WIP Challenge: Check In, Day 9 - Tuesday

[the_rck]

So far today, I've finished the first draft of a chapter and started on a new fic. The new fic may not work out in this draft. I'm still groping around, looking for the voice and the plot. The chapter draft needs editing. I'll start on that later today.

Poll #13190

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
4 (80.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
2 (40.0%)

posted
2 (40.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
1 (20.0%)

How I feel about today:

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Mean: 7.00 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.00

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (20.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (20.0%)
7		1 (20.0%)
8		1 (20.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Marvelous 10		1 (20.0%)

Today's discussion question: Do you tend to write in just one fandom or have you written in more than one? Is there a fandom you return to over and over again? What about it appeals to you?

I keep returning to Weiss Kreuz. I think I like that, no matter how cracked my story idea, it's not impossible in that universe (well, I exaggerate but only a bit). I also like that I can interpret the characters in more than one way while still staying true to canon. I think, though, that a big part of it is that it was the first fandom I wrote in. That makes it special.

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[ladygriddlebone]

I've written in lots of different fandoms over the years. Some of them I only dabble in once or twice, but I have others that I keep going back to. I wrote my first Cats fanfiction back in the early part of 1999, and I still go back to that fandom and those characters now and again (I think part of the appeal is the more or less infinitely flexible characters, but my familiarity with the characters and canon certainly makes it easy to write in that fandom at this point). I've also been writing for Power Rangers and InuYasha for years now, but it was really only in the last four or five years that I became comfortable branching out more (even writing for series I hadn't finished reading/watching yet!), and even started writing crossover fics and mixing fandoms.

[lullabymoon]

I added 600 words to mu pinch hit and finally got it posted!! It's such a relief. I can't believe how changing the POV from 3rd person omniwotsit to character POV made such a difference to managing to finish it. I'm definitely more comfortable with it so I may need to practise omniwotsit more in the future.

I do write in multiple fandoms, though up mostly it has been one at a time. I'm venturing out a bit more, but I think that's more because I'm not in one specific fandom love at the moment. I do find myself drifting back to the same few fandoms over and over again - Inspector Lynley, Taggart, Star Trek, because I fell in love with the characters and haven't burnt myself out with them. Stuff like Battlestar Galactica which I loved at the time, and was in fandom for at least twow years, was the most active I've ever been, and that combined with the fact I hated the last finale pretty much guaranteed that I've never been back since.