WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 13 -- Friday

[linaewen]

It's Friday the 13th!  How's it going for you today with your writing?  I trust you are having an awesome day with no bad luck in sight!  ;-)

Tell us what you've been up to today:

• Writing
• Editing
• Sending to beta
• Posting
• Procrastinating
• Planning/Researching
• Taking a break
• Something else I will describe in comments

For discussion:  Has it ever happened that in your writing you've been going for one thing and something entirely different (but just as good) ends up being written?  Let the sharing commence!

Comments

[crowdog66]

Spend today planning, writing up and posting Part Five and Part Six of the plot summary for "Lethe's Curse" (ReBoot AU, Bob/Megabyte). I'm having so much fun discovering the ins and outs of this universe (including the "I want to fuck you/I want to punch your lights out" dynamic of Bob's relationship with Megabyte) that it really should be illegal.

I've had the "going for one thing, had something entirely different" outcome a few times in my writing career, including in "Solstice and Equinox", which started out with the intention of being painted in quick impressionistic strokes and ended up being an involved examination of the Garak/Bashir relationship and the complex web of other relationships on Deep Space Nine. Most of the time, though, when I get my initial sense of the overall shape of a story I also get a feeling for what kind of story it's going to be and how it's going to end up; in fact, I often end up writing the coda of the story early on in the creative process.

[crowdog66]

"Spend" = "Spent"... d'oh! X(

[lilly_c]

I'm just about to start my writing for the day. I've lost most of it to travelling because I'm having a (semi-unplanned) weekend away and also taking time off from revising for exams.

THe only real plan for the rest of the night is to work on my casestory fic and try remember the website that had bus/train info for San Francisco. How I wish I still had that lever archer with all my city/county related research, think I lost it during a move. The fandom I'm playing with for casestory is set in San Francisco.

It's happened a couple of times, one fic eneded up going throuhg all the ratings before I finished and another had a lot more humour than I wanted. There all I can think of just now. Brain is nearly fried.

[snowynight]

I write 1.3K on a wip today.

It doesn't happen to me frequently because I don't have much plan in writing. I just go with the flow.

[ty_writes]

Mostly editing old works and started on new writerverse challenge.

I'm a 'seat of the pants' writer, so I rarely plan out my stories. I usually let my characters lead me where they want to go. Sometimes, I do want to go somewhere in my story and they take the long, scenic route to get there, but eventually (sometimes 10k words later) they do.

[roane]

Posted chapter two of Pull the Stars from the Sky. *confetti* Digging into chapter 3 starting tomorrow.

This piece was supposed to be schmoopy and sexy and utterly terribly romantic, but it's getting more gritty on me. Which is fine, I think it works better this way.

[asecretchord]

The story I'm wrapping up now has veered so far off course that I'm now officially afraid of the subject matter. Please tell me that's happened to you. I honestly don't know if this one will make it out of GDocs and into the light of day.

[bay_alexison]

Have posted my god_tier fic and it seems I'm the first one that posted for the Reverse Big Bang, lol. After that had been distracted with Homestuck (4/13 is pretty big for the fandom) and preparing for a special holiday related to my culture (we'll leave it at that :x ), so no writing today. Had been thinking a bit of my help_japan fic though so hopefully tomorrow I'll get back working on it...and maybe also pester Beta A about my FMA Big Bang too, haha.

That happens quite a few times for me, lol. Not everything goes as planned but that's all right with me as sometimes my stories work better that way.