WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 2 -- Friday

[linaewen]

Hello on Friday!  Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?

   - I thought about my fic once or twice
   - I wrote
   - I did some planning and/or research
   - I edited
   - I've sent my fic off to my beta
   - I posted today!
   - I'm taking a break
   - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?

   - I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
   - I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
   - I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
   - I'm going to take a break from writing

Comments

[linaewen]

I did some planning and research yesterday that will help me with the current WIP chapter I am working on. I did not get any new writing done but I wrote about 500 words worth of notes!

My weekend will be spent trying to up the pace a bit so I can get inmore writing (and probably some more research); we'll see if it extends to marathon levels.

[lilly_c]

A little planning and outlining for me today and organising my spreadsheet from GYWO, I'll do the same with my spreadsheet from inkingitout when I have that.

Hoping to get some things actually finished and posted but we shall see.

[athaia]

I edited two chapters of my fic, after procrastinating the whole day because I thought I'd have to rewrite a whole scene. Turns out it was maybe two paragraphs, LOL.

[igenlode]

I didn't even realise that it was Friday until the evening, when I went to post the Saturday check-in that I had just signed up for and discovered that Friday hadn't happened yet...
Which explains why I had a long bike journey to no avail (I assumed everything was just closed on account of hangovers from all those parties other people had been having), but means I'm going to have to do the same trip all over again tomorrow! It also means that I could have had a lie-in instead of getting only five hours' sleep, and will now be short of sleep *again* tomorrow morning :-(

Fortunately I didn't actually miss any Friday engagements, because I didn't have any. Also I now have one more day of music practice this week than I thought I had.

But I wrote *checks* all of one and a half sentences, of which the full sentence is three words and the half-sentence four...

[igenlode]

I well know the anticipated trauma of that... (although in my case I'd probably have procrastinated for months rather than mere days!)

[dustbunny105]

I thought about the wips I want to focus on finishing aaand then spent like half an hour each of the last couple days writing something else entirely :,)

[fleetsparrow]

I wrote today! I wrote during the last part of my lunch break (and almost clocked in late because of it, whoops) and wound up with 358 words and a solid start on my zine fic.

I had wanted to write something yesterday (in that "new year, fresh start" type dealio), but instead spent the day relaxing and setting up a few new year things (not as many as I'd hoped, but more than I expected).

Have you made any resolutions/goals/expressed any intentions about your writing? Any plans you hope to implement that will make your writing better or more effective? Any WIPs you plan on finishing this year?

Main writing resolution this year: Listen properly to the inner "no" or "yes" about a thing (fic, event, idea, etc.) and act on that information sooner.

Main plans: Write it down when I think of it, whatever "it" is. It doesn't need to be perfect or put in the "correct" place; just get it down and work from there.

WRT WIPs: I have so many half-posted fics from my last round in this fandom that I would love to get back to. I think I'd like to finish at least two of the shorter ones, but I'm not making that a requirement.

Mostly, I want to have fun with my writing and get back into the practice of Noticing Fun Ideas.

[athaia]

Oh, I have been procrastinating for weeks! It's just that I had it on my to-do list for yesterday, so I procrastinated on that, LOL. But my to-do lists usually bully me into doing the thing.

[athaia]

Eh, writing is writing, so it still counts!

[athaia]

I whish I could've lost my sense of time that way, but since I have to get back to work on Monday, I've been acutely aware of the clock ticking my freedom away... :(

Sometimes one and a half sentences is all you need to get over the block in your current scene!

[igenlode]

I actually got only four hours' sleep this morning (before setting off to make the cycle journey through traffic again -- probably as actively dangerous as driving when drunk :-O) due to making the usual mistake of "I'll just answer this email before going to bed" at 1am, and then ending up combing through interview transcripts, leafing through books, etc. in order to get the fan-references I wanted (not even for the fandom I'm currently writing in...)
Plus tracking down a whole series of recent AI-generated guest reviews on other people's stories that all match the same pattern of "This chapter was X in an X way. I'm curious about one thing though" in the one that I just received :-(

So having had 9 hours' sleep in the last 48 is probably not improving my creative abilities, to be honest!

[athaia]

I hear you! I have to go to bed at ten, because my dogs will wake me up at 6AM no matter what, and I can't function when I have less than eight hours of sleep.

I'm not getting any comments on my fic (except for my beta, bless her), so if I'd finally get one, only to discover it's ai-generated, that would be even more depressing than the silent treatment! I'm still struggling to choke my expectation that I'll get engagement from fellow fans on my stories. We're all 'content creators' nowadays, whether we want to be or not... :(

[igenlode]

Yes, it was particularly depressing because I have received no genuine comments on any of the fics for that fandom, and this is now the third spam comment (the other two having since been deleted, presumably by admins or the spammer) for some reason that I've had :-(

since I have to get back to work on Monday, I've been acutely aware of the clock ticking my freedom away... :(

I've been 'back to work' since Tuesday, which is why an unexpected Bank Holiday threw me :-D