Sunday Writing Update

[forestofglory]

I finished a draft of my fic! A couple of days ago I did not think I was going to make it by the end of the month,but I did it! It is a little over 8k words.

So a question -- I stared doing these post because of the Sunday Snippet tradition but I haven't been sharing snippets really. Sometimes I just don't like my own writing enough to share, but sometimes I can't figure out what part of it to share. It feels like things don't make sense out of context or if they do they are too spoilerly. So what makes good snippet of WIP to share? As reader of shared snippets what do you enjoy then most? And if you share your own WIPs as snippets how do you chose what to share?

So for the coming week I plan to work on cleaning up the fic so it is ready for beta, and also write a post about cooking.

Comments

[jo_lasalle]

Congrats on finishing the draft!!

No advice on the snippets. I stopped trying to join that party mostly for the reasons you cite; trying to answer those questions every time was making me too cray for not enough gain, really. But I hope you can figure something out that works for you!

[lunabee34]

Congrats! That's awesome.

For me as a reader, I like the snippet to be short, so two paragraphs max. I prefer either a short bit of dialogue or some descriptive passage--maybe what the character looks like or the setting. Internal monologue works, too.

[clevermanka]

For me, a good snippet is something that, even out of context, makes me want to read the piece. I especially like things that elicit some sort of sensory experience. With no context, grounding it in something like sight, smell, taste, etc., can grab a reader better than something spoilery. When I'm deciding what to share, sometimes I know immediately, sometimes it's basically throwing a dart.

But it's definitely not something anyone should feel pressured to do it! Nobody needs more stress, ever, but especially not over something that's supposed to be fun.

[suncani]

Well done on finishing the draft!

No advice on snippets except to echo someone else's point - if it stresses you out or takes more than you get from it then why carry on with it?