WIP Challenge Checkin, Day 25, Thursday

[jagnikjen]

How's the writing going today, peeps?

~ 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: What is it about a fandom that first makes you want to write for it?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Another 800+ words noodling around in a new fandom. No plots, no feeeeelings even, but... just seeing how it feels to write for these characters. It's a good way to work out what I think about them & how I think they'd act.

One thing that makes me want to write for a new fandom is lots of gaps, things I wish the story had told us. Some canons feel v. -- I don't know -- closed to me, I guess. There isn't something there that makes me want (or think of!) new stories, even if I loved the canon. I can't quite work out what makes a canon feel open or closed v. much though.

[jagnikjen]

Go you on the daily words!

[curuchamion]

'Some canons feel v. -- I don't know -- closed to me, I guess. There isn't something there that makes me want (or think of!) new stories, even if I loved the canon.'

I know the feeling. Bonanza is like that for me; the only time I wrote fic for it was a tribute piece after the last of the four main actors died. It's one of my favorite shows to watch, but it just doesn't usually speak to me on a ficcish level.

(Lord of the Rings is the same way, as is Casablanca. It's a feeling, to me anyway, that the characters' stories are complete within canon, I guess. *head-tilty of thinkyface*)

[jagnikjen]

Before I get sucked into real life stuff, let me say it's been a slow writing day. :( Only because I had a bunch of RL stuff to take care of. Forced breaks are sometimes helpful to me because I'm so anxious to get back to the writing and my brain continues to work on the story.

As for the discussion question, I love romance, so it's usually a pairing that gives me the urge to write. :)

[elistaire]

I get sucked in by the romance, too. :)

[bay_alexison]

Not able to get any new words today due to suddenly busy dealing with some things. I did managed to beta read my friend's long story a bit more and send her the edits I have done so far so that she can get started on the changes. The next couple days I got three short story fics to edit and send to my betas, LOL.

I write fic mostly to explore something in canon or to add what seemed to be missing in it. For one of the fandoms it's also to try out interactions between different characters.

[meridian_rose]

Characters. I tend to want to read and write about characters I love.

[ficwriter1966]

2300+ words done and posted yesterday! It's been a pretty good week. Hoping to finish up the next bit today - 1500 words done so far.

I'll agree with Meridian Rose - I want to read and write and about characters that really speak to me. There's usually one central one per fandom, although I'm interested in the supporting people in their lives. There's more to it than that, because there are shows and characters I genuinely enjoy but never feel compelled to write about. It's a certain indefinable spark, I think.

[jagnikjen]

There's more to it than that, because there are shows and characters I genuinely enjoy but never feel compelled to write about.

Yeah, I know what you mean. :)

Great job on your word count--fantastic!

[curuchamion]

I'm stuck. I'm working on a drabble challenge I've set for myself - go through the fandoms I've written before and write a drabble for each main character, taking the prompts from a one-word-prompt comm - but I find that the combination of Scotty with the prompt word "compete" has me completely stymied. Maybe I should skip the word? O_O

(I hate starting to skip things because then I skip everything that isn't just The Easiest. :P But I've been poking at this drabble concept for at least a week and it hasn't gone anywhere. And I'm not going to skip Scotty, because that's against the spirit of the challenge, whereas picking a different word is only against the letter. *g*)