Check in: day 2

[lilly_c]

Hi everyone, how is today treating you? RL has been awful today, even with my friend's good news. I'm trying to make some time tonight to edit a rather stubborn and important scene in chapter ten that isn't co-operating.

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Today I have

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Written
2 (25.0%)

Edited
0 (0.0%)

Posted
1 (12.5%)

Researched
0 (0.0%)

Sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

Dealt with life
3 (37.5%)

Had a lazy day
4 (50.0%)

My progress is

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Mean: 3.43 Median: 3 Std. Dev 2.19

Terrible 1		2 (28.6%)
2		1 (14.3%)
3		1 (14.3%)
4		1 (14.3%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (14.3%)
7		1 (14.3%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Brilliant 10		0 (0.0%)

Discussion topic: prequels and sequels. Have you ever written a prequel or sequel to a fic? What worked? What didn't work?

I've written sequels to some of my fics but I only do them when I feel I can continue and still keep up with the events of the previous work. At the moment I'm contemplating a sequel to Twice Unjust because the final scene leaves room for it to happen, however, deciding Robbie's eventual fate is proving to be difficult and one option I had, has since been ruled out due to recent RL events.

Comments

[the_rck]

I've sort of written a sequel to my epic WIP. A friend of mine liked the world, and we did an rp set after the end of the (still) unfinished story. It's decidedly AU because it doesn't take into account developments in the most recent six chapters or so, but there are elements of it that I'd probably use if I were to write a sequel to the story after it's actually finished.

I do have a set of stories that are in an arc. I started with one story and didn't intend to write more, but more came to me. I've also got a couple of fragments of sequels to other stories. They may never go anywhere. They've been stalled out for years. Who knows?

[linaewen]

Same old writing status here. Even though I have RL writing to do today, I may start off with fiddling with my fic, just to make myself feel better about my progress. ;-)

I've written both sequels and prequels. One of my current epic WIPs is actually a sequel to the first lengthy thing I wrote -- and it looks like the current WIP is wanting a sequel someday! The prequels have been short things that explained the setting of the longer work a bit better.