Fic meme

[nineveh_uk]

Courtesy of lilliburlero

Fic Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Comment with a word, any word. If it’s in my WIP document(s) I’ll answer your comment with the sentence that it appears in.

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[white_hart]

Muffin (or cake, if there are no muffins).

Sometimes I fear I have a one-track mind...

[nineveh_uk]

There are no muffins! I shall have to remedy this with judicious editing. There is, however, plenty of cake.

Wimsey ate a slice of cake and resolved to invite him for dinner.

[gramarye1971]

Resign.

(If you have 'resigned' or 'resignation' or something similar, that works, too!)

[nineveh_uk]

At last, believing that he has added all he can to magical lore, he resolves that he will give up the use of the Elixir of Life and resign himself to death, content to have added to the store of magical knowledge.

[dbassassin]

Station

For some reason I'm thinking about trains, today.

[nineveh_uk]

Not quite the same sort of station, but...

'We keep a small station of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol down there; they spend most of their time escorting holidaymakers who’ve had one too many back to their hotels, though there was a chap a couple of months ago who pinched a pedalo and set out for Naples.'

[castiron]

Edition.

[nineveh_uk]

'I was sitting there, in that chair, the one behind you imitatin’ a pile of firewood, collating that rather nice edition of Amadis - we seem to be the only things to have ‘scaped harm – and whoof!'

[el_staplador]

Inspired.

[nineveh_uk]

Antonio’s anomalous position as a Muggle in the widowed Duchess's household is obscure and has inspired much debate.

[lilliburlero]

Blink. Or blank.

[nineveh_uk]

I can do both, though neither particularly exciting, I'm afraid!

He blinked and sat up.

*

'By the way, the London office has written to say they’ve drawn a blank and sent it on to Paris.'

[caulkhead]

Brandy

[nineveh_uk]

Now this was one I could feel confident would produce a positive result!

Possibly, thought Wimsey, he was a little embarrassed at having enjoyed the existence of the ’95 brandy, hitherto unsuspected by his master.

[perennialanna]

Soup.

[nineveh_uk]

I was about to say "I do not like soup, there will be no soup in my fic," but I was wrong. There is soup, albeit metaphorical, in two successive sentences.

Only the problem with crime was that it was all very well to pull Gerry from the soup, and nothin’ nasty to come of it, and to fiddle around finding diamond brooches and sorting out inheritances and the like, but it wasn’t always like that. Come to that, Gerry’s soup had been pretty hot, and the Dawson case downright sticky.

[auntyros.livejournal.com]

Boiled.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

'My lord, the child is twelve years old and she has never sliced a loaf of bread, nor boiled a kettle. '

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Rabbit

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It was not, however, champing grasses of the forest’s ferny floor, but what looked like a dead rabbit.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

wicked

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Apparently I don't have any WIPs containing the word "wicked". I'm pretty surprised at this! It's only in electronic form, so I could have it in some notes, but the obvious suspect yielded nothing on checking. I can think of one place it could go, though, so shall make sure to included.

I can manage an 'evil' though: 'You can tell these chaps to stow their nonsense about an evil sorcerer doing away with poor old [X].'

[marginaliana]

elbow

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Terence had come up with a set of dress robes in a sleek navy wool satin, broad outer sleeves turned back to the elbow to display a mauve silk lining, with piping in the same at collar and pointed cuffs and embroidered arrowheads above the skirt pleats.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Daimler

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Bunter had been despatched to fetch the Daimler in the second week.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Crocodile.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I can do this one! It's from a sort of Lovecraftian parody.

'They seem very keen on crocodiles for a people who built a city in the middle of a desert.'

[joyeuce]

Clarinet.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I fear that my WIPs appear to be entirely devoid of wind instruments, but I can come up with violins:

The musical interludes proved really quite decent, and served their purpose nicely by enabling one to judge rapidly who among ones new neighbours was capable of ordinary conversation with a Muggle by dint of the responses to a mild comment about the violins.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Ecclesiastical?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

'I was not especially interested in Scandinavian ecclesiastical architecture, and after a number of expeditions to the city’s more notable sites, I found myself at something of a loose end.'

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Eldritch

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

After a fruitless computer search I was going to admit defeat, and then I thought "I bet those longhand notes for a Lovecraft parody contain it" and lo!

"More eldritch lizards. I mean, they aren't bad, as lizards go, but it isn't very imaginative. You'd think they might ring the changes with the odd porcupine or something."

(And hello! Hopefully I might manage to be in your neck of the woods this summer when you are not in China, and meet up!)