WIP challenge: day 3 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

3 days into the challenge: how's it going? Has your weekend been productive so far?

Poll #9751

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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What have you done on your fic today?

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Taken a break (planned)
0 (0.0%)

Taken a break (unplanned)
4 (28.6%)

Wrote
11 (78.6%)

Edited
3 (21.4%)

Posted
2 (14.3%)

Sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

Researched
2 (14.3%)

& how do you feel about that?

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Mean: 5.23 Median: 5 Std. Dev 2.12

Crappy 1		1 (7.7%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		1 (7.7%)
4		4 (30.8%)
5		1 (7.7%)
6		2 (15.4%)
7		2 (15.4%)
8		1 (7.7%)
9		1 (7.7%)
Fantastic! 10		0 (0.0%)

And five words or less about your current WIP?

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For discussion: It seems like a fair number of people are starting off the month with a pretty good spring in their step. How do you keep the momentum going? Is it a daily writing practice? A weekly wordcount goal? A reward system? Or is there some other way you just keep going once you've started?

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[terabient]

I managed to start and finish the climatic scene in the first bingo fic I've been chipping away at, so yay~ Assuming everything goes well I should finish it tomorrow, and I can start editing. Edits usually take me a few days because my first drafts are so rough (and also on paper) but I find it a little easier than the initial writing. Putting words to paper is by far the hardest part for me.

I like to write in my room, in silence. I've tried working with music or something else in the background but I'm easily distracted so it's not too useful for me, lol. I think that's one reason I tend to stick with pen and paper on first drafts, as well - it takes away the lure of the internet.

[littlebutfierce]

Oooh, that's great about finishing that important scene! Good luck w/finishing the draft & editing.

Yeah, the siren song of the internet is sometimes really hard for me to resist... ^^;;;