WIP Challenge: March 14 check-in

[roane]

How are things going today?

• Writing
• Editing
• Planning
• Researching
• Posting
• Thinking/resting/to hell with it today

Discussion:

This may not be kosher, but I'm curious. What's your favorite thing you've ever written, and why? Feel free to share links, or if it's just a snippet, the snippet.

Comments

[riceishere]

I always meant to write down tons of words because scene ideas and dialogues keep swamping me left and right during work. But when I finally sit down after getting home and doing chores I always end up sleeping and only getting down a hundred words or so :(

My current favorite is my WIP of doom (original, meant to be a gift, been working on it for 2 years long). I like it since I literally watched my writing improve in the course of writing and revising it. But generally I have more fondness for my drabbles than my longer fics, maybe because I would notice less mistakes in it (of course) and I didn't cringe as much when rereading them. So I have something to share here's my fave drabble, written a couple of years ago for the Merlin fandom:

What Merlin’s scared of the most is not the fact he’ll be outliving everybody, nor is it about being ultimately alone in the end. It is the sinking awareness that for every learned phrase, every new face, every place he discovers there is payment in kind: words to an obscure spell, the mole in the inside of his mother’s arm, a shortcut to the prince’s chambers.

Today he finds himself staring at the particular blueness of the summer sky. Merlin chants ‘Arthur’ repeatedly under his breath, trying to conjure the shade –the color?- of the man’s eyes in his mind.

[roane]

Awww, Merlin. :/