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

[mystiri_1]

I wrote a 3k fic last week without ever stopping to think about what I was writing once, or if I even had a plot, so I'd have to be a pantser. Thinking too hard about it only seems to get me stuck.

Yeterday I left my current flash drive behind, and so couldn't work on current WIPs. But I had an old one, so I checked that out and found many unfinished fics and saved prompt lists from various challenge comms. I started a new AU, and found an old one I really need to finish. On the whole, not bad. At 41% of my monthly goal - 8256/20k.

[jagnikjen]

Awesome job with your word count. :) Keep it up!

[raletha]

3k without thinking about it is awesome. I love it when writing sessions flow like that. It's such a great feeling.

That's a great word count for the month to date, too! Go you!

[mystiri_1]

Thanks! I'm quite proud of myself so far. I picked a high goal because I want to be consistent about getting stuff written; now I just need to keep it up, and this month I might make it.