WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 29 -- Tuesday

[linaewen]

Greetings on Tuesday!  How is the writing going 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

Discussion: Thinking back to Sunday when we talked a bit about stalled fics -- when you get an email or a comment about your stalled fic from a reader who is wanting an update/new chapter/continuation of the story, does that encourage you to start working on that story again?  Or does it apply unwanted pressure to an already difficult situation?  (Assuming that there are definite reasons for why a fic is stalled in the first place.)

It's Tuesday, and for me, that means I'll just be happy to make it through the day in one piece, so I don't expect there to be any writing going on today.  If I have anything left at the end of the day, I may manage to to do some canon research (i.e., watch anime).  As for stalled fics, I find it encouraging to see that people are still following my stalled fic, but it's always a shock to realize how long it's been since I last updated.  I try to comply with continuing the story, but it does add pressure that isn't always helpful.  For the most part, though, it's helpful to me to be reminded to get back into it, because even though my fics are stalled or slow to progress, they aren't abandoned.

Comments

[merryghoul]

Yesterday: Writing.

I just got a comment on a story I wrote for a bingo square when I first started out writing. (I had to included "Part 1" in the title, didn't I.) I wasn't motivated to continue the story, because it's been a couple of years since I wrote the piece.

Also, I have someone following a crossover I wrote on AO3. I think I said I was going to expand the fic? But I never did.

I really need to stop making promises on stalled fics.

[the_rck]

I've gotten in a couple of hours of writing so far today. I'm starting to think that I really can get this story done in time. Of course, I'm coming up on a part that I only have very nebulous thoughts about. The story I'm drawing from (I'm writing a remix) is pretty vague in that section, but I don't think I can omit it altogether.

Sometimes, a comment on an old WIP can get me going again. Talking about what I'm writing always helps me (which makes anonymous exchanges harder). Then again, the one real WIP I've got is kind of stalled out. I need to get back to it. There are people who've been following it for more than a decade now, and I'd really like to finish it.

[dirty_diana]

I don't post wips anymore. Even if no one comments to ask about it when it's stalled, I still feel like a terrible person. I do sometimes say I might be writing a sequel, but I've never thought of that as the same kind of promise. Hmmn.

The wrediting continued today. Progress, of a kind.