WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 11, Tuesday

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Poll #13679

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Today I

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researched
1 (20.0%)

planned
1 (20.0%)

wrote
2 (40.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (20.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
2 (40.0%)

How I feel about today is

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Mean: 4.00 Median: 3 Std. Dev 2.19

Terrible 1		1 (20.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		2 (40.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (20.0%)
7		1 (20.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

Today's discussion question: Do you like to do challenges and exchanges? Why or why not? How do you decide which ones to do?

I enjoy exchanges and tend not to be so good at challenges. I think that knowing that I'm writing for a specific person helps motivate me. With a challenge, I don't have the same impetus. I enjoy writing to a prompt because it makes me think of things I wouldn't have on my own. I particularly like things like Yuletide because they involve writing fandoms I wouldn't have written left on my own.

Deciding what challenges to do is hard. I write kind of slowly, so I can't do more than one exchange at a time. I try to weigh in factors like access to canon and things I expect to have going on in my life. I'm trying to make a decision right now between two exchanges. Both really appeal. One of them has a due date nearly three weeks after the other, so I could almost do both, if I really buckled down. But I may lose two weeks of July to family obligations (I also might not). That makes the exchange with the later due date look more attractive, but the other one is multi-fandom, and I'd end up writing something new. I don't know.