WIP Challenge - Check In Day 10 - Wednesday

[the_rck]

Poll #16753

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Yesterday and today I

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planned
1 (20.0%)

researched
1 (20.0%)

wrote
3 (60.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
1 (20.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.00 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.00

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		2 (50.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		2 (50.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

When you write, do you have an audience in mind? That is, do you write thinking about how people will react to the story or with the intention of pleasing specific people? Or do you write entirely for yourself, following the story that calls to you without thinking about who might read it?

Most of the time, I write with one specific person in mind. Sometimes, it's a person I've been matched with for an exchange, and sometimes, it's a friend who has mentioned being interested in something specific. I find that I'm more likely to finish a story if I have someone specific in mind to show it to.

I do sometimes write things just for me, but those are likely to be fragmentary and not to go anywhere. Usually, I do this when I'm in the mood to write a particular sort of story and don't have anything in my WIP folder that fits.

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[fred_mouse]

for a value of 'wrote' that means I worked out the starting sentence/paragraph in the car on the way home, but haven't put it down yet. It needs work, so that it turns from a run on sentence to a paragraph, but the fandom is Pride and Prejudice, so I'm okay with run on sentences.

I'm so happy to have worked out a way in to writing this story. It was supposed to be 500 words of pining and no real plot, dammit.

At the moment I'm writing for myself, except for the fact that I made the mistake of commenting on my 'get myself writing' project to published!author friend, who is keen to read anything in P&P...

[dirty_diana]

made some progress working out what's next in a stalled story. I definitely think about general audience expectations as that's a fun part of the challenge for me. Whether I want to roll with said expectations or subvert them in the end.

[linaewen]

I've been working on RL stuff the last few days, so about the only writing thing I have worked on is correcting a significant recurring typo in one of my long WIPs that I didn't realize I was making until a reader mentioned it.

Unless I'm working on a gift fic where the prompt is provided the person getting the story, I write for myself. Even so, I am aware of what readers might be expecting and I might take it into account if it works with my own ideas, and I have been known to reconsider something if a reader who I value makes a good case for it. There is only one story where I was actually including a particular reader as the target, but I think now that I am doing the story injustice to some extent by limiting it in this way, so I may expand it a bit in future chapters.

[samuraiter]

The audience I have in mind is usually me, first and foremost, unless I'm writing for an exchange, where the audience is provided for me ahead of time.