WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 13 -- Thursday

[linaewen]

It's Thursday and time for another check-in!  How has your day been going today thus far?

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:  Tolkien liked to keep his readers in the dark.  While being very detailed in many of his descriptions, he was also very careful not to tell the reader everything that was happening to his heroes, particularly if it might hold up the movement of the plot or spoil the surprise of something that was coming later and was key to the action.  As a reader who loves detail, I want to know everything about the heroes, but I also see the value in not including that if it damages the story.  As a writer who loves detail, I have a problem with this, because I feel I may include too much detail of what is happening, and thus contribute to a dragging story.

Where do you stand on this matter?  Are you detailed oriented?  How do you decide how much information to include when you are writing about your heroes and what they are doing?  Is this even a problem for you?

Comments

[linaewen]

Did I write? Nope! It's just not a week that is conducive to anything except trying to keep up. ;-)

I am pretty detail oriented, and since I tend to write chronologically, I am tempted to include too much detail at the expense of moving the plot. Dealing with some events in retrospect often helps me get away from this problem but it takes constant attention when I am plotting my course to make sure I am not going overboard on telling too much of what is happening every step of the way.

[insignia]

I wrote nothing today! As for details... I'm much too vague. I forget that people can't read my mind, and leave out all the details X-D That's one of the things I really need to work on to improve my writing. (And my communication skills in general.)

[snowynight]

Still a research day. I have the opposite problem: leaving out all the details and just assume people can read my mind. Sigh.

[the_rck]

I did no writing on Thursday. I did get my rough draft back from one of my beta readers and look over the comments. Friday's goal is to use those comments to revise.

[barbayat]

So did not write much on Thursday, but from late Friday to early saturday morning (it is 7 am here) I managed to write 2123 words on a smut scene that will occur at a later point in my Van Helsing fanfic. Doing writing sprints seems to really help me ... nany thanks to riceishere for doing a writing session with me.

Too tired to answer the discussion question.