Check in: Tuesday 22nd May

[lullabymoon]

Another day past.

How did you get on today? 

Poll #10569

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What did you do today?

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wrote
8 (66.7%)

edited
4 (33.3%)

posted
1 (8.3%)

researched
1 (8.3%)

something else fic related
2 (16.7%)

something not fic related
4 (33.3%)

On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you feel about your writing today? (1 being rubbish, 10 being utterly fantastic)

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Today's dicussion (there may be a theme going on here)

[KNOWS HOW TO START AND HOW TO END THE FIC (Fanfic Flamingo) HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO WRITE FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE FIC]

Is this true for you or is it a different part you typically struggle with? 

Comments

[rhi]

Oh, no. Starting is EASY. Middles aren't bad. Making it end properly, so it closed down all the threads and still *feels* finished is tricky!

[ty_writes]

For me the middle is the easy part. I generally have a hard time starting (I think all my beginnings suck) but once I'm in the groove, I'm fine. The issue is the middle. Like rhi said, I have problems trying everything up

[krait]

Yep. Currently stuck on this very issue with 2, possibly 3, fics.

[bay_alexison]

Yesterday Beta B FINALLY got back to me her suggestions and comments concerning Chapter Six of my FMA Big Bang and slowly making some changes. I hope to post the chapter either tomorrow or Thursday.

Yeah, the middle is the hardest part for me. I may have some scenes I plan to put in the middle, otherwise for the most part I'll make up as I go.

[psyco_chick32]

I wrote today! I kind of hate what I wrote, because I don't agree with the stance at all, but I'm co-writing and I'm trying to reflect the points he's brought up in conversations.

You know, I write like, a dozen opens. And I always want to change the ending (this particular fic has been changed a gazillion times - I want to make a webpage with Deleted Scenes and Extra Features, LOL, all DVD style)... so I guess it just depends on the fic xD

[meridian_rose]

I usually have one or more middle scenes and the end planned out. However the start and the rest of the middle pieces can be hard to write, and hardest of all is drawing them all together into a coherent whole!

[crowdog66]

Finally back, after attending a sci-fi convention on the weekend and then recovering from said convention...

Wrote and posted a ~440 word short story, "Smooth" (DS9, Garak/Bashir, R). Not much, but at least I wrote something!

Oh, Fanfic Flamingo, how do you see so deeply into my soul? This is a problem I often face on the longer fics, not so much on the shorter ones. But once I plough through the beginning I can usually start hacking out the middle, with the ending as a tower I'm aiming toward on the distant horizon.

[linaewen]

I have been busy doing elderly-father related things, so I really haven't had time to write. I'm starting to feel the pinch of an upcoming writing deadline, but sometimes writing has to be put on the back burner! I have a bit of a free day today, so I'm planning some me time (which means writing time!).

My main struggle comes with getting the first, opening words down. Once I get going with that, things flow pretty smoothly. Sometimes I don't actually have a feel ahead of time for how it will end, and I have to keep writing until I feel the end has come, but I don't worry so much about that. Even though I usually have the world's most detailed outline for everything I write, I still have to work to get those first words out of my brain and onto the page!

[roane]

Ahaha, it's the next day, but yesterday I did pretty good! Piled out about 1,500 words, and finished a draft of chapter 6. I have four chapters (and possibly an epilogue) left on this monster, and the story is starting to steamroll towards the end. Eeeeep.

[lacygrey]

Usually its the end that is difficult as it needs to have some sort of twist, moral or conclusion. In my present longfic though its chapter 2 that's difficult as there's too much in it: People might have long deep conversations in real life, but not in fic. It needs some action I think