July WIP challenge: day 1 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

We're at the start of a new month: another fresh start for another WIP challenge!

Tell us about what you're doing for the challenge: what fic(s) you'll be working on, what you're looking forward to, what you anticipate the hardest parts will be. How's the month starting off for you?

Poll #7438 July WIP challenge: day 1!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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What fic-related things have you done today?

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Write
6 (60.0%)

Edit
1 (10.0%)

Send fic to beta
1 (10.0%)

Post
1 (10.0%)

Research
0 (0.0%)

Procrastinate
4 (40.0%)

Something else (tell us what in comments!)
3 (30.0%)

And how do you feel about that?

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YAY
2 (20.0%)

BOO
0 (0.0%)

Somewhere in between
8 (80.0%)

Comments

[linaewen]

I have several WIPs going that all want my attention, but the only one that will get it this month is the one I'm working on for my Lord of the Rings Big Bang challenge. It's due (complete and ready to post) at the end of July, so I can't dawdle. I'm slightly less than half way there as far as word count goes -- it's hard to say how long it will actually go once I get into the meat of the story. After four something chapters I'm just starting to get into it. ;-)

My tentative goal is to write 6,000 words per week. That's a lot more than I've been able to manage lately, so I really hope I can do it! I just have to, that's all there is to it. "Please don't let Real Life throw a wrench into things," she prays fervently...

I'm looking forward to seeing where the story goes when it decides to take the outline and run with it. I have a pretty detailed outline I'm working from, but things always get interesting when I'm actually writing and putting flesh on those outline bones. It's a lot of fun, really. I have had the bones of this story lurking about for some time, and I'm excited about finally getting it out there!

I haven't written yet today, but I got tons of boring RL stuff done so I should be free to concentrate on the fun stuff now and for the rest of the evening. \o/

[littlebutfierce]

6k words per week sounds very do-able -- even if it's more than you've been doing, it sounds reasonable (instead of saying you needed 20k per week or something, which sounds much more frightening!). Good luck w/that! I hope the offline world behaves itself so you're able to keep to that schedule.

I hope all the surprises the story throws you once you've started turning the outline into text are good ones. :)