WIP challenge check-in, day 3

[littlebutfierce]

And once again! How's it going today? If you're not writing, are you maybe having luck bouncing ideas around? Planning to write? Revising? Procrastinating by reviewing canon (or by doing anything else)?

(... & adding to my to-do list for the comm: re-doing the tags. I think nested tags, or whatever they're called, perhaps? [So there'd be, for example: "wip challenge: check-in" or something.] Just to say publicly I do want to do this at some point, in order to be accountable!)

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[littlebutfierce]

I didn't write anything today & I know I won't--it's my late night home. But yesterday (after I commented on that post) I did end up going through some of the snippets I wrote in January. And there's more promise there than I thought there would be. I feel kind of rejuvenated, fic-wise! We'll see how long it lasts. But I think there are the bones of at least two stories there.

[in_lighter_ink]

Have to admit, it's been a slow start for me... thus far, I've been managing to keep up with my 'write 750 words of something every day' goal, but I'm not having great luck writing actual usable blocks of prose. (I have great plans, however!) So, I have been doing some canon "research" while de-cluttering my living space, which, I reckon, can only help my brain work better.

[littlebutfierce]

Doing the 750 words daily is awesome--I really do think, even if the words don't seem useable, it keeps the brain limber, y'know? Also sometimes I look back on the snippets I wrote & find some of them are better than I thought!

I find it difficult to work in a really cluttered space, so that makes sense to me.

[snowynight]

I'm happy because my fic reaches 8383 words, where a character reveals his torturous past. If I can work at the same speed I can reach the minimum limit in a weak. I will have assignment and such later so it's in my interest that I finish it as soon as I can and give it to my beta.

[littlebutfierce]

Woohoo!! Go you--that is INCREDIBLE.

[eggcrack]

I've managed to set up a daily writing schedule, but fitting fiction into that schedule still seems to be a problem. Right now I seem to be in one of my moods where I see nothing worthwhile in my work and therefore have trouble getting back to the writing swing, which is not so nice. Hopefully that mood will pass soon!

[littlebutfierce]

Setting up a schedule is awesome--writing is writing, y'know? I think it's good for the writing brain either way, & will probably end up positively affecting your fic regardless.

(Also, if I'm feeling really angsty, sometimes I end up writing RIDICULOUS fic where everyone has the same problems as me & the same "poor me" attitude--usually I don't post this fic. ;) But I could probably avoid writing it if I spent more time processing my issues by writing journal-y type stuff instead!)