WIP check-in, August 14

[insignia]

I hope everything is progressing as planned! How did you do today? Was there writing, editing, research, or a much-needed break?

Discuss:



Have you ever written an AU just because you didn't know enough about the canon setting/period?

Comments

[the_rck]

I didn't manage any new words today, but I did write to one of my beta readers. Some time back, she offered to help me with the sex scene if I got stuck, and I'm taking her up on that (and hoping that she still has the time and the inclination).

With luck, words tomorrow.

I've never written that sort of AU for any reason. I don't tend to enjoy reading such things, so it's pretty unlikely that I'll ever write one. I'll just have to avoid getting hooked on fandoms requiring a vast amount of research.

[linaewen]

I'm just back from a long trip, during which I did no writing. However, I spent some wonderful time with a writing friend and she helped me hash out some plot points I was struggling with. Now if I can just get back into a routine....

I write a lot of AU, but it's usually closely based on canon, with only a few things changed, and even if I didn't know that much about the setting to start with, I'd have to research it so I could write it authentically. I just can't not research something like that, even if I want to not worry about the details! :-D

[lullabymoon]

I added 1400 words to my big bang which got me over the bit that was sticking and finished that section. Pleased with it, despite the fact the deadline is 12 days away and I still need to write about another 15000 words and edit the whole thing. Not panicking at all, me.

Can't say I've ever written an AU, even for that reason. But then I don't tend to write fic for a specific fandom until I feel like I know enough so.

[lilly_c]

I ended up taking a break yesterday because my arm is in a cast for another 6 weeks (broken wrist, writing hand). I may try and push myself to get a bit of editing done later on today but we shall see. I do want to get some thing(s) posted before I go down to my mum's at the start of next week.

I don't write AUs and I've never really felt the need to either even with gaping holes in canon.

[lielac]

I've been writing pretty well today! Managed to get one thing unstuck after reading a bit of canon involving one of the characters that features in the 'fic. That was when I figured out that I really, really should have the one character who can understand all the others be the viewpoint character, partially so she can be the translator for the reader and partially because I had an epiphany wherein Miss Translator (Dalu) and the one person who can't speak Dalu or her friends' native language (Kiina) are rather a lot alike. And then Dalu promptly put her metallic foot in her mouth, but you can't have everything...

I've never written that kind of AU. I've written AUs because I don't care enough about the most recent canon setting/period and there's only so much I can do that's canon-compliant and fits into my favorite era, but these AUs are still set in the same setting as that period of time, just with different things going on. Also I tend to write in fantasy/sci-fi where all the setting is spelled out in the actual canon, instead of historical fandoms.

[krait]

Does "all my Homestuck fic ideas are futurefic/AU because I can't write rap lyrics for Dave" count? :D