WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 19 -- Sunday

[linaewen]

Greetings, 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:

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

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?

Comments

[enemytosleep]

Ah, it's been a rather lousy weekend. T_T I have been plucking away at these fics, though. If I can't make money, I can at least get these fanfics finished 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)?

[littlebutfierce]

Oh, ugh, being sick when you don't get paid sick time/it directly affects your pay is terrible too. :/

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

[enemytosleep]

I was thinking I could at least list it as a gift, though I think it's cool that you're considering keeping it all open/together. :D And yay more prompts! Hopefully I'll be done with these two so that I'm not further divided. ^^;