WIP Challenge - Check In Day 14 - Thursday

[the_rck]

Poll #16683

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Yesterday and today I

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planned
2 (28.6%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
6 (85.7%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
2 (28.6%)

posted
1 (14.3%)

rested
1 (14.3%)

did something else
1 (14.3%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.00 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.31

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (14.3%)
5		2 (28.6%)
6		1 (14.3%)
7		2 (28.6%)
8		1 (14.3%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

How much advance planning do you do for each fic? Do you outline? Do you know how the story will end before you start?

I almost never know where my stories are going until I'm well into them. I tend to start writing and see where the characters take me. That works well under 5000 words but not so well beyond that. It also doesn't work if I don't have a clear idea of what the characters want. I don't outline, but I do come up with a rough idea, at least for longer stories, of a variety of things that might happen. I may or may not write those down. I do know pretty much how my really long WIP will end, but I think that's at least partly because I've written some stuff that comes after that point in time (and some of what I've written on the WIP since then contradicts things I put in the post-fic writing).

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[linaewen]

I edited a chapter and posted it, and did some writing on a challenge story. I'm putting it aside to come back to later, as I'm not sure yet if it is done or if it needs more work.

I usually know where my longer tales are going, and have an outline to help me get there -- though it's not always detailed and often includes more than one possibility which I choose when I actually get to the point in question. I have a pretty good idea of how my long WIPs will end, though the endings still somewhat in flux. My shorter fics sometimes end differently than I expect, and I'm not always sure where they will go, especially if I am working to a prompt.