WIP Challenge - Check In Day 18 - Friday

[the_rck]

Poll #15693

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
3 (75.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (25.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (25.0%)

did something else
1 (25.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.25 Median: 6.5 Std. Dev 0.83

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (25.0%)
6		1 (25.0%)
7		2 (50.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Terrific 10		0 (0.0%)

What's the longest thing you've ever written? What do you like/dislike about writing at that length?

Without a doubt, the longest thing I've written is my WIP, Rheotaxis. I like the way that writing long lets me develop multiple strands of plot and multiple characters, but it's hard to keep track of everything as the story gets longer and longer. I think I've learned a lot working on this story over the years.

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[lilly_c]

The longest thing I've written is If You Asked which is 19.5k words. I liked that I got to spend time with one theme and work on various aspects of it and I disliked that it took me a year to finish it.

[linaewen]

No opportunity for writing today, but I have high hopes for the weekend.

My longest thing is my WIP Lords of Gondor -- it's the longest in length as well as the longest in amount of time it has been a work in progress! There are lots of different characters, settings and plot threads involved in this story, and the length of it allows me to explore each one as much as I want to. I've done pretty well at keeping track of things, because I'm such a stickler for having an outline, but I have forgotten a couple of things from time to time and had to go back and figure out how to fix things in a way that won't mess with the already written story. This is the WIP that I neglect the most, but that is the closest to my heart, so I really want to get back to writing it regularly.

[graychalk]

The longest thing I've ever written is a WIP that I've recently picked back up. It was sitting at a little over 100K, and I was still only about halfway through with it. It's probably the story that taught me the most, both in terms of writing and plotting, and I loved that. However, it has taken me so long to finish it that my writing style and also my thoughts about the plot have changed drastically during the course of it - and this, I dislike.