WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 9 --Sunday

[linaewen]

Hello on Sunday!  Today is the first day of a new writing week in our WIP Challenge.  What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet?

•     I thought about my fic once or twice
•     I wrote
•     I did some planning and/or research
•     I edited
•     I've sent my fic off to my beta
•     I posted today!
•     I'm taking a break
•     I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Sunday Discussion:  Dormant or neglected WIPs -- when returning to work on a story that you have not been working on recently, how do you get back into it?  Is it fairly easy to re-familiarize yourself with the plot and characters, or is it difficult to get going again?

Comments

[linaewen]

I've managed to write 600 words so far this morning, so that's fun. It didn't have anything to do with any of my current WIPs, but it was writing nonetheless and has me in a good writing frame of mind.

I am currently trying to get back into a WIP that has been ignored for a few months. It can be difficult to get back into writing a lengthy WIP once I lose track of where I was going; the longer I take to push forward, the more unwieldy it becomes! To get back on track, I usually reread the last couple of chapters I wrote and then work on my outline to be sure I have a good plan. The outline is already worked up and has a lot of good detail, but I tweak it a bit, and make myself read through every part of it to make sure I have the order of possible events in my WIP laid out properly and have a feel for which characters will be featured. This usually gets me back on track. The hardest part of any writing for me is the opening paragraph, but once I get my mind on track and get the first words down, I'm usually off to the races.

[innitmarvelous_og]

I've written some today and hope to write more!

[snowynight]

I revised and posted a undercover as master/slave fic: Made You a Secret (Star Trek: Mirror Universe, Mirror!Kirk/Mirror!Spock, NC17, fantasy AU): http://archiveofourown.org/works/10578996

Discussion: I always feel strange reading my neglected wip, and am tempted to delete everything, so a lot of them stay neglected.

[frogfarm]

If a dormant piece wants to be finished, it will let you know in no uncertain terms. Last year I finished two stories that had been sitting for over a decade -- one actually started, the other never even started past the idea stage -- and it was like a hot knife through butter. Now if only my abandoned series would demand I pick it up again...