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

[raletha]

The last two days I have actually managed to write. This is good! Time and energy had been in such short supply, but life seems to be easing up just a little -- just enough to get some solid creative brain time in!

Have written only about 250 words today so far (but I am still going!) and yesterday ~750 words.

Snippet? Kinda rough and mediocre, but it's the cleanest part of the current chapter I am writing. ^^;;


Gundam Wing :: Treize/Quatre :: warning for mention of underage sex

Quatre is studying my hand with his own, his fingers trailing up each of mine, lightly, carefully. Descending to stroke ticklishly across my palm. “You pilot MOBILE suits,” he says.

“I do.” I see no reason to lie about this. It is not uncommon knowledge, though nothing I care to advertise while I am on a diplomatic mission.

Quatre nods. “And you helped design the Leo prototype.”

“Yes, the Tallgeese,” I say, giving Quatre its true name.

“Tallgeese,” Quatre murmurs, “It's beautiful.” I am surprised. It's a different aspect of Quatre, one I had not seen before: an admiration of the machines of War. He and I may not be so different after all.

“It's good when someone sees that,” I say. “It's more than a MOBILE suit, it's an ideal.”

“An ideal?”

“Of the proper conduct of war. Of who a warrior should be.” I stretch beside him, and prop myself up on my elbow. Conversations of war in the afterglow are an old comfort, one I have not enjoyed since Zechs.

As far as being a plotter or a pantser, I used to be a total pantser, but I have been exercising my plotter muscles so I can achieve longer, cohesive, and well structured stories. I am now something of a hybrid (KP or BP according to the linked article). I plan out the major points of my story, but let myself find my own my way between them as I write. It seems to be working out okay, kinda like playing connect the dots with artistic license. It seems to have the advantages of both approaches for me.

I also tend to write my scenes out of sequence. I struggle to write linearly. So even when I was only pantsing, I would get, not so much an outline, but a rough sketch of my story long before I finished it.

Hope everyone has had a great week!

[jagnikjen]

Awesome number of words you have there--great job, keep it going.

And that was a lovely little snippet. Thanks for sharing.

[raletha]

Thank you! I am liking it better today after having slept on it. :)