WIP Challenge - Check In Day 17 - Thursday

[the_rck]

Poll #15683

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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
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
1 (20.0%)

rested
2 (40.0%)

did something else
1 (20.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 5.60 Median: 6 Std. Dev 2.24

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

What's your favorite trick for getting yourself to start writing?

I'm badly in need of something to make me start writing. I haven't managed any new words in a couple of weeks, and I have projects I want to finish. I keep letting myself get distracted.

At any rate, I'm very, very interested in any techniques the rest of you have for getting started.

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[linaewen]

I wrote about 120 words as an addition to an ongoing story that is composed of comments to a starter paragraph at LJ. It's the most I've written in weeks! Hopefully it will prime the pump, so to speak, and I can do the same with some of my personal writing projects.

I'm in the same boat with being distracted and unable to sit down to write, but what usually ends up working for me is to reread everything I have already put together for the story in hand -- notes, research, outlines, previous chapters. Then I put on some music and try to make myself start typing. It helps if I can do it when I don't have other pressing business or the likelihood of an interruption. I tend not to try to start anything if I don't have at least two hours at my disposal.

[lilly_c]

The only real trick I have is to just sit down and start writing. If it's been a while I get my notebook and try to figure out what I want to do by making a bullet point list and for anything that was started and not finished I read it over and decide if I'm going to finish it or delete it.

I had the day off today so I got a decent chunk of Let Me Fade worked on and the new chapters are ready to post, once a final edit has been done that is.

[merryghoul]

I have to talk myself into doing it. If I complain about it, it makes me that more motivated to start and finish, or so I think.