WIP challenge: day 11 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Hello, WIP challengers! I'll be doing check-in posts for this week.

Before we get to the poll & discussion, is there anyone who'd like to volunteer to do the daily check-in posts for the last two weeks of September? Even one person doing one week would be really helpful -- otherwise you're stuck w/me until October at least. ^^;;

Poll #8052 WIP challenge: day 11!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

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What have you been up to today, fic-wise?

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Wrote
5 (55.6%)

Edited
4 (44.4%)

Sent to beta
1 (11.1%)

Post
1 (11.1%)

Researched
1 (11.1%)

Took the day off
3 (33.3%)

Something else (tell us what in comments!)
0 (0.0%)

And how are you feeling about your fic?

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Fantastic!
2 (22.2%)

Miserable
0 (0.0%)

Somewhere in between
7 (77.8%)

What's been the biggest challenge with your fic this month so far?

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For discussion: Do you ever write to prompts? I don't mean just in terms of answering a comment fic prompt or getting a challenge prompt assigned to you -- but things like daily_prompt as well. Are they useful in terms of just getting you to write something, or do you get actual completed fics from them? What places would you recommend for prompts, if you do find them helpful?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Oh, I kind of love doing first edits! Because yeah, like you said, no need to be perfect yet. I love cutting out the easy stuff, heh. Good luck moving on from there.

[rebecca2525]

Yes, I normally like the first edit, too. Just got stuck a bit yesterday.

It seems that most people need to cut stuff in their edits, whereas I tend to underwrite my first draft. I need to add all those scene transitions, prose between lines of dialogue etc...

[littlebutfierce]

Heh, I do both -- there's always a lot of waffle that I need to cut out, but after the first draft is also when I have to face up to all those bits of dialogue or whole scenes that I haven't done... whether I've written something like "Insert difficult conversation here!" or just skipped the scene entirely.

[meridian_rose]

Oh, yes, this :D Particularly with longer fics, where I often have scenes missing near the middle, while editing or just re-wording things in the rest.