WIP Challenge: Thursday (Day 29)

[psyco_chick32]

Check-In Time!  Let's swing by a share what we've done today:

-Research?
-Writing?
-Posting?
-Celebrating?
-Staring anxiously at a deadline and/or empty document?


Today's discussion also invites PICTURES.
Where do you write?  Do you have a special space?  Can you write anywhere/everywhere?  Do you require absolute calm?  Share pics if you want!

Comments

[psyco_chick32]

Personally, I am staring anxiously at a big bang deadline and crying to myself about how I may have to drop out. Real life has just been brutal - one thing after another - and today I'm getting a 90-minute breather from everything. Which will be awesome for me, but failtastic for writing.
My WIP challenge goals were to finish my big bang (I added two scenes, that is nowhere even near done) and do two chapters of Broken (I did one). Saaad.

This is an ooold picture of my normal workplace but we'll be moving in April, so I hope to create a writing nook there.

[snowynight]

I write a 3K fic, which's inspired by the little Red Riding Hood. Fun to write, but I don't know whether I should keep it in my figurative drawer.

I usually write everywhere I can access Gdoc. Environment doesn't affect me much.

[psyco_chick32]

Awesome and well done! Even if it doesn't get posted, writing is writing and great. *high five*

I used to love GDoc - but at work lately it's begun draaaagging. :( Very sad.

[linaewen]

This week has been kind of a bust for writing, but I don't feel too bad. I accomplished one of my goals for the month, so I feel like I can relax a bit! Even so, I hope to get some writing time in today at some point, if my housework will allow it.

These days I pretty much only write at my computer. I used to be able to write long hand if I was mobile, and bring my work to the computer to type it up, but that's working less well lately. I still use that method for ideas and snatches of conversation, but I compose best with my keyboard. I use Jarte for this, and I also have it on my flash drive, which I take with me everywhere. So I can sometimes get some writing in when I'm at work during slow periods. My computer is a laptop, so I can usually write anywhere it happens to be set up (though lately I'm tied to my desk because the laptop is tied to an external monitor and an outlet until the screen and battery get replaced!). I don't require absolute calm, but it helps. I can't write if there's a TV running in the room, though.

[psyco_chick32]

What's important is that you're pleased with the results :D Congratulations on reaching a monthly goal!

Writing long-hand has gotten hard for me because I can type so much faster. And I totally feel you on the TV - I try to write while watching with my husband, but constantly have him pause it. I think he gets annoyed with it.

[lilly_c]

Posted last night. Gonna do a bit of work on one of my big fics tonight before new ep of TGW.

I have 2 places. Outside writing space and inside writing space. I can pretty much write anywhere. Calm and quiet stifles me but I think it's because I'm so used to chaos and noise.

[psyco_chick32]

Congrats on posting!!

Your outside writing space is BEAUTIFUL. Such a great view! And you desk is so neat!

[littlebutfierce]

This whole week has sucked for several RL reasons, but maybe I can start crawling out (in part b/c the thing I have been dreading has happened: one of our cats died last night). I don't know.

I just write at my computer desk; my hand is too jacked up from bad ergonomics for years to do much serious writing by hand. I usually write w/music. I like to edit hard copies, & doing so on trains is a favorite way to do it.

[psyco_chick32]

:( :( :( I am so sorry to hear about your cat :( *hugs* if you want them. Real life can be bad enough WITHOUT that.

I think I need a new desk; I write on my laptop, but sit on my bed, so I'm jacking up my back and neck.

[crowdog66]

I can't believe it, but I actually managed to get about 1200 words written today in spite of crushing depression. (I didn't get anything else done, like work, but it's, well, something.)

I write where I work, at the iMac in our home studio (24" screen FTW!), or on our Macbook Pro laptop in coffee shops and libraries. Consequently, I'm not going to post a picture of my working space because it looks like a nuclear bomb hit it, and I have no pics of the laptop writing locations, so... yeah. I can write just about anywhere, even in the presence of a TV screen (my studio location has a TV facing it less than five feet away); the only thing that really inhibits me is the possibility of people reading over my shoulder while I work, because dude, I just can't stand that. Ugh!

[psyco_chick32]

Congrats on your writing! It totally counts as getting something done.

There are only one or two people I can handle reading over my shoulder. Even then, since I delete all the time, it's way easier when they're nowhere near.

LOL I took that picture right after a big clean-up, otherwise it would look like the world's biggest mess.

[samecgh]

Well, it's not empty, but it's not complete. My brain is shutting down right when I need it.

I write wherever. As long as I got something to write on, and if I can remember what I'm writing, I'm okay.

[psyco_chick32]

Brain shutting down: I can feel that. My brain is sluggish lately when it comes to writing :(

Best of luck!

[bay_alexison]

Got some of my god_tier fic edited before I went to work, mostly to see if I need to change description and fix the dialogue a bit. I'll be editing a bit more later tonight

I have an old desktop computer in my room that I use to write most of my stories. I used to have a laptop and I would write anywhere in my house, lol.

[psyco_chick32]

Congrats! Closer to have it wrapped up :D

I used to write exclusively at the desktop - I really should, since I'm so easily distracted when I'm on my laptop, LOL.

[roane]

Thanks to the allmighty powers of Scrivener, I HAVE AN OUTLINE for the Giant Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll Sherlock AU of Doom. Ten chapters, a story arc. Whoa. I feel accomplished even though there's not much in the way of word count.

I write on my couch with my laptop. It's very comfy. :)

[psyco_chick32]

Wooo! \o/ It may not be much in words, but having an outline is MORE valuable in putting those words to paper/program!!
<3 Congrats!

[lullabymoon]

1500 words which I am rather gobsmacked at as it was only supposed to be a relatively quick scene. And that's only half done. Huh. I've reached that rather zen state about how much has to be done in so little time.