Check-In – Day 27

[samuraiter]

I think Tuesdays are for cleaning up the mess that Mondays leave behind. What have you been doing?

— Thinking. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.
— Writing.
— Outlining, planning, and / or prewriting.
— Researching and / or revisiting canon.
— Editing.
— Sending things to the beta.
— Posting!
— Relaxing, taking a break, etc.
— Other stuff-ing. Look at the comments.

Question: How often does your writing follow your prewriting? Do scenes always go the way you want them to go?

Comments

[linaewen]

I'm having trouble getting back on track with writing after having guests and traveling. Not sure if today is going to help me any with getting organized writing-wise, but I can only hope! I'm so close to finishing a chapter, yet it's like I'm starting from square one just trying to add one more scene to finish it up!

Things often go according to my prewriting plan, but not always. I usually end up realizing I was trying to put too much into a chapter, or I realize I don't have enough and I have to add to my plan. Sometimes I realize I totally forgot about something important and have to totally rework my outline!

[justanorthernlight]

I wrote for a change. A few hundred words on my fantasy au.

Most of my prewriting tends to be backstory (if AU) or behind the scenes villain movement. I have a general vision of how things are going to go, but since I write plotty stuff with a mystery angle the characters are mostly reacting to outside stimulus. Usually the big scenes match up, but I'm not going to force it if it doesn't feel organic to the plot.

[enemytosleep]

I moved a .doc from a buried folder to my desktop so that I might start adding to it in the coming weeks (the final chapter of a fic I've had on standby for several months). I also picked a song to accompany the chapter as that was a thing I had been doing. Yay accomplishments.