WIP Challenge: Day 8 Check-in Post!

[gramarye1971]

Poll #12040 Day 8 Check-in

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Today, I was able to --

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Write
3 (75.0%)

Edit
0 (0.0%)

Research
0 (0.0%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Daydream
1 (25.0%)

Take a break
0 (0.0%)

Do something else that I will describe in the comments
0 (0.0%)

My progress on my goals so far has been...

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Excellent
1 (25.0%)

Very good
1 (25.0%)

Reasonable
2 (50.0%)

Middling
0 (0.0%)

Not worth talking about
0 (0.0%)

Today's discussion question is a bit of a confessional: what's a writer-y thing that you've done that you're not especially proud of? Written a grudge-fic just to get back at someone, or at some aspect of canon or fanon? Slapped together a half-assed story in three hours to meet a deadline? Spelled the main character's name wrong for most of the story? Committed unintentional plagiarism? Committed intentional plagiarism? Doesn't have to be the worst thing you've done -- just something you're willing to own up to.

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[erika]

I plagarize myself ALL THE TIME. Does that count? Seriously, I think all of my college essays were reworked journal entries.

[lilly_c]

I've used various events from RL, mine and my friends a few times, and sometimes things that have been in the local news but nothing more than that. I don't think I've ever plagarised any work (uni kinda drilled in the not to do it ever).

I finished 2 fics yesterday and got 2 more almost finished, I should be getting them posted tomorrow. Will be working those when I get home. Started some research on Strathclyde police procedure for road closures when a body is found but it didn't give me any more than I already know from what Grampian police do in that situation. Might just wing it, details wise and hope for the best that it looks accurate.

[erika]

Using stuff from RL is not wrong! Every writer I've ever asked about it (or read about them saying things about that sort of thing) will tell you that's verisimilitude!

Anne Lamott, in Bird by Bird, recommends giving any ex-boyfriends horrible political opinions and a tiny penis, so that even if they do notice similarities, they'll never admit it. ;)

[the_rck]

I posted the chapter I've been working on for over a year yesterday. It was a great relief. I'm still pondering how to start my Yuletide fic. My goal today is a first sentence.

I'm not proud of one of my Yuletide fics-- I was quite sick that year (strep followed by an intestinal bug) and couldn't focus very well. I didn't polish the story as much as it deserved. It had some structural problems that I should have fixed. I originally intended to do a rewrite after the holidays, when I was feeling better, but I never got around to it.

[crowdog66]

Yesterday I started a new set of four NC-17 short stories, so I'm pretty happy about that.

I'm not especially proud of the time I realized, 140,000 words into a fic, that I'd misspelled an OC's name in spots AND that I'd been misspelling another word pretty consistently. I feel even worse about the fact that I balked at making the corrections because it would take a lot of time to sift through the fic even with Scrivener's "find" function, and almost said: "Aw, t'hell with it, the readers will never notice..." XD

In the end I made the damned corrections, of course. But... yeah. Not my most shining literary hour.