WIP challenge check-in: day 11!

[littlebutfierce]

It's the weekend! Does that mean time to work on fic, or are there too many other things you have going on?

Poll #7252 Day 11 check-in!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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What ficcish things did you do today?

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Write
6 (60.0%)

Edit
4 (40.0%)

Send to beta
1 (10.0%)

Post
0 (0.0%)

Procrastinate
5 (50.0%)

Research
0 (0.0%)

Something else I will describe in comments
1 (10.0%)

How many words, if any, did you write today?

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1-249
1 (16.7%)

250-499
2 (33.3%)

500-749
1 (16.7%)

750-999
1 (16.7%)

1000 or more
1 (16.7%)

And how are you feeling about it all?

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& a discussion topic: Beginnings! Middles! Endings! Every story has these. Which are you best at? Which do you hate? How do you try to drag yourself through the worst section of the story in order to get it done?

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[littlebutfierce]

I wrote around 850 words on my poor little help_japan fic, but couldn't bring myself to sit down & start editing the fic (er, not that it's done, but it's inching closer).

I'm definitely worst at endings. Sometimes the characters just keep talking & I think, I have to shut them up! Where's a good point to end things? &... one doesn't always present itself.

Beginnings are easiest for me to write, & not just b/c I'm good at making myself write through the crap. I mean, even when I warm up my brain & excise the crap I wrote, what's left as the beginning of the story often gets to its final form the quickest.

Middles... eh. Sometimes I just flounder around in the middle of the story for a while.

I try to tell myself I should just get a rough draft done, no matter how crappy, & I can edit from there, b/c things will be clearer once I can see the whole story. It... doesn't always work. But sometimes it does!

[glitteryv]

High-five for all those new words!

I hear you on having that moment of "I should wait til the draft is done" vs. "but I want to start fixing it NAO!"

[littlebutfierce]

Thank you! & yeah... sometimes it feels easier to edit bits as I go along -- partly cuz then I get a break from work on the fic always being writing, adding new words, etc. And then that's a little bit less editing to do at the end, & sometimes it clarifies things as I write further.

But editing often takes so much more brain than just pounding out more words, heh.