they call it progress
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electricalgwenLate to the party, but haven't had any time lately. *sigh* Snaffled from all over (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deirdre_c, de_nugis, and mistyzeo, among others.)
Post an excerpt from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!
can't stand the heat - Dean POV on get outta the kitchen - this is massively overdue todancetomato, and is also massively stalled. I don't know if it's trying to write explicit Wincest or what, but despite having some bits I like and an already completed "plot", I can NOT seem to get this going. And since it's the only thing I really ought to be writing (see: massively overdue), it's turned into an overall block. :(
It’s a shock of rightness, settling deep beneath Dean’s breastbone and only firing the heat in his gut further. It’s need and hunger and deep primal drive, it’s napalm searing his skin. It’s liquid fire running fast and light through his arteries, veins, lighting him up from the inside.
He’d not be surprised to learn he was glowing. Sam is, focal light, all Dean can see. All he wants.
His mouth is dry, parched. He needs Sam like water, needs touch and taste and friction and liquid heat spilling over him.
“Oh, for…” Dean hears in a surprisingly un-Castiel-like voice, and then…
J2 & Danneel/Genevieve high school AU ficlet - also massively overdue, as I started it fordeirdre_c's birthday last year, right before falling down a hole.
Danneel’s painting her toenails the perfect shade of mauve when the phone rings.
“Oh my god,” Genevieve says, “I am so glad you’re coming with us! Jared thinks it’s a date!”
“Well, it’s prom,” Danneel says. “You’re his prom date. It kind of is a date.”
His Dark Materials crossover - timestamp for all we are is dust in the wind - short fic dealing with the time Sam's daemon settled.
Tsafira had been soaring above him as a hawk, and now glides down and flicks into the shape of a fox before flopping onto his chest.
He laughs and pushes at her, ineffectually. “Too hot. Do you have to have fur?”
“You like it fine in the winter,” she replies tautly, and it’s true, he likes warming his feet on her in the old houses with no heat.
“What do you think you’ll be?” he asks, and knows he’s asking himself, and the trouble is, he can’t see anything beyond.
Surgical Strike - Spike/Xander, which I hope to finish beforeiadorespike and I both die of old age. Does it still count as "in progress" if the chapters are over a year or two apart? Main problem is that I have the bit near the end written, but am missing a chunk of the middle.
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” muttered Spike.
Rob looked bemused. “What?”
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” Spike enunciated glumly. “Everyone gets that wrong.”
“Okay. Somehow, that is not at all the kind of thing I expected you to know.”
“Was around when people ate almost nothing but puddings. Meat pudding. Jam pudding. Spotted Dick. Toad-in-the-hole. Bubble-and-squeak.”
“Hm. Y’know, I can see where you might think that moving onto blood-drinking was an improvement.”
Also I am not exactly currently writing this, but I'm not willing to admit I'm giving up on it either:
Anna/Jo ficlet foraffabletoaster
No hunter is dumb enough to mess with Ellen Harvelle’s daughter. Jo’s perfectly capable of castrating a man herself, and if for some reason she didn’t, Ellen would do that and worse with a butter knife.
“Demon possessed?”
“No,” the girl says. She throws back her third shot, stares at the bottom of the glass, and sets it steadily in the dead center of the coaster. “Human possessed.”
And then there is the Sam/Ruby pegging fic which I will probably never post even if I do finish it, because I can't even bring myself to include a couple of sentences here. *facepalm*
ALSO also, I am totally not getting sucked into writing a fic for a new fandom in which I only know about one-fifth of the canon and would completely screw up the vocabulary. But if I were, it would probably contain a sentence along the lines of, "It was as bad as his hair: wild, flaming and uncontrollable."
deirdre_c, de_nugis, and mistyzeo, among others.)Post an excerpt from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!
can't stand the heat - Dean POV on get outta the kitchen - this is massively overdue to
dancetomato, and is also massively stalled. I don't know if it's trying to write explicit Wincest or what, but despite having some bits I like and an already completed "plot", I can NOT seem to get this going. And since it's the only thing I really ought to be writing (see: massively overdue), it's turned into an overall block. :(He’d not be surprised to learn he was glowing. Sam is, focal light, all Dean can see. All he wants.
His mouth is dry, parched. He needs Sam like water, needs touch and taste and friction and liquid heat spilling over him.
“Oh, for…” Dean hears in a surprisingly un-Castiel-like voice, and then…
J2 & Danneel/Genevieve high school AU ficlet - also massively overdue, as I started it for
deirdre_c's birthday last year, right before falling down a hole.“Oh my god,” Genevieve says, “I am so glad you’re coming with us! Jared thinks it’s a date!”
“Well, it’s prom,” Danneel says. “You’re his prom date. It kind of is a date.”
His Dark Materials crossover - timestamp for all we are is dust in the wind - short fic dealing with the time Sam's daemon settled.
He laughs and pushes at her, ineffectually. “Too hot. Do you have to have fur?”
“You like it fine in the winter,” she replies tautly, and it’s true, he likes warming his feet on her in the old houses with no heat.
“What do you think you’ll be?” he asks, and knows he’s asking himself, and the trouble is, he can’t see anything beyond.
Surgical Strike - Spike/Xander, which I hope to finish before
iadorespike and I both die of old age. Does it still count as "in progress" if the chapters are over a year or two apart? Main problem is that I have the bit near the end written, but am missing a chunk of the middle.Rob looked bemused. “What?”
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” Spike enunciated glumly. “Everyone gets that wrong.”
“Okay. Somehow, that is not at all the kind of thing I expected you to know.”
“Was around when people ate almost nothing but puddings. Meat pudding. Jam pudding. Spotted Dick. Toad-in-the-hole. Bubble-and-squeak.”
“Hm. Y’know, I can see where you might think that moving onto blood-drinking was an improvement.”
Also I am not exactly currently writing this, but I'm not willing to admit I'm giving up on it either:
Anna/Jo ficlet for
affabletoaster “Demon possessed?”
“No,” the girl says. She throws back her third shot, stares at the bottom of the glass, and sets it steadily in the dead center of the coaster. “Human possessed.”
And then there is the Sam/Ruby pegging fic which I will probably never post even if I do finish it, because I can't even bring myself to include a couple of sentences here. *facepalm*
ALSO also, I am totally not getting sucked into writing a fic for a new fandom in which I only know about one-fifth of the canon and would completely screw up the vocabulary. But if I were, it would probably contain a sentence along the lines of, "It was as bad as his hair: wild, flaming and uncontrollable."
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Date: 2012-02-03 06:59 am (UTC)*dances*
Also, lol lol lol at the too-porny-for-posting!pegging. You're the best!! <3
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Date: 2012-02-06 10:50 am (UTC)It's...not even the porn? Or, well, it IS the porn, but more the psychology? I just look back at what I've written and think, where did that come from? Eventually maybe I'll own it. *blush*
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Date: 2012-02-03 01:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-06 10:56 am (UTC)Surgical Strike
Date: 2012-02-03 03:39 pm (UTC)It does! It really does! I just re-read the chapter that you have posted, and it is just so good. It's got my mouth watering again for more of this. Kind of like Spike when he smells the blood on Rob. ;) I'm just tickled to hear that it's still on your radar, hon. But, I don't want you to feel that you have to force yourself - seriously. I want you to have fun!
*hugs*
Anna
P.S. Also, because I'm utterly lame and never made a post about this, thank-you so much for my V-gift! I love those things! :)
Re: Surgical Strike
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Date: 2012-02-04 09:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-02-07 12:21 am (UTC)I'm looking forward to the Dean POV of "Get Outta the Kitchen"...I hope I can podfic this one too?
Have fun, and don't worry. I'm sure the block will pass!
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Date: 2012-02-08 12:02 am (UTC)Taking babysteps back, here. :)