WIP challenge day 6 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

The writing session is still rolling on, but I'm sneaking out for a bit to do this post! (Besides, I did more in the session than I thought I would, so hooray!)

Poll #7693 WIP challenge day 6 check-in!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

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What have you done today on your fic?

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Wrote
7 (100.0%)

Edited
4 (57.1%)

Posted!
1 (14.3%)

Sent to beta
1 (14.3%)

Researched
1 (14.3%)

Procrastinated
0 (0.0%)

Took a planned break
0 (0.0%)

Something else I will describe in comments
2 (28.6%)

And how many words did you write today?

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0-249
1 (14.3%)

250-499
1 (14.3%)

500-749
1 (14.3%)

750-999
4 (57.1%)

1000 or more
0 (0.0%)

How did the first week of the challenge go for you?

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For discussion: What do you do when you really need to buckle down & work on your fic? How do you close out all the potentially distracting things in your world? In the writing session we talked about internet blockers (like Leechblock & Chrome Nanny). Do you use anything like that? Turn off your phone? Tell your family to stay away on pain of death?

Comments

[bay_alexison]

Today I betaed my friend's story again and added in a couple more notes before sending it to her and suggested she send me her story back after she did the corrections. A couple hours already she already did the corrections. XD I'll look over what she corrected tomorrow or Monday. I also was able to write out 600 words for a prompt I plan to claim over at LJ's springkink community. That story too I should get it done by tomorrow or Monday since it's not going to be long (unlike one of my other springkink stories @_@ ).

I can be able to write without blocking the internet if I make myself not open the browser until I finish a certain part in the fic, have a certain wordcount, etc. Sometimes it works, sometimes I feel a bit stressed out over the story so I would surf around the internet anyways. XD If I really want to concentrate though I would use one of those programs like q10 and Ommiwriter where nothing but a background and whatever you typed fills the computer screen. There are times also where I get distracted from my parents since they tend to either want to talk to me or want me to take care something for them. Nothing I can do about that except try to write as much as I can before they come to me, haha.

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for the 600 words!! Good luck finishing up the story in the next few days (I love when a fic can be started & finished so quickly! Wish that happened to me more... ;_; )

I think setting mini-goals like you said (certain part in the fic, certain wordcount) can be really useful -- I know when I was at university writing papers sometimes I would tell myself I had to work for 4 more songs on iTunes (then I would hope fervently that 8-minute songs wouldn't come up on shuffle ;). I've had good results w/the Pomodoro technique but it's a matter of making myself commit to starting the timer & doing one more often! ^^;;;