check in day 5

[lilly_c]

How is the writing going today? What about yesterday?

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wrote
3 (42.9%)

edited
1 (14.3%)

posted
1 (14.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (14.3%)

planned
2 (28.6%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
3 (42.9%)

Discussion: canon review. How much time do you spend reviewing canon?

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[lilly_c]

I've been reviewing a very specific ep of SG-1 since I got my assignment for my stargate-winter-fic-exchange fic and I'm going to have to watch it a few more times to capture everything that I want to include for my recipient. Thank goodness for days off to be able to do these things.

Tidied up a ficlet for posting, that should be up soon.

[frogfarm]

Closed in on finishing a scene. More scenes in this chapter, but shorter so it balances out.

[peachpai]

Yesterday I wrote 237 words and did a MASSIVE reorganization of my chapters. That kind of effed up my finish a chapter goal this month, but I'll probably still make it. Today, I am still having my coffee and have not started writing yet. :)

I spend A LOT of time doing canon review, sometimes to the detriment of actual writing. It's hard not to get caught up in the thing you love enough to write fic about.

[gershom_onyx]

Planning is going to be the theme of the first stretch of this month. Have to decide what to do before I go and do it. Pick and choose, pick and choose.

Edit to add that canon review is important to any planning. :-) I have so many potential choices that it makes me a little dizzy, to be honest.

[athaia]

Oof, dealt with life. I wanted to check in here every day, but let's be honest, I'll be regularly incommunicado Mon to Wed, because that's when I work long shifts and am out of the house from half past eight in the morning to half past eight in the evening, and once I've eaten dinner, I'm too knackered for anything but sitting on the couch and reading (though I do roll out my mat and do yoga when I come home. Part of new!me in the New Year. Fingers crossed I can keep that habit).

Canon review: depends heavily on the canon. For my own series, I've left canon behind a long time ago (it's appropriately tagged "Alternate Canon"), but with only 13 episodes, there wasn't much canon to begin with.

I'm much more anal when I write for exchanges, since the stories aren't for myself, but for my recipients. Since I can't assume that everyone has the same cavalier attitude towards canon as I, I tend to err on the side of caution there.

[mistressofmuses]

I managed to write (though not a lot, yet) while dealing with a drama-rific day at work.

I feel like I have a very strange relationship with canon for the fics I've mostly been working on. I never played most of the games that make up the canon, and mostly write AUs that incorporate elements from the parts I am familiar with... despite that familiarity having been refreshed maybe 10 years ago at best? (It's Kingdom Hearts, which is fairly infamous for how off the rails aspects of canon got.)
Sometimes that leads to wiki rabbit holes where I try to find out what ultimately happened with a character or plotline, just so I can try to avoid big pitfalls, but mostly I just... kinda ignore the parts I don't know enough about. Someday I'll either own the systems necessary to play the rest, or I'll actually sit down and watch some lets plays to try and "get" all of it, but that day is not today, nor is it tomorrow.

For some canons, I've gone through far more meticulous dives back to make sure I'm getting every little detail right, lol. (And fandom wikis are my savior for that, a lot of the time.)