Check in: March 24, 2013 - Sunday

[barbayat]

Hello everyone, I will be doing the check-ins this week.

How has your sunday been?

Did you ...

... write?
... sent something to your beta?
... edited something?

or
... did you have a nice sunday?
... wanted to write but couldn't?

Todays Discussion Topic:

Regularity - Does it help you to write regularly? Like setting up times - or comit to a daily/weekly word count? Or are you bound by your muse (or what ever you call it)?

Comments

[linaewen]

I haven't written yet today, but I still could, if I could get motivated. It's been a nice Sunday, even so.

I feel like I do better when I write regularly, though I haven't been able to set up specific times or have a schedule. But the more often I spend time writing, the less I get thrown off track when a time comes when I can't write. One reason I participate in a lot of short challenges is to keep myself writing, even if it's not writing my WIPs. I'm switching gears now and I'm going to concentrate on the WIPs for a change -- which will likely mean that I'd better have a reasonable facsimile to a schuedule! I am not bound by the muse, though getting flashes of insight from the muse is often motivational for getting into writing when I was doing something else!

[lea_hazel]

I wrote today, but a quick one-shot, not the WIP I was planning on finishing up. Depressing as shit, just the way I like it.

For some reason, I never managed to wrap my head around set writing times. Maybe I'll just keep trying until finally I have the discipline to make it stick.

[lilly_c]

I've done some editing on two chapters, roughly written a small scene that I've been struggling with to bring closure to a heavy chapter. I also wrote a small SG-1 ficlet.

I write when I can find a little free time between uni and two jobs even though it isn't always easy to do. I try. I did use a weekly word count target for a while but I found it to be restrictive. As for the muse, I tend to ignore it.

[krait]

Argh, I have done nothing! I have good reason, though; I went to a con, instead. :D

Well.... <sigh>

[theresa_ramseyer]

Hello all :).

Long story short, I lost most of my writing related emails and notifications between yesterday and this morning. Always a chance they might show up again, but I'm not holding my breath. And because my backups didn't get everything, I've lost from there as well. So I have very few if any of the responses I was saving from here.

I did get a smidgen of writing done this weekend. Seems like I am struggling to get anything written lately, whether on screen or off.

That said, I have a girlfriend, Sherry, who has a birthday on the 9th, and I have a gift fic rolling around in my head for her. Another friend, Kate, is having surgery this week, and I'd like to write/finish up a couple of gift fics for her.

When I get one or any of them done, would someone like to beta? They will be in The Equalizer fandom http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088513/?ref_=tt_ov_inf with my original character additions. Possibly a bit PG-13 through R rated, depending on how I start the beginning.

I need to be pushing myself and expanding, and I'm not doing either.

I did write word count goals and all-year-sprints (on LJ) times on my calendar in red sharpie, easier to see as I'm sitting here. I would love to have a set schedule for writing, but every day is different, and usually something urgent will throw me off track.

Take care,
Theresa