Unconventional Courtship and put that in a doc. Mostly, though, I'm going to be resting and recovering. I'm hoping I'll be able to write more than I have lately, but I'm not going to push myself right now.

[pepperbar]

My brain was getting into a gear-clashing tailspin (5 words, reset, smoke, 5 more words, stare blankly, erase first 5 words, and so on) so I spent all of Sunday playing Octopath Traveler and feel much better.

This week's plan is finish the chapter I've been working on now that I've had a day of not staring at it or thinking about staring at it.