check in day 7

[lilly_c]

How is the writing going today? What about yesterday?

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Today I

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wrote
2 (25.0%)

edited
2 (25.0%)

posted
2 (25.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
1 (12.5%)

had a cheeky break
2 (25.0%)

dealt with life
4 (50.0%)

Discussion: Reading fic. What kind of things will stop you from finishing reading a fic?

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[doranwen]

This sounds like it was a fun discussion post - but I spent the 7th packing and moving stuff from one classroom to a new little space in the school that is all my own (yay! but tons of work, ugh). So writing never happened; life took over everything. (I spent today *un*packing it all, lol.)

I'll second the commenter mentioning childish nicknames - and the one mentioning really obvious bad details (poor research or anachronisms). Like, I was reading someone's fic once, and the way they described the plane crash that they had in it was just all wrong, felt like they'd watched some terrible B-grade disaster film. (I've seen tons of Air Crash Investigation documentaries and read quite a few books about air crashes; one of my side interests.) And usually people who can't write worth beans also don't spell-check properly or whatnot, so I can avoid their fics just by reading the summaries, but occasionally I find one that they managed to make look good - until I read partway into it, and found it was so terrible - OOCness, as another one mentioned, is a *huge* factor for me.