WIP challenge: day 16 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

We're heading into the second half of this month's challenge? How is it going?

Poll #8328 Day 16 check-in

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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What kind of fic stuff did you do this weekend?

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Wrote
1 (16.7%)

Edited
2 (33.3%)

Sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

Posted
0 (0.0%)

Researched
0 (0.0%)

Nothing at all (deliberately)
0 (0.0%)

Nothing at all (despite wanting to)
3 (50.0%)

How do you feel about the upcoming week of the challenge?

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Are you on track for your goals for this month?

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Not even close
1 (20.0%)

I've surpassed them
0 (0.0%)

Can't tell yet
3 (60.0%)

Roughly on track
1 (20.0%)

For discussion: Lately I've been having a lot of days where I want to write fic, I'm intending to write fic, I have ideas & energy, etc. etc. & somehow the day ends & I realize I never stopped to write fic because I simply forgot or other things got in the way. How do you keep fic from going on the back burner? Is there a way you have to get into the habit of writing fic regularly? Or do you figure that if you forgot to write fic, it just wasn't supposed to happen anyway?

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[bay_alexison]

My friend finally gave me more of her story to look over, so I had been doing that for a bit. Going to look through some more tonight and then the rest of what she gave me tomorrow.

I think I'm a bit behind on my goals for this month, but it's fine. Wanted to get Chapters 1-4 of my fic finalized before sending them to my potential artists, but only got the first two chapters done and my beta told me she won't get the third chapter beta'd until this upcoming Saturday (she has been busy with school and work lately). Looks like I'll only send the first three chapters and the fourth chapter another time. There's also the two prompt stories-- got one done, unsure when I'll get to the other one as it depends if I got an idea for it.

If I have quite a lot of fics I need to write I try to get around 300-400 words a night so that at least I have something. Sometimes that works as I then able to get the words flowing. When I suddenly have a lot of real life stuff I needed to care of though I leave the fics on the back burner as I want to concentrate on dealing other proprieties first.

[littlebutfierce]

I feel like beta-ing helps me w/my own writing, & besides which it's a nice thing to do for people, so go you. ;) Also yay for being satisfied w/the progress you're making so far!

Sometimes when there's a lot of RL stuff going on I abandon fic to deal w/it but sometimes I cling to it even more fiercely as a coping mechanism when things get stressy. I guess it depends on just how stressed I get!