WIP challenge: day 18 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Good evening, everyone! We're halfway through the week, hooray! (or at least in my time zone...) How's your writing been going today?

Poll #11180

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What kind of day was it for your fic?

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Awesome!
1 (16.7%)

All right
2 (33.3%)

Not much going on
2 (33.3%)

Pit of dooooooom
1 (16.7%)

& how likely do you feel meeting your goals for the month is?

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Mean: 6.00 Median: 5.5 Std. Dev 1.15

Not a chance of meeting them 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		3 (50.0%)
6		1 (16.7%)
7		1 (16.7%)
8		1 (16.7%)
9		0 (0.0%)
I've already met or exceeded my goals 10		0 (0.0%)

What's the best piece of writing advice you've ever received? Do you follow it? Why or why not?

Comments

[gramarye1971]

Most recent WIP is done and crossposted to all the applicable places (including the writethisfanfic AO3 account!) at last. Now to get cracking on the parallelsfic draft, and maybe poke a bit more at the unfinished crossover-fic on my plate.

I think don't be afraid of the crap first draft is probably the best single piece of writing advice I've had, applicable to fic as well as the academic stuff I do. It's taken a lot to break myself of the belief that a story (or journal article, or conference paper) ought to flow from my brain in a letter-perfect and complete form on the very first try -- sometimes, you just have to bash out sentence fragments and incomplete ideas and bracketed placeholders that say [INSERT CLEVER DIALOGUE HERE] before you get to something approaching a working draft. Word-vomit, as one of my friends calls it. No matter how bad that first draft is, it's still a draft, and getting it out of your head and onto a screen or paper is the important part.

[insignia]

I wrote today! IN YOUR FACE, procrastination! X-D

[roane]

AHAHAHAHA. HI. I didn't fall off the face of the earth, really. And I posted today! Chapter 9 (of 10) of Pull the Stars from the Sky is up. Oh god, I am so close to finishing. ONE MORE CHAPTER. *flops*

So, the best bit of writing advice I ever got was to write. That's all. Just to get the words out, even if they're hard, even if they suck, just WRITE. Because without that, nothing else can happen.

[littlebutfierce]

Woooooo yay for finishing that WIP! Good luck w/the next projects.

Oh, I totally hear you on the bad first draft. So useful!

[littlebutfierce]

WOOHOO!!! :D Yay for those words!

[littlebutfierce]

Yay!! Yay for that chapter being posted & being so close to finishing!!

& yeah... I hear you on the "just write" thing: you can't edit what isn't there, etc. etc.