Weekly Check In Post

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Hello, Pro’s fans, it once again falls to me to greet you all with a weekly check in post which gives me a horrifying reminder of how fast this year is racing past!

Are you like me, facing a long endless tunnel of writing with seemingly no end, or are you sorted, sitting pretty and feeling justifiably pleased with yourself?

Either way, a quick reminder that the artist sign ups open very soon (as if we didn’t have ENOUGH to do) so there’s no rest for those fingers just yet!

Wishing you all a successful, productive and safe week, this is Boothros signing out in order to re-watch Doyle defusing an atomic bomb…

Comments

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I have passed the 10,000 word mark with no end in sight as of yet, but last night, whilst trying to nod off, I did basically compose the next scene. So ya. Doyle still missing and injured, Bodie very unhappy.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

So I'm still lagging far behind, now have around 1,000 words, which is approx 200 more than I had last time I checked in.

I've got the idea of the story in my head, but I can't seem to get the shape of it down on 'paper'.

But I have been going great guns with a random fic in another fandom, using a method I never really use - writing the bits I have words for and just putting place holders for the interconnecting bits I don't.

So, I thought I'd give that a whirl this bank holiday weekend (in between doing some shopping - I'm sure you're not supposed to subsist on leftover Easter eggs...)

I did have a question for the mods though, because I've never worked this way before: does the rough draft have to be complete to the point in the story you've got to - or can you have a more 'swiss cheese' draft, with a patchwork of completed chapters interspersed with placeholders - so long as the completed chapters meet the word count?