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

[linaewen]

I was sick yesterday, alas! The day was only good for moping and sleeping. Better today, but now I have to catch up on Real Life before I can think about writing. I really need to make some time for it, though; it would be so encouraging to get some actual words written!!

When I get an idea, I write it down in its raw form and then start researching it. I'll make copious notes about different possibilities, and basically work up an outline. If it proves to be an idea I can go with right away, or if it's for a prompt that I am currently working on, I'll go ahead and plan by coming up with an outline -- which usually gives me what I need for a theme and the number of events. If its an idea that's too good to discard but I don't really need it now, I save it in a folder on my computer and add to it as ideas related to that idea occur to me. I have a number of such folders full of ideas for fics in fandoms that I'm not currently writing in, but I expect I will someday, because the ideas are so well developed at this point, it would be foolish not to write them! But I really don't need any more WIPs at the moment, so I'm trying to hold back. ;-)