WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 23 -- Thursday

[linaewen]

Greetings on Thursday!  It's a bit later in the day than I had hoped to be posting, but I'm finally here.  How did things go for you today?

Did you write?

• 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:  Do you find that ideas for stories or writing projects come to you out of the blue, or do you have to search for them? What serves as the basis for most of your stories? A situation? A character? A moral dilemma?

Comments

[glitteryv]

Been editing for the past day or so. My BBB is done and I've got all of 10 days before my posting date. I'm not keeping an exact word count since I keep adding and deleting words.

Most of my ideas pop in from nowhere. I might be daydreaming or talking to my BFF and then I start wondering "what if XYZ thing happens to ABC character?" In truth, I dislike specific prompts because I can't shake off the feeling that I'm not writing the story that the prompter wanted. The one exception is reverse big bangs because I find both art and music inspiring. :)

[rhi]

Um, I wrote a few hundred words after midnight that finished a fic and now I'm editing madly? A few days before it's due even -- yay!!

[lielac]

So I managed a few hundred words of fanfic, on "The Chronicler's Toa" and that unnamed one where Macku goes running off to rescue Hewkii from where he's vanished to and Kotu goes after. The original fiction bug has bitten me now and I will say no more on the matter.

Out of the blue, and usually a what-if. Prompts bite my ankles, things that came in from left field bite my ankles... a lot of unsolicited biting of ankles, all or most phrased in a "What if X did Y instead of Z/What if X happened instead of Y" or suchlike. I love my what-ifs, and have trouble prodding characters into doing things without a situation to hang characters on.

[lilly_c]

I finished editing a fic, I wanted to post but ao3 was acting up a wee bit for me yesterday, hopefully I can post it when I get back from London on Sunday.

Most of my ideas just come to me when I least expect them to, sometimes when I have prompts I tend to just go with the fandom/ship that fits it best.

[lullabymoon]

I've started editing my big bang! Added about 280 words to it yesterday.

Sometimes I have to search for ideas, but a lot of the time they just come out of the blue. I must admit specific characters are usually the basis for most of my stories.