WIP challenge day 6 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Time for today's check-in! How are things going today?

Poll #7203 WIP challenge day 6 check-in!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

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What have you been up to today, fic-wise?

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Writing
5 (55.6%)

Editing
0 (0.0%)

Sending to beta
0 (0.0%)

Posting fic
1 (11.1%)

Procrastinating
3 (33.3%)

Researching
0 (0.0%)

Something else (tell us what in comments!)
3 (33.3%)

And how do you feel about that?

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Meh
3 (33.3%)

I AM A GENIUS
2 (22.2%)

Mildly satisfied
4 (44.4%)

I hate it
0 (0.0%)

Are you on track for your goals for this month?

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Yes
3 (33.3%)

I'm ahead!
0 (0.0%)

I'm behind
1 (11.1%)

I'm so behind I hate you for even asking
1 (11.1%)

Too early to tell
4 (44.4%)

And my favorite question! In 3 words or less, how are you feeling about the fic?

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And for a discussion topic: Present or past tense in your fics? Do you use both at different times? (In different fics, I mean: not in that pre-beta stage where you accidentally keep switching... or is that just me?) Do you prefer one or the other in the fic you read? Does it make a difference what kind of fic it is?

Comments

[linaewen]

I wrote 1,800 words today! And I'm as good as finished with my one-shot -- it needs some kind of wrap-up paragraph and some editing of the part I whipped up today, but it's essentially finished. What a relief! I shirked some rather important work today to get that much writing time in, but it was worth it. ;-)

I'm also pleased that my Big Bang fic that is due next month has had its deadline extended two whole weeks, so I am feeling quite optimistic at the moment about finishing some things!

For discussion: I generally use past tense, and I prefer it; but now and then, I use present tense for effect in certain fics -- usually only short ones, since it's hard to sustain present tense for too long, I find!

[mystiri_1]

1800 words - nice work! And good luck with your BB!

[littlebutfierce]

Wow!! Congratulations on all those words, & being nearly done w/your one-shot!

& phew, good news on having your big bang deadline extended. \o/

That's a good point about it being hard to keep present tense going in a longer fic -- something I have, uh, never had to consider, since all my fics are pretty short. ;) But yeah, that makes sense, & goes along w/what I feel like is the immediacy of a fic. The fic I just posted yesterday was in present tense & was originally supposed to be 12 drabbles (hey, if you average out the wordcount, it's... almost sort of 100 words each?) -- so, yeah, pretty short. & each was just supposed to be a snapshot.