Check-in post, days 12 & 13 + Weekly beta-seeking/snippet-posting/general chatter

[lola_mento]

Long time no seeing you. (Yesterday was one of Those Days when nothing gets ever done, including posts.)

Making any progress lately? Feeling like murdering someone already? Got completely distracted from whatever you were doing? Wait, that's me.

Today's discussion subject: are you more of a plotter (someone who has to know beforehand how the story goes) or a pantser (someone who makes it up as they go)? Plotter or pantser? describes some different types of each. I've seen these terms mostly from pro-writing novelists, where it's used as a thing of outline-or-no-outline, but for fannish writing, a more general planning-or-no-planning works better, I think.

And! This is also the weekly post where you can:

-Make a request for a beta reader/someone to bounce ideas from/something else you may need

-Post a snippet of your WIP

-Chat about anything else

Comments

[lola_mento]

I haven't done much in the way of fic writing this week and I failed almost all my sanity rolls, hence my lack of comments. Now I had sudden inspiration for one of the horribly, horribly late fanfics I still insist in finishing and posting somehow, so I'm feeling vaguely optimistic.

Re: plotter vs. pantser, I'm mostly a plotter, of the keeping-it-inside-their-heads kind. I need to have an idea of what I'm going to write about, or things don't go very well. But when I start writing, I often change my mind about what I wanted to do and have to rethink it. On the other hand, when I mostly improvise, like in my current never-ending WIP, I end up flailing a lot.

[raletha]

I failed almost all my sanity rolls

Weeks like this are hard (But what a great way to describe them!). I hope you're feeling a bit better. And even better to have fresh inspiration for old missed deadlines. I have a few of those lurking on my HD. I don't consider them abandoned, even though its been years for some of them. Oi.

Good luck with the never-ending WIP!

[crystal]

Isn't it funny how those late fics always seem to revive themselves?

I flail too, when I have to improvise. It always turns out remarkably stupid. Once I wrote an exchange fic and changed my plot four times in the week before it was due. Writing hell.

Hope your sanity rolls aren't failing anymore!

[jagnikjen]

*hugs*

I hope the coming week goes better for you!