Check In: Day 15, Friday

[the_rck]

How's the writing going? I've been working on helping my daughter with some homework. I'm about to buckle down and write. It remains to be seen how much I'll get done today. It's still early.

Did you:

Write?
Edit?
Send to beta?
Post?
Think about your story?
Do something else?
Take a rest?

Today's discussion question: They say, "Write what you know." Do you tend to draw on your own experiences or areas of expertise when writing? Do you do a lot of research so that you can write about things with which you have no personal experience?

I try to write things that only require reviewing canon. I'm not very good at research. I seldom know where to start. I mean, Google is my friend, and I try not to simply make things up. I don't think I've written anything that draws on my particular areas of expertise. I'm not even sure what my areas of expertise are, now that I think about it.

Comments

[randomling]

My computer is dead, so no writing for me, but some thinking?

[linaewen]

I've had a couple of crazy busy days, so I haven't been able to concentrate on anything else. I am hoping to get some time to myself this weekend, so we'll see if that helps with thinking and writing!

I like to include my own experiences and areas of expertise when I write as much as possible, because I think it adds a foundation of reality to everything. But if I don't know something, I research it quite thoroughly, and then I can write knowledgeably. I love, love, love doing research and I know how to do it, and can usually find everything I need (and then some). My problem is actually that it's so fun researching that I tend to do that instead of buckling down to the writing part. ;-)

[lilly_c]

Work got in my way last night and now I'm trying to get motivated to do some more editing today even though it's taking me forever to get it all done but it'll be worth it in the end.

It depends on what I need, sometimes I can use things from my own life and other times I have to do research before I can carry on with what I'm working on. I do sometimes research for the sake of it especially when I know an idea will never work out at all.