WIP Challenge: March 13 check-in

[roane]

I don't know how it is where you are, but here in the midwestern US we're having a lovely bit of spring weather. How are things going today?

• Writing
• Editing
• Planning
• Researching
• Posting
• Thinking/resting/to hell with it today

Discussion:

Apologies if this has been asked recently. What made you start writing fanfic? How long have you been writing it for? What keeps you writing it?

Comments

[crowdog66]

I wrote and posted Chapter Three of "Sway" (Garak/Bashir, 1920s AU), with about 1400 words of that written today and the rest written yesterday.

And I've been writing fanfic for well over twenty years, so I can't remember what made me start. XD But I keep writing it because I love playing with the characters and I love getting feedback from my readers. Simple, no?

[enemytosleep]

Yuujinchou Exchange Bonus Treat #2 (due Mar 24): 193 new words. I need to think of a better ending line, but otherwise this is ready to send off to beta (should take care of this tonight). Current word count: 1,791

Help_Japan (due 18 years ago - 750 word min): No new words. I promise to give this love after the Yuujinchou exchange stops eating my brain. O.o Current word count: 3,666

Two chapters still needing edits.

I actually answered a meme about this topic not long ago, so I'll just link you all there if you're interested in my fanfic history.

[sleuth]

Wrote my arm (and back?) sore from writing in my notebook today. Did a tiny amount on my computer; basically expanded on some ideas. Finally submitted That One Piece to beta.


I think I started writing fanfic when I was around 14 or 15? I wrote furiously for a couple of years. Then came the time when I saw what I wrote and absolutely hated my own work. Cue years going by where I'd write, at most, twice a year. I'm trying to get back into it. Trying to shut out that part of my brain that tells me to stop writing -- because we don't need that part, do we. (How am I supposed to develop my skills if I don't write?)

[roane]

No, you don't need that part of the brain. Muzzle it. :)

[dhae_knight_1]

My brain is broken, so I'm reduced to crack-fic. Hotch and Reid, smushed together (naked!) in a box by a gay unsub in Smallville, Kansas. Let the cracking commence!

I've been telling myself stories based on TV-shows and stuff forever, it seems. Still do, before I go to sleep. But started writing fanfic just after discovering this amazing concept back in 2000. I haven't really looked back since. :-D

I write fanfic for training. I write fanfic because it's fun. And I write because I can't stop. Fanfic is like this amazing playground with these really cool playmates who do what you tell them to (well, most of the time, anyway). It's my own personal holodeck, where I can create whatever I can think of, and invite other's in to experience this thing I created because I thought it was fun and might be cool.

[roane]

Ha! Smallville? What, are you doing a crossover? ;)

Also, I should mention, in the Sherlock AU I'm starting to work on, there's a pretty solid chance the FBI is going to be involved at some point, particularly profilers. You have NO IDEA how tempted I am to sneak some familiar faces in there. ;)

[dhae_knight_1]

I mentioned that my brain is broken, right? So when I needed an location and an unsub in what is already so cracked it's ridiculous... Well. Smallville always comes to mind... ;-)

[roane]

No writing today, but I've been exchanging emails with a fellow writer who happens to have a LOT of background information I need for my next big project. Wheels are spinning like mad. :)

Officially, I've only been writing fanfic since mid-to-late January of this year. But actually, the first story I ever wrote was RPF, in the 7th grade! I didn't know that's what I was doing of course, but that means I first wrote fanfic 29 years ago. ;)

[insignia]

No writing today, but I attacked my messy draft of "The Lohengrin Revolver" and tried to sort stray snippets into some kind of order. It was about time, I thought ._.

[crowdog66]

Wrote and posted another ~1400 word chapter of "Sway". For a day that started out so crappily and has featured a guest appearance by depression, that's actually not too bad. :)

[crowdog66]

Aaaaaand I wrote ~1000 words on the next chapter of "Sway", so it turned out to be a very productive day after all!

[roane]

You are so freaking awesome. :)

[crowdog66]

Awww, thank you! I actually am feeling pretty good about yesterday's productivity. :D

[lullabymoon]

Nearly 800 words on the big bang, which I am v pleased with. So very nearly finished the first draft now!

[snowynight]

Another 1K on my teen mecha pilot AU fic.

I start writing fanfic because at that time my fandom was quiet and I needed to write stories I wanted to read for myself. Then I kept finding ideas of stories to write so I continued. Feedback and encouragement didn't hurt, either.

[bay_alexison]

Added 200 words on my god_tier fic. I think I may have an idea where I want to take the story, but still thinking about it.

I started writing fanfic in 2006, so around six years now. Pretty much got started after reading several great fics and I wanted to try writing one myself. I still continued writing fanfic as the plot bunnies won't leave me until I write them, lol.