Checking in on Day 31

[linaewen]

I only had three days of check in posts to do this month, and I totally missed one of them!  Sorry, sorry.

Please share all your awesome word counts from yesterday and today, as well as anything else related to your writing -- how it went (or didn't), whether you met a goal for this month (or didn't), how you are encouraged by what you have done this month (or how you are discouraged).

The question for the day which you can discuss if you are so inclined is:

How do you really feel about having a deadline set on your writing?  Does it help or actually hinder you?

 

Have a great day of writing today!  \o/

Comments

[linaewen]

I wrote 700 words last night -- could have written more if I'd started earlier, but I don't want to ruin my accomplishment by looking at what I DIDN'T accomplish. ;-) I also finished posting past-finished stories in communities where they can be read by people, instead of just keeping them on my computer.

Concerning deadlines, I am finding that for the most part, they help me. I seem to do better when I have a date involved -- even though I very often wait until the last minute to work on stuff. Often the pressure brings greater inspiration.

However, it's really not fun having too many deadlines at once, like is happening to me now. I had a major freak out session last night when I realized how truly frightening the month of June is, with all the Real Life writing and fic-writing deadlines I have facing me. There must be NO procrastinating henceforth -- I mean it! ;-)

[jagnikjen]

Ah, well...yesterday was a good (productive) day, writing and otherwise.

I wrote over 1300 words on a new story, new plot that I like. It has some meat to it and will be challenging in many respects. It'll be a growing/learning process for me. But it'll be slow going as now that June's here I have something else I *must* complete. (it's already my June challenge)

As for may, I completed my challenge with flying colors, so yay for me.

Deadlines are good for me, even self imposed ones.

[in_lighter_ink]

Hmm, yesterday was not a particularly wonderful writing day, but, overall, May has been pretty good! I finished a nearly-8,000 word meme fill, which I think I like well enough to get cleaned up and beta'd and post under my own name. Exciting!

Deadlines, yes. I am a ridiculous procrastinator, so I need something to be accountable to, even if it's self-imposed. (I have a for-real deadline to work to in June, which is even better.)

[jessalae]

My goal for the month was to finish two WIPs for charity auctions. I finished one a few days ago (yay!), but the second one is being rather uncooperative. I wrote about 1700 words yesterday, though, and I now have basically all the pieces of a finished fic; I just need to make them play nicely together. So help me, this thing is going to be beta-able by the end of the day!

Deadlines tend to help rather than hinder. I procrastinate like nobody's business, so it's nice to have a point where I have to get to work. Self-imposed deadlines aren't quite as effective as challenge or other "official" deadlines, but they're better than nothing.

[curuchamion]

I stink at deadlines. If there's any actual penalty attached to them, I freak out entirely. OTOH, non-penalty "deadlines" (like the not!NaNo I just FINISHED YAY ME *ahem*) do tend to motivate me unless I'm really Quite Stressed Out.

Also I wrote more! After I hit 50,025 words! I wrote something like another 500 words today, and it'll be a lot more once I expand it - my characters (the junior batch) decided to put on a random performance of Pirates of Penzance.

...I love these characters. And this story. ♥_______♥

[glitteryv]

I kinda took advantage of the holiday weekend over here in the US (my department was closed Friday through this past Monday) and didn't check-in. HOWEVER, I *did* kept adding words here and there. Not enough to finish my goal fic *grumble*

How do you really feel about having a deadline set on your writing? Does it help or actually hinder you?

With the exception of two challenges (out of the many I've signed up for), I relish deadlines. Because something about zeroing in on that finish line gets me raring and all typey-typey.