WIP Check-in -- Day 21

[glitteryv]

Two days into the week. How are y'all feeling?

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Today . . .

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was excellent! (I wrote stuff!)
3 (42.9%)

was good! (I edited my fic)
1 (14.3%)

was OK (I brainstormed, did research, etc.)
3 (42.9%)

was meh (I procrastinated/avoided my fic like whoa!)
1 (14.3%)

was relaxed (I took a break)
0 (0.0%)

was something I will talk about in my comments
1 (14.3%)

Question of the day: Do you post your fic anywhere else than at your journal? If you post at an archive, do you post WIPs there too?

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[glitteryv]

My brain was a bit fizzy after a long day at work so, I mostly sat down and went through the first half of my big bang. Then, I went and added 500 words to the other big bang.

In addition to my journal, I post all my fics over at AO3. It works for me, I can edit to my heart's content and I also can (if I want to) dl my fic into my nook (ebook reader.) There *is* a main archive for due South (one of my two main fandoms), but posting is a bit of a pain.

I can imagine there's a Bandom archive somewhere, but I haven't really looked for it.

[curuchamion]

I post all my fics (except comment!fic, duh) to my journal first. If I post WIPS (which is seldom), they only go on my journal. I always let a given story percolate on my journal for a while before posting it anywhere else, because some of this stuff is bad and I don't realize it till afterwards.

As to writing: today was OK. I wrote all the canon part of a... thing what I am doing - I call it the Security Logs project. What it is, is novelizing / expanding episodes of Deep Space Nine from Odo's POV. Today I worked on "Babel", and got as far as novelizing all the canon parts and jotting down what filler-scenes I need to write. Next task: go through from the beginning, write the filler scenes and rewrite the canon scenes, making it into a coherent Odo-centric story with an arc. (I can put in missing scenes, add tags, prequels, whatever I want; I just can't change anything that was seen onscreen. My project, my rules. *g*)

I also brainstormed with a friend on another fic which is kicking my tail. More on that later. O_O I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I'M EVEN WRITING THIS OKAY.

[linaewen]

I want to read this when it's ready! "Babel" is one of my favorite DS9 episodes ever (I am a major Chief O'Brien fan)! To see it all through Odo's eyes would be amazing.

[lexicalcrow]

AU big bang fic now at 7.2k. :D Progress! Also, my Prisoner torrentz have finished downloading and I have ideas of what to do with the machine that swaps minds into different bodies. Because I have a transgendered character and I can maybe see it being used to persuade him into complying. Mwahaha. Even though he doesn't really know anything. But they don't know that. /devious Sasha is devious.

My scenes are all kind of short too, which is nice. Adds to the tension. No one's rambling on for pages in a bid to stall things. :D What's great is that most of my cast have NFI what's going on and I am enjoying making them all scared and paranoid. 8D Is it wrong I'm enjoying this so much? Because I totally am. XD

At least I'm confident I'll have a rough draft done by the end of the month. That's one less thing to worry about. Just need to wait til I get my queer fest fic back too and once that's been tidied up, I can post it and then finally, it'll all be done. 8D And then I can go do other things. XD

As for the question, I used to just post things to LJ/DW and maybe any relevant communities, but I'm still stuck with a lot of fandoms of one, so they don't usually go past my writing comm. But I do post some of my good fic to AO3. I probably would've posted WIPs there if AO3 had been around when I was writing WIPs and posting them as I wrote them, but I don't really do that any more and the only thing closest to a WIP up there are a couple of universes that comprise of a series of stand-alone fics. So it's a collection of fics in a distinct universe bundled into a 'series'. But not what I'd call a proper WIP.

[msmcknittington]

Last night (after midnight!) I wrote a few paragraphs. HOORAY. I also discovered the file for a scene that I wrote forever ago that I thought I had dreamed up writing. But no, I just named it something inscrutable. The best part is that it fits in perfectly with the rehashing of the plot I did last week, so apparently I was thinking about that before I was even thinking about it.

Everything I've finished recently I've published at Archive of Our Own . . . because it has been for Yuletide. I have seriously low output, since everything I short I sit down to write rapidly turns epic, unless I'm barreling towards a deadline. I do have some things posted on LJ that I haven't migrated over to DW or AO3 yet, though. And I've learned not to post WIPs, because I rarely finish them in a timely manner.

[linaewen]

I'm feeling like I better buckle down and get working on my fic! However, today wasn't the day to start.

Today was Tuesday, and that means "crazy hectic and worn down to a frazzled nubbin" day. Thus, I avoided writing because I was too tired when I finally got free of it. Instead, I prepared for a project I have going for tomorrow so that I could work tomorrow morning on my writing. Hopefully that will work the way I am planning it will and I'll actually write instead of thinking about the project. ;-)

I post my stuff in several places. I have an LJ where everything goes; I haven't actually started posting properly at DW as yet. I also post everything in 3 different fandom-related archives, and I have a couple of things at AO3 and Fanfiction.net. I'm just getting going at Ao3, but I imagine I'll eventually get my best stuff up there. That may seem like overkill to have it in so many places, but each one seems to get slightly different readers, so it works out. All my WIPs go in those places as well; some of them have an alert system set up so that people who are following me will get a notice that I have updated with new chapters.

[linaewen]

I decided to take the day off -- thankfully, my work is marvelously flexible that way! After dealing with some housework, I'm going to buckle down and get some writing done. Maybe by today's check-in post time, I'll have something to report!

[littlebutfierce]

I wrote & posted a comment fic, hooray!

I don't post my fic to my DW; I have all of it (aside from a few recent comment fics) at AO3. I also have a few at ff.net. None of my fandoms are large enough to even dream of their own archives, heh.

[xpaperplanex]

Opened up word for the first time in a week and got 540 words. Considering how much I felt like writing when I started, I think I did not badly.

I post to DW, LJ, and FFN. And I'm slowly getting my stuff up at AO3--their importer made me sadface at what it did to my formatting, but I love the site otherwise. I don't mind manually posting my old stuff, it just takes more time. I really want to encourage my readers at FFN to go elsewhere--I hate that site more and more every day--but they're a hard bunch to convince to move. And it's hard to just stop posting there. I'd miss (most of) the reviews and I'd like to think that people would miss my stuff. For sheer numbers, it's a hard site to compete with.

[snowynight]

I write nothing but I spend the day brainstorming and researching, so it isn't a loss.

I post everything I write to AO3 for the sake of management. My WIP stays in my Gdoc until I finish it or give up on it.

[jagnikjen]

In preparation for getting back in the swing of writing original fiction, I dug up the files for the stories I plan to work on. I read through them to get back into the stories and hopefully things will percolate. Actually all these stories are almost finished so it's going to be more revising and editing than actually writing.

I edited the first chapter (again) of my young adult romance, one of the two stories I'll be working for the time being, and sent it to my critique group.

Fic-wise, I posted the next to chapters of my epic to the fandom archive.

And I finally located the files of my challenge fic for July. Yay!

Almost everything I've written, unless explicit, is at FFN. All my JAG stuff is also on my JAG website and all my Robin Hood stuff is posted to LJ/DW as are my few Harry Potter and Friday Night Lights pieces. And all Robin Hood stuff is now posted at the Robin Hood Fan Fiction Archive as well. It's brand new and growing slowly--unfortunately with the show over for a year now, it may never get that huge, but I'm hoping with word of mouth authors will post for posterity's sake. :)

I rarely post WIPs, mainly because I rarely write anything long enough to be a WIP. :) My RH epic was an experiment to see if I could pull it off and I did. But usually my stories are finished before I start posting even if I do post chapter by chapter.

[pkc_creative]

Got nothing done at all yesterday. Was stupidly busy all day with work and then meeting my support worker, when I finally got home I wasn't in the mood for writing anything :( So far today I've done some more research for my WIP in-between revising for a maths exam.

Nowadays I just post my fic to DW and link back elsewhere (LJ comms, my f-lcoked LJ, twitter). I used to post fic on my LJ. I've never posted a WIP before, I like to try and get things finished before I post them. I was considering setting up an account on ff.net for a while and in the end decided not to.

[bay_alexison]

Yes, got that story I mentioned yesterday done! :D The end result of the rough draft is over 6,300 words. XD I'm going to take a short break from that fic before I start editing it, but I'm pretty sure by the time editing is done the story might wound up being 7000-8000 words, LOL.

I post most of my fics at my livejournal account, but I do post some of them at FFnet and A03. Also back when I was doing Pokemon fanfiction I would post them at several forums. At the archives the chaptered fics in the archives have been finished already. That reminds me, I need to go update one of my chaptered fics at FF.net, haha.