WIP Challenge Check-in: Day 19 - Middle of the Week

[barbayat]

Heh fellow fanfic writers - half-time! Just two days away from a scary long weekend ...

But first the obligatory questions:

Did you ...

... wrote anything?
... edited something?
... had contact with your beta?
... worked hard all day, were pestered on your off time and then fell into a deep sleep?

Discussion Topic:

I guess we all write fanfic for fun, some of us have the ambition to become the best writers we can while others just pour all their dreams and wishes into a story and mostof us are probably in between. Some of us have have rigid ideas about what constitutes in character behaviour and others feel more inclined to experiment.

In short I would be curious how you would describe yourself? Have you noticed any changes in all the time you have been writing?

Comments

[barbayat]

I wrote very little this week, but I did work a bit on my outline for my Matrix/Zombie fanfic and had an idea that solved one of the problems I had with the plot in the second half which is still a bit undefined and fuzzy.

When I started out writing, I wanted to learn but most of all I wanted to play and have fun. Then I became ambitious about getting the characters right, eventually I loosened up. I still want to stay close to the original, however having a very narrow view is very restricting. Because as soon as the canons end up in unfamiliar and different situation - it becomes really hard to confidently determine how they might re-act.

[linaewen]

I got organized to travel, then traveled, then recovered from traveling, so all I managed to do was open my writing folder and look at my outline for a few minutes. Hopefully I'll have something better to report tomorrow. ;-)

I would describe myself as someone who gets ideas for stories and has realized the ability to tell them in a way that others enjoy. I am someone who likes to fill in the gaps of canon or look at a familiar event from a different point of view in an attempt to see something new. One change I have noticed about myself is that I really don't seem to mind anymore if I don't get many reviews or obvious reads when I post chapters or stories -- I get a lot of pleasure in just writing the story for myself!