WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 22 - Thursday

[the_rck]

Poll #14100

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Today I

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planned
2 (40.0%)

researched
1 (20.0%)

wrote
3 (60.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

The way I feel about today is

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Mean: 5.20 Median: 5 Std. Dev 1.94

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

Today's discussion question: They say, "Write what you know." Do you draw on your own experiences when you write?

I do and I don't. I mean, I can only understand the characters I'm writing about through my own mind and experiences. I try to find the underlying humanity in the characters I'm writing. Beyond that, most of what I write is from my imagination. There are a lot of things I write about that I've never done.

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[dirty_diana]

The whole point of writing is to think about stuff that's more interesting than what I know. :)

[linaewen]

I discovered I can't move forward in my current writing project until I settle on a timeline for the action, so I've been doing research and planning. I always enjoy that, and I know it will bring me closer to being able to write wat I want to, so it's good.

I write from my imagination, but a lot of what I know works its way into things, particularly when it comes to describing how my characters see or feel things or when describing situations they get into. For example, a character is hurt and is having trouble breathing; being an asthmatic, I can describe in great detail what not being able to breathe is like. When describing scenery or a location a character is traveling through, if I can visualize a place I've actually been, I am able to describe it better. Writing from that personal knowledge somehow gives my writing added depth. And if I don't know something personally, I research it thoroughly, so that I know enough about it to make the experience the character is having believable.