WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 23 -- Monday

[linaewen]

It's Monday!  How has the first day of the week gone for you?  What kind of a writing day has it been today -- or yesterday if you haven't started your writing day as yet?

• I thought about my fic once or twice
• I wrote
• I did some planning and/or research
• I edited
• I've sent my fic off to my beta
• I posted today!
• I'm taking a break
• I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

For Discussion:  Sometimes errors occur as we write that we miss until later, and then it's a huge burden to try to go back and repair the damage.  Does this happen to you?  How do you deal with it, and how do you prevent it?

Comments

[linaewen]

I thought about my fic once or twice yesterday but that's about it.

I have been able to deal with this problem with one of my long multi-chapter fics, as I started posting it at Ao3 and made a point to re-edit each chapter before putting it up. I've caught a few things as I go, so that's helpful. I do reread my fics often and usually catch things before they get too bad, but not always. Then it's a matter of trying to figure out how to fix it without having to rewrite everything. So far, nothing has been impossible to fix, even when I totally forgot to write about a plot point early on that was needed later in the story.

[samuraiter]

I wrote a bit for the 'Fic Promptly Challenge Week. Just drabbling about, but it's still something.

Ah, yes, concerning today's question, this is what I call the Missing Word Bug. Thousands of words, beautiful words, great words, and then I go back over what I thought was a great scene, only to find a word missing that then completely wrecks the sentence it was supposed to inhabit.

[insignia]

I did a little bit of planning for some fics-in-progress, but mostly I'm procrastinating.