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I just posted a first draft of my Yuletide story. The deadline is Sunday morning, at 9 am Central time.

I was this close to defaulting before the default deadline. I was at assignments page, about to click the default button, and I decided to see if I could get something. After about 10 minutes, I had 300 words, and I decided if I could do 300 words, I could do 1,000 (the minimum for Yuletide). And then I procrastinated some more.

When I finally got started, there were a couple of days of dripping blood onto the keyboard, but I finally have 2,700 not-too-awful words. I'll do a second draft after I receive comments from my beta reader, but it's a complete story, so it fulfills the basic requirement.

Why oh why can't I go through this process a month earlier? This isn't a tradition, it's a habit. A bad one. Maybe next year I'll just take the year off.

Date: 2016-12-17 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com
Writing processes vary. Sometimes you need a deadline! (At least one useful thing I've learned from going to cons and listening to writers talk about process.)

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