WIP challenge check-in: day 3!

[littlebutfierce]

I love all the cheerleading & commiserating going on in yesterday's check-in post! Yay! How's it going today?

Poll #6857 Day 3 May WIP challenge check-in!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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All right, how's the fic feeling today?

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I AM A GENIUS
1 (6.7%)

Not bad!
10 (66.7%)

SHUT UP SHUT UP
1 (6.7%)

...
3 (20.0%)

And what did you do today, fic-wise?

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Write
10 (66.7%)

Edit
2 (13.3%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Research
1 (6.7%)

Procrastinate
7 (46.7%)

Something else I will describe in comments
1 (6.7%)

3 words or less to describe your fic today:

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And in keeping with the fanfic flamingo theme, let's talk about comments. The flamingo has a lot to say about comments.

I think I can identify with all of those images, heh. My favorite might be this one, though:



[Background — a six piece pie style colour split in three shades of pink. Foreground — the long neck and face of a pink flamingo.

Top text: POUR HEART AND SOUL INTO FEMMESLASH EPIC

Bottom text: 5 COMMENTS]

So! Comments! Do you find them a big motivator? Do you find yourself working more on stories that you anticipate will get a lot of comments? Or maybe you're in a tiny fandom or your OTP is really obscure/unpopular: do you find that this means you don't worry about getting comments (maybe it just makes you really, really want the one comment from the one person who'll get the story!)? Are they icing on the cake, but not something you think about while you're actually writing a story? Do you not care at all (or try not to)? Be honest!

&, importantly, do you leave comments yourself?

Comments

[curuchamion]

So! No more progress on my fic, as I unexpectedly got taken away to vote and then go to church. I did, however, get to do some scribbling while waiting for my sisters to finish work (they were clerking at polling places), and figured out that the "two different stories" I thought I'd come up with were in fact a frame story and a flashback.

So apparently I'm writing, in fact, two stories about the same guys at different points in their lives? I'll worry about the linear structure later... right now, it seems I have an asexual male/male romance in the 1970s/'80s and a modern-day "kids visit small-town relatives, have summer fun" story to write. O_O

Thank goodness I like these guys. I'm apparently going to be seeing a lot of them. (But Mort, try to keep the potty-mouth to a minimum, huh?)

[jagnikjen]

Good luck with your story ideas.

[littlebutfierce]

Oooh, that's really cool that you were able to find a way to connect the two story-pieces you have. Sounds like a good plan!!