WIP check in, Day 9

[charamei]

So sorry, everyone: I had an attack of the antisocials yesterday and ran off to hide from the universe.

But enough of my neuroses! How are the wordcounts doing?

Poll #6565 WIP check-in 9th April 2011

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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

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On track for my goals
3 (50.0%)

Ahead of schedule
0 (0.0%)

Behind schedule
3 (50.0%)

Too early to tell!
0 (0.0%)

And what did you do today, fic-wise?

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Write
4 (66.7%)

Research
2 (33.3%)

Edit
1 (16.7%)

Procrastinate
1 (16.7%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Post the finished fic
0 (0.0%)

Something else I will clarify in comments
0 (0.0%)

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
0 (0.0%)

1000 or more
1 (25.0%)

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

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Comments

[charamei]

Well, 'hiding from everyone' included the people in my head, so... yeah. Every time I start editing I block up. I'll give it a few days; I might just need a break.

[littlebutfierce]

I'm sorry you had a hiding from the world day yesterday!! :/ I hope you're feeling better today, & that a bit more of a break before you edit helps.

(& no worries about the update post--I thought maybe I'd accidentally muddied the waters by posting the weekly update post, & so maybe we didn't need the daily check-in anyway? I dunno! It's fine either way!!)

[littlebutfierce]

During the writing session today I finally had a breakthrough w/my LJ help_japan auction fic. I am finally believing that this is the story I'm supposed to be telling, & I shouldn't go trash it & dig out another idea. Cue big sigh of relief!!

[lacerta]

My word count says 10.500! There's still lots to be written and editing will be a nightmare, but none of that matters right now. What counts is that I'm sure I'll make the deadline for the rough draft and that feels really really good.

[curuchamion]

My wordcount is blimping. :D Most of it is stuff I'd written long ago and never posted (though I re-edit each piece before deciding it's good enough to post now), but I also just wrote 650 words of brand-new crackfic about the LiveJournal crashes!

(Or more specifically, about how the motorcycle-riding space pirates took down the Russian mafia long enough to let dbskyler put up the chatter posts on fic_rush. Yes, we have a long-standing tradition of crackfic over there, although this is the first time I've contributed! I'm fair bouncy about that, too...)

[lacerta]

Your motorcycle-riding space pirates made me laugh sooo much!

[dbskyler]

Yes, it's Day 10 today, but I filled out the poll for what I did yesterday, and right before midnight I officially started writing!

[lacygrey]

The good: We had the chat for the Hikago challenge Im doing (blind_go) - sorry I didn't make it to the word wars for this comm - looks like a good idea. There was quite a bit of joking and general chat but some good brainstorming too - and reassuring one another about Remix, which is looming and which several of us are doing in addition to blind_go

The less good: In general, its very difficult to write (or chat) undisturbed at home at weekends. Sometimes I just give up - I don't want to explain to family what I'm doing.

My next objective is to reply to all the interesting comments I got on the other thread.