August WIP challenge - day 1 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

How's the fic going today? Are you writing/editing/sending to beta? Researching? Resting on your laurels? Procrastinating? Did you post something?

To start off the month, tell us about the fic(s) you'll be working on! Some of you did that a little bit yesterday, but feel free to go into more detail: What do you think will be trickiest to work on? What are you looking forward to? Scared of?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Thank you!! I appreciate it. :)

I think after too much fretting/wordsmithing I lose the ability to really tell what needs to be changed & what's all right, & risk making the fic worse by changing things indiscriminately. It is a fine line to walk, between polishing & taking it too far!

[rebecca2525]

What helps me a lot is setting the fic aside for a while to get some distance. I do that a lot between editing rounds. Of course that only works if you don't have a tight deadline and if you have enough other things to distract you from wanting to post RIGHT NOW. :)

[littlebutfierce]

I really really hate doing things at the last minute -- I think I finished my Yuletide fic two weeks early, to give you an idea -- so luckily I don't tend to have to post in a hurry. But it is absolutely hard to stop myself wanting to post IMMEDIATELY!!!!1 sometimes -- it helps that sometimes I finish fics (or think I finish them) late at night, so sometimes I'm just too tired to go faff w/HTML & proofing it one last time.

(... then sometimes I lie in bed & think about the fic when I'm trying to sleep, eek!)

Distance from a fic is a beautiful thing!