http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/tags/wips Unstressed Syllables discussion and practice en-US Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:42:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/search.php http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/writing-exercise-instructions-5#post-10 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:46:32 +0000 Aaron Pogue 10@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>WIPs, or Works-in-Progress, are often the favorite topics of creative writers. I realize now I was a fool to wait so long to invite you to talk about yours!</p> <p>That's this week's Creative Writing exercise, though. In light of our recent discussion of the various stages of manuscript development, I want you to tell me what you've done. Have you written a first draft? Have you toiled through a month of prewriting and put 30,000 words on the page before your project's inner fire flickered out? Have you finished six novels and hundreds of rounds of rewrites?</p> <p>Let me know. If you've only got one WIP, tell me where you are with that one. If you've done more than one, chart it out. It can be amazingly useful to compare the different stages of writing and where you've spent your time on different projects. Compare the amount of prewriting you did to the amount of revision your manuscript needed, or to how many times you abandoned it along the way. Compare how many times you shared your document out for feedback with your completion rate. </p>