WIP Challenge - Check In Day 8 - Monday

[the_rck]

Poll #16750

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Yesterday and today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
3 (60.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (20.0%)

posted
3 (60.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
1 (20.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.60 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.62

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

When you have two fannish things with approaching deadlines, how do you decide which to focus on? Do you work on the one with the closest deadline, the one that will require the least/most work, or the one you care about most? Or are you smart enough never to do that to yourself?

Rather than try to answer this (because I'm dithering right now), I think I'll go flip a coin.

Comments

[linaewen]

What I wrote today was for a Real Life project, but I've been uninspired for it all weekend, so it was refreshing to finally break through the block and get it started. I did some fic editing for posting, and was encouraged by a couple of reviews right away.

Choosing between fandoms is difficult -- normally I don't have to worry much because most of my writing is in a single fandom, but I sometimes have two different stories that require a choice. I usually try focusing on the one that has the closest deadline, but often end up doing the one that requires the least amount of work! The ones I care about the most are the ones that get put off because they tend to need the most work.

I do have a between-two-fandoms decision to make, though; I want to write in one fandom but the other fandom's story is ALMOST finished and it would be SO nice to actually finish something one of my multi-chapter fics....

[samuraiter]

Broke my good streak by Dealing With Life ™ again today. *sigh* But I'll carry on.

Closest deadline always comes first.