WIP Challenge: Day 27 Check-In

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Poll #8166 Tuesday

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Tell us what you've been doing today:

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writing
2 (25.0%)

planning/researching
3 (37.5%)

sent fic to beta
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

took a break
0 (0.0%)

something else
5 (62.5%)

For discussion: What do you all do about these WIPs that have been sitting in the WIP folder for such a long time, the ones you've maybe lost interest in writing? Do you keep them with plans to come back to them eventually? Do you salvage bits and pieces to incorporate into other fics or delete them entirely after a while? (And if you don't have any such files in your folder, please tell me how to do that ;) )

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[littlebutfierce]

Today was my long day at work, made longer by train delays, so I didn't have the brain to do anything but a laborious snippet for Tumbling which is really not v. good at all, but sparked by a comment thread in this comm, so yay!

I've got TONS of WIPs, technically, b/c all the snippets I write for my 750 Words are in theory WIPs! Some of them get incorporated into other fics, some of them get put aside. A lot of them I don't really intend to use from the start; they're more... kind of brainstorming in fictional form? Sometimes I'll just write a little snippet w/the intention of just feeling out how it feels to write a character, or to get a better idea of how I think their mind works. Sometimes I'll write something the opposite of what I think (I'll write a ship I hate or a character I can't stand) just to stretch my mind a little, heh. I think a lot of my 750 Words snippets are the equivalent of playing scales on an instrument to warm up: worthwhile, but nothing particularly beautiful in & of itself. It's what it helps me get to afterwards that is the good stuff!