WIP Challenge: Day 6 check-in

[elf]

Friday! That means two whole uninterrupted days for writing coming up, right? (Well, for those of us with (1) day jobs and (2) no specific plans for the weekend. Which, um, isn't likely to be too many of us.) How about, "Friday! You've survived a working week; reward yourself with a shiny something!"

Poll #10092 Apr 6 WIP check-in

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What I've done to my WIP today:

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Added words to the WIP
3 (21.4%)

Edited the WIP
1 (7.1%)

Sent the WIP off to beta, or got it back.
2 (14.3%)

I worked on some other fanfic thing instead
5 (35.7%)

I made some notes/updated plans for the WIP
1 (7.1%)

I researched something that's relevant to my WIP
2 (14.3%)

I allowed the WIP to simmer by itself, to enhance the flavor, while I did other things
7 (50.0%)

Discussion Topic: Rewards: do you have a way to reward yourself for meeting your goals? Every 3,000 words, get a cupcake, or every time you send a fic to your beta, re-read an old favorite ficlet even if you "really don't have time for it right now?" Do you post announcements of accomplishment so your friends can help you bask in the joy of achievement, or just quietly reflect on your own awesomeness? Do you use (hey, maybe we could all use!) something like Chore Wars to track fanfic progress and reward yourself for getting it done?

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[crowdog66]

*sigh* I've set up "Lethe's Curse" (ReBoot AU, Bob/Megabyte, will be NC-17) as a story on AO3, with two chapters already up, so it looks like I might have another epic on my hands. *cheers sarcastically* As if "When the Farsei Blooms" (ST:DS9, Garak/Bashir, NC-17) isn't already enough on my plate...

I generally post announcements about fic progress on my Tumblr, as well as previews and fic bits in case my readers will enjoy them.

[roane]

You're fond of the long form epic stuff, aren't you? :)

[snowynight]

I wrote another 3K on the AU I tentatively title Mnemonic for now.

When I'm writing well, writing is its own reward. When I'm not so motivated, the dread of word count debt moved me to go, so you can say I work on the system of avoiding the stick.

[roane]

I managed to write up a 2000 word synopsis of Pull the Stars from the Sky and had one of my betas read it. I may actually have a coherent story! Now... I just have to write it. Gah. Starting on chapter 2 tomorrow, bright and early...

[bay_alexison]

Still slowly getting through editing my help_japan fic. I believe I have around five or six scenes left.With the progress I'm making now I might be able to at least have the edits done either Sunday or Monday, so Tuesday I should be able get started on thinking over my next approach to the story unless my beta for god_tier is able to finish looking through the story early.

Sometimes I would post about my progress over my works though only once in a while. As for rewards, not really.

[barbayat]

Nothing at all - wasn't my day today and now that I am in the mood to write, I am so tired that I won't manage much. The long weekend is also planned with other stuff that won't leave much room ...

Reward - managing to write something is my reward. Nothing beats the feeling of having made progress. Yes, sometimes I post about a finished chapter - but most often I just enjoy it to myself - also this group kind of changed that ...

[linaewen]

At the moment, I've got too much housework to deal with to give my writing more than just a wistful glance.

I think my reward for accomplishing something with writing is to allow myself to not feel guilty about not writing for a time afterwards! However, that tends to escalate into procrastination later, and then I'm doing things like "allowing the WIP to simmer" even when I could be working on it. ;-) I wonder if I should try the cupcake idea instead....?

That Chore Wars looks like a thing that would help me today with my housework, and the reward would be writing time! :-D