[Check-In]

[kalloway]

Just a reminder - this is your community, too. Feel free to use it to ask for advice, vent, commiserate, celebrate, etc.


This is a weekly check-in! You do not have to check in, of course, but if you would like to comment on the last week, feel free!


If you have a deadline coming up, you can do it! If you need a deadline, feel free to ask!


This is the second-to-last check-in! ZOMG!

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[kalloway]

* Twenty-one straight days of website updates (two header/etc. edits, one 'new to the site' fic). \o/

* Working on finishing up Dragon Big Bang fic. Basically, I had to step back and re-write an extended summary and some little details popped into place and now I know why everything is happening, which I sort of embarrassingly didn't know and figured would y'know, turn up if I just kept writing. So yeah, ready to tackle that tonight/tomorrow.

* Just did a massive canon review for Dead or Alive and realized that the reason I can't finish the ficlet from like six years ago is that I'm just coming at it the wrong way entirely and need to approach everything differently for it to work and that's sort of a huge relief, really.

- I want to write a lot more DoA fic now, because DoA5 just... yeah.

[peaceful_sands]

Can I just say Wow!? I wish I could get two days straight of anything right now. You're doing a great job and I hope things continue to go well.

[kalloway]

Doing little 15-20 minute chunks of coding is working great. It was hard to sit and do it for hours, which is how I got so far behind, and every time I've tried to schedule it before, I tried to do too much. Five re-codes a day was way too much, but two? I can handle two. Sure, everything will take a little longer but I'm not burning out after a day or two. And if I do have spare time, I can always work a little bit ahead.

Hopefully I can get more words on new stuff done, too.

[jordannamorgan]

Wrote and posted a "How to Train Your Dragon" one-shot in the space of about three days. Also continued to nudge along my current chaptered WIP of choice.

Now contemplating the start of a long-considered crossover one-shot that a friend wants to see (and that would fill a trope_bingo prompt). I'm even tempted to start a certain Epic Sequel Of Massive Massiveness that's been in planning for three years, but I really should finish at least one of my two larger WIPs that are on their climactic scenes.

Last week I wrote nearly half again my word-count goal at verbosity. Goal for this week is 4,000 words... of which I've written only 300+ so far. Which means I need to get cracking.

(Mainly I just need to give myself a solid chunk of writing time that will let me get into the flow of the story properly. Instead of, you know, getting distracted by other things until I only have the time and brain-energy for a few hundred words.)

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like you're doing brilliantly, may it continue to be so for you.

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks. I've done pretty badly so far this week, actually, but I hope I can sprint to the finish of my Verbosity word goal. Good luck to yourself as well!

(I thought that WIP Big Bang sounded awesome, BTW... and then LJ inexplicably marked my signup comment as spam. :( That was a highly disappointing welcome. Hopefully the admins can sort it out.)

[peaceful_sands]

Hope things were sorted out - I find LJ very unpredictable these days, I'd much rather hang out here on DW, but the mods of the comm seem friendly from what I've seen so far. I got a nice message when I pm'd my contact to them. Hope they sort everything out for you.

[jordannamorgan]

Between the nice mods and a complaint to LJ, it looks like I'm good to go now. :)

Seriously. After using LJ for ten years (most of them as a paying user), I got so fed up with their shenanigans that I dumped them for DW over a year ago. Haven't regretted it for a second, and I can't imagine why every last (non-Russian) LJ user doesn't make the switch. But I guess now I'll have to remember to check my LJ friendlist for WIP Big Bang posts. :Þ

[peaceful_sands]

If you want I can try to remember to poke you when I see something. I switched 2 and a half years ago - I only keep the LJ account now for signing up for things - my feelings on why don't people all switch over here is pretty similar to yours,I think. Good luck with the writing!

[jordannamorgan]

I moved my LJ friendlist link to a more accessible place in my favorites, so I think I'll manage with remembering to check it. :) Thanks thiough!

[peaceful_sands]

Although I got a reasonable number of words (not as many as I needed but not too far distant) what I didn't get was any real progress on the things I needed to get written. I've signed up for the wip_bigbang on LJ in the hope of adding yet another impetus to finishing one particularly huge crossover story that is probably 2/3 written at least, but that I just don't seem to be able to figure out the ending.

I'm hoping for some sort of progress in the coming weeks on anything that actually needs to be done!

[kalloway]

Is that crack_the_wip or another comm? I saw crack_the_wip the other day and it looks interesting.

As far as the unknown ending, where does the story need to go?

[peaceful_sands]

wipbigbang This is the one I've signed up for.

I think that might be part of the problem in that I can't figure out anything that would pass for a satisfactory resolution - I probably need to sit down and bash it around for a bit to try to figure out what to do for each group within the story. There are two groups within it, that need to work together for the villain of the piece to get his comeuppance but once they've done that I've got to figure out what to do with them afterwards. One group are pretty much putting paid to their position by their actions, even though it's the right thing for them to do.

[kalloway]

I think maybe if you can just decide where they should be at the very end, you can work backwards to get them there? Even if it's a sort of 'and they rode off into the sunset' sort of thing?