WIP Challenge: Day 25 Check-In

[lacerta]

Hey! I'll be hosting the check-in posts until the end of month and I hope the writing is going well for everyone :)

Poll #8147 Sunday

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How have you spent this fine Sunday?

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writing
3 (50.0%)

planning/researching
0 (0.0%)

sent fic to beta
0 (0.0%)

posted
1 (16.7%)

took a break
0 (0.0%)

something else
3 (50.0%)

In three words, how do you feel about this month's goal?

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For today's discussion topic: Do you write drawer fic, that is a story you write purely for your own enjoyment but without intention of posting it? What makes a drawer fic so enjoyable and what is the reason you prefer keeping it to yourself?

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[rebecca2525]

Got some editing done. Finally I'm making progress again! I don't think I'll meet my Septermber goal, though...

[jagnikjen]

I'm just getting ready to write, once I finish this...

Discussion topic...I've never heard the term, so thanks for defining it. But I'd have to say that just about everything I write is for my own enjoyment, but never without the intent to post.

[littlebutfierce]

Wrote what could become the fill to a comment meme prompt, but we'll see... Still hoping to post my poetry_fiction fic tonight. If I do, then I'll be halfway through the difficult bits of my goals for this month (the other one being my help_japan fic, which... there's pretty much no way that's being finished before the month's end).

I, um, think I end up posting any drawer fic I might write. Hahahaha. There's some fics I've written for Natsume Yuujinchou that I feel are definitely id fic, & I think, ohhhhh so self-indulgent & pandering to ALL MY BUTTONS. But the fandom has a lot of the same buttons, ha, so... I've been lucky so far in that when I post these things I think are embarrassingly self-indulgent, they are well-received most of the time!

[sylvaine]

Haven't written anything today... yet. I am definitely going to write at least something though, as soon as I print out my finance plan for uni for my parents... ugh.

I don't write fiction if I think I'll be the only one to ever read it. That, as far as I'm concerned, is what my diary is for. I only started writing fiction in the first place when I discovered fanfic and the possibility of finding an audience online - it's not that I don't enjoy writing, I do, but for me it's always a medium of sharing with others. I don't need to go through the long process of writing to tell myself stories.

... of course, that said, a lot of my stuff never sees the light of day anyhow, since I'll come back to it two weeks later and then decide that actually, I don't want anyone to know that I wrote that. *g*

[ficwriter1966]

Put together and posted a little 1200 word one-shot today, so I'll call it a successful day!

I did write drawer fic back in the day, out of necessity - I didn't know anyone who wanted to read my stories. (This was way, way pre-Internet, before I knew there was such a thing as zines.) These days? Everything gets posted. Can't imagine not sharing it.

[linaewen]

I spent the day trying to breathe life into an old laptop in order to have SOMETHING on which to type and surf the Web, since my lovely nice one decided to kick the bucket on Friday. Looks like I've got something working here at last, and even though it's pretty slow, if it just hangs on until I can buy another computer, we'll be good to go. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have working USB ports, so I can't plug in any of my back up drives, where all my stories are! Not an insurmountable challenge, thankfully.

I wrote something that was close to drawer fic -- a wee romance that was written for fun and for the eyes of only a select couple of people. The main reason I made it drawer fic was because I didn't want to reveal a certain character I had created for it at the time, because I plan to use that character in one of my current WIPs --eventually. I was trying to avoid spoilers. ;-) I was also shy about it because I haven't done much romance, but it turned out pretty well, so I may eventually post it.

[elistaire]

Semi-drawer fic. I post it, it's just usually under lots of access locks, so only a very few people might see it.

[bay_alexison]

Was away for a while today, so I was quite tired when I got back home, haha. I was able to catch up with betaing one of four fics (two I have to look over right away while the other two my friends told me I don't have to beta right away). I'll look through another fic and also get started on editing my story tomorrow.

I've never done a drawer fic as I love sharing my writing to an audience, but there are times when I feel the story's writing style isn't that great or the content itself won't make sense I don't post it. Most of the those writings were meant to be for various contests and challenges, haha.