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

[littlebutfierce]

Sooooo tired today--typical me on a Friday. Did some unexciting snippets for my 750 Words for today, but nothing else. I feel like this week has hardly contained any fic-writing at all for me, so I'm hoping the writing session tomorrow will get me back on track a little; I kind of miss feeling really stuck into a particular fic!

I'm a little bit of a plotter & a little bit of a pantser, but given that I don't write longfic, this has less impact than it might.

[raletha]

I tend to think anything is better than nothing when it comes to writing, but it is even better when you can get into that deep groove with a story.

I think you're right about length. I was fine pantsing my way through stories of up to ~10K words and thought my method was okay. It was falling flat on my face with a longer story (A WIP I was posting while pantsing had readers asking for more, and I totally stalled on it at ~25K. It's been years since I updated. It blew my writing confidence into smithereens.) that finally got me thinking seriously about narrative structure and the necessity of planning.

I hope you have a relaxing weekend with some good writing time!

[jagnikjen]

I hope you get refreshed soon.