WIP check in: day 4

[lullabymoon]

Sorry about missing yesterday, things got rather hectic.

So how has your writing been today?

Poll #13624

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Today I...

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wrote
5 (55.6%)

edited
5 (55.6%)

researched
3 (33.3%)

posted
3 (33.3%)

had a rest
0 (0.0%)

did something else
2 (22.2%)

Today was...

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great
2 (22.2%)

okay
4 (44.4%)

average
1 (11.1%)

meh
2 (22.2%)

I don't want to talk about it
0 (0.0%)

Today's discussion topic:


[HAS REALLY INTENSE, DRAMATIC FIC IDEA (Fanfic Flamingo) CAN’T WRITE IT BECAUSE THE FIRST CHAPTER IS SO BORING]

When you are writing do you often struggle to get past the 'boring' parts, or make them less boring? Do you have any tricks that help?

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[the_rck]

Generally, if the start of a story seems boring, I assume that I've started it in the wrong place and try again. So far, that's worked. I tend to figure that I can backfill whatever introductory exposition I was thinking of. Writing fanfic helps because it generally needs less set up than original fic because readers already know the characters and the setting and such.

[barbayat]

Spend the first half of my day, doing fun sprints, finished editing chapter 7 of my long story and then finished writing chapter 2 of my short pwp story. :D

Hope tonight is equally successful!

First chapters are never the boring ones, if at all I doubt myself in the first third, wondering if others find the exposition as interesting as I do :D

[linaewen]

Spent a good hour with a long-neglected WIP, reading the whole thing as far as it goes, editing it a bit and adding a small amount of new stuff. Then I made some new notes and started some new writing. Didn't get very far before I needed to do some research, which involved watching video -- a dangerous thing to do! Ended up not being able to stop watching! However, it was very enjoyable, and I did find what I needed to keep going tomorrow.

[lilly_c]

One of the drabbles I wrote earlier in the week got unexpectedly bigger, becoming a one shot instead and I finished it yesterday, just need to double check something from canon and give it a quick edit before I post it. I wanted to post today but it's too messy just now.

For the boring parts I remind myself that what is boring to me may not be to my readers. I do try to keep the boring parts to a minimum and a lot of what makes it in to the final version of fic is often a lot different to what is in my notebook.

[acerbictomes]

Wrote about two hundred words. Not that productive, but at least I'm writing!

I always get stuck at the boring bits. Usually they end up not-boring, but when I don't have a particular scene stuck in my mind, it's hard to write things out.