WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 15 - Friday

[the_rck]

Poll #14544

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Today I

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planned
2 (33.3%)

researched
1 (16.7%)

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
2 (33.3%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 5.00 Median: 5 Std. Dev 2.45

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

When you write do you write linearly, from point A to point B to point C, or do you skip around and write bits from different parts of the story out of order?

I a linear writer. I very rarely write out of order. I think a big part of it is that, until I get there, I seldom know for sure what's going to happen. The one exception is that I've drafted the final chapter of my long WIP, Rheotaxis. When I get to that point, the draft will probably get gutted and rewritten from scratch, but I wanted to know what I was aiming for.

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[ladygriddlebone]

I hardly ever write linearly. I often write scenes and snippets and entire chapters out of order (right now I've got about 20,000 words in future scenes for my big WIP, in no particular order). Sometimes I end up having to change them pretty drastically when I finally catch up, but I'd rather get down what's in my head when it's in my head than risk losing it.

[lilly_c]

I tend to write out of sequence and make changes once I get caught up. The only time I write linearly is when I'm working with something very specific from canon.

[rebecca2525]

I always write linearly.