Check-in Thursday May 31st

[lacygrey]

Hi there. I hope the writing has been going well today. As we come to the end of the month, how are are you doing on the goals you set yourself at the start? And how does this affect what you are planning for next month?

For discussion:
How do you decide when a story is ready to post online?

When you can’t think of any more?
When its the deadline?
When at least 3 betas have been over it?
When you are fed up with it?

Comments

[lacygrey]

I achieved about a 5th of my month's goal (write up five notebook's worth of drafts), but I'm pleased I found a story in some notes that I'd never thought were worth it when I wrote them.

I tend to post to deadlines, but haven't been making them lately.

[roane]

I wrote a bit this morning before work, and will be writing more tonight, as I'm VERY close to sending off a chapter to my betas, and I always get more driven when that's the case. :)

My goal for the month was to post four chapters for Pull the Stars from the Sky. I'm gonna call that a win--I've only posted 3, but #4 is, as I said, pretty darn close to ready for a beta. :) Hooray! \o/

For me, a story or chapter is ready as soon as I'm tired of looking at it. ;) Although really, I do tend to rush more than I probably should, because I get such a high from posting. Right now, I finish a chapter/story, send it off to beta LIKE RIGHT AWAY (I should maybe stop that and consider it a little more). I have two or three folks who look at my stuff, depending, and all they all give excellent feedback, which sometimes entails a lot of rewriting. Once that's done, I may or may not send it back for a reread, then I'll post.

This is for longer form stuff, of course. For short pieces, I often just dash it off and then post it. :)

[lullabymoon]

I met one of my goals - I finished and post a kink_bingo wip and it turned out quite well I think. The other goal, to finish my sgagenfic fic, I've very nearly managed. The draft is close to being done and it should go to beta on Saturday, which is the deadline so I'm rather pleased with that.

Lately I've been posting stuff because the deadline is here.

[wintergrey]

I haven't done any of the fanfic I wanted, I've been struggling with my workfic, so that's a bummer. :( My goal for next month is to be more organized so I can get that fanfic writing in. There's so much I want to do.

I post when I feel I'm done, when I feel I've accomplished what I set out to do. I have someone read it over—copy edit—and that's about it. Sometimes I'll discuss plot and characterization as I go but I get edited for work, I really don't have fun with it in my fandom writing. :)

[linaewen]

I accomplished one of my goals, in that I completed a short challenge fic -- I actually went above and beyond because I did two short fics! I'm a third of the way done with my 7,000 word update on a long WIP, with a scary short time left in which to write the remaining 2/3.

I usually have a good feel for when a chapter or a tale is complete; I'll often run it by a person or two for a bit of beta work, but nothing major, since I do most of my own editing as I go. Deadlines are helpful to me, and I usually wait until the last minute to get motivated!

[gramarye1971]

I banged out a short comment-fic that was fun to write, and I'm so damned close to finishing one of the WIPs I set my hand to this month. (Like, two paragraphs from the end, and I'll stay up half the night if I have to finish it because I want this thing done and fully posted.) I hit a writing trough around mid-month after some bad RL news sapped my energy, but I think I can make the June goal if I work at it!

As for the 'done' point, it's usually like coming close to an edge in my mind; when I reach the point when I'm just quibbling with myself about word placement and checking the thesaurus too often, I'll stop writing.

[bay_alexison]

Bleh, for the most part this week has been a terrible one for writing. I was starting another kinkmeme fic, but around 200 words in I'm already not too sure if third person is best for this type of story. Real life and other fandom activities then got my attention. :x I'm hoping tomorrow I'll get back to writing one of my auction fics.

As for this month I got a couple goals accomplished, one is which getting Chapter Six of my FMA Big Bang posted and some of help_japan written (though not much).

A story/chapter is done most of the time when one or two betas, depending on nature of work, looks through it and I make the necessary changes. Sometimes I might have my beta(s) looked over a scene/part once more, but otherwise that doesn't happen too often.