Check in day 23

[lilly_c]

How is the writing going today?

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Today I

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wrote
3 (60.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
0 (0.0%)

had a cheeky break
2 (40.0%)

dealt with life
1 (20.0%)

My progress is

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Mean: 7.00 Median: 6.5 Std. Dev 2.12

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

Discussion: resuming a wip. I know we had abandoning a WIP the other day but what about when you return to a WIP that you put on hold. Do you read through what you already wrote? Do you just jump in and hope the new things make sense? Something else?

I'm considering bringing my WIP off of hiatus and adding new chapters to it, the last time I updated it was in July so I know that I have to read through what I've already written and posted and then of course make sure the new things make sense to the overall arc.

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[annotated_em]

Relevant question is relevant! I'm just getting back into the writing saddle this week, and I chose to pick up with a WIP that I hadn't worked on in months. I started by rereading the few pages that I'd already written, just to get back into the headspace of the story and remind myself what the sound of it was while I refreshed myself on where I'd been thinking of taking the plot. That's shifted, since it's been a few months and I've had the chance to rethink things a bit, but so far I've had pretty good luck getting going again.

Except for this morning, when sleep was more enticing than getting up to write. Heh.

[linaewen]

I should be working on a challenge fic that's due this weekend, but I haven't had a chance to even think about it. Hopefully I can at least get some ideas brewing in what's left of this evening!

When I return to a WIP after being away from it for awhile, I look at my notes first for the next chapter -- I usually have some idea of what I was planning for that chapter before I got waylaid by real life, and I've almost always made an outline in advance of working on it. After that, I reread the last 5 chapters or so to get back into the story, and then go back and tweak the outline. The hardest thing to do is to get the first few sentences down to open the new chapter, but if I can get those going, I'm usually back in the groove of the story.