WIP check-in: Day 18

[barbayat]

I am going to do the check-ins this week. I think it can't hurt to have the check-in posts out earlier in the day, so I might post them even sooner during the next days.

So did you ...

... write?
... edit?
... researched?
... procrastinated?
... did something else?


Discussion Topic:

I curious about how you go about editing your stories? What works best for you? Look over it yourself? Sent an early draft to a beta? Do you need to achieve some level of comfort with a story before you can bear letting someone look at it?

Comments

[linaewen]

No new writing today, though I'm hoping there will be some time later in the day to concentrate on getting some words down on paper. In the meantime, I re-edited some older chapters of one of my WIPs that I'm posting at Ao3.

I used to run things by a beta, but now I do it all myself. I only run it by someone else when I'm not sure it hangs together as well as I would like. I'm a good editor, so I feel confident in my own work. I don't mind letting someone else look at it in the early stages, but since I edit as I go, it's usually pretty tight even when I ask for help with it.

[the_rck]

I wrote today. It just wasn't on the project I need to finish. I couldn't get moving on my Yuletide fic, so I started chapter 21 of my epic WIP.

I desperately need beta readers when I edit. Without comments from someone else, I usually can't see what needs to be changed and am apt to put the story up with minimal editing, usually just a quick pass through looking for SPAG errors (I have trouble seeing those on my own, too, so it's lucky that I don't generally have too many and that it's easier to find beta readers who look for that sort of thing).

I would like to find some betas and writing partners

[theresa_ramseyer]

My girlfriends used to beta for me, but two have basically stopped writing, and the other has become immersed in the Doctor Who fandom.

We don't have cable or Netflix etc., so unfortunately I don't see many of the popular series, including Supernatural, Torchwood, Dr. Who, and so forth. PBS did pick up DW Nine a few years back, and I enjoyed it, especially since I like Christopher Eccleston.

I have thought about writing for Person of Interest, but haven't tried it. I need to step out of my comfort zone :).