WIP Check-in: 5th September

[barbayat]

Middle of the week - another day passed ...

Made any progress with any of your stories?

Remember: Editing, Discussing, outlining and all that other stuff is important, too :D

Discussion Topic: Outlines*

What approach do you take for your fanfics? Do you just run with an idea and see what develops, do you have theme or a number of events that will take place or do you tend to plan everything ahead?

*I remember we had something similar about do you stick to your outlines - but I guess this is different and besides I am lacking a better idea today :(

Comments

[gramarye1971]

A little bit of progress! If I can get this one section finished, I'll be able to start posting one of my WIPs to the fandom's kink meme -- it'll give me a bit of impetus to finish up the rest of it, knowing that I've started the posting clock ticking, as it were. Since it's technically a collaborative fic, I'll have to run it by my co-writer, but I'm fairly sure that she'll okay it.


As for approaching a fic, most of my stories start out with me banging out a few lines of dialogue or a scene in my head that won't leave me alone. If I can get that much down, I then start filling in around it with the scenes that I want to have happen or the important plot points that need to be made. Most of these are in very rough format, usually in brackets with placement/transition notes like [knocking on door] or [standing around chatting, mention the battle]. I can't simply sit down and write a fic from start to finish -- most of the time, some bit in the middle comes first, then the last few paragraphs and maybe some section near the opening, and then the filling-in happens. What's most important to me is whatever encourages the momentum to keep writing!