Day 18 Check In!

[insertcode11]

Day 18 is here. Tell us how you're doing!

Little busy so I didn't have time to change up the questions--but "Creative Corner" is a bit different.

1.) How are you doing today?

-Are you having a good day or a bad day (and a good day doesn't necessarily mean a good writing day, we all know, so tell us how BOTH are going)?

-What’s your progress on your writing goal today? This can be:
-Word Count
-Planning
-Research
-Editing
-Something else specified in comments

-And how do you feel about your progress?

2.) What are the really, really great things that happened in your writing today?

(for example: “I totally nailed characterization today” or “This plot rocks so hard I’m going to burst my own ear drums”)

3.) What are the not so great things that you’re struggling with? How can your fellow writers try to help you today?

-What don’t you feel so successful about today (if anything)?

-Need someone to hold your hand? Cheerlead for you? Kick your @$$ to get motivated? Something along those lines. I’m sure I or any of your fellow writers will help where they can because we know the feeling. ;)

4.) Creative Corner

Feeling tired and frustrated and stumped on the next scene? Feeling excited and really proud and want to show off the good things you’re creating? Get your creative juices flowing or just brag on yourself!

-Today take the FIRST LINE from your favorite book, song, poem, movie, or pilot/first episode to your favorite show and use that as a prompt for a drabble (150 words or less). The drabble can have something to do with your fic--maybe an introspective piece on the character, or the beginning of a scene. Or the drabble can be unrelated to your fic.

For example, I don't have time to do it this minute (stupid work!) but my favorite book is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer and the first line is, "What about a teakettle?" I'll be using that. :)

Also a few examples:

Song: "I took a walk around the world" (3 Doors Down, "Kryptonite")
Poem: "We are the hollow men" (T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men")
Movie: "You're always sick" (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Show: "Come on, let's say goodnight to your brother" (Supernatural)

Comments

[snowynight]

1)Writing (500)+Planning
2)I finally start working on my fic.
3) I haven't yet been able to deal with the plot hole: A reasonable reason for a secret US military lab to be set up overseas

[insertcode11]

Nice job getting started and very impressive word count so far!! /o/

3.) ...Does the US military need a reason for secret lab overseas? Isn't "paranoid need to be the world's only superpower" enough? XD
The US military has many, many bases around the world. From Germany and other places in Europe to islands in Japan. Not to mention the islands the US hold under their territory. The lab can be held underground any of these bases, using them as fronts.

Maybe? :)

Nice job today! :D

[snowynight]

You're right. :)

[lacygrey]

The US is in NATO, right? Could they be abraod for some sort of collaboration. Or is that not secret enough?

[snowynight]

In the story, the body count of the secret lab makes me think they want to set up somewhere they can blame on other governments, and they want to test out the result too. It's something they want to keep from their allies

[eggcrack]

1. Writing, which went well enough that I finally have a draft for schmoop_bingo amnesty fic!

2. I managed to turn a strange fic idea into a strange idea that works. Woot!

3. Non-writing related stuff at the moment. Understanding backpats are welcome.

4. I'll get back to you. ;)

[insertcode11]

Congrats on the draft! And turning a strange idea into something that works. I always feel particularly victorious and original when something like that happens! :D

3.) Sorry. *understanding backpat* I hope everything gets better soon.

4.) Yes! Please do entertain us make use of the Creative Corner! /o/

[curuchamion]

*sends understanding backpats*

Huzzah for strange ideas that work! :D

[snowynight]

Congratulations!

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for writing!! & *hugs* about the non-writing stuff. I'm so glad to see you around the comm, though--both b/c it's good to see you, but also b/c it's awesome for you to be able to get to the writing... I know you've wanted to for a while!

[littlebutfierce]

I sent my fic to beta yesterday, phew! So there's not much point noodling w/it further until I get it back, of course. I did open the other file for my other main WIP &... looked at it, at least. Maybe later in the week??? Ack.

(BTW, could you please put the marquee text--the scrolling stuff--behind a cut? Thank you very much!)

[insertcode11]

YES! It's awesome that you've gotten to the point that you're able to send it off to be beta'd!! :D

Nah, take a break! Work on that WIP later. You deserve a day or two. ;)

This is my brain on academia.

[charamei]

1,2,3) I haven't started editing yet today. Look at (4) and you will understand why.

4) Okay, so. The only first lines I know off the top of my head are Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Iliad, the Odyssey and Ovid's Amores 1.1. (This is what happens when you have a postgraduate degree in classical literature.) And I suck at drabble-length fic. And I got so bored at work today that I plummeted straight through 'dossing on the Internet' into 'Barmy Academic Mode', and, well, basically what I'm saying is that THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.

(My apologies to Ovid, and my very great apologies to Peter Green, whose translation I have brutally murdered.)

Looms, Torchwood, Gallifrey – I was winding up to produce a
Regular epic, with plot points to match –
Timey-wimey, naturally. But Theta (they say) with a snicker
Lopped off a foot from each character's height.
"Nasty young brat," I told him, "who made you hero of this story?
The Doctor should be an adult, you're not close in age.
What if Martha played operation with young Hath on Messaline,
While blonde Romana had tea with a stuffed K-9?
Who'd stand for Sarah-Jane of Ealing fighting evil in a pram?
Who'd trust the Toddling Huntress with a sharp knife?
Think of the tousled Brigadier parading with a broom-handle,
While small Daleks exterminated Princess Barbie.
Look, boy, you're just not old enough, and a sight too precocious
As it is. Don't get big-headed, quit playing for more.
Or were you always like this? Were you born running? Can't even
Your childhood be safe from fanon these days?
I'd got off to a flying start, clean paper, two magnificent
Opening scenes. Number three brought me down
With a bump. I haven't the plot to suit your frivolous story:
No villain, no girl with a plucky attitude –"
When I'd got so far, voila, he opened his pocket, selected
A setting to lay me low,
Then waved the screwdriver in an arc above his head, and
Cocked a snook. "Hey, ficcer!" he called, "You want a plot? Take that!"
His sonic – worse luck for me – never fails to work:
I'm on fire now, Snail owns the freehold of my brain.
So let my tale shrink to match people with small stature and big problems –
Goodbye to plotty epic, and timey-wimey too!
Come on, then, my Muse, take my hand with a sticky–
Fingered paw, and lead me off in the First Steps groove!

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[insertcode11]

O.O

HOLY SHIT.

That's amazing. Seriously. Just wow. Amazing and fun and incredibly. VERY NICE JOB!! *feels smug that this is my fault*

*FLAIL*

You have me doing this endlessly: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Just so you know. ;)

Though. I may be just a little sorry that this kept you from fic writing.

Just a little, though. But not really. This is too epic to feel sorry for. ♥

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[charamei]

Thank you! (Though, you know. 60% Not-Mine AT LEAST.)

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[curuchamion]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HOW SO AWESOME?????

*is NOT going to write baby!UNIT fic - baby!DS9 fic is hard enough, even with Q helping out*

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[charamei]

BECAUSE OVID WAS A COMIC GENIUS, THAT'S HOW.

Dooooooo iiiiiiit. The Master will help things along, you know he'd find it hilarious...

[lacerta]

1. Better than yesterday. I've smoothed out some plot points and tightened the transition between two scenes a little. The middle section is still very sketchy, but I'm at the point where I can start writing on the big climax.

2. A benevolent computer has been so kind as to communicate with the printer and now I have 36 shiny pages full of text in my hands. That is such a great feeling! :D

3. I've been writing on a sex scene that I really want to happen, but everything I've got so far leaves me completely unfazed. And that is not good.

4. I'll take a pass on the creative corner because I'd probably need all night to chose a quote and then work on my drabble for the rest of the week... (But Hollow Men, Wolverine and Supernatural? Are you me?)

[lacygrey]

1.I edited the first scene 2. which was really fun. 3. Got more RL work in than I expected and certainly more than I wanted. 4. I wish I had time for fun stuff like this but deadlines are looming!

[curuchamion]

1: Two weeks to finals. I ditched online math homework after the first week of class (in despair at the horrible software). Now I'm trying to catch up. ;P

2: I seem to be working on an Actual Premise for worldbuilding about a story idea I came up with when I was, um, five. It wants a lot more research (hint to all aspiring sci-fi writers: don't drop out of high school if you can help it, chemistry and physics are good), but the foundation is solid and the details are coming. I just need to build on them. Huzzah for original fic! :DDDD

3: The typing up of past notes Is Not. They were mostly written when I was either a much worse writer or in a much worse funk than I now am, and they depress me. I'll probably get back to them someday, one story at a time.

4: I'd like to do this, but I can't write to prompts. Never figured it out. How do you start getting from a prompt to a story, anyway?

[snowynight]

The world building sounds interesting. Good luck with this.