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linaewenIt's Saturday and time for the last of this week's check ins! It's also our day for sharing things like snippets, requests for betas, and chatting about our fics in general. To get the ball rolling, here's a longish but appropriate quote for the day:
Daily Check In
1. What was today like for you?
Weekly Snippet/Beta/Chat:
1. Are you blocked? Are your characters refusing to talk to you? Has your muse unexpectedly switched gears on you? Is offline life giving you a pain? Share with us about it and get some sympathy and encouragement!
2. Are you excited about your story? Are the words flowing and the plot racing along? Share with us what is going right for you!
3. If you like, why not share a snippet, a paragraph or a link to something you're working on this week?
4. Are you in need of someone with perspective who can see the whole ship instead of just the boiler room? Need help with editing or beta work on your writing? Let us know and we'll see what we can do to help you out!
5. Is there anything you think you'll do differently next week in your writing to have a greater impact on what you accomplish? Or anything you'll keep on doing because you had a wonderfully successful week?
"... You generally start out with some overall idea that you can see fairly clearly,
as if you were standing on a dock and looking at a ship on the ocean.
At first you can see the entire ship, but then as you begin work
you're in the boiler room and you can't see the ship anymore...
What you really want in an editor is someone who's still on the dock, who can say,
Hi, I'm looking at your ship, and it's missing a bow, the front mast is crooked,
and it looks to me as if your propellers are going to have to be fixed."
-- Michael Crichton
as if you were standing on a dock and looking at a ship on the ocean.
At first you can see the entire ship, but then as you begin work
you're in the boiler room and you can't see the ship anymore...
What you really want in an editor is someone who's still on the dock, who can say,
Hi, I'm looking at your ship, and it's missing a bow, the front mast is crooked,
and it looks to me as if your propellers are going to have to be fixed."
-- Michael Crichton
Daily Check In
1. What was today like for you?
- Writing happened!
- Research happened!
- Editing happened!
- Taking a break happened!
- Life happened -- but there's always tomorrow and a new writing week!
Weekly Snippet/Beta/Chat:
1. Are you blocked? Are your characters refusing to talk to you? Has your muse unexpectedly switched gears on you? Is offline life giving you a pain? Share with us about it and get some sympathy and encouragement!
2. Are you excited about your story? Are the words flowing and the plot racing along? Share with us what is going right for you!
3. If you like, why not share a snippet, a paragraph or a link to something you're working on this week?
4. Are you in need of someone with perspective who can see the whole ship instead of just the boiler room? Need help with editing or beta work on your writing? Let us know and we'll see what we can do to help you out!
5. Is there anything you think you'll do differently next week in your writing to have a greater impact on what you accomplish? Or anything you'll keep on doing because you had a wonderfully successful week?
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