WIP Challenge Checkin, Day 24, Wednesday

[jagnikjen]

How's the writing going today, fellow ficcers?

~ 1 - 250 words
~ 251 - 500 words
~ 501 - to 1000 words
~ 1001 to 5000 words

Not writing? Then what??

~ editing
~ researching
~ procrastinating giving the muse a holiday
~ cleaning house
~ other

Discussion question: Do you have a writing process? Share please. :)

Comments

[jagnikjen]

I have no idea what my word count for the day is, tbh. Somewhere between 501 and 1000, atm, but will probably pass the 1K mark as the day progresses. :) This new fic/pairing is so fun and exciting.

I do have a writing process. Basically, I start writing--mostly dialogue and some random internal narrative and description. At some point, I begin revising, adding in emotion, more internal narrative, more descriptions, etc. Sometimes I add notes about scenes in the place I think they ought to go. But I keep writing new stuff as well, so it's really a continuous cycle/combination of writing *and* revising until it's done and I'm satisfied. When chapters are as done as I think they're going to get, I do send them off to beta until the whole thing has been beta'd and any last revisions from that process have been made. Then I post.

[katzenjamming]

Wow, this is almost exactly how I go about writing! I'd always felt weird because I didn't think that anyone else had this kind of process (or if it's even a "process" at all)! I like to joke that I could possibly edit everything I write until the cows come home... Reaching a point where you're satisfied is a long road sometimes!

[jagnikjen]

Well, when you start changing shirt colors and the like or messing with nit-noidy stuff that really doesn't matter--that's when you know you're done. :)

[jagnikjen]

Just a note say I have written 10,700+ words in six days! I can't believe it. Just goes to show how much better the writing goes when it really excites you. :)

[dragonfly]

Heh. Cleaning house. Guests arrive tonight.

[jagnikjen]

I hope guests are fun and not unwanted or dreaded (like annoying in laws or something).

[dragonfly]

:D Strangers, actually. My minister's ex and his new wife. They should be interesting. Last year they walked across the U.S. to protest corporate influence in our lives.

[lea_hazel]

I cleaned my bathroom and kitchen.

I also dug myself into a conflict I don't know how to solve. Writing Veronica Mars is hard. :|

Oh, and I reread half of one of my WIPs to refresh my memory. It's long!

[jagnikjen]

Those are the best conflicts for readers. *fingers crossed* that you can figure out a solution.

[littlebutfierce]

I'm still packing ALL THE THINGS for moving house on Friday. Also in there should be some cleaning of the current house too. ^^;;;

I did manage to do 800+ words of character sketch stuff -- noodling around, really, to see how comfortable I am in a new fandom.

My writing process tends to start off w/750 Words. I'll start drafting a fill for a prompt or just start writing any kinda fic in there, really. Some of it ends up being just stuff to warm up my brain & not really worth keeping. But some of it ends up being worth working on & editing. I think I tend to try to get a rough draft out (even if it's missing a scene or two) before I start editing anything.

I'm pretty good at churning out tons of words at the beginning of a fic, & then pruning out lots of them for the first editing pass. The finer details of editing can frustrate me sometimes, like when I feel like a fic isn't quite right yet but I can't get the energy to fix it. The writing sessions in this comm have been good ways to get me to edit steadily!

[jagnikjen]

Awesome that you still wrote despite the impending move. Good for you!

[katzenjamming]

I got ~500 words of new, but probably unusable stuff for the side project, an added a few hundred words through editing a couple of chapters.

My "process" is extremely similar to what jagnikjen described above: I usually get the dialog down first, then gradually fill in the prose-y parts through long cycles of editing. This more or less works for one-shots, but I'm working on a few multi-chapter fics now and I'm trying to make myself use more traditional planning methods so I don't write myself into a hole. Right now I'm wrestling with this "outline" thing I've heard so much about!

[jagnikjen]

Actually it works for longer fics too. I wrote my 39 part RH epic in this fashion, working on two or three or four chapters at a time. :) I posted as I went so once a chapter was posted, I was done fiddling with it.

[elistaire]

Wrote a tiny little ficlet for a meme. Will be posting that soon. Yay!

[jagnikjen]

Yay for ficlets!

[lacygrey]

Wednesday didn't happen for the writing - there was a bit too much RL work.

Writing process. I haven't established one yet. Differnt fics developped in different ways. The ficlets started with a single idea and then it was a case of deciding how to lead up to the 'punch line'. Longer fic tend to start by exploring through writing, usually writing too much and then cutting it down.

Sometimes I make a list or table of actions I want to happen and then write the appropriate paragraph for each item.

A few times its been led by dialogue. This is the most enticing - when I can almost 'hear' the characters talking - but them I have to find stuff for them to do while they are saying it all!