WIP Challenge - Check In Day 2 - Sunday

[the_rck]

Poll #16099

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Today I

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planned
1 (25.0%)

researched
2 (50.0%)

wrote
2 (50.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (25.0%)

posted
1 (25.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
1 (25.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 7.75 Median: 8 Std. Dev 1.92

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (25.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		1 (25.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		1 (25.0%)
Wonderful 10		1 (25.0%)

Do you have ideas you will never start writing? How do you know when a plot bunny isn't going anywhere? How do you keep track of ideas for stories you might write?

I have plenty of ideas I'll never write. Well, many of them, I've started and abandoned for one reason or another. Some of them are simply too long for me to commit to. Some of them require things I can't write. Some of them, I'd like to write, but they're low priority compared to the other things I've committed to finishing. I do maintain a document where I list the various story prompts and ideas that I haven't started writing and may never start. I also have, somewhere on my hard drive, a list of the things I've started that I will probably never finish.

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[linaewen]

Editing today. If it goes well and gets me in the mood for more, then maybe I'll work on something that involves more writing creativity.

I have a folder on my computer called "Writing Projects" which contains folders for my current writing as well as folders for the plot bunnies/ideas that are worth remembering but may never be written -- usually due to the fact that I already have too many stories going to get sidetracked by another, or because it's a story I wish I could write but it would involve too much research to legitimately attempt at this stage. Most of my ideas that have a folder contain at least some research and a possible outline in case I ever decide to take the story up.