WIP Check -in -- Day 24

[glitteryv]

The weekend is upon us and with it, hopefully most (if not all) of us will have more opportunities to write.

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Today . . .

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I wrote!
2 (40.0%)

I edited!
1 (20.0%)

I did something ficcish (brainstorming, research, daydreaming, etc.)
3 (60.0%)

I procastinated. /o\
0 (0.0%)

I took a break
1 (20.0%)

I did something else that I'll describe in my comment.
1 (20.0%)

Today's question: In regards to style, length, genre and tropes, how much has your fic changed from back when you started writing/posting? Do you think you've taken chances with your fic?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

I finished putting in the edits to my current WIP from my first-pass edit (which I did in hard copy on the bus), & then wrote the first draft of a big scene missing from it (which now I think I may not need & could gloss over w/a summary convo, buuuuut... I wouldn't have known that w/o writing the scene).

I started out writing short snippety porn on a kink meme & now I write mostly gen, ahahahaha. & my fic has gotten longer. Which on the one hand, hey, that's cool (sometimes I think people don't take shortfic as seriously, which makes me sad). On the other, it's... challenging for me.

I think I've taken some chances (though not as much as I could've). Sometimes it's worked beautifully--one of my most popular stories, & also one of my own favorites, started off b/c I decided to try to fill something I kept prompting to no avail (& generally when I keep prompting something it's b/c I want to read it but feel incapable of writing it). In other cases, I'm not as sure--it's particularly hard to tell if I don't get feedback. There are tons of reasons why I might not get feedback: small fandoms, it just might not be someone's thing, someone might like it but not comment, someone might give me concrit if I asked, but...

So yeah, tl;dr: you win some, you lose some. Trying not to let that scare me out of continuing to try new stuff!

[glitteryv]

Hee, it's so funny how you went from teh porn to mostly gen. I do totally agree with your point on not letting the fear of 'losing' keep you from taking risks with your writing.

Also, yay you for editing and writing! :)

[snowynight]

Today I write another 500 words into my current wip.

I start out writing short fic. The thing I write gets longer, and I writes in wider range of rating. I also write beyond my original pairing. I like trying new things, and the result is generally positive to me.

[glitteryv]

500 words IS 500 words so, go you for writing. Eventually all those words will add up to a finished story. *g*

Trying it out is the best way to keep the stories fresh.

[jagnikjen]

I did a lot of critiquing yesterday. No writing for me.

My fic has changed mostly in quality. I've just learned so much about writing and putting together a story over the last eight/nine years.

I probably do take more chances, but I think that's more because of some maturity and growth on my part and on where I am in my life.

[glitteryv]

Hmm, yeah. Sooner or later, you get that itch to see if you can get your fic into a 123 beat rather than a 456. Few things are as tedious as realizing that an author stalled creatively-speaking.

[linaewen]

I had several blocks of time over the course of the last few days when I COULD have been writing -- and actually intended to... but one thing led to another and I ended up procrastinating... er, I mean taking a break. ;-) I need to stop doing that, because at this point, one month plus a few stray days might not be enough to write 15k words!

And wouldn't you know, last night instead of writing, I found myself researching a totally new project which nudged me recently. It's not even a proper writing project at the moment, more of an idea that came to me out of the blue -- but that's how my stories get started, and it's definitely got potential. I really don't need a new project at the moment, particularly in a fandom I've never written in before, but I have a feeling this wee plot idea is not going to go away. Anyway, it was fun researching it and I found some good info, so it's not quite so scary anymore to contemplate writing something truly new.

I'm not really sure how my fic has changed, other than I feel like I have an even better grasp of grammar and punctuation than I did before, which makes for a better story in the long run. I did venture into a new genre not long ago, and that was a bit nerve-wracking -- but it's gone surprisingly well (though as usual, it's turned into a WIP that gets put on hold longer than it should be!). I suppose I took a chance in the beginning when I started on my number one epic WIP, simply because I knew it would be long and extremely involved, trying to make AU work to the extent that it didn't seem like it was AU, and dealing with a character who people in the fandom have not really cared for in the past. But it's worked out fine, and now I don't even remember feeling un-confident about it. ;-) This new idea I got recently that is keeping me researching when I should be writing is going to be taking a chance -- but I'll deal with it in my usual way, which is to research until I am confident, then let the characters talk to me to tell their story.

[glitteryv]

Oh, yes, the delicious evil that is procrastination! Sometimes, you just had to push it away and get crackin'. I hope you get to sit down and write soon. :)

[glitteryv]

I had to research medical stuff for one of my h/c bingo fills just so I could sketch it out and have it make sense when I sit down and write it. As y'all might know, Wikipedia will suck time away from many other things. Some people say that TV Tropes is the black hole of the internet, I say it's Wikipedia.

To me it seems like the more I write, the more I want to play with the style (telling a fic backwards--that is, from the ending to the beginning OR merging genres). Just to see if I can do it. As much as I look fondly at my earlier fic (and I still dig it even though they're unbetaed and, well, kind of raw), I also feel like parts of my writing have evolved too. :)

[bay_alexison]

Did some writing last night on my TOO MANY FRAGMENTED SCENES WIP story. LOL, I ended up writing two fragmented scenes- one scene is a little over 500 words and another 600 words (the second scene is almost done).

I started out writing short fics and long fic that are around 10k and then I took a chance writing a chaptered fic, the end result 100k. For sure my writing style has changed and I have a better idea over how to check over my grammar mistakes.

[glitteryv]

Yay for writing! Also, at one point or another, you'll get all those fragmented scenes together. I believe you can do it. :)