WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 22 -- Wednesday

[linaewen]

Greetings!  It's Wednesday, and that means we're half way through the week!  How's it going so far for you?

Have you written today?

• Yes!
• No!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in?  If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits?


For Discussion:  What writerly skills do you come by naturally, and which have you had to work to acquire or improve?

Also, if you have suggestions for how to come up with titles, don't forget to share them here:  http://writethisfanfic.dreamwidth.org/193993.html

Comments

[lullabymoon]

I added 100 words to the big bang and send it off to beta. Otherwise I've had a break, which I needed.

[lielac]

I've gone and started writing the actual Bionicle/HF crossover. Starting with the unresolved plot points. I've hit a block there 72 words in, because the first story serial I tackled involved Kopaka and Pohatu in the Red Star, and last thing in canon is that they've just met... Mavrah. Who only features in a book I've never bloody read because I don't bloody have it, so I have no idea how Greg Farshtey characterized him, and I don't want to trample all over canon. Ugh. Yay. I just need to get them off the Star and back on to Spherus Magna so I can proceed with tying in all the other plots and get on to Marendar, but no, it's get Mavrah accurate or bust. Ffff.

I seem to have an innate knack for word flow and picking up accents (whether in how something is said or what words are used to say it), which gets annoying when I run into prose where the author seems to have no dang clue how to make prose flow, or be accurate to a twelve-year-old protagonist (even the Brightest Witch of Her Generation -coughcoughHermionecough-) without losing their meaning -- which isn't actually hard, I swear, even if you are writing Hermione because honestly her voice come through clearly just in the dialogue she has in canon! Just don't use words more appropriate to an academic paper -- or is stilted because it insists on using big words where a miniscule one would suffice... Blar.

[lilly_c]

No writing for 2 days due to travelling all day Tuesday and yesterday I was visiting family friends as I don't get to see them very often with living so far away. I do have an idea for one of the prompts on my cottoncandy_bingo table hopefully I can find sometime today to write a bit of it.

I find dialogue fairly easy but description and pacing (sometimes I change things too quickly) are particularly difficult. With description I try and improve by not over-thinking, and I often set the stopwatch on my phone to time a scene to see if I've gone too quickly.