writethisfanfic | WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 16

Poll #15389

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (25.0%)

wrote
2 (50.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (25.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (25.0%)

did something else
3 (75.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 3.25 Median: 3 Std. Dev 1.92

Terrible 1		1 (25.0%)
2		1 (25.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (25.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (25.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

When you write particular characters, do you have a head canon that carries over from story to story? That is, are there details of backstory and characterization that aren't from canon that you always use?

I do, and I don't. Sometimes, for a story to make sense, I need to change a character's backstory so that it's different from one I've used before. Sometimes, it doesn't really matter. I think it's more that I don't necessarily have a solid head canon until something comes up that makes me fit a particular detail into a story. As an example, I recently wrote that a particular character had a girlfriend in high school. There's nothing in any version of him that I've written previously that would say that that couldn't be true. I just didn't know that it was true until it came up in a story, and I'd jettison it if I were writing a story where it didn't make sense.