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Write Every Day - 13 August 02019
Aug. 13th, 2019 09:06 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 13 August 02019.
I'm feeling a little bit nervous that the recipient for my exchange story didn't like it. I know that there are people who wait until author reveals (or just about) before they comment on works, but when they do that, it's sometimes nice to get a heads-up comment that they're going to wait or have to do some other things before they can get around to commenting on it. Then again, I've had some exchange stories where all I got was a kudo, and some where I didn't get any sort of feedback at all. Considering they hadn't exactly provided me with any map past the pairing they wanted at that point, I suppose it wasn't on me to somehow read their mind and provide them with a perfect work.
Without any kind of feedback, I don't even know if the recipient read the story and had any opinion on it at all. I liked it, I think it was a good work, but since it was supposedly written to a prompt, it would be nice to know what the person providing the prompt thought about it, y'know?
I finished up my first post of the first two chapters of the new Giving of Grief target, and it really does look like it's going to be a retread of the same story from a different perspective, which I suppose is one way to make money on books. They're always slightly displaced, though, so that they start earlier or end later than the other book, and so you feel like the story progressed at least a little from the new perspective. Considering that I'm in it for the social commentary and taking a look at how the author handles certain situations, I'm less chuffed that the plot isn't going anywhere, but I think people who are fans of that series would have significant problems with this overlap approach.
This WIP that I'm wrangling also keeps threatening to misbehave, for perfectly acceptable reasons, but I keep having to come up with reasons why not to let certain characters hare off and do the thing that they desperately want to do. Or, possibly, have already done but aren't admitting to anybody. It's good, in that I'm shepherding them along the plot, but bad in that I keep having to give them excuses to stay on the plot.
How's your writing going? Less "wrestling gators in the swamp", more "tea parties with famous wrestlers, pinkies out!"?
( It's tally time! )
I'm feeling a little bit nervous that the recipient for my exchange story didn't like it. I know that there are people who wait until author reveals (or just about) before they comment on works, but when they do that, it's sometimes nice to get a heads-up comment that they're going to wait or have to do some other things before they can get around to commenting on it. Then again, I've had some exchange stories where all I got was a kudo, and some where I didn't get any sort of feedback at all. Considering they hadn't exactly provided me with any map past the pairing they wanted at that point, I suppose it wasn't on me to somehow read their mind and provide them with a perfect work.
Without any kind of feedback, I don't even know if the recipient read the story and had any opinion on it at all. I liked it, I think it was a good work, but since it was supposedly written to a prompt, it would be nice to know what the person providing the prompt thought about it, y'know?
I finished up my first post of the first two chapters of the new Giving of Grief target, and it really does look like it's going to be a retread of the same story from a different perspective, which I suppose is one way to make money on books. They're always slightly displaced, though, so that they start earlier or end later than the other book, and so you feel like the story progressed at least a little from the new perspective. Considering that I'm in it for the social commentary and taking a look at how the author handles certain situations, I'm less chuffed that the plot isn't going anywhere, but I think people who are fans of that series would have significant problems with this overlap approach.
This WIP that I'm wrangling also keeps threatening to misbehave, for perfectly acceptable reasons, but I keep having to come up with reasons why not to let certain characters hare off and do the thing that they desperately want to do. Or, possibly, have already done but aren't admitting to anybody. It's good, in that I'm shepherding them along the plot, but bad in that I keep having to give them excuses to stay on the plot.
How's your writing going? Less "wrestling gators in the swamp", more "tea parties with famous wrestlers, pinkies out!"?
( It's tally time! )
