WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 10 -- Monday

[linaewen]

Greetings on Monday!  What kind of day was it for you today, writing or otherwise?

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:  I'm going to reference Tolkien again for today's discussion question.  Tolkien’s interest was originally languages.  He loved to create his own languages based on more ancient ones of which he was intimately familiar.  He followed his interests enough to create entire cultures based on these languages and then wrote stories about them which then became legend.  He wrote about what interested him most.  Do you let your interests drive your writing?  Have you ever tried to write something that you weren't especially interested in?  How successful were you at that?

Comments

[the_rck]

I wrote. I feel like it's an undigestable lump of text, but that's what rough drafts are for, right? I'm so near to finishing this scene, so very, very near.

I generally have to find something to be interested in when I'm tackling a story. It's usually a character moment or character arc. I do write for exchanges, so I've tackled writing from prompts before, but even then I have to find my own particular hook for the story or it won't work. (This is a reason why, in some fandoms, I think I only have one or two stories before I'm done.) I don't know. My ability to find a way to be interested hasn't abandoned me yet.