WIP challenge - day 17 check-in post!

[littlebutfierce]

Poll #8333 Day 17 check-in!

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How's the fic going today? a

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Brilliant
0 (0.0%)

Awful
1 (14.3%)

Somewhere in the middle
3 (42.9%)

Yet to be determined
3 (42.9%)

What's your biggest challenge with your goal fic this week?

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For discussion: I'm really interested in hearing about people's fic-writing process lately. Do you start at the beginning & write until you get to the end? Do you write the ending first? Skip difficult scenes? Write scenes multiple times until you manage to get the right version out of your brain onto paper/screen?

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[littlebutfierce]

I tend to write scenes randomly in whatever order they occur to me, often when I'm doing my 750 for the day: so I'll write a scene a day (v. occasionally more), w/o worrying about the connections between them or even if they're internally consistent. Eventually, when I feel like I've written most of the fic that way, I pull all the bits together into one hugely rough draft & start hacking away from there.

I also do write scenes multiple times on multiple days -- sometimes after I've written a scene in one way, I'll think of something else to try.

Today I wrote a clump of words that is maybe the opening to my Kaleidoscope fic. Gotta pull together all the other scenes I've been trying over the last few days to see, though (& gotta finish canon refresh...).

[lacygrey]

I also do write scenes multiple times on multiple days -- sometimes after I've written a scene in one way, I'll think of something else to try.

I do that too! Sometimes I forget that Ive written it the first time though and then come back and find two of them (esp. in notebooks). I tell myself its not wasted though, the first time I was just 'working it out'.