Check In - Day 6

[enemytosleep]

Hello, writers! What have you been able to accomplish today toward your January goal?

— I wrote today!
— I planned and/or researched something.
— I sat down and did some editing.
— I sent things to my beta.
— I posted!
— I focused on something else today.

Writing question time: What is your writing Kryptonite?

Comments

[enemytosleep]

For me, something that can instantly kill any writing or creative moods is my partner. They are amazing and I love them, but with our limited free time it can be hard to balance fun projects like fanfic and spending time together. I could be ready to pump out a chapter of something and drop that seconds later if they don’t have a project to occupy themselves for a while. Oh well, there could be worse problems haha.

Interestingly enough, this weekend has been one of those weekends where we are both home and my partner has not had their own projects, so I have also not gotten any writing done as of yet. Because fanfic is a hobby this is 100% fine - if I were writing original works to sell, I would seriously need to consider a separate writing space so that I could dedicate time to writing every day. I do hope to get something done later tonight if I can.

[linaewen]

I haven't written yet today, but plan to! I did write yesterday and posted what I wrote, so I'm super pleased about that -- that's one of my January goals met already!

The thing that keeps me from writing is twofold -- being tired from work and the internet. I tend to resort to non-brain activities when I'm tired, and the internet is just made for that. So when I surf instead of write, I am zero productive. I'm working at changing that by making a habit of writing in the morning at a set time, before doing internet things like checking email and making my usual internet rounds. So far so good!

[samuraiter]

Thank you for joining our corps of hosts, first of all. :-)

I am going to write today. Prime time for me has become the region between 7 PM (EDT) and 9 PM (EDT), regardless of the day, and I have no idea why that is, since I traditionally write most easily in the early morning. *headscratch* Then again, I am going to start before 7 PM today, so who knows?

My Kryptonite is a lack of free time ... or, rather, too many hobbies having to share the free time I do have. I love to write, yes, but I also love to read books and play video games, and none of these hobbies like to share time with each other. (And do not get me started on my love of streaming video!) Despite all the years I have put into fanfic, this is a balance that continues to be very difficult for me to find.

[lady_katana4544]

Wrote and posted some things today finally!

My Kryptonite is sometimes a combo of a lack of free time, hobbies like gaming or reading, and then attempting to be a social non-lurking person. Or being too tired, that's sometimes also a thing for me.

[enemytosleep]

Yay for writing and posting!

Writing is a difficult hobby in that it's such a solo activity, so even if you live alone it can be very isolating to sequester yourself and write every time you have a free moment. Good luck to finding the balance!

[enemytosleep]

As I mentioned in my sign up, this group has been very helpful for me, so I wanted to return the favor!

Yes, I think many of us have more than one hobby that we enjoy outside of fanfic, so it can be difficult to balance how much time we are on laptops typing and what else we do (reading, gaming, crafting, etc). Today I had my D&D group here from 1-7pm so between set up and clean up plus the actual gaming time, I've lost most of my day off to attacking the heroes with hordes of monsters. It was a blast, though!

[frogfarm]

Today was full of actual work -- easy, but time-consuming. Occasionally thought about the new short WIP.

My Kryptonite used to be feeling hopeless, either in general or specifically regarding my writing, but I think I've finally achieved sufficient decrepitude senility maturity to focus on things that really matter. Like other people's atrocious taste in music.

[enemytosleep]

Yay writing and posting! Also yay for meeting one of your goals so soon!

Surfing my Instagram feeds is such a delightful timesuck - I can empathize with you on this! Good luck with the proposed schedule change. I hope it helps you to have dedicated time during an earlier time of the day.

[enemytosleep]

Easy work you can bill lots of hours for while planning a WIP isn't the worst way to spend a Sunday?

I have struggled with that sort of writing block for many years. I would write and erase and re-write so many times, instead of simply writing a draft and polishing it later on. If it wasn't "perfect" I couldn't move on, and not being able to write it "perfectly" on the first go was crushing. Now that I'm older I don't care a much. I can draft and edit and I don't put so much on myself to be perfect (that's level of stress is for original fiction IMO).

[enemytosleep]

Well I watched the remaining reference episodes that I needed to, made a solid paragraph's worth of notes, and then wrote some opening dialogue. It wasn't a ton of writing, but I'm in a really good place to get to work now. I would love to have the first draft done by next weekend, so if you see my comments please feel free to push me (at the risk of oversharing, I respond better to sticks than carrots).