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?

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[mexta]

Hi everyone, I'm new here but hope I can join the group for August. Writing can be lonely! I'm currently working on a sequel to a story I've drafted but not posted yet, so I figure I'll work on this over the next few months. I had just over 2,000 words written before today but hadn't worked on it for a while - today I added about 1,000 so I feel like I've picked it back up again. Aiming for around 500-1000 / day when I have chance to work on it.

A bit about the current project ... I have a rough outline but the story is very episodic, with three or four separate episodes that may be hard to pull together. And there's some character development threads that need to be pulled through all the episodes and in some cases don't get resolved till the very end. So for now I'm trying to just work on the scenes and then worry about pulling everything together later.

Thanks for the group - I've lurked briefly and it looks friendly and supportive!

[littlebutfierce]

Welcome to the comm! & yes, we try to make writing a little less lonely here, if possible -- one of the things I like about the comm is that no matter what gripe I have about my writing or the fic I'm working on, someone else can sympathize. ;)

Yay for adding 1k words today! Good luck getting the scenes down & knitting it all together! I tend to do that w/longer fics, too (though I am a shortfic writer, so my "longer fics" aren't really that long -- I thought I had a 10k story recently but my beta confirmed my belief that it really needed to be 2 shorter stories, ha! Maybe I really am not a longfic writer after all...).