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[confusedkayt]

Hi, folks! How's your progress this week

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[dawnofme]

I've been in editing mode for the last two weeks. I did put together some notes for a new story idea. The last thing I actually wrote was my Heart of Gold chapter. And then after getting feedback on some original writing (Thank you xtanitx.) I rewrote blocks of paragraphs for one chapter. I actually enjoyed the rewrites

[quinara]

My favorite time to write is from 11:00 P.M. to three in the morning. It's dark and it's quiet.

Yes! Me too. I'm so much more creative at night.

[lily_diablo]

Yup. Push it to four, and I'm right there with you! I start kind of fading, looking for ways to wrap things up temporarily around 3, but at 4 I try to make a point of turning the word processor off. If I leave anything on at all, in fact, it's usually the mp3 player. If I had room for a decent bookshelf stereo, I'd do that instead.

[lily_diablo]

Mmmm. Music. There was one part of Worth the Wait I listened to one or two songs from the Batman Begins soundtrack to write. Just threw them on endless loop and went to work finishing the scene. That one has also had a lot of ABBA, Gladys Knight, Gnarls Barkley, Eisley, KT Tunstall...more mellow stuff, mostly.

For Piece of Work and Beginnings, it was Apocalyptica, Audioslave, Bon Jovi, Kamelot, Depeche Mode, Beethoven, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, HIM, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Dropkick Murphys...

Chasing Darkness has been all about HIM, Bruch, Elgar, Berlioz, Beethoven, (more) Dropkick Murphys, Green Day, Jefferson Airplane, Leonard Cohen, Queen and Weezer.

There's never any real rhyme or reason (pun intended) to what I listen to -- it all depends on whether what I fire up makes me start thinking fiction. Sometimes it makes me think "clean house" or "community organizing" or something completely different.

[lily_diablo]

News from the writing front is a little anemic. I've had massive amounts of work with the NPO we volunteer with, squabbles with Hubby's student loan people, medical crap, family crap. The scene, such as it is, has been a bit chaotic this week. Priority is finishing another Worth the Wait installment, then probably some Chasing Darkness. Unless I can think of another good snow vignette -- which I would like to

[quinara]

Writing is going pretty well! I seem to be doing at least some every evening, which is pretty useful because I have about five stories on the go at the moment. I'm starting to get to the happy stage of my seasonal_spuffy draft, though I'm resting that for a few days. My two queerlygen ficlets are finished in first draft, but both still don't quite sit right. My Darla ficlet is also finished, but isn't due until the end of October, so that's on the backburner (still a little ropey) at the moment. Books V and VI of the Spikeid (which I'm sort of working on simultaneously because I'm not sure where the break between them will be) are also coming along - I was really happy to get a good few hundred words out on V yesterday, because if not published I want the two of them beta-able by the end of the year. So it's mostly editing at the moment!

I write almost exclusively on my laptop (the other place being my head), because somewhere along the way I lost the ability to write with a pen without feeling ridiculously pretentious and unable to produce anything.

[lily_diablo]

I just mentioned this in a post -- life has gotten to the point where writing (or anything else I do for me) is of the essence, and yet I find myself with less and less time for any of that. Hubby and I *finally* started walking again yesterday. The apartment is staying clean. Writing has been iffy -- what I turn out I'm typically way less than happy with lately...

I've got to make time for it, before something comes along and *makes* me take a time out. So. My goal is one installment a week on Worth the Wait, and as much on the others as I can. I'd also like to start working on essays and editorials, too. Building a professional portfolio of sorts in the midst of all this fantasy-land escapism. :D

I also keep a lot of fic in my head -- daydreaming while I'm washing dishes, or running errands, or what not... :)

[eowyn_315]

My attempts to write feel a lot like trying to start a car when the engine won't turn over. I have plots, lots of plots, but no spark, nothing to get me revved up and past the summary stage

[lily_diablo]

I feel you with the plottiness that either won't get up and moving, or doesn't fit with anything else...grrrr. I also agree about needing to hear the voices to write the dialogue. Although music helps me there, too, because sometimes a phrase, or the color of the words/instruments, puts me in the mind of how this or that character thinks or speaks. Barenaked Ladies, for instance, has a lot of Xander in it. (The song "Humor of the Situation" is a good example)

Sometimes I wonder if my bug has been that I quit smoking, but since I didn't smoke inside, I kinda feel like I'm just making excuses with that. :)

I designate Sundays as my lazy days. That way if I wind up writing all day, and don't get anything else done, oh well. Or at least, so goes the plan as it sits in my head, right now, before anything else comes up. :)