WIP Challenge - Check In Day 22 - Monday

[the_rck]

Poll #16264

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
1 (20.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
1 (20.0%)

rested
2 (40.0%)

did something else
3 (60.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.20 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.60

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (20.0%)
5		1 (20.0%)
6		1 (20.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		2 (40.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

What's your favorite trick for getting yourself to start writing?

I don't have any good tricks for starting to write. I'm in desperate need of some, however. I have the most luck when I can do writing sprint/word wars with someone else. Dedicating the time makes me focus and produce words when nothing else is working. Lacking that, I try to get some time to myself. I put on some music and open the document. Some times, I stare at it for a while; some times, I reread it. After that, I can often write.

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[linaewen]

If I can reduce my distractions and have time to devote to my fic, I can usually get into something with a bit of time and some music playing. The hardest thing is to actually sit down and devote my time to writing, especially lately, when it seems like there's always something more urgent that must be done first.

[samuraiter]

I'm a prompt-y sort. If I see a prompt that gets the wheels turning, be it at a kink meme or on a bingo card, that's very helpful to getting me started on something. ... Finishing it is often another story.

[kate]

Do you mean starting a story, or just sitting down to write? Because the first one, that's easy for me. Something sparks me and boom, off I go. The second one, well. I try to write every day, because that just makes it so much easier. If I write first thing in the morning, I find I'll write in the evening as well, because I'm all juiced up about it. But getting into the daily writing habit is no easy feat.