Coal Intentions - Writing Post

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Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

What are yours?

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Draft 1 or 2 scenes. Sunday is kinda busy for me so 1 is probably more realistic.

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Clean up codebase
First draft of assignment

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Write something.

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Get halfway through canon review.

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to get halfway through the fic, so that means writing at least 6k on top of what I have now.

Also need to figure out if I'm going to change the opening scenes now or go back to fix it when the rest is written.

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

start. :(

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

2k.

I have my first day off in...3 weeks! Yay!

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Finish canon review for a planned treat and write at least 4,000 words between two different ongoing projects.

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

It's really time for me to FINISH MY CANON REVIEW. Or at least make a big push on it.

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Do a mini marathon of my canon tomorrow.

Re: Writing goals this weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

First draft down. Lef’s hope I get to 1500 words, which is long for me. This is a pinch hit - luckily canon review is quick. I hope I don’t end up submitting coal :/

Write-in

[(Anonymous)]

Anybody up for word sprints today? I may have to actually shut off the computer to get them done but I like the accountability factor.

Re: Write-in

[(Anonymous)]

Going to write for an hour and see where I end up.

Re: Write-in

[(Anonymous)]

Yup :) Where are they usually held?

Re: Write-in

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah!

Re: Write-in

[(Anonymous)]

All right, my very unrealistic goal for today is 9k. My slightly more realistic "I'll take it" goal is 5k. Going to look in to update and cheer on any other writer/reporters as time and toddler permit.

This about to become the longest thing I've ever done for any exchange and the sooner I can get it beta-ready the better.

Re: Write-in

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to do a 25 minute sprint starting... now!

Fave writing software?

[(Anonymous)]

I usually use google docs but I fancy a change. What software do you feel is best for working on multiple projects at the same time? Bonus if it's free.

Re: Fave writing software?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it's my favourite, but I'm limited in choices since I'm broke. I use ywriter to organise scenes, add characters and locations and such, but they are really lacking in features. I would really like to organise the scenes in a timeline, without them being reordered in the chapters as well (I don't want to write & post chronologically, I only want to keep an eye on what happens when for plot reasons). It's also impossible to not have a PoV character for a scene, or at least I haven't figured out how to create one without one, now that I'm writing 3rd person omniscient for a change.

For research, tentative plot structure and notes for the story, I usually use dokuwiki. It's useful if you have pieces of information that you need to fall back on for several fics, such as character profiles and to organise the information I've researched and what to research still with lots of interlinking.

And then I always do my writing in Word/Open Office/etc. and copypaste the relevant bits into the other two.

Progress? Progress!

[(Anonymous)]

How goes it, coalies?

Re: Progress? Progress!

[(Anonymous)]

After a couple of weeks of struggling to write, I blew past the 1000 word mark tonight! Fuck yeah!

But whoo boy, I am barely scratching the surface of the plot. It's gonna be a long haul.

I'm stuck on a plane

[(Anonymous)]

Let's see how much I can write in the meantime!

Re: I'm stuck on a plane

[(Anonymous)]

It'll be for the next 7 hours-ish, if you want to play along at home!

Current word count?

[(Anonymous)]

How many words total so far?

Re: Current word count?

[(Anonymous)]

About 43k, all spread out, but I think one story is going to shrink a good bit in revision as I tighten all the language up.

Current word count?

[(Anonymous)]

How many words total do coalies have so far?

Re: Current word count?

[(Anonymous)]

SA

...And how many times can I double-post?

Writing goals - first weekend of December

[(Anonymous)]

What are you planning to get done Fri/Sat/Sun 1/2/3 December?

Re: Writing goals - first weekend of December

[(Anonymous)]

I'm planning to get my fic finished, so I can start editing. I'm so close!

Word War!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm word warring with myself starting at x:40, if anyone wants to join.

Re: Word War!

[(Anonymous)]

... I meant x:50 I am so good at so many things