WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 14 - Tuesday

[the_rck]

Poll #14842

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Today I

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planned
1 (10.0%)

researched
2 (20.0%)

wrote
6 (60.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
2 (20.0%)

posted
1 (10.0%)

rested
1 (10.0%)

did something else
5 (50.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 5.90 Median: 5.5 Std. Dev 2.26

Terrible 1		1 (10.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		4 (40.0%)
6		1 (10.0%)
7		2 (20.0%)
8		1 (10.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		1 (10.0%)

Do you have many story ideas that you never start to write? Or that you start and put aside? How do you keep track of those ideas?

If I don't start writing a story and get at least a sentence down, the idea tends to evaporate. I mean, I've got a document with a long list of prompts that I thought might lead to stories, but I don't count those as story ideas because I don't have any solid notion of what the story might be. I've got at least a dozen story fragments in a folder on my laptop. They may never turn into anything more, but I keep hoping that, some day, I'll finish them.

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[linaewen]

I just got home from a hectic day, so I'm not ready for writing yet -- but I do plan to spend some time with it today, so we'll see if there is any progress to be had.

I have a number of story ideas that I haven't written yet. They are usually for stories in a fandom I'm not currently writing in, and which would take more time than I'm willing to spend to actually write them -- but the idea is too good or too appealing to discard. I have folders set up on my computer for the ideas and the research I've done on them -- I always do research even if I know I'm not going to immediately write the story, because if it's a good enough idea and the research proves it will work, I may very well write it one day, so I want to save it. Other story ideas are prompts which I developed extensively with research and even outlines, but the story just didn't work, so I'm saving it for another occasion that might provide a spark or a different POV that will make the story move again.

[merryghoul]

I try to write down anything I'm interested in possibly writing about, but if I can't my ideas work, I'll give them away to prompt communities.

[juliet316]

This. I do this too a lot of the times.

[juliet316]

Yep. Sometimes I get the ideas themselves written down (or I bounce them off somebody), and sometimes they remain stuck in my head. I've got at least three plot bunny documents on one flashdrive and I'll probably start a fourth soon.