WIP challenge - day 5 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Checking in! We're inching towards the end of the week. How's it going today?

Poll #6888 Day 5 check-in!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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How's the fic going today?

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Fantastic
3 (21.4%)

All right
3 (21.4%)

Creeping along
5 (35.7%)

Not going anywhere at all
3 (21.4%)

We're nearing the end of the 1st week of the challenge. Are you:

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Behind schedule for your goal
3 (23.1%)

Ahead of schedule for your goal
1 (7.7%)

On track for your goal
5 (38.5%)

It's too early to tell
4 (30.8%)

What did you do today, fic-wise?

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Write
6 (54.5%)

Edit
3 (27.3%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Research
1 (9.1%)

Procrastinate
2 (18.2%)

Something else I will describe in comments
3 (27.3%)

Three words or less about your fic!

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& today's discussion question brought to you by me having no time at all for fic today. Oh, & by the flamingo, of course. Let's talk procrastination! We all have days where, sadly, offline obligations prevent us from writing fic. But how do we prevent ourselves from writing fic? How do you slack off when you do, technically, have the time to devote to fic? Can you persuade yourself that it's not procrastination, but research or taking a break or catching up on other things? What's the difference if so? & how do you fight off the urge to procrastinate?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Excellent!! Go you! Also, that thing where you don't have to sign up until the first draft is due sounds really, really useful & encouraging for people.

Yeah, I find it really hard sometimes to shut out the noise of the internet. I've cut out a lot of social media stuff but have jumped headfirst into others, &... it's too much, sometimes.

Do you use Firefox? I feel like it runs really slow for me sometimes even if I have just a few tabs open (a complaint I've heard from other people). I use Chrome when I want two different logins (I have my main Gmail open in Firefox but the spreadsheet for the drabblefest in my journal is linked to my fannish e-mail, f'rex, so I open that in Chrome). But maybe I ought to jump ship to it finally for real.

[mystiri_1]

I'm currently using Firefox 3.6. It doesn't run any slower for me when I have multiple tabs open, but when I tried Firefox 4 it killed my delicious add-ons and kept freezing so I had to roll back a version. Firefox 4 also has its tabs right up the top, and cuts toolbars to a minumum. It's supposed to leave more actual webpage in view, but I can't see the tabs as easily to navigate between pages when I am updating AO3 or different journals/comms, and the toolbars I have at the moment are ones that I want.