WIP Challenge check-in Day 12, Sunday

[sylvaine]

Hello! How is everybody doing today? Well, I hope!

Poll #9486

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How has today's writing gone?

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Brilliant!
2 (11.8%)

Pretty good!
2 (11.8%)

Okay-ish.
6 (35.3%)

Not particularly...
5 (29.4%)

Just awful. >.>
2 (11.8%)

Have you been...

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writing
9 (52.9%)

editing
5 (29.4%)

researching
2 (11.8%)

plotting
7 (41.2%)

giving your muse a rest?
2 (11.8%)

As for the discussion question... do you read more fanfic or professional fiction? Any particular reason why you read more of one or the other?

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[roane]

First, I love your icon. :)

I haven't written anything yet this morning (11:20am here), because I have to do some job-related stuff and then some homework first. BUT! I'm starting to get some plot-related ideas for continuing my Sherlock/Doctor Who crossover soon-to-be-series. I should probably jot them down before I forget them.

In general, I probably read more profic, but lately, it's ALL FANFIC ALL THE TIME around here because I'm newly obsessed. I, um, used to have a pretty blase-to-negative attitude about fanfic, which I have since recanted. One reason I'm so obsessed is because well, there's just not that much to the Sherlock BBC canon yet, so if I want more of these stories, I gotta get them from other fans or write them myself. :)

[enemytosleep]

Today's progress...

Yuujinchou Exchange (due Mar 17 - 1K word min): 457 new words. Current word count: 2,862

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

In recent years I've been reading more fanfic than professional fiction. I think it's a combination of two things. 1) I like to reciprocate fandom love, so I try to read at least semi-regularly 2) I've fallen in love with a few series and fanfic lets me enjoy the characters again and again without rereading/watching the same things.

[crowdog66]

I wrote and posted ~1350 words on a new story, "Three and a Half Days", and did ~550 words of plotting on the same story. All in all a very productive day so far!

The only professional fiction writer regularly I read is Stephen King; if I fit in three books of professional fiction in a year, I'd be surprised. It's just not a genre that appeals to me. Fan fiction, on the other hand... I read an awful lot of that, just because my interest in the characters is guaranteed. :)

[cpolk]

Only about 150 words on the long-stalled Biting the Sun Fanfic, but seeing as it's very difficult for me to get words on paper with the internal censor so firmly in control, I'll take 'em. That's more fiction than I've written in at least four months.

I've been slowly putting up more work on AO3. the main reason is because then I can turn around and download what I submitted into epub so I can carry my work around on my kobo - handy for longhand writing day in a cafe with good coffee.

I read more professional fiction, no doubt about that. I am not "in" any fandoms really. My work isn't really read by anyone, and honestly I don't have any real information on who to read. I know there's a community but I'm not part of it.

[enemytosleep]

Congrats on getting the ball rolling!

[graychalk]

I've caught (or more accurately, always had) a serious editing bug, so it's what I'm mostly working on these days. I haven't managed to push through all that much today, but I'm starting to get some new ideas about how to tackle the issues I'm currently dealing with. Hopefully, this means I'll be more productive soon. Hopefully.

As for fanfic or professional fic... it used to be I read much more professional fic, but in the recent year or 2, I think I've been reading A LOT more fanfic. I think this has quite a bit to do with fandom and how obsessive I tend to get with some of them (whether the genre, what's happening in canon, or the ships I love), so I'm always digging around for more to read. With pro-fic, I'm just a lot more picky and in some ways, it takes more to convince me to like their world and their characters. In some ways, I also think fanfic is just more immediate and accessible in what I'm looking for at the moment. It also requires less time investment. If I only have time for a one-shot, I have it. I want a drabble, it's there. I guess fanfic just has more immediate gratification? :P

[eve_doodle]

Writing has been pretty terrible, partly because I've gotten sucked into a new fandom and mostly because writing battle scenes is brain-breaking for me, bleh. I've got to write about 2k more before the chapter is finished so I'll just have to slog through it.

I read a lot more fanfic just because it's a lot more accessible and the payoff from reading a goodfic comes a lot sooner than reading a good novel. /shameless I'm also more comfortable with reading 'in' the fandom, so to speak, then plunging into a new one and an entirely new world. Fanfic feels safe and comfortable.

[dhae_knight_1]

Yeah. I guess today proves that if you're not really sure about what, exactly, you're writing, it's slow going. Need to feed my brain before I can continue.

For the past... oh, 10 years or so? I've been reading primarily fanfiction. And it all started with stumbling into a fic that had me hooked in the first couple of pages. Then, all of a sudden, Buffy and Giles hooked up and I was all like: "What?!?" And thus began my first foray into shipping and fanfiction. I love fanfiction. It comes in all lengths and types, and there is such a marvelous variety of kinds. If I want to read short, romantic fic - why bother finding a short story? I've got a pairing I like, right here! If I want to laugh - well, how about some cracky fic? If I feel like having my gut wrenched and losing a day - long angsty fic is the ticket!

And because people rec and link, and because fanficcers are usually extremely good about labeling their fic, it's far, far easier to find the type of story I feel like reading than it is to go out and track down something original. And, even better, I don't have to spend time getting to know the characters or the setting - that's already a given (unless, of course, it's an AU, which is one of my favorite things about fanfiction).

[lilly_c]

I've worked out the timeline issue I was having :) and I rewatched the eps I need for timeline and reference purposes. Lazy day today writing wise.

I used to read a lot of fan fic, I still do just not the amount I used to and I tend to read it when I can't sleep or I'm travelling between Scotland and England. Sometimes I'll read pro fic but I have got to be wanting to read it. These days I mostly read blogs on word press, non-fiction (biography, real-life crime etc). Today I've read 2 chapters of a psychology book in prep for this weeks lectures.

[insignia]

I wrote over a thousand words of my main WIP. Yay! Then I was about to complain about a scene that's giving me trouble, but I think I just figured out what the problem is :D (A character's behaviour is contradicted by the motives I tried to give him. Oops.) I've also poked around a bit in a secondary WIP, but nothing substantial came of it.

[linaewen]

I haven't done anything today except think about maybe trying to write something. The editing I said I was doing in the poll was editing a term paper for someone, and it was truly an ordeal, let me tell you. After I recover from that, maybe I'll be more inclined to do my own writing!

I used to read very little fanfic and lots of professional fiction. Lately, however, it's the other way around. I believe I find fanfiction more satisfying at the moment because it gives me more of the characters that I yearn after and who are important to me, and the only way I can find more about these characters is to find it in fanfic!

[snowynight]

I write another 1K. It's getting more and more difficult, but I'll persist.

I read more fanfic than pro-fic recently because fanfic are more friendly and labelled. I'm not much in the mood to have a nasty surprise for something that'll usually be labelled in fanfic.