Check-in - October 6

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Welcome to the Saturday check-in!

Poll #11833

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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How did your writing go today?

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Great
1 (8.3%)

Good
1 (8.3%)

..ehn.
8 (66.7%)

Not so well
1 (8.3%)

Badly
1 (8.3%)

What did you work on today?

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Planning
3 (25.0%)

Writing
5 (41.7%)

Revising
2 (16.7%)

Researching
2 (16.7%)

Posting
1 (8.3%)

Resting
2 (16.7%)

Something else
4 (33.3%)

Aren't Saturdays for doing other things?
3 (25.0%)

Let's talk about collaboration! Do you ever work with a partner or partners, either in the planning stage of a story, or the writing stage, or the revision stage? I know I like to bounce ideas off of friends, and shove pieces of writing at them to make them tell me whether they work (or not). How about you?

Don't forget! Today is our day for the weekly chatting/snippet-posting/beta-seeking post! Post a bit of what you are working on if you are in a sharing mood! Do you have a question that needs answering? Do you need help with something that's giving you trouble? Do you need a place to vent and complain? Leave a comment & we'll see what we can do to help you!

Comments

[laceblade]

NEVER POSTED AN EXCERPT BEFORE, BE EXCITED!


Out through the brush, she stops short, realizing that after the sharp gravel decline, there’s the harbor. There’s traffic to her left, headlights following the curved road to a bridge that goes over the water.
Not sure how else to lose her follower, she slides down the gravel toward the dark water, doing her best to control her fall. She’s still breathing hard, and she can feel scratches on her arms and her face protesting against the open air.
At the water’s edge, she allows herself three panting breaths, trying to make each one as long as she can, even though she is terrified that her tail is going to appear any minute.
Solo. Let’s do this.
She sucks in a final deep breath and slips under the water (the water is freezing!), taking care not to splash, and then kicks as hard as she can, propelling herself downward into a dive, taking care not to break the surface.
She has no idea if he’s even going to think about the water as a possibility or not. If he does, no matter how long she can hold her breath, he’s going to find her easily.
She wants to surface, but she doesn’t, pushing herself further.
She can feel a burning in her chest, and panic rising.
You’re going to get air, just wait, please wait.
She kicks again, pushing her body forward as many precious inches as she can.
She finally surfaces, lifting as little of her head out of the water as possible and tries to breathe in deeply without gasping.
Her body wants the air desperately, immediately, and she forces herself to take slow, easy breaths, making as little noise possible.
This is an excellent breath control exercise, actually.
She can hear heavy footsteps jogging back and forth on the gravel. Looking up, she realizes that she has made it to the underside of the bridge.
“I don’t know where you are, little girl, but if you can hear me, just stay the fuck away from Quinn if you don’t want to die.”
Rachel focuses on her breath, every exhalation sending tiny lines of ripples away from her lips.

[lielac]

I watched Fate/stay night and got story ideas, priddy much. This counts as planning, researching, resting, and something else because I'm insane. XD I like Saber. I've got a sub of the UBW movie buffering in another tab. Fate is ripping out my heart and stomping it and I love it to pieces.

ALL the collaboration recently. It's fun as hell to bounce ideas off of people and write different characters interacting and letting things unfold organically on the Google Docs file until OOPS FLIRTING (no this isn't a specific instance not at all). Planning and writing I guess, and revising if by that you mean betas.

[linaewen]

I actually had some time today to write, but I was so busy goofing off and procrastinating after a crazy day at work that I wasted my opportunity. I'm actually not feeling too bad about that, though. Goofing off was needed. ;-)

I don't have a partner I work with per se but I do have a couple of friends who look at my writing at various stages in the process and give me their useful input. They also are good sound boards for ideas and serve as betas when I need them.

[barbayat]

Still haven't written anything in two weeks, but did other stuff for the story ....

I have my wonderful beta to bounce of ideas - which I love to do. Always wanted to find a co-writer for one of my story ideas but so far no luck. I guess I am not active enough in my fandoms and my ideas are not mainstream either ...

Lately, I feel like I could use some to kick me a bit more in the butt about not writing and maybe discuss general writing problems. I also love to chat about stories in general, even if the fandom is different, just helping brainstorm others seems to help with my own writer's block.

[lilly_c]

No writing yesterday as I was in Manchester most of the day. Not sure there'll any writing done today either.

I've done a collabartion once and I liked it but I do prefer to fly solo.