WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 4 - Tuesday

[the_rck]

Poll #14918

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (25.0%)

wrote
2 (50.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
3 (75.0%)

posted
1 (25.0%)

rested
1 (25.0%)

did something else
1 (25.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.75 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.28

Awful 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (25.0%)
5		1 (25.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		2 (50.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

For most of us, fic is our happy place (even if writing is sometimes like pulling teeth). That doesn't mean that difficult or controversial topics don't come up sometimes. Some writers even seek such topics out. Do you? That is, do you like to write stories with a strong message or do you find that that takes away some (or all) of the pleasure of writing?

I never set out to write issue fic or to grapple with anything particularly difficult. It sometimes happens because something difficult is implicit in my premise or grows out of the character interactions. I seem to have some fascination for characters who compromise in order to survive and what that means for them and what things they're not willing to compromise.

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[lea_hazel]

No, not really. Maybe some people would perceive my fiction as didactic, but I don't set out to write stories with a message. I tried that as a teenager and found it phenomenally unsatisfying. I write my reality, however indirectly. Sometimes 'issues' crop up, but they're not issues to me, they're just things that I see in myself or my environment. Writing about disabled characters having sex, for example, has nothing to do with what some critics call'political correctness'. Rather it's about investing authenticity in the characters you write, their experiences and their point of view. No matter how fantastical the character, something about them has to remain naturalistic at its core.

I think I rambled and went off track, sorry.