WIP Challenge Check In -- Day 14

[lacygrey]

Friday October 14th

Hi! Hope you've been having a good day for fic.

Poll #8315

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Write? How much?
3 (60.0%)

Edit?
0 (0.0%)

Plan/Research?
0 (0.0%)

Send to Beta?
0 (0.0%)

Post fic?
0 (0.0%)

Do something else?
2 (40.0%)

Its Friday, time for free for all discussion: cheers for word count achieved and fics posted, complaints about lack of progress/inspiration, snippet posting and requests for betas, (or for prompts or bunny exchanges perhaps).

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[jagnikjen]

I continued reading my fic aloud to catch flow issues, etc. I got back chapter two from my Brit-picker and made those updates as well. Then I watched a documentary type show on The Queen. And worked. And am getting reading for a long day of marching band related events tomorrow--first a contest and then a football game. I don't think I'm going to get much more writing or editing done tonight.

[lacygrey]

I like reading fic aloud to myself, even though it has a kind of 'moment of truth feeling' about it. Have you tried any of the 'read back robot' programs? I found ywriter's quite cute, it has an American accent (I don't), so it really sounds like someone else reading their work (albeit a bit stiffly) and that gives me some distance.

[elistaire]

I finished the first draft of my challenge story! \o/

[lacygrey]

Well done! Is it for Halloween? If so, you're in good time! Wish I could do that.

[elistaire]

No -- for Christmas time! :)

There're are sometimes a few drop outs, so if I'm done in time, I like to be able to pinch-hit. I really hate when people don't get their story. I've been stiffed a couple times and it always feels *awful*, so I try to be available for those last minute emergencies. Which means I have to be ahead of schedule with my own fic!

[xpaperplanex]

I finished chapter 46 of my evil WIP! :DDDDD I sat down and I read my ancient outline (that really needs updating) and I did it! I've been working on this chapter since December 21 of last year! 8O I'm feeling inspired to update that outline and get things rolling again. (Now, if midterms could just be ignored, that would be great.)

[lacygrey]

It certainly sounds 'evil' (and epic) if you are up to chap 46 already!
It amazes me how much a fic can change in my head between the times I come back to the written version - even over a short period. For me this has meant that Ive got big style differences between chapters and a lot of editing to do!

Good luck with juggling the fic and the midterms.

[lacygrey]

Well I guess that Friday was productive in RL terms, but I also feel I lost valuable 'peaceful computer time' on RL work projects, administrative minutae, going to the bank, etc.

I have a bunny up for adoption. It doesn't belong to any particular fandom, but it certainly doesn't suit my present one (Hikago) as there's culture and genre incompatibility (there's never murder in Hikago, the worst it gets is when people throw Go stones at each other!)

So. You know those 'murder-mystery' weekends, where people pay to spend a weekend in a hotel and solve a whodunnit set up by actors. My idea is what if a real murder was committed on one of these weekends - especially if the victim was one of the few in the know of how the weekend's 'mystery' was supposed to be arranged - cue complete confusion between real and false clues. I think there's good potential for convoluted plot. I also suspect that somewhere, somehow, somebody must have done this already. Ring any bells, anyone? Feel free to adopt the bunny if you fancy it. I might feed it to the kink meme if it continues to bug me.

Snippet - Islands - Midnight swim

[lacygrey]

POV character Touya walked in on Shindou (his rival and object of his unrequited affections) making out with a girl in the room they are sharing at a Go conference. Touya leaves before Shindou can notice his distress.

He ran though the darkness of the hotel grounds. It was pure stupidity in a place you didn't know but Touya was too angry to care. His feet punched the ground. He relished the pain and the sense of speed. How could Shindou? How could he? his stride spelt out. He veered around the looming shapes of some ornamental bushes and set off once more toward the lights of the resort.

Touya wanted to run the image of Shindou and that girl out of his head but it wasn't going away. The Shindou of his fantasies - his Shindou - and the one of the last quarter of an hour were fighting it out inside him and he felt sickened.

He stopped, panting. He'd arrived back at the pool, which was deserted but for a few small signs of life from the hotel and the hum of the pumps. On his face the damp of his own sweat mixed with that the vapor rising from the water itself. He tasted the salt of both on his lips.

He wanted to be in the place of that girl Shindou was kissing, as though it was so simple. But Shindou had said it himself: he didn't want to have a relationship with a Go player ever again. Couldn't be clearer than that.

He couldn't afford to hope about Shindou anymore, nor ponder his rival's love-life, he'd go crazy. But how could he go about ridding himself of that hope when it is was so sweet.

The water was making tiny sounds by itself, no longer hidden behind human voices as it was in the day. Its heat was beckoning him. He didn't have a towel or robe. But there was no one here.

He stripped, and leaving his clothes in heap behind him and stepped towards the lapping until he could feel the pool edge under his toes. What light there was reflected off the pool fog itself. Blanketed from the world he slipped naked into the water.

It was like a warm bath, if not for the slight sulfurous smell. The water and its garment of steam engulfed him like a warm cloud. He swam, his movements dulled by the heat which soaked into his muscles. He tried to push himself as he had when running but the heat was like treacle slowing him and leaving him breathless within minutes.

The pool edge was hidden in the mist somewhere so he simply struck out in one direction and kept swimming, ducking his head to let the warmth of the pool touch him all over, soak his hair and reach every part of him. Abruptly, his hand hit the end wall and he hauled himself out, instantly shivering in the February air. His legs shuddered slightly from the change as he followed the pool edge around toward the hotel.

He had to get dry before he froze. Someone had left a fluffy hotel bathrobe lying over a lounger and he took it gladly, wrapping himself up and feeling ten times warmer.

Touya was tired now. But 'fantasy Shindou' had faded with his energy. He crept upstairs, not caring what or who he'd find in the room. His one thought was sleep.

When he got there, the room was dark. He pointedly didn't look towards Shindou's bed but his ears told him there was only one person there.

Touya lay down on his bed without changing and fell asleep almost instantly.

[bay_alexison]

Yesterday able to get four hundred words down on my prompt story I want to post for Halloween. I was also expecting my friend to get some more of her story done so that I can beta it, but she didn't get a chance to show it to me. Maybe later today she will. So yeah, plans for Day 15 are get more of that Halloween fic done and maybe do some betaing.