Check in: Day 13

[the_rck]

I'm the_rck, and I'll be doing the check-in posts this week. I'll try to get them up during my mornings, but I can't promise I'll always be that prompt.

So how's the writing going today?

Did you write?
Edit?
Research?
Plan?
Send to beta?
Take a break?
Deal with other life things?

Weekends tend not to be good writing time for me. My family's home then, and I get distracted. I need to learn to write through distraction. So far this month, I've done very, very little. I've got fragments of the story planned. I simply need to write them.

Today's discussion question-- Do you ever write from prompts? If you do, how do you go from the prompt to the story? If you don't, what doesn't work about prompts for you?

I like writing from prompts. They help me narrow my focus enough to create a story. A lot of times, without a prompt, I end up just staring at the screen and feeling like what I'm facing is too big to tackle. I have written without prompts, more than once, but I like starting from a prompt.

Comments

[linaewen]

I'm in the planning stage as well, and can't seem to get out of it. I'm under the weather today so I may or may not be successful at anything. Eventually, I'll get my act together and get some things written up!

I like prompts because they give me something to work on when my epic WIPs are bit too much. It's nice to have something new to work on (via the prompts) that can still use similar settings and characters, but which also allow me to write outside my usual box.

Usually, when I see a prompt, I get an idea right away, or at least the germ of one. As I research the idea, the story forms around the research, so to speak.

[lilly_c]

I wrote in between fixing my laptop. I worked on chapters 2 and 11 of Twice Unjust, and I started handwriting chapter 8 which I'm still unsure about because there's tension between Robbie & Jackie before and after the only sex scene in the whole fic, the rest of that particular chapter is fairly straightforward except for that and I'm more of a fade to black writer. I also had to add two more episodes to the references section of my notes. I think my new word count is around 6000 but I won't know for certain until I copy the new stuff to the 'full version' later.

I do like prompts, unless they're quotes then I struggle. Although I rarely go on LJ these days I try and sign up for prompt_in_a_box most months, I only have 1 prompt fic for that challenge to finish for this months round but that'll keep for another day.

[lacygrey]

I edited (not enough) and wrote (when I was fed up with editing).

I love prompts but I usually only use them for warm up and keep the results to myself.

[barbayat]

Sunday was great, the writing session really got me writing and I ended up with over 2800 words for my Hard Target Rewrite and then added about 700 words to my Matrix fanfic.

I stay away from prompts, I got enough on my plate :D