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

[dchan]

Most of what I've written before has been vignettes in the 1-2k range, so there isn't a lot of plotting involved, really. I sort of decide the theme of the stor and let the characters run from there.

For longer, more plotty pieces I have a tendency to fall mostly in the KP category, but that actually doesn't describe all of the prep work I do because I have a tendency to obsessively worldbuild and/or research. I may end up having a single page bullet list of all of the basic plot outline, and then five or six pages of notes on setting and even what the characters are wearing in each scene and huge long character profiles (if I am writing something with original characters I haven't worked with before). I spend a lot of time building up the setting and getting familiar with the way the characters think, and then I sort of let them run from there.

On the writing front, I got into a car crash this morning and totalled my car, so my writingbrain is shot for the next few days at least. I think I'm going to try to do some canon review and/or playlist building in the meantime to keep my brain primed until I start feeling coherent again.

[jagnikjen]

Oh my goodness, I hope you are okay...(I'm assuming you are, then, since you're here posting.) Definitely take it easy and recover from that.

[dchan]

I'm fine! I managed to get through it without even a scratch on me even though my car was going at freeway speeds when it started spinning out of control. I've been more stiff and sore from sleeping on lousy mattresses! I've been warned that it may take a few days for stuff to show up though, so I will be on the watch for any developing injuries/soreness. But so far I feel completely fine physically.

The car, on the other hand....Uh, let's just say that car isn't going to be driving anywhere again.

[raletha]

Yikes! I also hope you continue to be okay, emotionally as well as physically. That's such a frightening thing. Make sure you take time to rest up and feel better. Reviewing canon sounds like a good way to help do just that. Best of luck!