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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[jagnikjen]

For today, I'm at my writing retreat with my critique partners. I got a little written, but spent more time helping others with plot points and whatnot.


But in general, when the writing is going well, there are few things that actually do distract me. It's when writing is hard that it's easy to find other things to waste time on.

[littlebutfierce]

I really love being in the fic zone -- that place, like you said, where nothing can distract you. Sometimes it just seems to happen, but sometimes I think I can kickstart myself into that mode. It's just... avoiding all the distractions until I'm so stuck into my fic that I can't get out.

I hope the retreat is still going well!