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

[linaewen]

I forgot all about an important project that needs doing right away, so I had to scramble to work on that today instead of fic, sigh! Ah, well, I'll get back to the fic soon enough. It's not like it's going to go anywhere without me. ;-)

I struggle some with each of those from time to time -- beginning, middle and end. Beginnings are often difficult, because I know what I want to accomplish, but the first words of a tale or a chapter seem like they need to be significant, and it's not easy to find how to start. The end can be tricky sometimes when I want it to come but people just keep talking!! :-D But usually I just go until the end comes, and when it does, I know it's the right place to stop. It's an intuition kind of thing. ;-) If I'm lucky, sometimes I know the end before I start, and I just have to write the in between stuff!

[xpaperplanex]

Middles are the hardest for me, with ends coming in a close second. I tend to get really good beginnings where I know exactly what I want to happen, and I'll have ideas for an ending, but getting from the beginning to the end is a bit nightmarish. That's where I'm currently stuck. I have the beginning, and I know where I want it to end up, I just need to write all this silly in between stuff. But I managed about 700 words of silly in between stuff last night, so I'm plugging away at it.

[littlebutfierce]

Go you for the 700 words! Especially for the dreaded middle!! Good luck finding enough of the in-between stuff to finish off the fic.

[littlebutfierce]

Boooo on non-fic projects rearing their heads! Hope you managed to get it taken care of, & that you get to get back to the fic soon.

I so hear you on characters who just. keep. TALKING when all you want to do is finish the darn story!!