WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 8 -- Thursday

[linaewen]

Hello on Thursday!  What kind of a writing day has it been today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet?

       - I thought about my fic once or twice
       - I wrote
       - I did some planning and/or research
       - I edited
       - I've sent my fic off to my beta
       - I posted today!
       - I'm taking a break
       - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Thursday Discussion:  How much research do you do before writing a fic?  Do you ever research in the middle of writing?

Comments

[linaewen]

I hope to spend some time with my writing this afternoon, after I get home from work. It will probably start with research, but hopefully end with actual words on the page!

I do a lot of research prior to writing -- I enjoy research for one thing, and I think it helps me firm up the idea I want to explore in the story. I often have to check canon facts in the middle of writing, or research something that comes up that I didn't think of, so I basically research throughout the writing process!

[lacygrey]

Some planning and that's all today.

I research as needed as I go along. Though I also sometimes research for inspiration

[dirty_diana]

300 words and a clearer sense of what the hell I'm doing. Finally.

I pretty much google as I go along. Which is a terrible habit because of the high Wikipedia distraction risk, but I do it anyway.