WIP meme

Jan. 28th, 2017 10:35 am
nineveh_uk: Illustration that looks like Harriet Vane (Harriet)
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I am taking the keywords in this to be 'in progress'. An idea in my head or notes jotted down, or even several pages of scenes, does not count for the purpose; this is basically the top of the pile that are most likely to be finished/actively worked on any time soon.

Corsica This is the untitled Wimsey/Harry Potter crossover fic about to have the mpreg ruthlessly cut, currently standing at c.85,000 words. It is not in fact going to be finished any time soon because there is still a lot to go, but I really, really want to finish this, and I really, really ought to make a push to finish this. I know where it's going, who the murderer is (because it is Wimsey/HP crossover crack-turned-casefic), I even know the final scene. I just have to write it all... I have no idea how much longer it will be, but I think it is unlikely to come in at less than another 20,000 words of plot, plus going back and taking out the mpreg and dealing with the narrative ramifications of that.

The Whispering Grass Non-crack, non-crossover, a take on a familiar fic scenario for Tanz der Vampire, i.e. how the Count came to accidentally murder his wife in a scenario that is basically Fields of Gold: the sick version. So classic angst-fic, really. I've got notes for pretty much the whole thing, I just have to write it up... This might be a recurring theme.

In the Studio. Yuri on Ice as observed by figure skating commentators. Three chapters posted, just one to go. I'm going to attempt to finish it this weekend; it shouldn't take long, just needs discipline and to re-watch episodes 11 and 12.

Round and Golden. Yakov-centric account of the unfortunate incident in Turin when Victor and Chris were teenagers. Another one for which I rapidly jotted down notes of the whole thing, but haven't moved on to doing the complete version. But it shouldn't take too long to finish.

Rostelecom hotel room. Untitled fic as to how Victor manoeuvres Yuuri into sharing a hotel room in Moscow and what happens when they get there. Half-written, know what's happening in the second half, just haven't bloody written it.

The Immovable Object In which Miles Vorkosigan meets the only power that might be able to stop him: the Vorkosiverse equivalent of the UKBA. The fact that the Vorkosiverse equivalent of the UKBA are the good guys in this story might give you indication as to how I feel about the narrative attitude some facets of Miles' character in the later books. And now all together - lots of notes, know where it's going, need to write up the remaining 80%...
And now time to get on with the day so I can do some of it!

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Date: 2017-01-28 04:09 pm (UTC)
ext_422737: uncle hallway (Hallway)
From: [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
Now that you're taking out the mpreg (and I can understand how it started to get in the way), I can safely say my tradition of never reading mpregs will continue :D

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Date: 2017-01-29 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
I am happy to be able to support you in this endeavour ;-) It's a product of evolution, really - the think that started (literally) as crackfic in answer to a prompt is no longer that, and that means that some things have to go (and also I don't want to put off readers).

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Date: 2017-01-29 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com
I confess to a sense of not inconsiderable relief that the mpreg element is being cut. I know you will have done it brilliantly, but in a magnum opus like this it would have been a LOT of mpreg...

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Date: 2017-01-29 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
In some respects, an argument for cutting it is that there isn't enough mpreg, as I am not terribly interested in mpreg, and so there are interesting scientific lectures and a bit of angst, and then I endeavour to forget it for several chapters. I need to face up to the fact that my fondness for the interesting scientific lectures does not compensate for having to tag a fic with mpreg, and just cut it. Wimsey will have a bad dose of dragon pox instead, requiring him to go and recuperate on the Mediterranean. There is no point in doing mpreg at length unless you are doing it for the trope-liking readers, and I wasn't.

On another note entirely, may I call upon your German historical linguistics brain? Because after a couple of weeks of two-way prepositions, I am increasingly convinced that the idea that the dative case is mostly about the indirect object is a simple version that elides a great deal more complexity, and that actually knowing the complexity behind it might actually make things make more sense. Because the dative is definitely not just hanging around being the indirect object, but doing a whole load of other stuff, and if in fact it has over the last couple of thousand year cannibalised various other things and there is an explanation for this you can point to on the internet or summarise, I should be very grateful!

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