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

[littlebutfierce]

I keep not checking in b/c this week has been lousy for getting anything done for fic. I see the post & think, right, this evening I'm going to do something so I have something to report! & then... nothing happens. ;_; I've managed to make myself open a file tonight & have... edited a couple of sentences. & the night is still young! So we'll see.

My favorite fic that I've written is From Blossom to Blossom to Impossible Blossom, because it's the first OT3 fic for Natsume Yuujinchou that I wrote, & I wrote it because I kept prompting it (for Yuletide, for fic_promptly) -- usually I request/prompt things I don't think I can write myself -- & no one picked it up. & I just wanted the story so much, even though I was really afraid of writing it, that I made myself do it. & I like it! & it's actually my most popular fic, too. :D & I've written so much for the OT3 since, & it is so so so rewarding & squishy & happy-making.

[crowdog66]

Finished and posted Chapter Five of "Sway" (~3000 words), and wrote about 800 words more of the next chapter. Woot!

My favourite thing? That's probably a tie between "One Degree of Separation" (Professor Hobby/Gigolo Joe, complete) and "When the Farsei Blooms" (Garak/Bashir, in progress). I'm very proud of the balance I managed to strike between accurate characterization, scientific detail, sexual heat and bittersweet poignancy in "One Degree of Separation", and I'm very much in love with the world created in "When the Farsei Blooms" (and so, apparently, are quite a few other people).

[graychalk]

I haven't been very productive in terms of writing at all. RL has been a bit brutal, but I must also guiltily admit that every bit of free time I had left got helplessly sucked up by the wonder that is Natsume Yuujinchou. :P I've been sleeping, breathing, and dreaming the series though - which resulted in tons of mini-fic ideas smacking me upside the head by this manga, so it's possible I may get some writing done very soon... even if it would have nothing whatsoever to do with my goal for March.

The favorite thing I've ever written... oh gosh, this is a hard question because I pick everything I write apart in a rather unforgiving manner. But the one thing I wrote that's closest to my heart is probably the first fic I had ever written - I'd link to it, but it's also my current WIP of Doom where I'm revising the entire thing so it was mostly taken down a while ago.

Generally though, I have "favorite lines" as opposed to favorite fics as a whole - usually ones where I think I managed to say a lot more than what the sentence itself appears to say. I love it when stuff like that hits me and I get it just right and it's like I managed to convey paragraphs of emotions and subtle meaning in one sentence. Or I like to think so anyway. ;)

[sleuth]

I tried writing down one idea, but it wasn't having it. Gave up 300+ words in. Scrolled through my inspirations folder for something else, started writing slowly but surely and suddenly I'd barfed out well over 1,000 words.

Got my beta back. Finally nailed down the final sentence that had been bothering me -- though, I think it had a lot to do with staying away from the piece long enough that it gave me a fresh perspective. Struggling with the title now. (Might scroll through my iTunes for inspiration.)

My favourite thing has to be a fanfic I wrote 6 (or 8?) years ago. I found it again a few years ago, collecting dust with a bunch of other documents in my cellar. (I found the editing process to be easier if I printed my things out.) Upon re-reading that fanfic what amazed me was that it was good. It was really well-written. So it gave me comfort to know I can bang out something wonderful. Even if I blank out all my writing experiences in an effort to not get (too) critical of myself.

[samecgh]

I'm typing. I got a lot written on Monday and some on Tuesday, now I need to put it up in the document so I can play around with it.

Favorite? Umm.... I have no clue. I like everything I write. I go back and reread things, even if I'm not in the fandom anymore. I must admit, I'm writing a lot of Chuck and This might be the funniest I've written in a while, so I'll go with that.

Enjoying your work is always kosher in my book!

[enemytosleep]

Yuujinchou Exchange Bonus Treat #2 (due Mar 24): First draft complete and sent to beta. Waiting for edits.

Yuujinchou Exchange Bonus Treat #3 (due Mar 24): I have an outline. This will be a quick little thing, so hopefully it won't take long to get drafted. Current word count: 0

Help_Japan (due 18 years ago - 750 word min): No new words. I promise to give this love after the Yuujinchou exchange stops eating my brain. O.o Current word count: 3,666

I've definitely written things that were a lot better than this piece, but the most fun I've ever had writing something (and the most infamous thing I have ever written) is Everything is Better with Ling. This was a kinkmeme fill that I started as a round robin (there ended up being four of us writing in the end), and it totaled over 12,000 words and is basically a kink bingo all in one fic. XD

The prompt was: You know how Ling has a charming habit of popping in through the window/out of a potted plant at the most unexpected times? Well, what if Roy and Ed were engaging in office seduction/about to have a crafty fumble in the back of a car/arguing over the washing up, and then Ling showed up, as he does, to offer them the amazing free gift of himself. Hilarity might well ensue. This can get as filthy or as mild as you like, anon.

My buddy drew a stick figure summary that you can see here if you want, too.

[snowynight]

I finish my teen mecha pilot AU, and I begin to have the idea for Reverse BigBang. Now I only need to write it out.

My favourite this year for now is All Good Things , because there's geeky love and Princess Bride.

[dhae_knight_1]

A day of 'to hell with it'.

Of fanfic, I'm actually very fond of Hotch's Ruin, which I posted about here, not too long ago.

Of original fic, I'm very proud of an old thing called 'Storm-Riders', in which I explore a world in which people with psychic powers are being trained by a secret organization to control mobs and such. My main characters, a master and an apprentice, goes to a sect only to find that the master's old apprentice is the power behind the throne, feeding the adulation of the members into the frail mind of the sect leader - in effect drugging him with the wave of psychic energy. The base story is pretty cliche, but I love the world, and particularly the descriptions of psychic powers in use.

[insignia]

I declare this day a complete writing failure.

[amaresu]

I wrote anon meme fic, anon, and didn't really proof it before hitting the post button. Because anon. And now looking back at it all I can see are the horrible, horrible, grammar errors. Although it appears that people like it. If I ever claim this fic it's going to need some serious editing. And I think that's officially the last time I say to myself that I don't need to proof because anon. That is stupid logic.

I also managed to get a bit of a breakthrough on an old plot idea I had and was never able to do anything with. I'm let it sit and stew for a bit, but it's looking good. Hopefully I'll be able to turn this into a proper fic now.

Favorite thing I've ever written is hard. Escaping Reality (The Haunted Living Remix) (due South) is one of my favorites because I managed to take a completely depressing fic and remix it into something more hopeful. I really like writing character studies and Schara (Cal Leandros) is probably the best one I've ever done. And I of course adore my The Terrors and Triumphs of Space Piracy: A Girl's Own Paper (Doctor Who) series for being the shamelessly self-indulgent thing that it is.

[lilly_c]

Have got nothing done at all the last couple of days. RL is awful just now and is showing no sign of easing off :( and of course I've been revising for a mock exam next week that we only got told about today. Would rather be writing than dealing with crap and revising.

I have 3 that I consider to be favourites. Haunted (SG1; Sam/Jack; R) because I wrote about a subject (domestic violence) that I used to really struggle with and I wrote at a time when I would never speak of my experiences. If You Asked (Killer Instinct; Jack/Danielle; NC-17) this took me a year to finish but I had so much fun working on it and I like that I wrote Danielle as someone who is messed up. Salt Skin - trilogy (Taggart; Robbie/Jackie; NC-17) I tend to avoid writing series but this kind of surprised me after finishing the first part, it naturally continued into the final two parts.

[terabient]

My internet connection's been spotty so I've missed the past few check-ins x_x

Anyway, I've mostly been working on a once-abandoned double-drabble series and a fic that I had started for kink_bingo's February mini-challenge but didn't finish in time. Yay for random inspiration?! :D

Have also been plotting out new stuff for the bloodyvalentine challenge that is due at the end of the month. I'm not sure I'll finish in time, but I ought to have at least one fic done by the deadline, at least.

As for favorite fic, I...I'm not sure! I can be really negative about my own stuff. :x But, I've always felt good about ennui, which, while hardly perfect, is one fic where I managed to say exactly what I wanted to.

[roane]

Uggggggggh. I want to write. I have two stories wriggling in my brain right now, but I don't think either one is ready to hatch yet. So I started poking at a story I owe for a charity auction in hopes of waking up my brain. I also started begging people for prompts on Tumblr. :) So not much done today.

This is probably going to sound weird, but my favorite stuff is usually what I've written most recently. Most likely because the 'ooh, shiny!' hasn't had a chance to wear off of it yet. So that would be "Sublimation"--my very first attempt at slash (Sherlock/John, of course). I was (and am) immensely proud of this paragraph:

"The nod is a familiar one—short, barely more than a meeting of the eyes. It says yes, I trust you. It says yes, I'll follow you in this. How many times has he seen it, since that night in the sports centre by the pool? When did he earn such utter, implicit trust? For a heartbeat, he is terrified. This is an experiment, and experiments regularly fail. That's the point of experiments, to test a hypothesis. When an experiment failed, you altered your hypothesis and moved on to the next one. Can he alter this hypothesis? If this experiment fails, if the bond can’t hold when heat is applied, what would it mean?"

[roane]

Awww. :( For me too, so far.

[roane]

Is it too much to hope that you're writing Sherlock? :)

[roane]

I LOVE that feeling.

Re: Enjoying your work is always kosher in my book!

[roane]

OMG. Stick figure art ftw.

Re: Enjoying your work is always kosher in my book!

[enemytosleep]

It's even funnier if you see her other artworks (she's quite a bit more talented than stick figures XD). I love the stick figures, though. ♥

[riceishere]

Maybe you just need to recharge for a bit? Mostly when fic ideas are half-baked I tend to just consume other media or read books or fanfic in other fandom to fill up my word reserves.

And that's a wonderful Sherlock/John snippet! Is the fic posted somewhere?

[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.

[riceishere]

Okay I have to go and read that now. Princess Bride!

[roane]

Thanks! It is, it's from "Sublimation", which is part of the series Defence Mechanisms.

[roane]

Awww, Merlin. :/

[sleuth]

The first bit was Sherlock! The beta'd piece is Sherlock too. :)