Check-In – Day 27

[samuraiter]

Super Tuesday! Or not. If you're not feeling so super, it's just Tuesday, really. How's it going today?

— Thinking. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.
— Writing.
— Planning and / or researching.
— Editing.
— Sending things to the beta.
— Posting!
— Relaxing, taking a break, etc.
— Other stuff-ing. Look at the comment.

When you get to that point where you have to start over on a story (because we've all been there), how much of it do you typically scrap, and how much do you typically keep?

Comments

[summerstorm]

Thinking. Maybe I'll do some planning and writing. We'll see.

[linaewen]

Trying to finish packing while favoring sore knees. Writing is not on the docket, currently.

I try to scrap as little as possible. I usually try to narrow things down to the part of the story where it started going off track, and then start there. One of the times I had to scrap something, I was too far in to start over -- I actually caught it in time and only had to scrap my plan, and not the actual story. But it took a ton of research to figure out how I was going to save things! In the end, the story was better for the change of plan.

[lilly_c]

I wrote a fic in a new fandom last night and I also got a bit of editing done at work today with having a long shift.

It doesn't happen often but I tend to just scrap a fic and have done with it. Although with my WIP Let Me Fade I had to read the entire fic so far to see what I needed to change and what to change for the new chapters. I think I scrapped around 1000 words overall so far and that's with making minor changes to in progress chapters rather than starting it again.

[dirty_diana]

Few hundred words today. Yay me. An upside of slow writing is that I can usually easily backtrack to where things went off the rails? Usually.