WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 1 -- Wednesday

[linaewen]

Hello on Wednesday!  It's a new writing month today, as well as the halfway mark for the writing week.  What kind of a writing day has it been so far today?

•     I thought about my fic once or twice
•     I wrote
•     I did some planning and/or research
•     I edited
•     I've sent my fic off to my beta
•     I posted today!
•     I'm taking a break
•     I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

For Discussion:  Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, such as writing together, or having an artist work on a piece connected your fic?

I have taken part in a "fanfic tumble" where a group of writers took turns adding to a story in round robin fashion.  It was a lot of fun, and some very interesting stories emerged from that exercise!  I have also taken part in a Big Bang where an artist created an illustration related to the fic.  It's not always easy collaborating with someone but I have found it stretching in a good way and very rewarding.

Comments

[the_rck]

I'm still pondering my story, trying to get past whatever's blocking me. I need to figure out a few different angles from which to attack it. I think the problem is that I'm starting in the wrong place, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the right place is.

I've collaborated on a story that got completed once (I've collaborated on a couple of things that never really went anywhere because the person I was going to work with disappeared. I'm not sure they count). It was an exchange fic where I was working to a very specific prompt. That prompt was for something I'm fairly bad at doing-- action/combat scenes. Rather than default, I asked a friend who's very good with action sequences if she'd help me out. I wrote the rough skeleton of the action sequences, and she fleshed them out into something worth reading. I couldn't have done it on my own. I'd have produced a story, but it wouldn't have been a strong one.