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

[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.