WIP meme

[janne_d]

via astolat: When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.


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“Oh,” said Rodney. He ate chocolate thoughtfully for a moment while John stared at his hands. Even they looked different now. “You know, you don’t look that much different. No, really,” he said off John’s disbelieving look, “It’s a bit like if you were your own identical twin sister.”

“What? Okay, now you’re just not making any sense,” John decided.

“When you look in the mirror, I bet you’re just seeing everything that’s changed and not the stuff that’s the same,” Rodney went on, “I mean, no-one’s going to think you are anyone else. You’re still recognisably you, just curvier.”

John finished off his bit of chocolate while he thought about that. It seemed to make sense, sort of, even if he wasn’t sure if he completely believed it. He was going to say something else, but then he looked back at McKay and he ended up whacking him on the back of the head instead.

“Hey, ow! What was that for?” Rodney asked, rubbing at his head.

“Stop looking at my breasts,” John hissed, too outraged to yell.

“I wasn’t…” Rodney started to deny, then gave up when John raised his hand threateningly again. “Oh come on, they’re right there,” he protested instead. “Like you wouldn’t?”

~


Possibly the longest WIP ever - I've been writing it on and off for nearly a year now.

Comments

[trobadora]

Oh, that sounds like an awesome story! I hope you finish it eventually. :-)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. I hope I finish it eventually too - I'm not kidding when I say it's taking me a long time. I just looked back at the dates and I saved the first section in Dec 05! *groans at slowness*

38600 odd words and 17 chapters so far. Probably at least half as much again more to do if I manage the things I want to...

A Dangerous Desire took me just over a year, and that was 48000 words-ish. (Though I was alternating writing them both for a while, until ADD took over.)

[trobadora]

I loved ADD, and I'm very glad to know you're writing something really long again. There just aren't enough long stories any more these days!

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I was sure for ages that I was never going to do a long fic. <10,000 words seemed about my natural upper length for a good long while.

And then *bammo* - I started ADD. And I realised pretty quickly it would be much longer than I'd thought, but I had no idea how long. At least in that I was working off someone else's plot template so I knew what the structure was going to be. This girl!John thing I'm just meandering along and wondering if I'll end up with something vaguely like a coherent plot at some point! It's scary.

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

*bows*

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Very intriguing!

“I wasn’t…” Rodney started to deny, then gave up when John raised his hand threateningly again. “Oh come on, they’re right there,” he protested instead. “Like you wouldn’t?”

Ha! Rodney would totally say that! :)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Cool. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for any more though... Sigh. I seem to have got a bit stuck after chapter 17. *looks at notes for fic and whimpers*

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

*bounce*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

*bounces too cos it's fun*

Wait...

You've already read this, why are you bouncing?

How's things, btw?

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I'm bouncing because I love this fic. (And slightly because I like to bounce whenever possible *g*)

Things are good, today I learnt to spin on ice and tomorrow I maybe hear back about my job (eep). How are your things?

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Spinning? Cooooool. Did you get dizzy or is there a special skater trick to avoid that?

I hope you've heard something good about the job.

My things are glad it's Fri and I have two days off. I've been knackered this week (yawn) and I can't work out whether I'm just tired anyway or tired because I'm bored (it's been a very quiet week work-wise).

Watched more Heroes though, and the Simpsons movie, so that was fun.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD, you are writing Girl!John fic? I saw your name idly clicking (and giggling) at my poll responses and remembered that you write hot-and-kickass stories. This is like Christmas coming early! & :-P

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

*grins* Given that I started this in Dec 05 and have been writing it on and off (admittedly mostly off) ever since, I think it may qualify for Christmas coming extremely late.

Considering all the little bits of scenes I have to write up to and through, I may not be finished it by xmas 2008 either. It's amazing - I'll have this little two line note of something like "mission with X and Y and John freaking out afterwards because of Z" and it'll take me 18 000 words of writing to do it! So now I look at all these other little notes and bits of dialogue I have stored and despair slightly...

remembered that you write hot-and-kickass stories

Thank you very much *beams happily*. Your poll was fun - I was just in the mood for random.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Random is my middle name. *g*

And seriously, I am so, so, so looking forward to your Girl!John. If you want to be visually inspired, here's fanart made for Ard? And pentapus frequently draws chibi!Girl!John.

http://auburnnotlisa.livejournal.com/tag/fanart

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty! I really liked the angsty John one. And your icon is very cool too.

I'm occasionally tempted to post it as a WIP and hope that people commenting would keep me going - only I have a feeling that I would just end up freezing and not finishing it, and I really do want to finish it!

So it sits on my harddrive, and gets sent to the very patient torakowalski for beta and cheerleading and gradually increases and increases in length (45000 words and counting). I will get there, I will.

I'm very impressed that you and Auburn have managed to keep going and posting Ard all this time!