WIP Challenge Check-in: Day 17 - Monday Edition

[barbayat]

It is monday, for some people the least favourite day of the week....
How was this day for you I hope

- it was productive (either for writing or personal goals)
- happy and fullfilling
- full of compliments from readers and betas

I hope it was NOT

- unproductive and full of frustration
- real life standing in the way of things you really wanted to do
- you asking yourself: Is that fever or just high temperature?

Discussion Topic

On tv shows I noticed this trend that the problems the characters have to face arising out of their own stupidity. (People getting on your spaceship and immobilizing it because you never check your newly arrived cargo for the acutal content etc.) Meaning otherwise cabable and smart people doing really dumb things that they then often solved by suddenly being utterly brilliant.

What are you doing with this?

• Do you also have your smart characters do extremly dumb stuff and make obvious mistakes to get the ball rolling?
• If you have a fandom where that does not happen regularly do you use that plot device yourself?
• Or do you rather like to keep mistakes in line with the professionalism of the characters shown otherwise?

Comments

[linaewen]

I had a productive day, but it didn't end up involving writing. I have the week off in advance of the holidays, and I'm just enjoying actually being able to catch up on some things at home. I should have included writing in that, but I didn't! I may feel the pinch later as my writing deadline approaches, but right now, it feels good to not have too much pressure.

I don't normally use this kind of a plot device, though I guess you could say one of my stories is pretty much the tale of how a character messes up big time and then goes about trying to atone for/fix what comes as a result.

[lullabymoon]

I added 700 words to the yuletide fic. I didn't get it finished like I wanted to which is very annoying, but I did get the rest of the scene that was talking forever blocked out so it shouldn't take much longer today.