WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 13 - Thursday

[the_rck]

Another day, another check in post. I just had to cut about five hundred words from my Yuletide story because the direction it took wasn't working. I hate when that happens. Hopefully writing is continuing for all of you, too.

What did you do today?
Write?
Edit?
Send to beta?
Research?
Post?
Take a break?
Something else?

How do you feel about your writing today? Is it going great? Would you rather not talk about it?

For discussion-- Do you write linearly, scene by scene from beginning to end, or do you skip around, writing things as they come to you and stitching them together later? I tend to write linearly. I often don't know exactly what's going to happen next and don't have enough planned out to be able to skip any steps. There's one WIP that's an exception to that, but it may never see the light of day. I haven't done anything with it in about a decade.

Comments

[linaewen]

Real Life has me totally overworked and brain dead, so I am in non-writing mode at the moment. I have several WIPs, an overdue challenge story, and a Yule Fic to work on, but I just don't have the time or the brain. One or two more days, however, and I'll be free of work, so the Yule Fic, at least, will get some attention at that point.

I am very linear in my writing, though I do sometimes skip events and then refer to them after the fact in a flashbacks or conversation. My outlines are very chronological, and I usually write in order as well, even within. I do know vaguely what will happen next, and sometimes I write snatches of future events, but I save them in the outline and try not to get too far ahead of myself.

[lullabymoon]

I didn't get anything written. It was an odd sort of day where I don't get much done, so the writing aspect doesn't feel quite so bad.

I mostly write linearly, but I do sometimes skip ahead if I'm stuck on a scene. I only do it on fics where I have an outline though, and it's rare for it to be too much ahead of where I'm up to linearly. I do find it helps with scenes I'm stuck on, like I can see my way more clearly through the scene.