WIP check in, Day 6

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:45
charamei: NaNoWriMo: The plot thickens (NaNoWriMo: The Plot Thickens)
[personal profile] charamei posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
Day 6! How's it going? Is everything falling into place?

Poll #6532 WIP check-in 6th April 2011
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8


How are you doing on your chosen fic(s) for the month so far?

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On track for my goals
1 (14.3%)

Ahead of schedule
0 (0.0%)

Behind schedule
5 (71.4%)

Too early to tell!
1 (14.3%)

And what did you do today, fic-wise?

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Write
3 (37.5%)

Research
1 (12.5%)

Edit
1 (12.5%)

Procrastinate
3 (37.5%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Post the finished fic
0 (0.0%)

Something else I will clarify in comments
3 (37.5%)

If you wrote any words today, how many did you write?

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1-249
2 (50.0%)

250-499
1 (25.0%)

500-749
0 (0.0%)

750-999
1 (25.0%)

1000 or more
0 (0.0%)

In three words or less, how are you feeling about the fic(s) right now?

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:29 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (natsume yuujinchou nyanko bag)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Printing it is an important first step! Maybe tomorrow, then? Maybe your brain really wanted a break to give you a chance to come at it with fresh eyes!

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:43 (UTC)
From: [personal profile] curuchamion
I always find printing (or hand-copying, since my fics are Very Short) a good start for rewriting...

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:50 (UTC)
lacygrey: (City of the moon)
From: [personal profile] lacygrey
I think this stage is totally essential you see so many things on paper that slip the eye on the screen

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 14:08 (UTC)
raletha: vintage typewriter (writing - typewriter)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Changing media for editing helps so much. When I don't have access to a printer, I'll sometimes just change the formatting of the page (font, bg colour, spacing, margins, etc.) to mimic that change.

Good luck with the edits!

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:08 (UTC)
eggcrack: Icon based on the painting "Kullervon kirous ja sotaanlahto" (Default)
From: [personal profile] eggcrack
I tried out one of my most favorite characters ever today and now I have a potential fic at hand. Will work more on it tomorrow, uneven state of body be damned!

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:31 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (antique bakery eiji op)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Eeee, trying out a character you love sounds very exciting! I hope you have luck tomorrow in moving forward w/the fic!

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 14:06 (UTC)
raletha: vintage typewriter (writing - typewriter)
From: [personal profile] raletha
That sounds like fun! Good luck with the writing. :D

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:28 (UTC)
From: [personal profile] curuchamion
Heading home to try and solve the eternal question: why can I either be productive in writing-y stuff or in RL-related stuff, but not both? And to try to understand my math homework, which has suddenly caught up with me. :-(

(Also, possibly, to write. I think the tap may have got stuck in the "on" position again...)

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:33 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (k-on ritsu oh shit)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
I find it hard to be productive at both as well--writing takes so much energy!

Good luck w/the math homework at least. ^^;;

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 14:01 (UTC)
raletha: vintage typewriter (writing - typewriter)
From: [personal profile] raletha
If you ever find the answer, please share! I seem to be only able to do one thing at a time, and when I am in full on writing mode, it is pretty much all consuming.

Good luck with the Math, too!

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:30 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (kimi ni todoke chizu must fight)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
During a boring meeting at work today I managed to jot down some notes. \o/ I think I'm getting somewhere. Yes. Getting somewhere very slowly, but nevertheless I may actually reach some kind of destination. I wrote bits based on those notes tonight, too--lots of culling to do, as per usual, but there's something I can keep in there, somewhere.

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 14:03 (UTC)
raletha: vintage typewriter (writing - typewriter)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Hey, you're heading forward; that's good & important. Momentum is so precious. It sounds like you got the most out of your meeting too! :)

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 20:57 (UTC)
lacygrey: (City of the moon)
From: [personal profile] lacygrey
Today was a bad one for fic. The computer saved a crucial RL-work file in some deep hidden corner of the drive and denied all knowledge of it until I did a massive search: Too much time and energy wasted (panicking) for something that wasn't even mine.

On a brighter note I think I've a couple of potential new betas. I'd gone and sponsored my most recent betas to write for [community profile] help_japan so they are busy.

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 14:04 (UTC)
raletha: fountain pen nib (writing - fountain pen)
From: [personal profile] raletha
D'oh! Hope today goes better for you!

Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 23:25 (UTC)
lacerta: ([misc] Ripley)
From: [personal profile] lacerta
Dear Self,

There is no need to spend an hour researching the scent of violets or the exact ingredients of perfume when you're not actually mentioning violet perfume in the fic because it is irrelevant.

Much love,
your deadline.

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 13:56 (UTC)
raletha: a pretty orange goldfish (animals - goldfish - orange)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Hey, but at least you know now; you might use it later in another project. No knowledge is ever wasted, but I sympathise with the frustration of being side-tracked by shiny information. Happens to me all the time.

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 00:59 (UTC)
raletha: Trowa with morning hair and text "blackmail picture" (gundam wing - trowa - bad hair)
From: [personal profile] raletha
I didn't get to writing this morning, but this evening is not looking likely. I got hit by a car walking home. Mostly fine, but one hand is pretty badly bruised, and the bruised/swelling elbows are making my hands uncoordinated. Also, hard to type with both elbows on ice! BLARGH. I had a stupid day!

Go everyone else! Write extra words for me. :)

ETA I uploaded a continuation of an old fic as a second chapter to the original story (out of a likely three chapters, the third part is not yet written, but that's okay for now). I have a booboo.
Edited (eta) Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 03:24 (UTC)

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 13:51 (UTC)
raletha: a sunlit forest path (nature - forest path)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Thank you! Yeah, I am relieved nothing got broken or squashed!

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 11:20 (UTC)
lacerta: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lacerta
Wishing you all the best. I hope you're okay!

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 13:52 (UTC)
raletha: a sunlit forest path (nature - forest path)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Thank you! I am okay. Just sore and a bit upset over the whole thing.

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 05:06 (UTC)
pebblerocker: A worried orange dragon, holding an umbrella, gazes at the sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] pebblerocker
I finally managed to sit down and write something! Finished a scene I'd been sitting in the middle of for months; I actually wrote quite a bit once I got started. Next, thinking about something beyond just the bare bones of what happens next.

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 11:18 (UTC)
lacerta: ([misc] Ripley)
From: [personal profile] lacerta
Wrapping up scenes after a long time is so satisfying.

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 13:57 (UTC)
raletha: fountain pen nib (writing - fountain pen)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Finishing a long stuck scene is good! Go you. :D

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 11:56 (UTC)
snowynight: colourful musical note (Default)
From: [personal profile] snowynight
I'm going to edit the second draft of the bang. Wish me luck!

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 14:04 (UTC)
raletha: fountain pen nib (writing - fountain pen)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Good luck with the editing!

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 13:38 (UTC)
linaewen: (Tigger Writing)
From: [personal profile] linaewen
Well, I've been out of the loop for a bit here -- not doing any writing, just trying to keep the Real World at bay while carrying my notes around untouched. ;-) However, things have opened up unexpectedly today, so my plan is devote a good-sized chunk of time to my writing commitments. I have a Big Bang progress report to make next week, and I'm really not close enough to where I want to be for that, so I'll be concentrating on that fic, I think.

Anyway, here's hoping I can produce a word count for the next check in and poll!

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 13:54 (UTC)
raletha: fountain pen nib (writing - fountain pen)
From: [personal profile] raletha
Best of luck! *waves pom poms*
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