lilly_c: Virgil Van Dijk holding the Premier League trophy on the parade route (Default)
Cat ([personal profile] lilly_c) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2020-08-17 09:05 pm
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check in day 17

How is the writing going today? What about yesterday?

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Today I

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wrote
7 (77.8%)

edited
2 (22.2%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
1 (11.1%)

researched
1 (11.1%)

planned
0 (0.0%)

had a cheeky break
1 (11.1%)

dealt with life
2 (22.2%)



Discussion: Do you have anything with a deadline? Do you prefer to work at your own pace?
doranwen: female nerds, rare and precious (Default)

[personal profile] doranwen 2020-08-18 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Currently working on a fic for Fandom Giftbox (~800 words added today!), and I do exchanges all the time, besides some of my own fics, so I can say that when it's an exchange, I tend to be way more motivated to *get it done*. The longest thing I've written wasn't for an exchange (but I wrote it in three very intense weeks with an alpha reader I chatted with all the time about it), but the second longest thing was, and I know as it came to the last week of writing time I really pushed to get it done. Had it been for myself only, it would've taken a lot longer. Also, my WIPs collection is full of fics that I started and abandoned - and because there's no deadline to finishing them, there's a good chance that most will never be completed. So I'm sort of torn about deadlines, lol. I do like them for keeping me writing short stuff (1-3k pieces) for exchanges, so I don't get out of practice writing altogether.