Check-in post, day 14

[lola_mento]

We're almost halfway through this month now. How are things going so far? Making any significant progress? Any significant panicking? Any deadlines suddenly creeping in on you, not that it happened to me or anything?

Today's discussion theme is Titles Hard part or hardest part of the story? Where do you get them? And does anyone else ever start with the title, or is it just me?

Comments

[mystiri_1]

I find that writing is pretty tied to my emotional state. When I am depressed, I don't want to write - I may have plenty of ideas, but my motivation to actually *write* is nil. At the same time, writing often helps with my depression, but only if I am doing it in a fairly social setting. RPing used to be pretty good for this, but I am not currently playing anywhere, so it's mostly challenge comms for now. In particular, things like song_prompt or fic_promptly, where it's comment fic, there are hundreds of prompts to choose from, and it's pretty low-pressure, but you are almost guaranteed a response to whatever you write. And sometimes it helps to get away from a big project. Maybe if the times cooperate you could join one of the writing sesions? I used to get a lot written during chat, especially due to the possibility of instant feedback. It's amazingly encouraging, especially to have somebody else tell you that no, your writing doesn't suck even while you're thinking the opposite.