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writethisfanficGreetings at the beginning of a new week! linaewen here to help encourage you and provide you with a setting to talk about your writing as we approach the final days of our April WIP Challenge.
What kind of a writing day has it been today?
I'm in this situation at the moment, trying to get back into a WIP that has been ignored for 9 months. (I actually hadn't realized it had been that long until I looked when I posted the last chapter -- ugh!). One reason I think such stories get neglected for so long is that it is difficult to get back into it once I lose track of where I was going; the longer I take to push forward, the more unwieldy it becomes! To get back on track, I reread the last 7 chapters and then worked on my outline to be sure I have a good plan. The outline was already worked up, but I tweaked it a bit, and made myself read through every part of it to make sure I had the order of possible events laid out properly and had a feel for which characters will be featured. I feel like I know where I am now, so I'm hopeful I can actually write a new chapter this week, before it gets to be 10 months neglected!
linaewen here to help encourage you and provide you with a setting to talk about your writing as we approach the final days of our April WIP Challenge.What kind of a writing day has it been today?
- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or research
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment
I'm in this situation at the moment, trying to get back into a WIP that has been ignored for 9 months. (I actually hadn't realized it had been that long until I looked when I posted the last chapter -- ugh!). One reason I think such stories get neglected for so long is that it is difficult to get back into it once I lose track of where I was going; the longer I take to push forward, the more unwieldy it becomes! To get back on track, I reread the last 7 chapters and then worked on my outline to be sure I have a good plan. The outline was already worked up, but I tweaked it a bit, and made myself read through every part of it to make sure I had the order of possible events laid out properly and had a feel for which characters will be featured. I feel like I know where I am now, so I'm hopeful I can actually write a new chapter this week, before it gets to be 10 months neglected!
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