WIP challenge: day 1 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

New month, new WIP challenge! How's it going today, everyone?

Poll #9355

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How's your month starting off, fic-wise?

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Great
2 (13.3%)

Good
4 (26.7%)

Somewhere in the middle
6 (40.0%)

Not very well
3 (20.0%)

Horrible
0 (0.0%)

What are your main priorities for the rest of this week?

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Writing
15 (100.0%)

Editing
6 (40.0%)

Sending to beta
1 (6.7%)

Researching
2 (13.3%)

Posting
3 (20.0%)

Something else I will describe in comments
1 (6.7%)

And five words or less about your current WIP?

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Tell us about the fic(s) you'll be working on this month. What makes you excited about them? What do you think will be a challenge?

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[littlebutfierce]

I still feel kind of at loose ends, but someone from this comm kindly offered to take a look at the fic that was troubling me yesterday, so hopefully I'll either be able to throw in the towel on it or decide to keep working on it! I feel like I've got a lot of WIPs clamoring for my attention lately but have been having trouble focusing.

I'd really really like to finish the third part of my Natsume Yuujinchou OT3 futurefic series this month. ;____; We'll see. I've been having tons of trouble w/that too. I'm also going to write whatever prompt I get assigned for the Book of Friends exchange. :D Super looking forward to that!

What's relatively easy for me is banging out tons of words in a first draft. As ever, I struggle w/editing things beyond a first pass (the easy, low-hanging-fruit sort of edit!). Also my ability to gauge OOC-ness seems to be a little wonky lately. :/

[eve_doodle]

I have the same problem and it's the reason why I bless my beta every single day. Ze's ruthless about cutting things that aren't necessary to the plot, which hurts my poor tiny writer's heart, but ends up making my fanwork a billion times more amazing.

I definitely recommend having a beta look things over for you or at least act as a test reader (gauging the strengths and weaknesses of a fic before it's posted). I have the tendency of driving myself mad (Is he in character? Isn't he? IS HE? ACK!) and my beta usually calms me down and either reassures me that it's fine or points out places where I need to fix it.

It's a tough job and I'm lucky enough to have someone lovely do it for me. If you'd like (I don't know the Natsume fandom), I can always give you a second opinion on your work. Wish you the best of luck with editing!

[littlebutfierce]

Oh yeah, I am definitely a user of betas! I was just thinking more along the lines of a first read -- I tend to think of official (heh) beta-ing as something I do near the end of the process, once I've proofread it & done my own line-edits & stuff. So this was kind of different.

Thank you for the offer of reading, btw! It definitely needs canon knowledge, but thank you regardless.

[eve_doodle]

Good luck writing and editing then!