WIP challenge: day 29 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

We're almost done w/November's challenge! Keep going!!

Poll #8665

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How are you feeling about the month's challenge as a whole?

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Decent
3 (50.0%)

Not so great
1 (16.7%)

Fantastic!
0 (0.0%)

Better than I feared
2 (33.3%)

& how do you feel about what you've done today?

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For discussion: Do you have particular writing tools you rely on? A particular program, a certain type of pen, a website? What do they help you do?

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[littlebutfierce]

I will probably not finish my help_japan fic this month, but I've made more progress on it this month than the last few, so! & I wrote 4 fics for the Kaleidoscope exchange, which is brilliant.

Today I didn't write anything new, but I did do a bit of editing on the 3rd part of a series I've been posting, which feels pretty good!

I wouldn't be able to write what I have w/o 750 Words. That's the tool I rely on most for keeping a writing practice! I'm on a 500+ day streak now, heeeeee.

[taelle]

Decided to make at least a hundred words of a start on the Yuletide fic - suddenly wrote 400 words.

[littlebutfierce]

Woo, yay! I love when that happens.

[taelle]

And 300 next day! *feels happy*

[sylvaine]

Nothing today, because technically I really really need to write that damn essay that's due in 10 hours. ... You can see how well that's going, given that I'm commenting here. -.-

I recently discovered FocusWriter, which is pretty excellent for getting rid of distractions. As for writing by hand: I used to write Only With My Fountain Pen, but then I forgot it one time and found that no, I really did not need it at all. I still prefer fountain pen or biro to felt tip or pencil or anything like that, though.

[littlebutfierce]

I hope the essay ended up getting done w/the least amount of pain!!

That's actually pretty cool that you learned that you don't need the fountain pen to get ideas out!

[jagnikjen]

To be honest, I don't even remember what my challenge was for this month. So unless I go look it up, I have no idea how I did. :)

As for today, I did a bit of beta reading and critiquing, so that was good. And now I'm continuing with my revising. That's coming along pretty well also. I'm pleased with the progress I'm making.

As for the discussion topic...no specific tools, really. I do like to have access to dictionary.com and thesaurus.com when I work because sometimes I have to have just the right word.

[littlebutfierce]

Heh, I have months like that, where I can't remember what specifically I thought I should work on...

Yay for progress on revision!

[bay_alexison]

A little over 800 words of my help_japan. I too am not going to finish it this month (bleh, close to 6K and STILL got a lot of ground to cover D: ), but am happy with the progress I made the last few days. This month I was able to get my Big Bang story finished, which I'm quite glad of. Not looking forward to the edits, though, haha.

There are a few websites I use for canon research which vary from fandom to fandom. Other than that don't think I have been relying on other tools save for dictionary.com and thesaurus.com like jagnikjen to pick out the right outs

[littlebutfierce]

Woohoo, yay for rolling on w/the help_japan fic!!

[lullabymoon]

Not much writing done today but a little plotting and organising went a long way to making me feel better about it.

Generally speaking, I don't rely on anything in particular. As long as I can write or type with it comfortably (which is harder than it seems sometimes for me,) then I'm good to go that way anyway.

[littlebutfierce]

A little plotting & organizing hopefully will make the writing easier in future, so yay!

(& blergh, I hear you on not being able to write/type comfortably sometimes.)

[lilly_c]

Got 300 words on my big bang, hopefully there'll be more later on tonight.

For handwriting fic and everything else too I use frixion pen because they have a little eraser on the end and the ink is eraseable. Slight downside is that they're £2.49 for 1 and £5 for a pack of 3 but they are really good and there's a good choice of colours.

For typing I use Jarte because of the option to change the background colour from white, which helps with my visual stress. I also use texthelp but that's a specialist software for dyslexics.
I do sometimes use the word2go program on my phone but only when I know I'll have not computer access for a couple of days.

[littlebutfierce]

Yay on those 300 words!

I might have to look out for those pens; they sound good! Though I hardly do any hand-writing these days, partly b/c it's so much slower for me, partly b/c of RSI-type issues.

I've never thought about the background color when I type (though I notice background colors for reading webpages, so I don't know why!). Maybe I should tinker w/that.

[lilly_c]

They are good pens :)

I have to use a background colour when I'm typing otherwise the white hurts my eyes too much.

[lacygrey]

Well I haven't suceeded in finishing the editing (again) which is very frustrating and mainly due to work.

My writing habits change all the time, thoug I do like to write on paper most of all.
Ive signed up for the 750w month challenge for next month, with the personal promise that its for fanfic only. Occasionally their webpage has lost (failed to save) my text, so I may try cutting and pasting to it instead.

[littlebutfierce]

Ugh, I'm sorry work is getting in the way so much! :/

Good luck w/750 Words!