WIP Challenge - Check In Day 10 - Friday

[the_rck]

Poll #16023

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (50.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (50.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

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%)

I'm having a lot of trouble focusing and just getting started right now, so I thought I'd ask-- What do you do to get yourself to start writing? This can be either starting a new story/chapter or starting a writing session. Tell me your tricks so that I can try them out.

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[linaewen]

I'm probably the last person to be giving advice, because I'm severely unfocused and not going anywhere fast with writing. However, I do have a few tricks that help when I can make myself do them! To start with, I try to get all the Real Life stuff out of the way that makes me feel like I should be doing that rather than writing -- I find it very distracting to have RL stuff hanging over me when I want to write. It can't all be done in order to make free time, because then one would never write, but if you find there are things coming to mind instead of your story, go do them then come back.

Then I reread anything I have already written, whether it be a previous chapter or just the notes I have made for whatever story it is I am working on. If I'm really out of sync with writing, I'll do some canon research (read canon or watch a film/episode) that gets me on track with my characters. Then I open my document and put on some music and peck away until I have an opening on paper. That first part opening the chapter or the new story is the hardest for me -- once I can get that going, it tends to open the flood gates, so to speak.

Best wishes on getting focused!