Check-In – Day 26

[samuraiter]

Sometimes, writing is all that and a hill of beans. Sometimes. What have you been doing?

— Thinking. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.
— Writing.
— Planning and / or researching.
— Editing.
— Sending things to the beta.
— Posting!
— Relaxing, taking a break, etc.
— Other stuff-ing. Look at the comment.

Question: Ever crack yourself up laughing while writing something?

Comments

[autobotscoutriella]

I write up a oneshot and a half to finish off a bingo challenge! Now I just need to type those up, and I'll make the deadline (barely, but still).

I've never cracked myself up laughing, mostly because what I write isn't usually funny. I did accidentally write myself into shipping something, though (wrote a fic just to see what I thought about the dynamic and then things happened).

[linaewen]

My writing work today was boring copy editing for someone's term paper. It was at least writing-related!

I used to write conversations with my characters as something to do when I was at a loss where to go with my WIPs -- I would complain about writer's block and my characters would make fun of me, and it was basically just fun. I'm pretty sure I cracked up fairly often as I was writing them. Not sure it helped me figure out where to go in my WIPs, but it was a nice break!

[frogfarm]

I haven't written anything in over a week -- not for any horrible or horribly pressing reason, just a bit of stress here and there plus general lack of inspiration. Did realize that I need to rethink my MMORPG piece a bit, at least from a main character perspective. Also managed to beta read some more for a friend, though wasn't really able to offer much in the way of suggestions.

I have cracked myself up many, many times. Which is a very good thing, in more ways than one. Lately, real smiles are like water to one dying of thirst in the desert, and every time I can make myself smile or laugh with a turn of phrase, I hope at least one other person out there will feel the same when they come across it.

Also, I like linaewen's idea; I briefly did something similar when I was stuck for a while, and maybe I should try it it more often.

[doranwen]

Last night I was going to be all good and work on worksheets, but I got distracted, ended up taking a shower late - and of course, showers are the best inspiration for stuck WIPs (why is this?), because suddenly I had an idea for the next bit of the plot in the WIP I had been writing, so it's no longer stalled! For a little while, at least. I was going to write more tonight, but I ended up staying up so late *last* night that my brain is fried, so I'll go back to writing tomorrow, perhaps.

Hmm, I've never actually cracked myself up, but I have grinned at some dialogue now and then.