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!

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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?

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[dragovianknight]

Today, I wrote unrelated drabbles. But! This was planned into my writing schedule, because I know me.

As for the fanfic flamingo...I love comments. Comments will make me attempt to write more of whatever got me comments. Alas, because I write tiny fandoms or obscure pairings or whatever, I am much more likely to get crickets chirping when I post. The crickets only upset me when I'm in a fandom where I have one or two friends, and I figure at least they could let me know they realize I'm still alive.

I do try to leave comments, even if it's the dreaded "I liked this!" See above re: crickets. (And I've noticed that sometimes, something will go without comments for days, and then I'll comment, and just the existence of a comment seems to draw other comments out of the woodwork. Funny, dat.)

[jagnikjen]

Yay for drabble writing.

[littlebutfierce]

I write tiny fandoms or obscure pairings or whatever, I am much more likely to get crickets chirping when I post.

Heh, I hear you. It's frustrating.

I am impressed that you have a writing schedule (I totally don't at all, ha!) & that you've planned in drabble time! That's awesome, & I can only imagine this works really well for keeping you focused on your main goal fic (having planned time off to write something else, I mean).