WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 14 - Wednesday

[the_rck]

Poll #15385

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
1 (33.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (33.3%)

did something else
1 (33.3%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 4.00 Median: 5 Std. Dev 2.16

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

It's sometimes been said that authors write the stories they want to read. Do you write the same things you like to read, be it in terms of pairing, genre, fandom, whatever?

Most of what I write is for exchanges, so I'm writing for a particular recipient and trying to match their taste. In that way, I'm not writing what I like to read (not that I think I'd dislike any of what I write if I came upon it written by someone else) but rather what specific other people like to read. When I'm not writing for an exchange, I think I do tend to write what I'd like to read. There are, of course, things I like to read that I can't write to save my life. I enjoy reading humor, for example, but can't write it at all.

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[linaewen]

I've only recently started writing for exchanges where I'm writing what someone else wants to read -- which is a nice challenge for me, and I do enjoy what I've written for them afterwards! For the most part, and especially with my longer pieces, I am writing what I want to read, or more specifically, what I wished had been written in canon and wasn't, so I'm filling in the gaps. ;-)