WIP challenge: day 22 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

In my part of the world, it's halfway through the weekend. How has your weekend been going?

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How's your weekend been going so far?

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Promisingly
0 (0.0%)

AMAZINGLY
0 (0.0%)

It's a struggle
3 (50.0%)

I've already given up
0 (0.0%)

Middling
3 (50.0%)

What's your goal for the next week?

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For discussion: How do you get your ideas? Do you ever consciously try & generate more? How? Does it work or just give you writer's block?

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[littlebutfierce]

I've been jumping between fandoms the past few days, alternating between my Kaleidoscope assignment, my existing Natsume Yuujinchou series, & a couple of fandoms I want to write Kaleidoscope treats for. Today I did a little over 800 words on the latter.

I like it best when my ideas just come to me but sometimes when I'm in the mood to write, but they're not coming, I do try to coax them! Usually by looking through prompts or old snippets of mine. I read somewhere (ages ago & I wish I saved the link) a suggestion from a productivity blog that you try having 5 ideas a day. That sounds a little silly, but I don't think they meant 5 good usable ideas, just... try to think of 5 ideas a day, just to keep your brain churning away. I tried it one day & quickly thought of 5 fic ideas on the elliptical machine at the gym. One of them actually became a fic, & pretty quickly! However, every time I've tried it since then it just doesn't work, which is a bummer!!!

[jagnikjen]

Ideas usually just come to me, though they are few and far between.

I have tried to just think them up like for drabble fests and such and usually I can come up with a few worthwhile ideas. I think for me it also depends on how into a fandom I am at any given time. The ideas spawn more easily when I'm really into it.

[bay_alexison]

Close to 960 words of my Big Bang! Ended up writing another future scene, but then I got an idea over how I'll deal with the scene I got stuck on so I wrote a bit of that too. Hopefully I'll be able to write more of that scene!

Pretty much ideas just come to me too and I would just go with the flow.

[lacygrey]

The weekend went the way of rehersals and a concert. Now the School holidays are here and I have lots of work all of a sudden. Its bad news for fic. Though I still feel very motivated, fortunately.

I'm just getting a bit worried that Ive written a load of weird stuff. It isn't like the things I like to read (notable absence of happy ending for example - still, my fic is a prequel to a posted fic that does have one).

I get ideas spontaneously when I get mad at another fic or at fandom stupidity or just life (I think it might be a coping mechanism). One time I did conciously try to generate ideas was for a comment fic fest. I found I'd made a long list of them, even though I only wrote three.

[taelle]

Writing is happening! *jumps with joy* Okay, just a bit more than two pages, which is probably 500 words at best, but... writing! I haven't managed to do any in more than a week! (and I started a story. Which I've been thinking about for quite a while, but haven't been actually planning to write right now. Oh well. I hope I'll manage to finish it. It's a relationship story, and I am not that good with those. It involves the POV-person being rather stupid about the relationship, and not getting why the other person has a problem, or that there even is a problem. I, erm, don't quite know how they're getting through this, except maybe to have a flaming row, which would make the POV person very bewildered)

As for ideas, I always have lots. Or at least germs of ideas. Things to think about and develop into a story. It's developing them into stories which is a problem, but getting them... my brain's good at collecting and juxtaposing scraps of stuff from books-films-life situations and getting an image which could be a part of a story. Or, fanfic-wise, pulling out an interesting knot of canon interactions. Or being inspired by stories done badly.