WIP challenge: day 5 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Hooray, it's the weekend! Hopefully that means a little more time for fic for some of you. How's it going today?

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How's the weekend going so far for fic?

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Excellent!
1 (14.3%)

Terrible
0 (0.0%)

Somewhere in between
6 (85.7%)

Nothing doing
0 (0.0%)

How much time have you spent on your fic today, roughly?

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None
0 (0.0%)

30 minutes or less
2 (28.6%)

30-60 minutes
2 (28.6%)

60-90 minutes
1 (14.3%)

More than 90 minutes
2 (28.6%)

And how are you feeling about it?

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For discussion: How do you keep yourself on track? How do you beat back distractions when you're writing? (*cough* Please note I have ducked out of the writing session -- in which I did manage to get a fair bit done -- to do this post precisely because the clamor of distraction is so loud right now!!)

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[lacerta]

I've posted my bunch of finished fics to kink-bingo, now that the amnesty round is open, and it makes me feel very accomplished. (Even though all these fics were written in summer.)

On my current WIP, I've got that flashback part so far in shape now that I can show it to a beta reader and see what they think. Otherwise I'm afraid I might keep editing until there's nothing left.

Once I settle down and focus, I can get a lot of work done without being easily distracted. The problem is getting to that level of concentration first. What's helping a lot at the moment is the goal of writing 120 words every day - once I get that far, it's easy to keep going. Time restrictions help too. Hm, I really need to start using 750 words again.

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for posting!! Even if they were written a while ago, that's still a nice accomplishment. \o/

... I know the fear of not being able to stop editing, errrgh. Yay for pushing forward & getting to the beta stage!