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• I'm so impatient for SeSa sign-ups. I'm taking part in a test for it this weekend (about which I'm very excited!), and just the thought of it is getting me all geared-up for the real thing. Roll on Christmas!
  
  
• I'm doing some serious thinking about my writing process and what works and doesn't work for me. So far I have discovered that the half-hour goals are fabulous for producing words, but not so much for producing words I like. (Whether that's an indication that I need to do more pre-planning, write slower, or be prepared to do more editing work, I'm not entirely sure.) I know that an exhaustive scene-by-scene plan doesn't work for me, as it tends to kill my desire to write the story, which is a fragile and precious thing. More thoughts on this as I continue.
  
  
• I feel a bit like something is missing from my bittybang story, but I've resolved not to look at it again - beyond writing the required summary for the challenge - until the start of November. It's cool to have the time and leisure both to edit it, and to give myself some space and perspective on it before I start the editing process. (Weird, though - this'll be the first story I've ever tried that with. I hope I don't kill it like that.) Not sure if this is the right thing, but all the writing advice I've ever read says it's easier to edit something it if you put it away for a while. Time to find out if that's true for me.
  
  
• I need to start thinking about when and how to run my Badfic Challenge next year. The only challenge I've ever done was the June Bug (which was pretty easy and I still sucked at it!) so I'm not sure how to go about it, really. Any tips, seasoned fans?
  
  
• I'm worried about how the hell I'm going to finish "The Plan". What I've written so far is really different from what I wanted to write and while I've never written something this long, I discovered that getting down words-any-words isn't all that hard. I've never edited something this long, either, though, and the sheer size of the job ahead of me is really intimidating. Plus, I've only written half of the story, so I need to put the editing part of it out of my mind for now.
  
  
• I think that's all for now!

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taking time between writing and editing is, hands down, one of the best things you can do to get a bit of distance to see if what you wrote achieves what you thought it did. (I know people work differently, but I don't think I know anyone for whom that's not true - I know people who don't want to go back because they're no longer interested in their story because they've moved on, but that's not really the same thing.)

Re the challenge thing, if you don't set it up to be an exchange challenge, most of the stress just - isn't. Esp if you let people post direct through a community and aren't doing hosting and so on.

Re rest of life - are you coming home this week? Mostly I feel like I haven't seen you in forever, but also, if you're not around, I need to arrange cat-cover for Ariel for Saturday.