WIP Challenge - Check In Day 25 - Thursday

[the_rck]

Poll #15972

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
1 (50.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (50.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
1 (50.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 5.50 Median: 5.5 Std. Dev 0.50

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

When you write, do you proceed from point A to B to C and so on or do you skip around, writing scenes out of order?

I mostly proceed from A to B to C. If I skip around, I tend to get lost. Usually, when I want to skip around, it means that I'm starting from the wrong place in the story or chapter and need to reconsider what I'm doing. The exception is that there are a couple of long stories I'm working on for which I've written drafts of the very end of the story. I think I do that to reassure myself that there is an end point I'm aiming at.

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[linaewen]

I am very chronological in how I do things, so I proceed from A to B to C. There are a few things I've written ahead in one or two of my long WIPs because the idea came, and I didn't want to lose it. It's nice to have a bit of a goal to strive toward when I get bogged down. I know that when I reach those spots in the story the part I already wrote may change totally, but it's nice to have it there waiting for me.