WIP Challenge Day 9, Thursday

[jagnikjen]

Hello All--we're on the downhill slide toward the weekend. YAY! Some of you are closer than others.

Also, I'd like to say you've been a chatty group lately and it's good to see so many interchanges between members.

Now, how goes the writing?

~ Fantastic
~ Good
~ So so
~ Slow
~ Awful

Share your word counts, your postings, or if your having issues. We're here to congratulate or commiserate.

Discussion topic . . . so my question today is, how far and wide are we spread? In other words, where do you live? Be as specific or as general as you feel comfortable. (I'm in Fort Worth, Texas, USA)

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

About 800 words of super-super-rough draft for my Natsume exchange fic. :D Still figuring out how I want to handle it, which means I will no doubt keep rewriting the same scenes for about 3 more days, heh. Hoping to get a few short WIPs finished up before I dive wholeheartedly into it.

My heart is always back in NYC, but currently I am in London (which I do like!).

[enemytosleep]

Good word count. :D

What made you move overseas? I visited London the summer before last and it was fun!

[crowdog66]

Wrote ~1900 words today of plotting on "Solstice and Equinox" (discovering, in the process, that there's a second story track happening: the Station Soap Opera, which consists of the rumours swirling around the main characters as a result of Deep Space Nine's gossip mill). What I've also discovered is that I need to tie down the canon timeline a lot more firmly, because when the Dominion declares war on the Alpha Quadrant and Cardassia enters the fray will be very important to the fic's own storyline.

And I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada -- pretty much in the geographic centre of North America.

[crowdog66]

And I just posted a ~725 word conversation between Garak and Bashir from "S&E". Some nice (IMO) back-and-forth banter between them as they negotiate the new shape of their relationship.

[terajk]

Polished up a 450+-word ficlet for fic_promptly (Soul Eater, Death the Kid); also despairing that I haven't written anything for my own fest for easily-lost characters yet. (It's a party! Come play!)

I live in a small town just outside of Omaha, Nebraska in the US.

[jagnikjen]

The home of my heart!

I lived in Bellevue and Plattsmouth for many many years. :)

[0jack]

Work-writing is going great, fanfic not so much this week. I'm still struggling to get into the groove of writing again in general and my anxiety monkeys are worse about fanfic, because I cannot do anything the proper way.

I live in Canada, outside Toronto, Ontario. :)

[roane]

That's really interesting. Why do you think the anxiety is worse about fanfic? For me, it's much much less. I stopped writing original fiction in part because I was stressed about not being "professional" enough and because the general lack of feedback was depressing. Anxiety levels are much lower for me for fanfic--not because my standards are lower or anything, but because I'm not putting so much importance on it (i.e., I'm not planning to make a living off it. :) ).

[roane]

I took last night off for napping and general recuperation from a crazy week. My brain is casting about for something to work on next, definitely related to my last fic. I have a series envisioned in my head. First up might be a short bit between Donna and the Doctor, where she gives him a piece of her mind. I suspect I may be speaking for part of the fandom with this one. ;)

Also trying to figure out where to go with the plot twist I threw into the end. I set myself up for some fun stuff, but I'm not sure the best way to take advantage of it yet.

I'm in southeastern Michigan, about an hour west of Detroit.

[enemytosleep]

You'll laugh when you see my update for today, omg.

[sylvaine]

Augh, awful so far. I'm not feeling inspired at all, but I will drag out at least a few sentences by today if it kills me. *determined look*

I'm originally from Germany, but right now I'm studying in Durham, England.

[insignia]

Due to an unplanned three-day break from writing, I can't finish my story for fan_flashworks on time without stressing out. So I'm skipping that detour to focus on my main fic again. Wrote a few hundred words of that and did a little research and plotting. I think I'm almost done choosing names for the characters introduced in chapter one :D

The other fic wasn't a total loss, though: I got some practice writing on a deadline, and I think I refined my process a bit. And I can still use all the work I did, at some point when I have more time.

[insignia]

Oh, and for the discussion topic... I'm freezing my butt off in Sweden.

[vae]

Stuck. Stuck stuck stuck stuck stuck argh *headdesk* Bloody werewolves.

I'm in England!

[dhae_knight_1]

Got a little bit written, but it's slow going. Think maybe I need to take a day or two and do some more detailed plotting.

I live in Denmark. Tiny country, geographically, but mentally we still own parts of England, Norway and a good chunk of Sweden... ;-)

[jagnikjen]

My mother was born there, my grandmother lives in Kgs. Lynby, and I have visited there several times! :)

[lilly_c]

I took a break yesterday and today. Planning on looking over my DVD notes over the weekend though.

These days home is Aberdeen, Scotland but I'm originally from West Yorkshire, England.

[luna_plath]

Writing today was...okay. I'm working on a fest piece in the HP fandom that prominently features Luna, and there are some days when I really get her voice and then there are others when I don't. I guess I just need to read more Luna!fic and it'll feel less foreign to me.

I live in Boone, NC, USA. I'm comfortable sharing this because my town houses natives and close to 20k college students, which makes me just a drop in the bucket.

Repost for HTML fail

[enemytosleep]

This isn't very helpful for Luna inspiration, but reading your comment made me remember this youtube wonder. Hope it gives a laugh if nothing else. ^^;

[in_lighter_ink]

I'm... behind on everything (and not great about checking in)! But writing has been going... pretty well, if slowly. I'm about 2,500 words into this rough draft, making it the longest thing I've written in a while.

And I'm from eastern PA, USA -- about two hours north of Philadelphia (or about two hours west of NYC).

[enemytosleep]

That's a good word count! Hope it continues to go well. :D

[eve_doodle]

Haven't gotten much progress on my WIP; writing has been like pulling teeth, but I managed to sketch out an outline I'm sort of happy with. I think I'm going to take a breather and work on my big bang instead, which I need to start anyway.

I'm in New York, which is just as awful and great as you can imagine.

[enemytosleep]

Hello neighbor. :)

[lullabymoon]

Word count is only about 400 for the day, but that was surprisingly easy and I'm feeling good about it (apart from the part of my brain that is going 'wah' about the self imposed deadlines).

I'm pretty much slap bang in the middle of central Scotland.

[enemytosleep]

Today's progress...

Yuujinchou Exchange (due Mar 17 - 1K word min): 335 new words. Current word count: 2,293

Help_Japan (due 18 years ago - 750 word min): No new words. Current word count: 3,666

Today's progress isn't what I'd like it to be, but I daresay it's for a good reason! We unexpectedly ended up with a permanent foster kitten! This is sort of hysterical because JUST YESTERDAY I was discussing how I wasn't ready to adopt another cat ... but I couldn't say no to this baby.

An acquaintance runs a rescue group in our area, and I occasionally foster for her when she needs me to. She called me today and gave me this story: last August someone found 3 kittens in the basement of an apartment building (then roughly 8 weeks old), and they had had very bad things done to them. The rescue took them and cleaned them up/let them heal. This poor baby had to have a good chunk of her tail amputated. ;;_;; So anyway, once they were healed and well they began to adopt them out. This female started having seizures and a whole other slew of issues. Several rounds of tests and scans later, they discovered she has multiple liver shunts and was deemed inoperable.

So now she will live with us for however long she lives. I'm hoping we can get her meds and diet sorted well enough that it won't be a big issue (my toy poodle also has liver shunts, which is why I think they thought of me). Now I need to come up with a name!



We are in Metro NY, USA.

[roane]

Awwww. You're a good person, you are.

[bay_alexison]

Yay, got my internet back after coming back from work. XD Catching up on internet stuff now, but in a little bit will be sending Chapter 4 of my Big Bang to Beta B (looked at it a little bit last night along with looking over Beta B's notes to some of my rewritten scenes) and look over my beat's notes for my help_japan fic in a bit.

I live in California, mainly the San Bernardino/Inland Empire area. My city is around an hour drive to Los Angeles.

[jagnikjen]

I grew in the San Fernando Valley!

[lacerta]

No actual writing today, buuuuut I've been thinking about it? Does that count? There's plenty of time tomorrow, so I'm determined to sit down and make some progress.

I live in Austria.

[pinstripefedora]

Nearly 900 words today, which is surprising considering I spent most of my allotted writing time for the day doing everything but writing.

I currently live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, but until recently I also lived in the DFW area - Garland, to be specific. Nice to meet a fellow metroplexian! (I don't think that's actually a word, but I am so exhausted that I don't care.)

[snowynight]

About 1K. It goes slowly, but at least it's going.

I live in Hong Kong, China

[linaewen]

I've had the worst cold ever this past week and couldn't get my brain to work. There's a wee possibility that I might be finally on the mend, so maybe this weekend I'll be able to get back on track with my writing. So writing here is "awful" at the moment!

I'm living and working in Chicago, IL but I'm keeping one foot in Wisconsin, where I grew up. Hubby and I spend a lot of weekends in Southern Wisconsin where we have a house and a son.

[in_lighter_ink]

Ugh. I hope you're truly on the mend!

And hello fellow Wisconsiner! (I grew up in southern WI, and miss it terribly.)