Check-In Post #5

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Week four is now complete! Each week, I'll make a new check-in post with a few optional discussion questions. You can use this post to update us on our progress, complain, celebrate, or talk to other participants! Also feel free to discuss each week's questions in our discord server.

Comment to share how your week went - and congratulations on making it through four weeks! We have two more months before posting officially begins.

Optional Discussion Questions

0. How's your project coming? How did this week go?

1. What time do you like to write/draw best? Is there a certain time of day, or a part of your schedule you usually use for writing or art? Do you set time aside, or work when you feel like it?

2. What genre is your work for this project in? Is it your usual genre?

3. How do you keep yourself going when you're tired of a project or frustrated with it?

Answer here, and/or join the discussion in the discord!

Comments

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1. What time do you like to write/draw best? Is there a certain time of day, or a part of your schedule you usually use for writing or art? Do you set time aside, or work when you feel like it?

When I have the whole day free, and fully can set my own schedule, I prefer to write in the morning and in the evening. I mostly have things to do from around midday to three-ish in the afternoon (preparing food, eating, taking a walk, etc). I could theoretically work after that but I have found that my brain takes a sort of mini siesta from, like, half past three to five-ish. I don't sleep, but there's really no point in me trying to get anything other than the most rote of tasks done (which is a problem at work...).

Then I get a new busy of energy at six-ish in the evening and can ride that until bedtime, though my writing tempo successively slows down starting around eight.

2. What genre is your work for this project in? Is it your usual genre?

I'm writing OW fantasy, which is a genre I've tried my hand at before (usually in attempts of writing a debute novel) but as far as I can recall never actually finished a story in. I'm going fairly light on the worldbuilding, though, which helps a lot compared to my novel-attempts (where I feel like the worldbuilding had to be both more original and more well-rounded).

3. How do you keep yourself going when you're tired of a project or frustrated with it?

Uuuuuuh. Let's find out? 😋