WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 11 - Wednesday

[the_rck]

Poll #15509

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Today I

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planned
1 (20.0%)

researched
1 (20.0%)

wrote
4 (80.0%)

sent to beta
1 (20.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (20.0%)

did something else
1 (20.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 7.20 Median: 8 Std. Dev 2.04

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

How do you get started writing? This can refer either to starting a new story or new chapter or to starting a writing session.

I tend to put on music first. Sometimes, I get myself a snack or something to drink. Focusing to start always seems hard until I actually start typing. Even then, I make false starts and have to abandon whole paragraphs that don't work. I usually tell myself that I only have to manage a few words at a time, and that makes starting easier than if I think about trying to finish completely.

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[lilly_c]

I always have a cold drink before I start and for actual writing it depends on the project. One that I enjoy gets worked on before my less enjoyable projects. It sometimes is difficult to get started on anything if I've had a brain zapping day at work and it's those days where editing is preferable to adding new words.

I wrote two pre-canon fics and I'm about to start editing a chapter of an ongoing fic, I just have to organise my chapter notes for that one..