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

[babs_bee]

Endings are usually the easiest part for me. I often have the ending in mind before I ever have anything else. Middles are the hardest. I usually have no trouble thinking of how things start and end but how they get from here to there is hard for me. And me? I just slog through it. When I do get stuck on a part, I use a trick that I read from an interview with CJ Cherryh. She said when she gets stuck, she simply writes: And then a miracle happens. and then skips ahead to what she knows she can write. I find it helps--usually if I write the scenes I have in mind, the miracle does come to me.

[littlebutfierce]

She said when she gets stuck, she simply writes: And then a miracle happens. and then skips ahead to what she knows she can write.

Hee, I like this a lot!! I usually just put in a bunch of asterisks or "[deep conversation to be added later]" or something, but I like calling it a miracle; it's like coaxing a miracle to actually happen!