Daily Check-in: Saturday, the 16th

[barbayat]

Hello, I am going to be your hostess this week. I promise to try my best and faithfully update every day around this time ...

So did you ...

... write
... read
... researched
... did real life stuff
... something else?

Topic for Today

How do you handle different plot bunnies/urges. Like you have ideas for two or three stories that do want to be written or that you crave to write because you have not found a fanfic that fullfills that need. What are your strategies for handling this? Do you try and force yourself to
work on one or do you open multiple documents and switch between them?

Comments

[linaewen]

I've been writing today -- or more specifically, I've done some preliminary scribbling on a short piece I'm working on, which I can hopefully write up properly at some point before the day is done.

I keep track of all my ideas in different folders, and have easy access to all of them via Jarte, which lets me open multiple documents in tabs. I do sometimes have more than one bunny/WIP open at the same time, but eventually, the one that inspires me to move forward is the one that gets the attention. This is why I have so many WIPs, I think, because I don't concentrate on just one story at a time. Even if I don't actually write up a bunny that is begging to be written, I will at least start a folder for it and take notes, do research, and set up an outline so that I don't lose the idea and I can pick it up at any time.

[dirty_diana]

I used to switch back on forth between different wips when I got stuck/bored, but then some brain issues changed basically everything about the way I write and it got harder to do. I am experimenting right now with having one complex wip and one that's much simpler, we'll see how it goes.

Technically I have added some words today but hoping to get more done.

[lilly_c]

I had some life stuff to deal with but I got some writing in as well so that's a bonus. I finished off two ficlets and I'll likely be posting them tomorrow at some point, I'm letting them settle just now because I'm liable to miss any remaining mistakes that I didn't catch.

When that happens I try to decide what idea I want to work with the most, of course that doesn't always work and when it doesn't I write a breif outline for each idea and see which one speaks to me the loudest (without sounding crazy) and go with it.