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

[eggcrack]

Late comment, but I posted a scene I've been working on at my journal (fandom is FF7) and am now wondering what to work on next, while also thinking about some original projects. One such project is to write something in Finnish every day because I've been neglecting my first language when it comes to writing.

Now, my problem tends to be with the beginnings. My inspiration tends to come in bits and it's usually the middle parts that come up first, but it can take ages for me to actually get started with a story. Endings tend to be the easiest for me, although sometimes it can be hard to get the right amount of 'punch' in them.

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for posting the scene! Also setting up some goals & projects sounds v. promising!!

I'm so interested that you're the only person so far who seems to like middles, & even think of them first. I love seeing all these glimpses of how people's brains work!

Sometimes I have trouble making my endings have punch too -- I end up just writing a really rough ending just to get there, & then I start subtracting things until it feels right... I think I get kind of explain-y in my fic sometimes, so it becomes an experiment to see how much I can remove, ha!

[eggcrack]

Yay! :D Yeah, it may take me some time to come up with all of the middle that I need, but generally it's the middle that comes first, then I need to build the rest of story around it. Which is probably why I write scenes, vignettes and introspective stuff most of the time: easiest way to get the story down! :P

I tend to ramble a lot so I know what you mean about removing stuff, ha ha! Trimming stuff is probably my most important phase in my editing.