WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 4 -- Thursday

[linaewen]

Hello on Thursday!  What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?

       - I thought about my fic once or twice
       - I wrote
       - I did some planning and/or outlining
       - I did research and/or canon review
       - I edited
       - I've sent my fic off to my beta
       - I posted today!
       - I'm taking a break
       - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Thursday Discussion:  Today is a holiday in the U.S.  Do you include holidays in your writing, or write holiday-specific stories?

Comments

[linaewen]

I have to go in to work for a short time today to deal with something that has to be done on a Thursday, holiday or no -- but I should still be able to get some writing in. Yesterday was basically just editing, so I'd like to get into some actual new words for a change!

I don't often include holidays in my writing, unless it is for a challenge that involves a specific holiday -- usually Christmas/Yule or the New Year.

[ldybastet]

Yesterday was supposed to be *writing day*, but no words were had. I did however manage to write a couple of hundred words today, so that's good. :)

I occasionally include holidays, but it's probably only if someone requested it, or if I decide to write a Christmas fic gift for someone, or have signed up for a Valentine's fic fest or something.

[zdenka]

I edited about half a fic yesterday and I'm hoping to finish the other half today.

I include references or themes from Jewish holidays when I'm writing for Purimgifts, but otherwise I probably wouldn't include a holiday unless I had a specific plot-related reason for it. Most of my canons are sci-fi/fantasy, anyway, and don't have the same real-world holidays.

[dirty_diana]

wrote!

[doranwen]

I finished my Every Woman assignment! Feels good - and it was well over twice the size it had to be (500-word minimum) so that was a decent bit of writing to hopefully make up for not writing for ages. Got the first bit done last night and the rest today.

I rarely write holidays (though obviously I write *on* holidays - this was the perfect opportunity to get the assignment done); it's just not a real interest of mine. But I did write a Valentine's day fic once as a gift for a friend - not part of an exchange, she was just feeling bummed because she didn't have a boyfriend and wanted one, so I wrote her a friendship fic wherein a character was also bummed about Valentine's day but friends made it better, in a fandom she loved to make her happy, lol. (It worked.)