WIP Challenge check in day 18 Tuesday

[lilly_c]

How's the writing going?

Poll #15104

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Today I

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wrote
1 (50.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
0 (0.0%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
1 (50.0%)

My progress is

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Mean: 7.50 Median: 7.5 Std. Dev 1.50

Ugh 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (50.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		1 (50.0%)
Great 10		0 (0.0%)

Discussion: writing to a set lenght. When you start to write something new do you set a stopping point?



I tend to not have a specific lenght for anything I write becuase it feels like I'm forcing myself to work within that limit. For challenges I do keep in mind what the set length requirements as much as I can but it's not always easy especially when the minimum is quite high and the final piece is much shorter.

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[the_rck]

I tend to write long even when the minimum word count is low. The natural short story length for me seems to be between three and eight thousand words. I've written shorter but it always feels not quite right even when I'm sure I've found the end of the story.

I try to avoid challenges that have a maximum word count. I just can't do that. The story takes as long as it takes.

[linaewen]

I haven't been able to get to anything except keeping my head above water today, but there's still hope for getting something writing-related done this evening -- and tomorrow is a day off, so I might make some progress.

When I have a length restriction for what I'm writing, I usually don't pay attention to it until I've written what needs to be said. Then I add or subtract words as needed. I prefer to just write and have it be as short or as long as it needs to be, however, so I limit how many challenges I take part in that have a restriction on the word count.