Check-in time?

[wordstitch]

How's everyone doing with their writing this week, now that we've passed the half-way point?  Have you been working on your WIPs?  Made any progress?  Run into any trouble?  Let's talk about it!  


(not sure if I'm supposed to post this, but since nothing was posted yesterday I thought I'd go ahead!)  

 
 

Comments

[crookedspoon]

After fic_promptly's Contest Week (that coincided with the last mad rush of femslash100's drabbletag), I find myself in a bit of a writing slump. It's not surprising, but I still don't like it. I have an abundance of ideas that need whittling down.

As for deadlines, I have one fic to edit ASAP, and another to write until the 14th. That one I haven't started yet. Overcoming that hurdle is difficult sometimes, especially when I have other things to occupy myself with.

ETA: Forgot to mention I do so love your username! :D

[wordstitch]

Oh no, writing slumps. My longest one lasted for a whole year. I wrote a couple of fics last year but I never really cared all that much about them (they were gift fics for friends), so basically I wrote nothing worth being proud of in 2014. A whole year of crappy writing, ahaha. Basically, I know how you feel~ Don't despair!!

I hate starting new things on a deadline. I always have to ask for extensions, I'm so bad o.o You should start today! Maybe just the first scene, or the last paragraph so you have something to work towards! Or maybe just the dialogue bits of a scene you have in your mind already? If you tackle just one small thing, even if it's only a sentence or a paragraph, at least you can say you've started, and that feeling of accomplishment and a sense of purpose will pull you through all the crappy plotting out of the story bits XD


(Also, thank you! I like it too. Usually I use the same username everywhere so this one is a nice change =D)

[retsuko]

I hate writing slumps so much. :( The only way to beat them (at least for me) is the same way of beating the hiccups: not thinking about it and doing something else. Hope things get better ASAP and a good prompt/idea gets the creative energy flowing again!