☆★ CHECK-IN #1: THE ID GUARD ☆★

[iddybangmod]

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays the id from the swift completion of its appointed rounds.

Iddy Check-in #1 is here! Share where you're at in the writing process or a description of your current piece – and if you'd like, how close you are to finishing! Or just say hi, or have a bit of a gripe.

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[yuuago]

Hooray, check in!

I'm in pretty good shape for this even though real life has made things busy. I'm editing a drawerfic for this project, so the story's already written, I just need to make it better.

Right now I'm rewriting a scene to make it hotter. Reminding myself that the entire point of this thing is to do whatever my heart desires has been very effective re: letting go of inhibitions. ;)

[sodium_amytal]

I'm at 56k right now, finishing up the last 1/4 of the story. I haven't had a beta or any other set of eyes other than my own on this thing yet, and that makes me nervous. XD The idea of posting something this long without anyone to rein me in or even looking over the story is terrifying, lol.

[kore]

Anyone want to WAIL with me? My draft is so bad! And it's maybe 1/3 done! Having words is better than no words, right? I also keep telling myself this is supposed to be FUN and be a chance to release some creativity and follow my iddy bliss. I just wish my id was better at plotting! (I'm agnesgrey on AO3)

[juries]

(ao3 jury)

Poking around at a first draft, about a quarter done.

[wolffyluna]

I have got the outline finished, and the first draft started. I'm currently got my fingers crossed that I haven't bitten off a fic bigger than I can chew in the alloted time.

[argylepiratewd]

I have some words? Not very many, but there are words...that I'm kind of thinking about cutting just to skip directly to the fun iddy bits. I should be able to pull something off, though.

[melody_jade]

I have a complete first draft! Now all I have to do is rewrite everything so as to turn it into a workable second draft...

[fleetsparrow]

I've got the word minimum. Yay!

I have a bunch of barely connected scenes to work with. Boo!

And I'm thisclose to triggering myself with this fic, but I keep trying to remind myself that id work is like a purge for me; the more unbearable it is to me, the more I can work it out of my system.

(I swear I'm enjoying myself. Just, aaah!)

[insolitaparvapuella]

*screams into hands* It's too hot to think!!

Anyways, I might have to rip out what I've written so far and re-arrange it with some new writing to fix things, but it is the self-indulgent fun I wanted. Given the ripping and tearing to happen I don't know how much of what I wrote will actually count to my progress, but I'd say I had written about 50% of what I wanted to get on the page.

[handmaid]

What on Earth is writing progress. I have toyed with a few different kidfic/abo/fluff ideas but can't get traction on any of them. Back to the drawing board maybe?

(Ao3: morphogenesis)

[fenellaevangela]

I have words! And an outline! I might change my focus and make the story about two characters instead of focusing on just one, but I think that's very doable at this stage.

[angelette]

I have an outline... and a first sentence. Real life got a bit busy, but I won't give up!

[madeinessos]

I’ve been so excited about new-to-me canons since signing up and have started on a couple of fics. Thing is, I can’t choose which one to develop first. So that’s a happy problem to have. Now I just need to settle on one and focus on that!

[scorpiod]

I am about 5k into a werewolf AU. I don't know how done this is. I have the ending written out because I write backwards, the beginning down and parts of the middle but the rest is ????

[naughty_sock]

I'm 6K into story #1 with about 1/4 still left to write. Fic #2 sits at 2k at the moment and will probably come in around 8k as well. I only outlined the third story, so far. Hoping to finish up the first two by the end of the month, so I can focus on the last one in September.

[tempusdies]

Well, I am close to the halfway mark of the word minimum with a series of scenes. The shape of the story is there; or at least the beginning and the end. The middle needs some sharpening.

[kalloway]

I honestly haven't even thought about it. It's been very hot, work has been exhausting, and I've been busy with modding duties for parallelsfic - once I can get a breather, I'll see if I can find my id.

[taichara]

Alas, a gripe -- I know what I plan to write, and I have a rough outline of sorts, but it's been a heatwave of hell for *counts* about a month and a half and I'm so far behind on everything, not just IIBB, it's mortifying.

It might be breaking this week. I hope it's breaking this week >.>;; and if it does I should be able to start hauling my carcass --

[syrupwit]

*blows dust off Dreamwidth account*

Hello!! Happy to be here. :D

I'm feeling a bit negative this morning. My draft is awful, and it's now grown a feeble plot in addition to the awkward smut, pointless banter, and weird ranty tangents on topics that are unlikely to interest or amuse many other people. I've got... 8k, ish? Which is a lot for me, but seems to be barely half the fic. The outline is pretty substantial.

Though I keep getting waylaid by embarrassment, I intend to trudge on. Even if this thing turns out totally sucking, at least I can try to create a better emotional buildup for the few scenes I currently like. (And if all else fails, I'll scrap it and do something else. I very much want to complete this challenge.)

[gloss]

INCOHERENT GURGLING!

I junked what I had been working on this week and I'm trying something new. So I have about a thousand terrible words but forging stumbling ahead.

[umbralpilot]

It's a bit like pulling teeth, but I have an outline and am two out of three Five Times in. I have a chunk of the next scene already written from an earlier draft version and now I need to hammer it into a shape that would fit in the new story's hole (hehe hole).

There's about to be SO MUCH PINING it's gonna be great.

[flo_nelja]

Haaa I'm so bad at writing idfic, I have maybe 300 words?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the person who signed up anonymously with part of the description being "pregnant with his eighth child" - things are going well! I have about 12k so far. I've mostly been focusing on other projects, too, so I'm feeling pretty good about this! I just have one major project I need to finish before I can focus all of my time on this fic.

[snickfic]

I have the same 3k that I signed up with. /o\ Hopefully exchange assignments will clear out soon...

[frausorge]

I think I have a substantial amount of my outline written at 7k, though there are still a lot of gaps I need to fill in. Hopefully I can pull the whole thing together over the next few weeks.