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]

Those kind of snapshots are often the way my stories start, too: some vivid image, emotion, or atmosphere I want to capture and develop.

Asking those kind of questions really does help develop plot points, and it does it organically, too, which works really well for me, too. I don't like imposing an arbitrary plot on my characters and setting; I like it to flow more naturally from that starting concept.

Hope the 50K is going well! *shakes pom poms*