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?

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[curuchamion]

I didn't make it to the writing session, nor did I write - I cleared ALL THE THINGS out of my apartment and deep-cleaned it (move-out date's on Monday). Then I fell down whump on my bed, yes. ;-)

Today, I am going to eat food (important when you've been chasing around getting as much unaccustomed exercise as I have this week), and sleep more (also important *zzzzz*), and try to write some overdue PMs and posts and such-like. (I already did one of said PMs, yay! :D But the others require more thinkyface.)

[curuchamion]

Oh, and the discussion question - I use a timer technique, like a lot of other people. Mine's a variant of Chris Baty's "6,000-Word Jetpack" writing sprints: I set a timer for 30 minutes, write for that length of time (at which point I'm just about running out of inspiration), then reset the timer for 10 minutes, pick up my knitting, switch on my iPod (I can't write while listening to music), and pointedly don't think about my story till the timer dings. At the end of that time, I find that my subconscious has worked through another 30 minutes' worth of writing stuff and presents it to me for transcription. :D

(It was all a matter of finding the right lengths of time, for me. I've never gotten 20-minute or 45-minute or 15-minute sprints to work, and a 5-minute break is not long enough, but... this is how I wrote the last two-thirds of my NaNo, so. XD)

[littlebutfierce]

Cleaning up & getting ready to move out is a really good reason to not go to the writing session. ;) Good for you for getting so much done ahead of Monday!

That's interesting re: adjusting the length of time in your work periods. Pomodoros are 25 minutes, which seems to work all right for me (the issue is more just committing myself to doing one, sob), but I might try tweaking slightly.