WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 11 - Tuesday

[the_rck]

Poll #15072

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Today I

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planned
1 (20.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
4 (80.0%)

sent to beta
1 (20.0%)

edited
2 (40.0%)

posted
1 (20.0%)

rested
1 (20.0%)

did something else
1 (20.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.80 Median: 7 Std. Dev 1.17

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

How do you feel about posting a WIP? Have you ever done it? Did it work out for you?

I have one posted WIP. I've been working on it for over a decade. It currently stands at about 190,000 words. I'm not sure how much more I have to write. I have mixed feelings about having posted it as a WIP. On the one hand, I'm making people wait a very long time for the ending of the story. On the other hand, I've met some very good people through the story, and I suspect I have more readers for it than I would if I started posting it today (most people have moved on from the fandom). I have decided that I won't post more than one WIP at a time because I don't want to distract myself. I'm determined to finish this one first.

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[lilly_c]

I don't mind posting a WIP but I do like to have a lot of it finished or the whole fic nearly finished before I start to post. I posted a WIP, Twice Unjust, last year but it was almost finished an apart from some final edits to the remaining chapters the wait for it to be complete wasn't too long, about 5 or 6 weeks. It worked quite well but I was posting to both DW and AO3 so I'm not too sure how many people read it and where and I also posted the various DW only extras, again I'm not too sure who looked at those.

My plan for the rest of the day involves getting a few one shots finished and ready for posting this week, and maybe trying to figure where I'm going wrong with my casestory big bang because it's annoying me.

[merryghoul]

My WIPs I post tend to be works I couldn't finish but could stand up on their own. If I can't get to a conclusion with my WIPs, I toss them. I don't post chaptered WIPs because I hate those.

[signs_of_life]

New here! :)

Recently I've tended toward waiting until I have a good portion of the story finished before posting it. By then I usually have a good idea of where the story is headed and what sort of ending I want. But for my current fic, I really want to wait until I have it done. The fandom is tiny anyway and I rarely, if ever, get feedback so I'm not under the impression people are waiting on the edge of their seats for the next update.

I don't like working on more than one WIP at a time, either. I'm often too fixated on one story to care about another anyway.

[ladygriddlebone]

I post all my chaptered fics as WIPs because it helps keep me accountable. Left to my own devices I'm far too lazy to actually finish them, but if I know there are people waiting for the next installment there's a bit of extra incentive to actually write that next installment.

[cpolk]

I have a couple WIPS that have literally languished for years between updates.

Right after I told someone I probably wouldn't post a WIP again, I wound up eating my words.

Last month I was in the mood to write, but didn't have anything in mind. So i asked for a writing prompt, and I got a really simple one: "Destiel, coffee."

I started writing with no real idea what I was going to do besides write story where Castiel doesn't like coffee at the beginning, but liked it at the end.

Partway through I realized that it couldn't be canon, because if castiel liked coffee, he would have to be [spoiler.] So I thought, "who are you?" and I got a huge answer, and the most important part was that the ficlet I had just written wasn't the beginning.

but I didn't know it was going to be such a long story. it's now over 60k words and I'm crafting the end, while posting chapters every other day. I've gotten a few readers, I think mostly because the fandom is so popular, and the pairing is so popular.

but I don't think that I want to get ambushed like this again. I have for work and money writing assignments that got shoved completely aside while i scribble this thing out, because it will not let go and let me see other stories. I'm trying to finish it so fast so I can get my work story finished before anyone notices i've been moonlighting with a destiel AU...

[linaewen]

I have several WIPs, all of them were stories I posted from the start. At first I updated regularly, but now there are long gaps in time between chapters. I know it's not fair to my readers and I feel bad about that, but I still prefer to post chapters as I have them finished. If I had waited to post until the stories were finished, they never would have seen the light of day!

I have one new WIP that I am planning, and I am holding back for a bit on that one until I know I can post regularly without long gaps in between. Other than that, the others are out there and have been for 5-10 years, and I'm just plugging away at finishing them. ;-) Many of my readers are faithful to me in spite of my disservice to them of posting so rarely, so I haven't found a reason to change my ways as yet!