WIP CHALLENGE CHECK IN - DAY 8

[peachpai]

Happy Friday! How's writing?

-Wrote something, woo!
-Planning, outlining, note taking, research, etc.
-Editing
-Sent something to my beta
-It's done! I posted!
-Thought about writing
-Taking a day off
-Something else (discuss in comments)


Friday Discussion: What do you do if you decide you really don't like a story of a part of a story sometime after you've posted it? Do you leave it alone for the sake of the people that enjoyed it or some personal reason? Do you revise it and repost? Delete it entirely? Something else?

Comments

[frogfarm]

Hunkering down through the second cold snap, today I've been taking it easy. Just had an idea for the current WIP that should allow me to include bits and pieces from a related WIP that I'd been thinking was never going to go anywhere, which prompted this post.

By the time something makes it through my laborious process and actually gets posted, it's there for better and for worse, and even my oldest and most embarrassing first efforts are still good enough lo these many years later.

[samuraiter]

This has been one of those weeks. I am exhausted. Might attempt to write a bit before bed, but I get the feeling that I am going to be back on my 3DS having a relaxing dungeon crawl as soon as it is done charging.

Generally speaking, once I have posted a story, it stays posted, warts and all, unless it needs a change of venue (see: me vacating FFN for greener, less reformat-y pastures).

[linaewen]

I did some planning for possible new fics today, but no writing. I might yet get some of that done with what's left of the day, though.

I usually leave a story as it is, unless it's something small that I can fix, like a typo or something, but I have also done some revising that was more major than that a time or two. In one case, after I had a posted a few chapters, I realized I didn't like the direction a character was going, so I went back and changed a few things, making a note that it was a revised version. Another time I wanted to do a different version of a story so I made a new story out of it, to change the ending -- but left the old version posted and linked to it in the new version.

[enemytosleep]

Nothing yet, but I'm hoping to maybe get something typed up later tonight once I finish a few projects. It has not been a good week, but I'm getting closer to the end of it.

[enemytosleep]

Nada.

[lady_katana4544]

Yesterday was another day off of sorts, but started some research for a series that I haven't written in for a while.