WIP Challenge Check-in -- Day 2

[linaewen]

Not only is it Day 2 of the new month, but it's Friday!  It's always nice to have it be Friday.  ;-)

So how is for you on this Friday?  How is your time being occupied?

• writing (want to share a word count?)
• planning (brainstorming, researching, outlining)
• editing
• posting
• taking a break
• reading someone else's writing
• dealing with non-writing things on your To Do List

I'm feeling a bit addled and puny after having a flu shot today, so I am having trouble coming up with an intelligent and interesting discussion topic.  So let's go with an easy one -- do you write better in the morning or in the evening?  Are you more creative at home or away from home?

Comments

[linaewen]

I haven't written yet today, but I may have a go at it, since I am using feeling under the weather due to my flu shot as an excuse to get out of work! I have a challenge coming due shortly that I really need to start working on. One thing I accomplished was the touch up editing of a long-written WIP chapter for posting in a couple of places -- and it's gotten a couple of hits and even a comment already, so that's encouraging!

I have a pretty flexible work schedule, and often work from home, so I have lots of opportunity to write, even if it's not in long stretches of time. I used to write best in the evenings because that was when I was free from work and had some time to myself -- but lately I've been too tired after busy days to feel like being creative at night. Mornings are turning out to be better -- if I actually start writing instead of dealing with this and that and then finding my morning has gone and it's time to leave the house. I also used to be quite good at writing on the go -- all I needed was a scrap of paper or a notepad in my pocket and I could write a bit of something wherever I happened to be. Now I seem to not be able to get my brain in gear unless I am sitting in front of my computer. It would be nice to get back that freedom to write no matter where I am!

[littlebutfierce]

I hope you feel better soon!

I wrote about 800 words today, which was nice, as it wast the first time in just over a week (since I moved last Friday). Nothing keepable, I think, but still, they're fic, so yay.

I might write better in the morning but I never seem to write in the morning! I tend to write in the evenings after I've had a chance to unwind from work. I think I need to be sitting at the computer as well; being someplace else to write I think would likely distract me. :/

[jagnikjen]

YAY for 800 words.

Hope the new home is good...

[littlebutfierce]

Thank you! & yes, aside from some issues w/the boiler & not having a stove for a week (we have one now!), I think this house will be good. I hope!

[sylvaine]

Wrote 500 words today. I don't think they're particularly good words, I'm not really feeling the story right now, but it's better than all the nothing I've been producing the past few months.

Discussion topic - Definitely evening. As with anything creative - I tend to get a burst of energy just when I'm supposed to be going to bed. And mornings aren't really my thing at all. Funnily enough, I also write best away from home. Or, not so much away from home as while traveling - I always seem to be inspired when I'm on the bus, so I try to use buses as much as possible as opposed to going by bike or getting driven or whatever.

[jagnikjen]

Words are words and they can always be fixed. (You can't edit nothing.) So good job. :)

[lacerta]

Just over 100 words today. That's not much, but it's in German and I haven't written fic in German in, oh I don't know, three years? So I'm happy with it. I'm hoping to finish a short fic for the non-native English celebration fest.

The later it gets, the more easily I write. In the mornings, I don't have any words in me at all.

[jagnikjen]

One hundred words is better than no words, so good for you. And in German--how cool.

[taelle]

Instead of working on any of my WIPs I was ambushed by a story idea... Did not have time or strength to write, but I just might start it tomorrow - I had fun thinking it up (even though it's basically 'let's wrap up things by giving all minor characters happy endings).

[taelle]

Oh, and about topic - I dunno about evening or morning - I am often too tired to think in the evening, but I am a slow starter so I can't get to it in the morning... I sometimes get through my writing block by scribbling in my notebook sitting in cafes and places like this - less distraction, I guess (I work at home, so at home I always have More Important Things to get distracted by).

[devilc]

Today was making the final revisions and then posting a WIP that had been stalled for 5 years (!!) to AO3.

I finished it last year for mini-nano and spent until May making tweaks and revisions. (It's over 25+ words). In July it was published in the Con*strict zine. I posted it after I was sure that supporting members' copies had reached them.

Beyond that? I think I'll rest up and then start typing up (2nd drafting) the story I finished a day or so ago.

[jagnikjen]

YAY for finally getting that fic done and posted. :) I can imagine how good that feels.

[ficwriter1966]

Another chapter in my WIP whipped together and posted today, about 900 words. Two more chapters to go! So the month is a success at this point.

I definitely write better in the morning. I'm very much a morning person - my energy level is higher, and it seems to be easier to get my brain in gear. I *can* write later on in the day, but if I'm tired or stressed, it's tough to get the mojo together.

As far as location - I seem to do okay in a variety of locations; it's more state of mind that affects my ability to write. When I'm home, I prefer having the laptop in my big recliner in the living room, with a window open.

[jagnikjen]

Nine hundred words is great. Keep up the momentum.

[jagnikjen]

The only writing I did yesterday was a quick couple of paragraphs on a new fic idea I had. I spent a lot of time reading yesterday, though.

You know, I don't know when I write better. I don't think it matters that much anymore. I think love scenes (the initial drafts) are better when I'm tired/sleepy because my inhibitions are lowered and I'm not as anxious about them, but generally speaking I think my writing is the same at either end of the day. :)

[lacygrey]

Hope you're feeling better now.

Ive re-written my epilogue (again). But I really need to be editing eerything to get an overview. Its the stage when things could change a lot for the fic as a whole.

I write at any time and any place I can. At the moment I write at the extremes of the day: morning and night. But I think thats more for the peace than because my brain is any more active.

[rebecca2525]

Got some more editing done. \o/

I'm generally not a morning person, so afternoon and evenings work much better for me. Place is pretty much irrelevant for me, as long as I have my laptop (and maybe earplugs to blank out the noise of my surroundings.)