WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 13 - Thursday

[the_rck]

My internet is down right now, possibly until some time Saturday (or even Monday, if I'm really unlucky). I'll try to get to the library tomorrow to post the check in, but I can't promise.

Poll #13692

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
3 (50.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (16.7%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (16.7%)

did something else
3 (50.0%)

How I feel about today is

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Mean: 5.67 Median: 6 Std. Dev 2.62

Terrible 1		1 (16.7%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (16.7%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		2 (33.3%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		1 (16.7%)
9		1 (16.7%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

Today's discussion question-- Does shutting off the internet help you to write or do you do better when you have access?

Shutting off the internet tends to make me-- figuratively speaking-- run in circles and gibber. That means I get very little writing done while I'm offline. Of course, when I have access, I use it as a distraction. It's hard to balance.

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[lilly_c]

I've spent most of my day finishing off a Star Trek: Voyager one shot although I feel like I have both Janeway and Chakotay woefully OOC but that feeling may change once I close the file and step back from it for a wee while. I've also done a little editing on a finished fic that posting stalled on, I really want to get the remaining 3 chapters and epilogue up before the end of this month.

I use a USB mobile internet and don't always buy data so I find that I can get work and other things done with and without internet. When I need to do extensive research that isn't in my source material and reference books, I either use the USB or take my laptop to the library and use the free wifi for a couple of hours.

[lullabymoon]

It's good to know it's not just me that does that! :D

I often find it best to clear out my tabs and then putting something like simplynoise on rather than turning the internet off or using leachblock.