Weekly Check-In Post

[sineala.livejournal.com]

How is everyone doing this week? Writing coming along well? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

For those of you who like to procrastinate by reading other people's writing tips and who could use a few more words on that Big Bang draft, I recommend How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day.

For those of you with a lot of spare time, there's the Absolute Write thread Learn Writing With Uncle Jim. It's geared more towards the professional-novelist side of things, but it's still good advice.

Hope you're having fun!

Comments

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Having fun? No.

A bit uncertain about stuff and thinking of contacting cheerleader(s) if available for some other perspective.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Having fun? No.



*\o/* Go, you - GO!!!

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

I'll be your cheerleader any time mate! xx

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Writing is a shit of a thing... but even when it's making us miserable, it's still something we really want to do, eh?

I'm sure you'll get your story to behave in plenty of time. *hugs again*

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Getting a fresh pair of eyes can often be really helpful when you're not feeling so good about a story or your progress on it. I'm sure there are lots of people here who'd be happy to do that at any stage (me included!)

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Ack! I hope talking it over with one of your cheerleaders will help - if not, we'll all come round and drink tequila with you till it looks better *g*

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I'll cheer you on!

[lillianorchid.livejournal.com]

I'd gladly be your cheerleader! *\o/*

Especially if you need someone to talk out your ideas to or even to proof it. Sometimes having someone else read a story can really help. :)

[nickygabriel]

I don't think that you need another cheerleader, but I cheerlead you all the time. And I follow you almost everywhere you go! :)

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

*waves pompoms encouragingly*

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

No, not time yet to use ths icon. Just practicing for now.

Well, it's defintely going better than it was; I'm currently just over the rough draft limit. But it's all pretty much junk. And I've always known it'll take more than 15,000 words to tell this story. :/

I was outlining last night (and fell asleep, so here I am now), and I can see where the holes are. And they're a *little* bit (a LOT) bigger than, "." The story itself is noticeably lacking, development-wise (they go from point A to point M several times). And Doyle isn't, well, Doyle; and Bodie's behavior is explained better in my head than on the page. D:

Although there's one scene that did exactly what I wanted it to... :D
*One* scene. D:

The biggest challenge coming up, though, is in revising. The first half of the story was burned onto a DVD amid the dying cries of my video card. And there's the rub - I have no way of reading a DVD right now (am using a netbook for personal stuff), and I still have a verklompt foot. The first 4-5,000 words are on paper (with lots of markups).

I'm trying to get someone to get me over to the library so I can take the seven minutes to mail the file to myself. Unfortunately, that won't happen before Friday. So I feel a disruption in the force because I can't get into editing it properly, much less sending it off for discussion. :(

Well, I *could* retype it in if I have to. That's a form of revising. ;_;

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

you sound like you're at a very similar stage to me, and it's a stage I quite like. And I can't wait to read your 'one scene', it sounds great already!

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Yay for one scene that behaved the way you wanted it to! I'm sure the rest of it will get beaten into submission in time too.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Although there's one scene that did exactly what I wanted it to... :D

Well-behaved scenes are of the happy. Hope your foot is getting better (and I'm sure what you have so far - rough draft limit yay! - is far from junk).

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

It's both frustrating and exhilarating, I think, that feeling that a story is just *demanding* more words to be told! I hope the issues with the DVD get resolved for you.

[marjorammax.livejournal.com]

Tentatively waves hand above parapet: yes, I’m having fun – this week. I can’t believe the high I am on after three great days where I can’t stop writing and everything has been flowing perfectly. Well, not quite everything. Chapter 5 still has a big fat 0 word count, but at least I’m not worrying about it anymore.

I’ve a question though: are these mood swings normal - one minute depression, the next euphoria (and no, it’s not hormonal this time)? :)

Following my mini meltdown I just want to thank sc_fossil and saintvic for their encouragement and support in last week’s check-in post.

Now, where did I leave off last night? What’s that? I can hear my husband muttering about something called housework, but I don’t know what that is. Surely it can’t be as important as the Pros Big Bang? I'll just shut the door on him. Okay, so Doyle and Bodie were …

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

I love that feeling you get when the writing flows. Housework? I'm with you mate! xx

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad to hear you're over the worry of the last check-in. It sounds like you're going great guns.

I can't speak for everyone else, but my mood about any story I work on fluctuates like you wouldn't believe - usually depending on how well the writing is going. *g* I quite often will swear that I'm shite at writing and I'm going to give it up... and then I'll turn around and pound out 6,000 words in a day and be brimming with enthusiasm. *g*

Housework will always be there when you're done with the lads. ;)

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Hooray for great writing days! Boo for housework! Sounds like things are basically going pretty well, and yes, I think the up and down feeling is totally normal :D

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I think that Big Bangdom can turn the best writer into fodder for a psych dissertation, LOL.

But yeah: when the writing's coming, and the endomorphins are flowing, that's a very good feeling. :sighs happily:

Housework? What is this thing of which you speak? Please to spell that for us. :D

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how writing is for me--one minute euphoria and the next panic--lol. You're normal as far as I am concerned!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I get a lot of shifts in emotion about my writing. I tend to hate any and every fic over about the 5k mark for quite a while, until they're all tidied up and finished.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

How'm I doing? Not so well. :( On the other hand, I found the link on how to increase your daily word count very enlightening. I now have a plan on how to make this bloody story behave!

(I do have yet another story that I've been writing on for ages that is almost at the minimum word count with a very clear idea of how to finish it (I've just been lazy) as a backup, should I need it - so I'll have something to submit on time)

I seriously reckon I should have just given in and written Bodie and Doyle in a fantasy setting like the damn muse wanted. *sigh* Doyle would look good with pointy ears, wouldn't he? *g*

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Wow, two possible Big Bangs and enough time for all the polishing bits. That's brilliant (and in no way lazy)!

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased to have 1,000 words down now and had a total blast with those. My so-called "outline" for the story is severely plot-lite, which I know is not a good omen at this stage, but I'm hoping somehow *something* will happen as we go along...

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

One thousand words is good! I'll keep my fingers crossed that 'something' happens to beef up your plot as you go along.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Having not looked at my story for two weeks, I loaded it up onto Kindle and read through what I've got...

...and actually, it's OK. I still like my concept and after a while away from it, the whole thing seems less awful and OOC than when I was staring at it every day and tinkering with it. It needs revisions and extensions and just more words, but it's there, the nugget of what I want to say.

I'm feeling rather excited about it again *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's always a good idea to take a break from your story when you think it's crap - nine times out of ten it's nowhere near as bad as you think it is. *g*

Being excited about your story again is absolutely brilliant! It seems to go much better when you're excited about it, doesn't it?