september 24th-- check in!

[erika]

Still travelling. Don't you just hate using someone else's computer? Their mouse, which in this case is a trackball (ugh!), their keyboard, which in this case is way too springy? I miss MY computer.

Did you:

Write?
Edit?
Research?
Post?
Have a rest?
Do something else?


How did today go for you?
Was it:
Awesome
Great-ish
Mediocre
eh, whatever, or
OH GOD I DON'T EVEN WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT?

Today's discussion topic:

Do you suffer a productivity slump in the beginning (when you don't necessarily know exactly what you're writing), in the middle (when the first flush of grandeur driven by a new idea wears off), or at the end (when you can't imagine how you're going to tie everything up)?

Comments

[laceblade]

I wrote today! 940 words! This is the fourth day in a row I've met my word-count goal, yay.

UMM, I find the middle to be the biggest productivity slump, that's when I've been experiencing for the last month or so. The beginning = enough ideas to sustain my writing for a little while.
I haven't gotten to the end of anything "long" yet, but I suspect that by that point I'll know where I'm going with most characters/arcs/etc.

The middle is the worst for me. I've used up my initial ideas, but I'm not sure how to get everything from point A to point B in a way that's interesting, feels earned, etc. Mostly, I suck at plots, so this part is really hard for me, ^^;;

[erika]

I totally get where you're coming from. I'm in the middle right now and I feel like I'm adrift in a sea of "is this even worth finishing?"

[gramarye1971]

Finished a fic! I just need to do some last-minute HTML checking, and then I can cross-post it hither and yon (and to the writethisfanfic AO3 group, too!).

I do tend to get productivity slumps at different points in the writing process: the half-done and nine-tenths done parts. That last-ditch burst of writing seems to be the hardest to overcome, when you have to convince yourself that the best fanfic is a done fanfic.

[erika]

Congratulations on your finished fic! That's totally awesome!

Yes, I'm in the middle of the half-done productivity slump right now. :(