WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 9 - Monday

[the_rck]

Poll #15495

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (20.0%)

wrote
2 (40.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (20.0%)

posted
1 (20.0%)

rested
2 (40.0%)

did something else
2 (40.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 4.40 Median: 5 Std. Dev 1.74

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		1 (20.0%)
3		1 (20.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		2 (40.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		1 (20.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Spectacular 10		0 (0.0%)

Do you use outlines or some other method of planning your story before you start writing?

I tend not to. I start writing and see where things go. Sometimes, for a very long story, I make a list of things I think need to happen somewhere along the line, but that's not a very firm plan. I don't always know in what order things should happen.

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[lilly_c]

I've rested today as I was travelling until the early hours of the morning.

I use extensive outlines for long fics and a bullet points list for short fics.

[silailo]

I used to just wing it, but these days I do try to outline, or at least have an idea what I want to have happen.

[linaewen]

My longer WIPs are very chronological, so I need an outline to keep track of the order of things as well as all the details I want to be sure to include. For shorter pieces, my outlines are more like bullet points of things I want to include but the order doesn't matter as much.