WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 18 -- Wednesday

[lacygrey]

Hi! I hope today is turning out to be a good writing day for those WIPs

Poll #9148

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write?
4 (44.4%)

- lots?
1 (11.1%)

- a little?
4 (44.4%)

edit?
2 (22.2%)

send to beta?
0 (0.0%)

research?
2 (22.2%)

post?
1 (11.1%)

something else? tell us about it?
3 (33.3%)

For discussion, what inspires you in other writer's fanfiction? Do you have other writers you admire and want to be like? Alternatively, have you ever disliked a fic so much that you want to write the opposite, feel the urge to fill someone else's plot hole with your own fic, or make someone else's angsty situation all better?

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[lacygrey]

Ive been going through my 750words output. Some of it is very pleasing, some shockingly bad, some totallyn incoherant. I don't want this to be a job I put off until I forget what's there.
Also there's suddenly activites starting in Hikago fandom I want to do and then there was the new BBC Sherlock canon (which rather complicates plot plans). Editing time is still hard to get as its competing with work for my 'best hours' of the day.

I admire particular fics rather than particular authors as most writers have a tendency to be much more multifandom than I am (and go places I don't follow). Being wound up by fanfiction that does things I don't like or wanting a missing scene have been some of the strongest incentives Ive found to write, right up there with canon and challenges and 'rant replacement' (write fic not wank).

[bay_alexison]

Haven't started yet, but I plan to finish editing what I have so far of my help_japan fic and send it to my beta tomorrow. Again hoping her comments will jumpstart the next part of the story.

Haha there are a lot of authors I admire. Many times I wish I have the same writing style and mindset as them (though the mindset part I tend to think I'm a bit childish compare to them, don't know why >.<; ). As for the second part, I actually find myself writing the opposite because I actually LOVE their take on a certain situation but want to try a different spin of my own. Isn't that weird? XD

[littlebutfierce]

Wrote a bit, edited a bit -- & now I'm falling asleep at the computer, augh. Definitely need a nap.

I do have fic writers that I admire -- most of them write v. little & I wish they would write more, sob. I admire writers who can do emotional w/o it being cliched or cloying; I also admire writers that can do smoking hot porn.

Sometimes when I see a canon element handled really badly in fic I write something to put a different spin on it, but... I dunno. I think mostly I don't write fic that's a reaction to other fic. That is in part, no doubt, because my fandoms are so small: there's just less fic, period.

[juliet316]

Brain's been stuffed up today. Looking over at fic_promptly for inspiration.

[insignia]

I wrote a few snippets of dialogue... for a completely different fic (in a different fandom!) than the one I meant to work on. My ability to stay on topic is very impressive. :D

[sylvaine]

I've had absolutely no spoons for fic today. To a large part because I realised the plot for my Big Bang fic was not going to work, because the characters would never act like that, and now I'm kind of at a loss. *sigh* I have sent a different fic off to beta, though, so at least there's been some progress.

I used to read a lot of badly written fic that would inspire me to write the premise from a completely different perspective. Now I mostly read really good fic, and I have plenty of authors I admire and, to an extent, try to emulate. Not sure how well that's working though...

[crowdog66]

Like sylvaine, I had no spoons for fic today: I've been helping my husband with a freelance art project and there simply hasn't been time. I might get in some writing later this evening though, and if I do I'll post the count in a comment appended to this comment. :)

What inspires me... whooo, tough question. I admire authors who can paint striking word pictures, capturing character and setting and action in superbly crafted phrases. I can't think offhand of any other fannish authors I emulate to the extent of "I want to be like them!", although in the professional writing sphere Stephen King (with his ability to effectively convey internal psychological states) always gets my vote.

When I dislike a fic I tend to just walk away rather than having any desire to improve upon it. I can't recall a single situation where I've been inspired by a fic to write something opposing, although of course that doesn't mean it hasn't happened, just that it's not coming to mind at the moment. :)

[lilly_c]

Am just starting my writing now :$ I was pretty busy for most of today getting the washing done and cleaning my bedroom because both needed doing. Was doing some 'research' earlier, listening to Elliot Smith and going on sing365 and copying the lyrics I want to use/interpret for some parts of Fire In The Dark when I get back into writing that.

I don't really get inspired by other authors or fics very often but when I do I tend to just write my take on it and leave it in my notebook.