WIP Challenge check in - day 2

[lilly_c]

How is the writing going for you today?

Poll #15171

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Today I

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wrote
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (33.3%)

planned
1 (33.3%)

had a cheeky break
2 (66.7%)

dealt with life
2 (66.7%)

My progress is

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Mean: 4.00 Median: 4 Std. Dev 0.82

awful 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		1 (33.3%)
4		1 (33.3%)
5		1 (33.3%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
great 10		0 (0.0%)

Discussion: I've already done that. Do you ever find that you revisit certain themes in your writing? Do you try to avoid reusing themes you've already written?

I generally write episode tags, missing scenes and post-canon fic so it isn't often that I find recurring themes in my writing, although last night I started outlining a fic and realised that it was identicial to something that I wrote and posted over a year ago and rather than scrapping the idea entirely I kept the missing scene aspect and focused on something else that canon never dealt with in the episode that I'm working with.

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[linaewen]

Life is being annoying and keeping me from working on my writing. :-/

I tend to do gap-fillers and AU, so I don't run into the reusing issue too often. However, I have actually reused some things a few times on purpose, though I do change them up a bit to fit the prompt or the occasion. I have also found myself writing something and then realized I already did that and just forgot -- that's the problem with having a really long WIP that has been going on for long enough that I forget what I've done already if I don't keep rereading it.