WIP Challenge: day 19 check-in

[lacygrey]

Hi, how are your WIPs treating you today and vice versa

My apologies for the accidental fusion of Wednesday's and Thursday's polls. Have a new one for today:

Poll #7862

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

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Plan?
1 (14.3%)

Write (a lot...>1000)?
1 (14.3%)

Write (a little...<1000)?
4 (57.1%)

Edit?
1 (14.3%)

Send to beta?
0 (0.0%)

Post a story?
0 (0.0%)

Do something else?
0 (0.0%)

For discussion: How 'OTP' are you? Are you dedicated to a particular pairing in your fandom/s? Are they what attracted you in the first place?

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[lacygrey]

Well during anehan's sprints I managed a tricky end scene which I think is my fave so far (I've tried several ways of ending the story). By working in bursts from several points of view I answered questions that will help me with actual POV thats going in the story.

I'm not exclusively OTP. I have a favorite pairing (Hikaru no Go: Akira/Hikaru) but there's other pairings of either I can stand under certain circumstances. Its not the only thing that attracted me to the fandom, there are too many of those to count.

[jagnikjen]

Still going strong on my new HP fic--(3900+ as of this post just since yesterday morning)

Your discussion question is kind of ironic...this new fic is about a pairing that I had never conceived of liking, much less writing, before two days ago. :) But I came across a comm and a very well written story and thought, "Huh. I really them as a couple." and I was off and writing.

But, to answer the question, I usually start writing a fandom with a specific pairing (usually the canon pairing) but end up branching out to other pairings that seem interesting.

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for getting some good progress in during the sprints!! Writing in different POVs in bursts seems like a really useful thing to do.

[littlebutfierce]

I do the same thing -- start off w/a pairing I really like but then meander around trying out different pairings, heh. Keeps things interesting, anyway!

[littlebutfierce]

I wrote a snippet of something that probably won't be usable, but... I'm still in moving-anxiety phase (found out recently the place we signed a lease on -- to move in next week! -- suddenly wasn't available anymore, so had to hurry & find something else). So I'm pleased I wrote anything at all.

I don't tend to get attracted to a fandom for a pairing, but I tend to develop interest in pairings as I get further into a fandom. I do tend to write the same pairings (or relationships: one of mine's an OT3) frequently but then branch out: sometimes someone leaves a prompt that makes me consider a pairing I'd never thought of before, or I do a prompt that's not a pairing I usually ship, just to challenge myself, & end up liking it a lot.

[jagnikjen]

Sorry to hear about the housing snafu...hope it all works out. I'd be freaking out.

[littlebutfierce]

Thank you! Yes, we were freaking out on Wednesday (when I found this out) -- we've signed a lease on a different place, which will hopefully work out... ^^;;; What happened w/the flat we were supposed to get was that the current tenant has stated that she refuses to leave! (So they can do legal action but in the meantime we still wouldn't be able to live there) Amazing what jerks people can be. :P Though the place we got instead is nicer, so... assuming nothing like that happens, maybe a blessing in disguise...

[lacerta]

My wip is a bit uncooperative. I've got three different drafts for one scene and editing feels like... idk, stitching them together with knitting needles. It could go smoother.

[lacerta]

Fingers crossed that moving will go fine in the end. It's lucky you found something on such short notice, too.

[katzenjamming]

I continued with mostly edits today, though I did find some written notes tucked away in my room(!) and did a bit of new writing from those.

Actually, I tend to go for gen fiction, though I think I'm pretty open as far as pairings. Anything I feel they're written convincingly and isn't one of my turn-offs (usually things like huge age/power differences and the like) I'll give a chance. I don't think I've ever been attracted to a fandom for pairings exclusively, though there are some fandoms I notice pairings of preference aren't popular in, which does bum me out!

In a current fandom, due to some requests and personal challenges I've been working on some one-shots about pairings I'm not so into, but have been finding it fun!

[bay_alexison]

Today after looking back through canon material, I got a vague idea now how I want the direction of the third chapter of my Big Bang to go to and how that'll connect to the fourth/fifth chapter (depends if Chapter Three will need to split into two chapters). I then thought of how I'll start off the chapter, which will be the main characters listening to a radio drama. NOW I'm stuck over what the radio drama should be about. XD;

Oddly enough, my Big Bang has my OTP and I hope I'll do their characterization justice. They didn't attract me to the fandom I'm writing now in the first place, though (long story about that ^^; ). I write mostly gen, but I had been writing different pairings here and there for that fandom.

[lacygrey]

In a current fandom, due to some requests and personal challenges I've been working on some one-shots about pairings I'm not so into, but have been finding it fun!

Thats good. The possibility of being asked for a pairing I'm not comfortable with puts me off asking to be prompted or offering fanworks in auctions. But I suppose, when that happens, it must really force you to create, to think your way around it to find a way to make it work for you and the reader.

[ficwriter1966]

Got quite a bit done yesterday - about 2700 words! It's the latest piece in a new AU that I'm having fun playing with. Each piece is (mostly) self-contained, but fits into the larger picture in chronological order. So...like chapters, but not really. My Muse really needed something *different* to work on, to get her motivated again.

In each fandom I've gotten into writing for, it was an individual character and not a pairing that interested me. I do write about pairings (whether it's friendship, spouses, BF/GF, whatever), but that individual character is usually my main focus. Which is actually a help sometimes, when TPTB decide to break up the fandom's OTP and everybody screams and gnashes their teeth - while I just go on doing what I was doing.