WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 25 -- Monday

[linaewen]

Hello on Monday! What kind of a writing day has it been today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going 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

Discussion: Do you like to do research? Do you do most of your research prior to writing, during writing, or a mix of both?

Comments

[linaewen]

I wrote yesterday! Finished a short fic and posted it. I also worked on a second fic, which I will hopefully post today after making sure it is ready to go. I should have opportunity to work on more writing at some point today, so hopefully I can report more writing tomorrow.

I love research -- my training is as a reference librarian, so I have a great time finding all the bits of info I need for my writing. The internet is such a blessing to me! Of course, I tend to get distracted and go off on all kinds of rabbit trails, but I feel that all that "extra" research is helpful even if I don't specifically use it in a story. I do most of my research prior to writing, but I always have to confirm something in the midst of writing, or something comes up that I didn't think of to begin with, so I pretty much research throughout the writing process.

[lilly_c]

Yay for posting :D hope you get your other fic posted too.

[lilly_c]

I had an early finish at work today and I have the same finish time tomorrow, so I have some finished fics looked out and opened, barring a little minor editing mostly for SPaG, I can get those up after work tomorrow and on Wednesday which is my day off.

I do research when I'm working with something I'm not familiar with and can't ask friends in rl for advice. I also count canon review/refresh as research even when I'm diverting from actual canon for whatever reason.

[samuraiter]

*grumbles*

I got a nasty cut on one finger, so typing is a bit of a pain today. As for research, I usually do it on the fly while I'm writing. ... Wasn't always that easy, though. On the Oldternet, I had to do it all while I had Internet access, then keep handwritten notes while I wrote on an old DOS machine.

[terabient]

I...thought about my fic while doing errands today, and that's about it. :c

I LOVE research, and I usually discover a lot of information that, while not directly related to what I'm writing at the moment, sparks an idea for another fic. Sometimes I get caught up in looking up new information at the expense of actually writing, though, so recently I've tried to limit how long I spend researching at a time.