Check-in: Day 21, Tuesday

[annotated_em]

Hi, all! How's it going?

Poll #13475

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What have you been working on today?

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Researching
0 (0.0%)

Planning
2 (33.3%)

Writing
2 (33.3%)

Revising
1 (16.7%)

Posting
0 (0.0%)

Resting
1 (16.7%)

[redacted]
1 (16.7%)

On a scale of 1 to 5, how are you feeling?

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Mean: 3.00 Median: 3 Std. Dev 1.07

Grim 1		1 (14.3%)
2		1 (14.3%)
3		2 (28.6%)
4		3 (42.9%)
Buoyant 5		0 (0.0%)

For discussion: Does writing ever surprise you? Do you ever catch yourself writing something that you didn't anticipate--be it a plot twist you didn't see coming or a trope that you never expected to write yourself?

Comments

[krait]

I'm tickyboxing "Writing" because I feel optimistic (another name for this is "last-minute panic", because today's the day I'm supposed to post my wordcount!), not because it's happened yet.

I totally do end up writing things I don't anticipate; I have an entire story that happened by accident (I looked at a prompt for a pairing and a dynamic I'd never even thought about... and two thousand words fell out of my keyboard in under half an hour. I'm still a bit baffled by that one, years later.) More recently, a fic that was supposed to be a short, fluffy smutlet developed a tonne of sappy build-up with light worldbuilding thrown in... and then developed a gigantic chunk of Seriousness and borderline-angst. How's that for a derailment.

Oh, and then there's the fact that today should have been all about me writing my Dave/Sollux thing, and instead it turned into "read all the Rose/Sollux instead". Even my writing plans don't always go according to plan!

[lilly_c]

I picked up a bug and got nothing done today.

It's pairings for me because I'm always adamant that I won't write something with certain ones but I usually get hit by a plot bunny for those and run with it.

[lea_hazel]

I have this one WIP that's been surprising me constantly. It's a ~traditional fanfic romance in many ways, something I don't write often. The love triangle characters established their dynamic in my mind very gradually and organically. Sometimes it feels like I'm reading the story and not writing it. It's exciting.