And I made it!
Nov. 30th, 2009 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firefly124I successfully met the 5_for_five challenge: write at least 500 words at least 5 times out of the week for 12 weeks. Ta-da!
Shiny!
The fic o'doom, aka The Fic That Wouldn't Stay Dead, is now over 66,500 words. Meep! But I think it's keeping me relatively sane this semester, and the motivation of this challenge has helped me keep at it. It's rabid enough that it'd probably have kept eating my brain anyway, but there's this thing that happens when you let a rabid story do that without ever writing any of it out. It just sort of spins itself out and dies. Now, that might actually be a good thing in some cases. There are times I think that might be the best fate for this fic. BUT the writing of it continues to take the weight of the semester off my mind at key times, so having the motivation to sit down and churn out at least 500 words (and often as not, it's after passing that point that a scene takes off) has been a very good thing.
Huge thanks tolady_rhian who thought up this challenge in the first place and mega thanks to sshg316 for opening the challenge up to the rest of us and helping keep us motivated to just keep writing!
Also? Tomorrow's the last day of clinical for this semester. Whee!
5_for_five challenge: write at least 500 words at least 5 times out of the week for 12 weeks. Ta-da!
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Shiny!
The fic o'doom, aka The Fic That Wouldn't Stay Dead, is now over 66,500 words. Meep! But I think it's keeping me relatively sane this semester, and the motivation of this challenge has helped me keep at it. It's rabid enough that it'd probably have kept eating my brain anyway, but there's this thing that happens when you let a rabid story do that without ever writing any of it out. It just sort of spins itself out and dies. Now, that might actually be a good thing in some cases. There are times I think that might be the best fate for this fic. BUT the writing of it continues to take the weight of the semester off my mind at key times, so having the motivation to sit down and churn out at least 500 words (and often as not, it's after passing that point that a scene takes off) has been a very good thing.
Huge thanks to
lady_rhian who thought up this challenge in the first place and mega thanks to sshg316 for opening the challenge up to the rest of us and helping keep us motivated to just keep writing!Also? Tomorrow's the last day of clinical for this semester. Whee!
