WIP Challenge: Day 8 check-in

[sylvaine]

Hello everybody! Apologies for the late post; it's been a rather hectic day.

How is your fic going today?

- brilliant!
- quite alright.
- not too bad.
- bloody awful.

Are you
- writing
- editing
- planning
- researching
- something else?

Discussion question: let's talk about editing! Love it? Hate it? Wish it would die a fiery death? What are your strategies for editing - do you do it while you're writing, everything in one go afterwards, little bits and pieces in-between writing other stories? And for those who can't stand it (which seems to be most of us) - any good tricks to make it go faster?

Comments

[rhi]

Posting, supposedly, but I just figured out how to swing a plot around so I can finish a fic, so yay!

[lilly_c]

Going pretty good with my big bang fic today. Got a lot of writing done as well as typing up older handwritten bits for it, owning to a weather/safety related uni skive because it was decided that personal safety during "hurricane bawbag" as it was dubbed was much more important than a 2 hour lecture.

Hopefully I can get it in beta before next weekend as my mum and Brian will be here and I won't have the time for anything from the 17th-22nd.

I tend to edit as I go but sometimes I really need to go back to some scenes a couple of times before I'm happy with it.

[pinstripefedora]

Over 900 words today! And they seem to be good quality words, too. I've switched gears and am working on a different scene than the one I have been working on. It seems to have jarred me into productivity again. Actually, I don't really want to stop writing yet, but I need to be at least somewhat rested for tomorrow. Hopefully my motivation will carry over to tomorrow, though!

I don't mind editing too much. I find it almost relaxing at times. I usually tend to do the bulk of my editing as I go. Then afterwards, usually the day after I finish writing, I go back over it to check for typos and clumsy wording and such. After that I try to sit on it for a few days or weeks, until I've forgotten what I wanted to say originally, so that I won't be distracted by what I wanted to say and can just focus on what's actually on the page instead. Sometimes in the intervening period, while I'm sitting on it, I'll send it off to beta, but sometimes I wait until afterwards. In cases of extreme "catch all the mistakes!" paranoia, I like to print it off and take a literal red pen to it. It might just be a mental thing, but I do seem to catch more mistakes in less read-throughs than when I do it digitally.

[bay_alexison]

Only managed 250 words today. Am writing the action scene I had put off for a while. I already have an idea how I want the scene to go, but it's taking me a bit to get the execution right. Dang action scenes being hard to write! D: I might have to delay it again as I need to edit some of my Big Bang to have them ready for my beta to look at. We'll see what I'm in the mood for tomorrow.

I tend to do quick edits as I go, but then I would go through a more through edit a few days after the story is finished. With my longer works (a few chapters or more), I tend to write the whole story first, edit the chapters/parts slowly and send them to the beta, sometimes edit random scenes as I wait for the beta's corrections, and do the final corrections. It's a long process but I'm critical of my writing and I want it to be the best it can be, haha.

[lacygrey]

Editing seems a lot like hard work but I find it fantastic when I can get into it because most of the hard stuff is usually already done.

[lacygrey]

Its going well, at least for the writing and planning. I'm still hoping that it will fuel getting things posted but Ive had a few sessions that have just led to heaps of words that now need editing and sorting out. I found solutions to the plot outline I was working on from a prompt but I'm still not sure I want to got through with it.

I don't so much need a beta but a guinea pig to help me test my experiment on fic structure. Any volunteers?