July 22nd Check in

[lullabymoon]

Poll #11225

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

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How was your writing today?

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Good
2 (22.2%)

Bad
3 (33.3%)

Average
3 (33.3%)

Don't want to talk about it
1 (11.1%)

Today I...

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Wrote
5 (55.6%)

edited
1 (11.1%)

researched
2 (22.2%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

didn't do anything
3 (33.3%)

will say in comments
0 (0.0%)

Today's discussion topic: What is your favourite fact you discovered during fic research? 

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[linaewen]

I wrote! It's a one shot of 836 words, which took me most of the afternoon, but it's complete and accomplishes one of my goals for the month. I'm going to stop looking at it for an hour, then read it through again before posting it.

I have some thoughts on how to start another little thing I'm working on that needs finishing by the end of the month, so I'll probably strike while the iron is hot and keep working on it.

I've learned lots of things through research, most of which is fun and exciting and wonderfully useful (if not yet then someday). Sometimes I learn things I don't want to know, that prove that my cool idea won't actually work! :-/ But I think the most fun thing I did in the course of research involved a floating object and running water. I needed to know how long it would take a lightweight object to reach a certain point as it floated in a river current, so I timed a stick floating in a stream and made my calculations. Thankfully, the time fit what I needed and I didn't have to stretch the truth for the purpose of the story!