Daily Check-in: Day 17

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Happy Thursday, y'all! How are you doing today?

Poll #15242

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3

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What have you been working on today?

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Researching
1 (33.3%)

Plotting
1 (33.3%)

Writing
1 (33.3%)

Sending stuff to beta
0 (0.0%)

Editing
0 (0.0%)

Posting
0 (0.0%)

Replying to feedback
0 (0.0%)

Resting
1 (33.3%)

On a scale from Argh to Whee, how are you feeling today?

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Mean: 4.00 Median: 4 Std. Dev 1.00

Argh 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		1 (50.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (50.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Whee! 10		0 (0.0%)

Lately I've been thinking about some WIPs of mine that are not so much "in progress" as "stalled out"--some of them I haven't touched in a year or more, despite the best of my intentions. I've been rereading them and revisiting the things I wanted to do and that made me want to write them in the first place, but so far I haven't quite managed to get myself moving on them. I live in hope, but you can hope in one hand and--well, anyway.

Do you ever lose momentum on your stories? Commiserate here, and share strategies for getting those stories moving again!

Comments

[the_rck]

I'm currently working on my Remix story. I'm doing research and reviewing canon right now. I desperately need to start the actual writing. Maybe tomorrow. I've got my daughter at home all day tomorrow and two extra kids for a considerable chunk of the day, so I may not end up writing. I don't know. I need to learn to write when distracted.

I often start things that I know I'll never finish. Those stories have one of two problems-- Either they're going to be really, really long, or I don't have a clear idea of where they're going. Sometimes, it's both. I've been so focused on my one huge WIP that I haven't really tried to pick up any of the other things I've started and abandoned.

I miss that ficathon that used to happen on LJ-- It was called the Finishathon or the Finish-a-thon or something like that. The idea was that each participant put up a list of the unfinished stories they had (minimum three, maximum ten) and then the moderator would make polls so that anyone who wanted to could vote as to which story a given participant should finish. Participants committed either to finishing the story entirely or, in the case of very long works, adding a certain number of words (seven to ten thousand, usually).