WIP challenge: March 4 check-in

[insignia]

Time for my first-ever week of making the check-in posts! I hope I don't screw up (I nearly got the date wrong today) :D

So, how are you doing? Did you...

• write
• edit
• plan
• research
• post
• take a break
• or something else?

Discussion: The importance of shipping (or lack thereof). Do you spin your tales around specific couples, or does the plot decide who gets together or not? If you don't write pairings at all, do you deliberately avoid them or just tend to come up with stories where romance wouldn't fit?

Comments

[enemytosleep]

Sounds like you've got a fair amount of treats in the works!

[littlebutfierce]

Well, we'll see how many of them come to fruition!

[enemytosleep]

I know what you mean. This second treat, as much as I love the prompt, is not coming easily. I wrote some more today, but then had to delete nearly all of it because it was beyond salvable. @_@

[littlebutfierce]

Oh no! ;_; But at least you know what doesn't work now... ?

[enemytosleep]

It wants to be a chapter fic. I've only ever written one chapter fic. T_T I'm trying to instead write the meaty part of it that best fits the prompt, but I can't seem to get there without a lot of set up. My next idea is to make a beefy outline for the set up, write the beefy part, and then see how much I can cut from the outline/throw a reference to without actually writing the entire thing. So that'll be me tomorrow, I guess. Usually I'm all about tiny drabbles and snippets, but this exchange is making me want to write way more than I can handle. Weird!

[littlebutfierce]

Oh dear, good luck! Finding the frame for the story & figuring out what you can get away w/not writing can be tricky, but you'll know it when you've found it, I think! I feel pretty lucky that most of my ideas for treats are pretty short... so far. ^^;;