Friday Check-in

[inkdust]

Hi everybody! It's been a while.

I'm putting off continuing my work for the moment because I'm stuck on one part of the last line of this scene & chapter (12, yay, halfway there!) that needs something to make the sentence feel complete. I have a gift for sitting on one piece of one line. So I figured I'd stare at something else for a minute and ask how all you fine people have been.

What's new? What's old that you want to be rid of? What's good, and what feels more like dragging a dead zebra behind a bicycle?


(No zebras were harmed in this mental interlude)

Comments

[ayumidah]

I just finished two short stories right before my self-imposed deadline for them, so I'm happy! I'm also in the process of fixing up my very first NaNoWriMo from six years ago, and it's not as terrible as I thought it'd be.

I probably won't be writing much the next few weeks though because I have a friend (Who I actually met through some fics I wrote) coming over for a visit soon. :D

[siofrabunnies]

Good thing: I got Scrivener, and it's wonderful! So nice having all my research and notes in the same file as the writing, and being able to keep chapters in sub-documents. Much tidier, and less pre-work before getting back into a story.

Bad thing: Being organized is certainly helpful, but it didn't actually get me to write. I have less of a barrier, but this story just isn't coming together. I think I need to try writing scenes out of order, and fill in the brain-freezy ones later.

[inkdust]

After an excessive time spent doing other things, I returned to the line and finally found the right piece: "inhaling the sharp smell of mint." So I'll call it a good day over here.

[caecilia]

Good - I made myself an official author website and I'm planning on getting cards because I went to a writer's group picnic and everyone had cards.

Bad - I've been so bogged down by school and work that I haven't written that much and I'm on my way to urgent care because I just got home to find my mother had burned her foot :\ but hey maybe I can write in the waiting room

[splinteredstar]

I've mostly been working on a monster of a fanfiction, the main section of which is little over 22k. (There's a secondary section but I have no idea how to integrate it. Might ask the comm about that in a bit.) It has involved a lot of backwork, brainstorming, and threatening my main character with a brick.

You know how it goes.

Making progress, though. Currently scribbling unrelated things as a form of stress release, just to make sure I don't actually hit anything with a brick.

I have also written entirely too much meta about Bravely Default.