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writethisfanficGreetings, fellow writers! linaewen here, to serve as your writing encouragement person for the week. :-D
Here's a worthy quote on writing from a favorite author of mine:
That said, how is it going for you today in combining your words in potent fashion? Are you getting words actually written? Are you looking for the right words by doing research, fact checking or outlining? Are you thinking about your story while in the midst of other work that has become more demanding at the moment? Let us know how it's going, so we can rejoice, encourage or commiserate with you!
For discussion: How do you define a successful day of writing?
linaewen here, to serve as your writing encouragement person for the week. :-DHere's a worthy quote on writing from a favorite author of mine:
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
That said, how is it going for you today in combining your words in potent fashion? Are you getting words actually written? Are you looking for the right words by doing research, fact checking or outlining? Are you thinking about your story while in the midst of other work that has become more demanding at the moment? Let us know how it's going, so we can rejoice, encourage or commiserate with you!
For discussion: How do you define a successful day of writing?
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 18:21 (UTC)A successful day of writing for me consists of doing something that moves my story along. It may limited to simply thinking about it or jotting down a note, but if I manage even just that much, I feel good. A SUPER successful day, however, is one where I actually put words together and write something that produces an actual word count. ;-)
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 18:36 (UTC)I define a successful day of writing as one when I've written effective words that tug at the reader's heart, preferably over 1000 of them, but if they're good enough words a short-short story is as fine as a feast. It's really that simple. :)
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 18:55 (UTC)A successful day of writing is pretty much any day I get at least 100 words. I'm pretty easy. A stellar day of writing is one in which the words flow out like a dream. I love those days (few and far between).
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 19:26 (UTC)This is seriously a sickness. I cannot remember the last time I have been this obsessed about putting words down on paper. (Well, virtual paper.)
For me, a successful day is when I manage to advance a plot, or write a sentence that I think is particularly apt or beautiful.
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 19:44 (UTC)Yuujinchou Exchange (due Mar 17 - 1K word min): 1,378 new words. Being laid up on the couch is good for writing? I'm very close to the end now. I had predicted 7-8K total after removing one of the subplots last week, and it seems that was pretty accurate. Current word count: 6,583
Yuujinchou Exchange Bonus Treat #1 (due Mar 17): 328 new words. I made a basic outline and then started drafting. Most of the words I drafted on this were total crap, but I'll keep working on it as I have time. It won't be super long, but I'm not sure how long it'll be just yet. Current word count: 328
Help_Japan (due 18 years ago - 750 word min): No new words. Current word count: 3,666
I define a writing day/session as successful when I've managed to make noticeable progress. I don't know that I have a set word number per se, but I typically feel better about 300+ words and/or significant adjustments and add ins to an outline (including research notes, if needed).
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 22:46 (UTC)Also, coughcoughcough -- there's a week between when assignments are due & when the collection is officially revealed... this is to give time for any last-minute pinch hits to be done. This also will be a time when the collection is still open for treats. So... your bonus treat (! exciting!) isn't due on the 17th. ;)
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 22:57 (UTC)since I'll be playing catch up forevah?I had thought that was what you'd explained before, but then I wasn't 100% sure I was remembering right, so I went with the more conservative due date so as not to seem presumptuous. ^^; I figure I can always gift people bonus treats later if I run out of time, right (Can we still add to the collection after that point? This is my fist A03 challenge)?
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 23:09 (UTC)IIRC I can keep the collection open forever if need be, ha! Some challenges open up separate collections for treats (or treats that are posted after author reveals -- I think Yuletide has a separate collection for New Year's Resolution fics). I would rather just keep them all in the same collection (partly because the exchange is small enough that I think a treat collection would be really small). But even aside from the settings of this challenge or any other, you could always just post the fic at any time & list the person as the recipient in any case -- they'd still be notified that someone wrote a fic for them.
Edit: Oh! I forgot to say that, during the period after assignments are due but before the collection is revealed, I will use that nifty AO3 feature that makes all the prompts visible... to aid in doing treats (especially for people who didn't do a letter/didn't linkdrop it). :D
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 23:22 (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 19:44 (UTC)Ow.
A successful day of writing for me is... a day where I write. Period. Any words are better than no words at all. That'll probably change over time, but for now, that's the criterion for success. :-)
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 22:48 (UTC)A good writing day is one where I feel like I did more work on a fic (whether writing or editing or posting or what) than... flailing around trying to avoid working on it, or clicking between every tab in my browser a million times for every word I write.
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Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 23:46 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 20th, 2012 03:27 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 20th, 2012 07:45 (UTC)Pretty much if I'm able to get a chunk of the fic written or edited is a good writing day for me. Sometimes I might have better days than others, depends if real life gets in the way and/or if I'm the mood to do some writerly stuff.