WIP challenge - day 4 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Poll #7680 WIP challenge day 4 check-in!

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How many words did you write today?

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None
1 (14.3%)

None, but I planned it that way
0 (0.0%)

1-249
2 (28.6%)

250-499
0 (0.0%)

500-749
1 (14.3%)

750-999
3 (42.9%)

1000 or more
0 (0.0%)

& how are you feeling about your progress on your goal fics so far?

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For discussion (topic courtesy ficwriter1966!): Let's talk about writing for someone else. That could be fic exchanges, comment fic, birthday (or other gift) fic, etc. How does writing for a specific recipient change the process of fic for you? Do you worry a lot about whether they'll like it? How closely do you stick to the prompts? Do you do a lot of snooping to try & pin down the recipient's tastes? (Probably some of this will change depending on what kind of fic we're talking about: fic exchanges are different from comment fic -- especially an anon meme -- etc.)

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[littlebutfierce]

I wrote 800+ words on the comment fic I was working on yesterday. It took a turn someplace I didn't think it was going to go, but possibly this works better, so we'll go w/it!

I worry less about writing for other people when it's something like comment fic (especially anonymously) -- you're not paired up with a specific recipient, & comment fic memes often feel more casual. Formal exchanges I do get worried about whether the recipient likes it. I cross my fingers that they'll do a nice in-depth "Dear Writer" letter, & also have lots of unlocked posts on their journal so I can figure out more about them/what they might like. I've only done 2 formal exchanges so far, & luckily my recipients' requests were well within what I felt I could do. Though for one of them, the recipient requested sweet & I wondered if what I was writing was a little outside the boundaries of sweetness (there was reference to masturbation in it, but there's such references in canon!). It ended up being okay though.

Oh! There's also auction fic. I did one & was pretty pleased w/the story, but nervous b/c the recipient seemed to be a heavy shipper & the story went outside that a bit (though she'd previously said it would be okay if other characters were prominent in the story). So that was fine. My other auction fic... still isn't finished. *headdesk* (Apparently I need deadlines for these things most of the time.) I've got a really broad, kind prompt but I'm still struggling.

[jagnikjen]

Yay for 800 words. :)