WIP Challenge Check-in -- Day 10

[lacygrey]

Monday October 10th

How's the writing going today?

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Write? How much?
4 (66.7%)

Edit?
1 (16.7%)

Plan/Research?
1 (16.7%)

Send to beta?
0 (0.0%)

Post fic?
0 (0.0%)

Do something else?
0 (0.0%)

For discussion: What's your favorite way to take a short break from writing so that you come back refreshed and ready to jump right back in there?

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[jagnikjen]

Editing a WIP and trying to get going on my challenge fic.

Discussion question...Um, I don't really know. Getting enough sleep and not pressuring myself to do it when I don't really want to. Reading/watching canon helps me want to get back to it, as does reading fan fic for whatever pair I'm writing. Other than that, it's really just time.

[littlebutfierce]

I wrote more... noodling, or just... scraps of words, really, whatever. Not working on anything in particular, except just keeping my brain warmed up for writing. Actually I did draft a possible prompt fic but it's not usable, so... I think of it as more a warm-up exercise.

I got my assignment for the Kaleidoscope exchange now, tho, & am so excited about that!!!1 I want to stay up doing canon refresh but I need to go to bed b/c tomorrow's my long workday. Sob.

I don't know if I have a set way to take a break to make it effective -- I wish I did! Sometimes just the impatience while waiting for a beta to get back to me is enough to get me excited about the story -- somehow not being able to work on it until then makes me antsy to work on it, so yay for betas not being able to instantly turn around stories!

[elistaire]

Wrote a few hundred words. My big problem was that everyone seemed to want to talk to me today on my break time. So instead of writing, I had to answer inane questions about ordinary life stuff. Dear co-worker: we're in the same room 7+ hours a day, why do you also need to talk with my on break time?


My favorite way to recharge is exercise! Going to a walk always makes the ideas flow better.

[taelle]

Some thoughts on planning a longer story, and a drabble (additional exercise: trying to incorporate some action into my character studies).

As for recharging, I'm bad at it, and I rarely write in long stints anyway. I run out of ideas, or get too tired, and that's it.

[katzenjamming]

I've been kinda ultra-busy over the past few days, but have gotten the bare minimum of my 750 daily words done... and that's it. It's been slow going for a while, and I'm still fretting over this alternate draft I seem to have migrated to...

For discussion, you said "short", so I can't say sleep (I'm totally guilty of the four-hour nap!) but during various menial things like cooking, my mind is bound to wander and usually I try to steer it toward whatever I'm working on!

[bay_alexison]

Did lots of editing today. *_* Was editing my Big Bang, a short story from one friend, and a couple long scenes from another friend. My brain is pretty fried at this point, LOL.

Hm, not sure how I go by the discussion question. I guess mostly internet surfing, getting housework down, and just walking in the living room for a while are my main ways of taking a break from writing.

[lacygrey]

I'm pleased because I achieved the goal I set myself (a particular scene that was missing from my WIP) only to be faced with another difficult customer: Ogata-sensei, who I've never written but who appears in briefly in my fic. In Hikago fanfiction he's been depicted as every type of character: Go nerd, romantic hero, villanous pedophile, mafia boss...which is just to say that you've got to be really clear on what role you've chosen for him. I'm leaning heavily toward the 'Go nerd' or 'Someone whose love for Go could make him a danger to himself and those around him.'

So, my next goal is to integrate him in my fic. I originally put him there only because I needed his car, but his rather extreme attitude makes a good contrast with some of the other characters.

For brief breaks I like mundane household chores: Ironing, washing up, cleaning. They let my brain chew away at the same time and wometimes it generates good ideas.