Check in: Day 4, Monday

[barbayat]

Monday, usually the day most hated in the week ...

So, did you ...

... write something?
... thought about anything related to your stories?
... planned?
... sent something off to the beta?
... posted a story?
... dealt with real life issues?

Question of the Day

How do you draw the line between inspiration and procrastination? Like you want to write and re-watch/read stuff for your fandoms and suddenly you are more watching for watching for watching, than watching for inspiration or maybe research?

Comments

[mab_browne]

Monday was a day where not much writing was done. Better luck for Tuesday.

[barbayat]

You mirror my sentiments ...

[elmyraemilie]

I did actually write a few words this morning. The current fic seems to be a leisurely type--wants to be written a couple sentences at a time.

[the_rck]

I worked on figuring out titles for the sections of my story while I wait for my beta reader to get back to me. I'm also trying to figure out the order that the sections go in. No actual words added to any documents.

I tend to keep canon review for when I need to refresh myself on details. I watch or read and take notes. It helps if I've got a focus of some sort, usually a character or prompt. Not reviewing canon has bitten me once or twice, so I try to be sure I do it for any fandom other than Weiss Kreuz (and I really ought to review Weiss. It's been a long time).

My procrastination downfall is new books and DVDs. There's always something new from the library or from Netflix (and I don't want to talk about the stuff I've bought and haven't yet read).

[snowynight]

I wrote and posted a fic Freedom Call

My procrastination downfall is brainstorming and plotting. Much time 's spent on them, with no progress in writing.

[barbayat]

Wow, after I did not wrote anything before going to bed, I woke from a nightmare and continued to write over 1200 words for my Hard Target Rewrite.

I tell myself that I just need to dive back into the original source or just watch something to relax and then I end up watching and watching or worse I re-read a book and hours go by till I am done with it.

[lilly_c]

Spent yesterday dealing with life and when I got home I was trying (failing miserably) to decide what I want to work on next. I'm certain that part of my current indecision is down to the fact that I finished the first draft of Twice Unjust a lot quicker than I was expecting (I'm notoriously slow) and I'm still really uninspired by my cottoncandy_bingo prompts.

When I was on my twitter earlier, LifeSigns asked me to share an article I wrote 2 years about self harm for awareness day next month, and to write and updated version of it too. The updated article is something to focus on for a few days, and maybe writing something that isn't a fic will help.

It always depends on the source I'm wanting to work with, sometimes I have to watch for the sake it if I've not played in the fandom for a while, and other times I just need the odd quote or moment between the characters for reference. As I don't own a TV I can't always be bothered to keep a DVD playing on my laptop, it's the same with the shows I download.

[linaewen]

I've been mostly dealing with life the last couple of days, and thinking about my fic from time to time.

My procrastination quirk is research. The research inspires me and is necessary for the details I like to include or at least have as a foundation for the story, but if I'm feeling the least bit unprepared to actually write, I'll go off and do more research. I do love research, so sometimes I think it becomes research for the sake of research -- though I always have something beneficial come out of it for writing when I finally tear myself away!

[zellieh]

I didn't write anything on Monday. I'm hoping to get more done today.

I think my research can be procrastination, but it can also be inspirational, so I'm not sure how to balance that.

Except to start the day with writing, and only do the research when I run out of writing energy and ideas. You know, leaving questions in the draft I'm writing -- [NOTE: Check canon for this detail!] -- and then continuing with the writing. Because if I stop to check a detail, I'll waste writing time and lose track of where I was in the story.