WIP Challenge: Day 19 Check-In

[katzenjamming]

Happy Monday, guys! How's that fic thing going today?

• Wrote?
• Planned?
• Edited?
• Researched?
• Sent to beta?
• Posted?
• Took a break?
• ...did something else? (Tell us in the comments!)

Discussion Topic: Going a bit off of some of yesterday's responses, how meta are you? Does your IRL vernacular include the occasional trope name? Ever written an essay about something that bugged you about a canon? Have you ever tried to address an "issue" in your fics?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

800-ish words possibly towards part 3 of my Natsume Yuujinchou series -- more plot, augh! But still, I may be writing my way into a solution.

I don't know if I write essays per se, but occasionally I do write meta posts. I think as far as "issues" -- often I'll write the women in, or write them in more, to address times when they've been put on the shelf in canon. I've written fic about anxiety & self-injury to address the flippant way I thought fandom (& to a degree canon) treated the mental health issues I felt a character had.

A chunk of my RL friends are fandom friends (as well as my partner), so fandom terms get used fairly regularly when I see them!

[linaewen]

I re-edited and posted some of my stuff at some archives where it hadn't been posted as yet. I'm also trying to get back into one of my WIPs that has been dormant for a really long time, to see if I can get the characters to wake up and talk to me. ;-)

I have written some essays, yes -- and at least one of my fics was the result of promoting a character who didn't really get as much time as he deserved (imho) in canon.

[ficwriter1966]

Did pretty well today - put together a 2200-word fic that's a set of 200-word pieces strung together. (The Muse seemed OK with focusing on 200-word chunks!)

I've written a few essays on meta subjects, but they were back in my Star Trek days. If I do any meta these days, it's just disjointed fussing. Though - oh. I've done book reviews on the tie-in novels. Does that count?

[devilc]

Not finishing my WIPs, but cranking out a one-shot to squeek in one more story to celebrate DADT's Repeal.

[lacerta]

Wrote 900 words of a fic I've been thinking about for a while, but hadn't really planned on writing. Not sure what to do with it yet, but I do like the 900 words.

I don't write meta or essays, but I guess I have written an "issue fic." The gender-swap prompts on the kink memes often make me sad, so I wrote one that didn't.

[elistaire]

What is it about the gender-swap fics that make you sad? How did you write one that made you happy about it?

[elistaire]

Great fic day! I feel like I just can't type fast enough to get the story out. The brain just sort of got it all together and every time I think of a piece, it fits like a jigsaw puzzle. OMG. This almost never happens! I hope I can finish the story before I fizzle out.

Meta? Not so much. Usually I try to avoid the overused tropes. If I can. If I know about them. Sometimes I fall right into Trope-Land like I was born, raised, and died there, and now am a ghost haunting it for eternity.

[bay_alexison]

Got through editing two short stories, one I send to a beta already. The other short story not yet as I'm waiting until he's finished with a chapter of his story. Don't want to distract him as he's almost done with the chapter, haha. After I get those two short stories polished and posted, I can get back writing my Big Bang and start off the fourth chapter.

I also don't write meta or essays, but in a way I wrote an issue fic that's more a response to some cliches that popped up a lot in fics over a pairing I like a lot.

[jagnikjen]

Just to check in, I did nothing yesterday as I was trying to get on the road and then I was on the road.

Not that meta, I guess, not what sure that means exactly...

No essays about anything, that I recall--well, I guess except writing fic in which characters got together when in canon they didn't. :)

No issues addressed as far as I know. :0)