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?

Comments

[graychalk]

After years of on-and-off editing for my Monstrous WIP of Doom, I finally decided that enough was enough and posted the first revised chapter (part of my goal for this month) online. I originally wanted to revise most of it before I begin to re-post them, but I've come to realize that it's not very conductive for curing my ongoing struggle to control my editing urges. I will never be able to stop myself from fiddling, so I've taken 5,262 words off my hands. There's something about posting that makes it final - for now, at least - so that I may move on and work on editing a different chapter. I'm still nervous, but I'm also relieved. And that, I believe, is a relief in itself!

As for how I keep my momentum going, I'm still trying to work this out actually. I've noticed in the past that it helps a great deal when I have someone to talk to about my fic. It gets me motivated like none other. However, I very rarely have anyone to talk fic with, so it's not exactly something I should be relying on.

That said, I'm just currently trying my best to do something (anything) fic-related every day. From my previous experience, I've found that if I stop, it's easy for that "break" to become an extended one - and time is a scary scary thing that moves without me noticing!

[insignia]

Sometimes it's best to accept a work as 'good enough' and stop worrying about whether it's perfect. Congrats on finally moving on! ♥

[riceishere]

On a "break" becoming an extended one -- too true in my case! This happened to me far too many times and whenever I take a look and try to finish my 'abandoned' WIPs I end up forgetting what I was planning to do with it.

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for being able to stop editing enough to get that revised chapter up! Woohoo!! Good luck getting on w/the rest.

& yeah, for me momentum is easiest to keep going once I've started -- but stopping makes it really hard to get going again.