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!)  

 
 

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as for me...

[wordstitch]

This month I signed up for the 750words February challenge, and for the past four days have been hitting the mark consistently. Yesterday was a close call, though, because I got into a miff with my husband and almost couldn't muster up the energy to write. I'm working on a rather heavy, emotionally draining story at the moment so I feel like today might be the day to take a break from that and jump to something a little happier.

[retsuko]

I've gotten about 2,000 words on my WIP done this week. Feeling really good about that. AND I've signed up to attend the first writer's group meetup that I signed up for later this month. :)

[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

[alasse_irena]

I...have not been productive, although I *thought* about my bingo card. Oops.

[chordatesrock]

I finished a first draft of something on my list!

[dhampyresa]

I made good progress, I think. This evening I got home, fired up the word processor and wrote 725 words in 45mn which was an experiment that seems to have worked out awesomely. Shall repeat and get more data.

[menage]

I haven't made any progress since Sunday. *keels over*
For the past few days I've been questioning my work, even though it's unwritten! I've been wondering if the characters would even be in character, or if the au i'm writing is too far from canon, and generally I've been asking myself other negative and discouraging questions. Wah, a first draft is just a first draft so I know I shouldn't overthink it. It has to be written before it can be edited and judged, right? So why can't I make my inner editor understand? So all week I've been staring at my outline, thinking about the next scene, and then my thoughts wander to negative things like, "this is complete and utter trash and no one will want to read it."

[misslucyjane]

My project for this week is finishing the script for a TV pilot to submit for a fellowship with the Sundance Institute. If I get selected I will learn how to be a showrunner for a week. (Do I want to even be a showrunner? Not sure about that...)

I finished a script, so yay for that. Now I've been trying to polish the first five pages, which is what we submit for the first round, and "polishing" has been more like "rewriting entirely" and I have no idea what's going to work anymore.

Writing is hard.

The whole first round submission package is due Wednesday. I need to figure this out before then, and I feel like it'll be ten minutes to midnight before I know how to make this work.

[ldybastet]

I've finished one fic and just got it back from beta, so that feels pretty good. :) I did my bunny list and now looking at it to see which of these want to go first. ;)

[kay_brooke]

I have done nothing this entire month! /o\

[ravengown]

Well, this week has been a little bit on the hilariously bad side writing wise-- I've been really sleep deprived and basically doing everything on my to-do list EXCEPT for writing. Mercifully yesterday I finally got unstuck and wrote about 1K for a WIP that I started in June of last year or something. It's still very much in the draft phase but maybe I'll be able to get a complete first draft of it done by Saturday without the slightly insane burnout writing I've been doing (weekly goals are helpful, but writing every day is the real goal here.)

Anyways, plot bunnies will probably all be put on the shelf since I want to contribute a few things to the Rare Pair Battle that's being run in a challenge comm for KnB that I help mod... I want to do at least a couple of things, but my personal standard of 1000 words minimum for a single piece might make that rough. Sigh.

[mixtapestar]

It was a pretty slow week - too busy. But last night I caught up and wrote another 1k. I'm so close to finishing this particular WiP!

[silailo]

I finished a prologue to an original story a while back, but a few of my characters were lacking motivation, so I can't get into the story yet. Oh, that and I may need to do some more world building. I think I may have figured out a remedy for the character motivation problem, though!

[gehayi]

I finished editing two manuscripts. I haven't done any writing yet, but I'm planning on starting tomorrow. Well...later today.

[kalloway]

Most of the week, I've been far too busy with work (and work-related exhaustion - I do large machinery repair, fabrication, etc), school, and start-up/mod-stuff for the community to tackle writing. ^^;;

Hopefully I can work on some stuff this weekend~

[no_apologies]

Today, I've finished reading over the first two chapters of one of two awesome fanfics that have been done, and fixed some minor errors. Finally, after 2 years of hiatus I'm getting back to at least one for right now!

I'm going to start writing the third chapter of my darkest and most intense story I've ever started--tomorrow! After doing some much needed trimming and proofreading on those previous chapters, I was reminded why I feel tempted to write more of what I'm positive is a challenge, to become more challenging to write as the fic progresses. I remember why it's so good, and I believe my plot bunnies for this have come back. Overall, this is very exciting. :D