Daily Check-In Post: May 18, 2011

[jagnikjen]

All right--we are halfway through the week!!!

Tell us how your day has gone, writing wise:

Awesome!
Pretty good.
On schedule.
Okay.
Like crap.
I took the day off.

Discussion questions:

When do you write best? Late at night, early in the morning, or sometime in between?

Where do you like to write?

Do you like it quiet or do you like to be around people, like at Starbucks? Or do you listen to music when you write?

What's your average words per day/words per week?

Comments

[anyssia]

Didn't write anything yesterday, my browser crashed and I spent my evening (and tonight as well) retrieving the various pages I had opened one month ago -_-"

BUT! I took advantage of my lunch break today and got 928 words down \O/ So happy. I think I going to try and take at least 20 min at lunch break to write, from now on. That way, even if I don't have the time in the evening, I won't feel so angry with myself ;p

[jagnikjen]

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about your browser crash. I hope you can everything back.

But YAY for new words. 928 is awesome!! :)

[anyssia]

I almost got everything. Think I'll have to spend some time on it again tonight. I really shouldn't keep that many pages open for so long ^^;;

Yep, I was pretty surprised when I saw the total. I use Q10 to write, so it doesn't show the pages and the amount of writing already done. I found it very useful, as that way I'm not checking my progress every five minutes ^^ I hope I'll do it again today \O/ ;p

[glitteryv]

Oh, browser crashes suck. Booo to them!

OTOH, \o/ for all those new words!

[anyssia]

Yup. Wouldn't suck that much if I didn't open that many pages for that long. I had 30 or 40 pages opened, some for a month, so to get them back from the history is a bit of a challenge.

I love my writer software! I didn't even realize that I had wrote that much so it was a lovely surprise when I looked at the number at the end of my break ;p

[littlebutfierce]

798 words on a possible comment fic. That's all right. It felt like a slog today, though.

I usually end up writing in the early to mid evening, but I'm a morning person generally. Not enough to get up early to write before work, though!

I like to have music on, usually just iTunes on shuffle, but sometimes I'll try & find music that walks that line between being too familiar/too distracting & being appropriate/inspirational for the fic.

Average daily wordcount is probably about 700--I don't always write fic for my 750 Words, but then on days when I do sometimes I write more, so it probably evens out.

[jagnikjen]

Fantastic word count. Keep up the good work.

What's a comment fic?

[littlebutfierce]

Comment fic is fic posted as a comment to a prompt (left in a comment) -- like kink memes or fic_promptly. :)

[glitteryv]

798 words for commentfic is a good thing. Way to go!

[littlebutfierce]

Thank you!!

[curuchamion]

I have to be alone to write much, and I can't be listening to music (especially not if it has words of any sort).

I'm finding that sitting down after work to churn out a few thousand words, letting my Inner Editor frown rhinocerously at them overnight, and then writing down its suggested edits the next morning before work is a good plan if I can make the time. (The edits usually fix a scene that just wasn't working the night before, and often add a hundred or so words as well.)

Proof of the pudding: I wrote over 3600 words last night, and 400+ more this morning. :D

[jagnikjen]

WOW, go you!!! Great word count.

[glitteryv]

Dude, that's SOME pudding. *g* Congrats on all those words!

[jagnikjen]

Well, my day was AWESOME, I have to say.

I finished and posted my fic, so I am on track with my challenge. AND I have started and am almost finished with next week's fic. It's just a rough draft, but I'll be able to finish it by the weekend, I'm sure, it's pretty short.

I write best whenever, except too late at night since I am not a night owl. I started getting up early again this week to write, so that has been nice. In the mornings I go in the living room and in the evening when my family is home I usually write in my room, but I do leave the door open. Their TV watching doesn't usually bother me as it's nothing I'm interested in--otherwise I'd be out there watching with them. ;P

Music is harder, especially, as others have said, if it has words. But classical is okay if it's an album or soundtrack and not on the radio station as part of programming. I don't mind people too much, but it also depends on who it is.

Average words per week is probably 2000-2500.

[glitteryv]

I wish I could be a morning person so that I could have that oomph to write early in the day. The few times I've tried, I've been totally miserable throughout the day. /o\

Anyhoo, yays for posted fic and being on track to finishing another one. *gives thumbs up*

[glitteryv]

300 words today. Way less than what I wanted to achieve. Therefore, today, I'm feeling that my writing time was crap. >:(

I couldn't focus on the fic (though I expanded my outline notes so that I know what I need to have the characters do in order to get the plot going. )

My best writing is after dinner. Since I don't watch much live TV (or, TV in general, really), I tend to sit down and tussle with my fics anywhere from one to two and a half hours depending on what I'm working on, if there's a hard deadline, etc. I wouldn't think of writing in a crowded place (Starbucks, library, wherever there are people talking and moving around me.) Music is OK--though usually not necessary.

Average words per week work out to 2k to 3k.

[jagnikjen]

Still, 300 words is progress, though it sucks that you didn't get to write as many as you hoped.

[snowynight]

I write 1200 words of Disney Belle/Esmeralda femslash, It's fun to write.

I usually write in the early afternoon before a computer. Sometimes I play music. Sometimes I don't Sound doesn't affect me much.

My word count varies but usually several hundred words a day.

[jagnikjen]

1200 words is fantastic. Walt Disney is probably rolling over in his grave. ;P