Write every day! October 2019 - Day 2

[zwei_hexen]

Lovely to see so many joining us again, and welcoeme to all the new (at least to me ;o) ) faces!
I've also a question for you, as I've just experienced this again myself: do you find your ability to write or your writing creativity in any way influenced or compromised when reading a lot of fic, and particularly well-written, long, intense or so fic?
I find I do. I've observed that the intensity and output of my writing is inversely proportional to the amount of transformative fic I'm reading, and vice versa. I don't read much and mostly only slowly when I'm on a good writing streak, and more so when working towards a deadline; and when I find myself immersed in some intense or just really good fic my writing creativity and output is singificantly less. I know this happens to others as well, but I'm wondering if we're the exceptions or if this is more common.

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, china_shop, cornerofmadness, fadedwings, falkner, iferion, mergatrude, sanguinity, silveradept, schneefink, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme (15/15)

Day 2: china_shop, schneefink

Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.

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ysilme here: no tally yet for me again; this is going to be another late writing night.

sylvanwitch here: One of the many perks of moderating a student writing club at my school is the opportunity to write while at work. We typically do a writing exercise at each meeting, and sometimes I get something cool out of it. Today's is just the beginning of a story, 293 words, and it may not go anywhere, but I like what I have so far, so I think I'll file it for the next time I'm stuck on something else.

Comments

[yasaman]

Day 2: 535 words for me on a WIP I've had kicking around since last August! Finishing this WIP is gonna be this month's WED goal, though hopefully it won't take the whole month.

Re your question: I find that I start writing more fic when fandom's producing less of the kind of fic I want to read. Otherwise, I don't know that my fic reading plays into my writing, beyond the simple reality that I only have so much free time. Sometimes a fic will spark some inspiration for me on how to write something in my own fic, or it will make me think more deeply about a character or trope and inspire me to try my own take on it (which is usually different than that of the fic I'm reading, otherwise I wouldn't bother to write something new!), so I'll deliberately seek out fics adjacent to what I'm writing or thinking of writing.

[sylvanwitch]

What an excellent goal! I wish you all the best words and a swift resolution to your WIP! If there's anything in particular we can offer, please do let us know. :-)

[ysilme]

This is an interesting variety of what I've hear so far. Totally understandable, and I can particularly relate insofar as what I really want to read I need to write myself, since I seem to have a quite eclectic choice of preferences.
I'm also sometimes seeking out certain fics close to what I'm planning to write or working at for various reasons, but that'd always be in the planning or editing stage, not during the time when I'm doing the main storytelling.