Check in: day 10

[lilly_c]

Hi everyone, hope today is good for you :)

Really early today, I have got a ton of stuff to do in RL and I'll likely forget to do this if I wait until later on.

Poll #12548

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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Today I have

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written
5 (50.0%)

edited
2 (20.0%)

researched
2 (20.0%)

posted
3 (30.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

had a break
1 (10.0%)

dealt with life
3 (30.0%)

My progress is

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great
1 (10.0%)

good
3 (30.0%)

okay
2 (20.0%)

average
1 (10.0%)

awful
3 (30.0%)

Discussion topic: advice. What has been the best piece(s) of advice you've been given? Any bad/unhelpful piece(s) of advice?
It doesn't have to be writing or fandom related, it can be life advice, anything is fair game really.

Comments

[lea_hazel]

Sadly, the best advice is still, "Write."

I made mad progress today. Wrote two porn ficlets and posted them, I hardly ever (well, never) write porn not anonymously. Progress!

[lilly_c]

My best fandom/writing advice was "fuck canon" from a friend in my LJ days and for life "get out while you can" from my granddad :)

I finished my police application for Grampian today and am a little over 3/4 done with the final version of it. The hardest job application I have ever done, any future job applications will be a piece of cake.
The plan for the next couple of hours is to stay awake long enough to edit and add at least 1 chapter to the public post with the first draft of Twice Unjust (here), and maybe work on a one-shot for a prompt challenge.

[linaewen]

I'm still in research mode because I don't feel like my idea/outline has enough going for it yet to start writing. I'm also probably procrastinating. ;-)

My best writing advice was "Don't judge your ability to write by how many comments you get."

[elmyraemilie]

Worst advice: Each writer has one method for writing (place, music, lighting, etc.). The best way for me to break out of a slump is to change things up, but for a long time I was kind of frozen with one set-up because of this advice.

Best advice: If things are going along just swimmingly, but suddenly you can't write any further, it's because you told a lie somewhere along the line. I take the phrase "told a lie" to mean, wrote something that wasn't true to the story or the character(s). Going back and making corrections in the place where that happens really helps me move forward with a story.