WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 18 -- Friday

[linaewen]

Wow, I've missed two days in a row.  It's been wild here the last few days, and I tend to get forgetful when things get like that.  ;-)  Sorry!  It's actually still Thursday for another hour here, but on the off chance that tomorrow is also crazy, I thought I'd seize the time while I could.

How did it go in your world of writing the last day or two?  Have you had a successful time, or has it been less successful than you had hoped?  Did/will any of the following happen?

• writing?
• research?
• planning and outlining?
• editing?
• posting?
• totally ignoring writing in order to do something else?

Today's discussion is brought to us by the Plot Panda:

 

Do you write your plot first and let the world be built around it?  Or do you world-build first, and then proceed with your plot?  Or does a mix of the two work best for you?

Comments

[linaewen]

I had an idea for my current WIP, and wrote it down. That's the extent of my writing for the last two days. :-)

My world is essentially already built for everything I write, so I don't usually have to worry about this. Sometimes, I have to stop the plot to work up a more specific world within the larger world, but it's usually plot driven and I don't tend to get lost on world building rabbit trails. My son, on the other hand, is writing "from scratch" and can't seem to get his plot going properly until he has built his world, with all the characters, where they live, what their cultural background is, and then draws a map for it. He actually probably has a plot in mind when he starts, but he swears he can't get the words out to write it unless the world is built first.

[lacygrey]

Surfacing after a lot of RL. I tried write about that on my DW but it inexplicably deleted - too bad, perhaps the world didn't need to know.

My goal this month was to empty some of my paper notebooks into the computer: type up old ideas. I'm starting with the newest notebook (2012 - Three outlines of Hikaru no Go fics that never were and a few lost scenes from long gone BBC Sherlock kinkmeme prompts) and the oldest notebook (~April 2009 Spirited Away: Rin and Sen hanging the washing - not especially riveting).

Ive also been drafting my posts for the week I'm doing check-ins here as I'm already worried about RL taking revenge and getting caught short.

Plot/World-building
I don't separate plot and world-building. By writing fanfiction I think I'm being lazy about world-building anyway because so much already done for me, esp. as I don't write AUs much and my fandom canons are present-day ones. I do research though, particularly for Japan, and that can become an end in itself.