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?

Comments

[jagnikjen]

I worked on my challenge fic a little this morning and then cranked out a drabble that needs a bit of refining (meaning I need to lose about 36 words) and started another drabble that may end up not being a drabble after all. And I worked on a re-watch writeup for Friday Night Lights.

Beginnings, middles, or ends...I don't know which I'm best at or which I'm worst at. I think endings are hardest. Beginnings easiest. Middles could be hard if any of my fics were actually long enough to really have a middle. :( In the romance genre, they don't call 'em sagging middles for no reason. ;P

[jagnikjen]

A quick update to say I have edited the drabble, cut the requisite number of words and have exactly 100 left. YAY!

But now it's off to bed...

[glitteryv]

Yay for working on your challenge fic. :)

Middles are sag-magnets, that's for sure.

[msmcknittington]

In the romance genre, they don't call 'em sagging middles for no reason. ;P

When in doubt, add a kidnapping!

At least, that's how a lot of romances seem to get around the sagging middle phenomenon.

[littlebutfierce]

Heh, I am one of those terrible people that thinks drabbles don't have to be exactly 100 words. I know this means half of fandom wants to kill me & half agrees w/me.

But anyway--yay for getting the drabble done, whatever length you went w/!!! Also re-watching canon=yay!

& augh, sagging middles, indeed! I think shortfic (well, maybe not drabbles) can still have middles--at least I definitely feel like there are middles to mine. Or at least... there's a coherent beginning & something of an ending, both of which I may feel reasonably confident about, & then... what's left in the fic, augh.