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WIPs update
So, motivated by finding that USB drive, I have gone through all of my copious backups, and sorted ALL of my wips into a single Scrivener file. (Well, not all - there’s quite a few that have only ever existed on paper, and this doesn’t include filk and comic scripts, and this is only things where I’ve actually started a writing file, not outlines and commentfic and bunnies and notfic, and my entire Stargate/Supernatural period in the mid-2000s seems to be missing - I’ll have to try to dig that out from the old backup drives. But this will do for now.)
There are just over 100 different stories, and well over 250,000 words! That’s almost impressive, until you realize it took about 20 years. (On the other hand, 20 years makes the total number of stories seem a little bit less terrifying?)
Every year I make a resolution to reduce that number rather than growing it, and every year I fail. So I’m going to try again this year, with a twist: the goal isn’t to finish them, it’s to either finish, post unfinished, or trash them. Surely I can do that! And maybe if they’re posted in some form, they will haunt me less, since the primary reason I write is that it makes me sad that my daydreams are trapped with me. (That means I will be posting fic on average every four days…. Maybe I will batch them by fandom.)
Per that goal, I have sorted them into categories:
True WIPs: These are stories where I have a fair amount left to write, and I really want to finish them properly. (10 stories, oldest is about 10 years)
Finish Quick: These are stories where it should take less than 1000 words to finish, and I should really just do it and post them; or at least write the 1000 words and then re-evaluate. (10 stories, oldest is over 15 years.)
Cauterize: There are stories where I had big plans, but on re-read, maybe the reason I stopped working on them is that I said what I wanted to say and got to a good stopping point? So the goal is to revise them to pass, and post, as finished stories without adding much more content. (8 stories, oldest is about ten years)
Carrot: I have written less than 1000 words of them but I really want to finish them! (17 stories, oldest is about 15 years old)
Post undone: I have not finished these, will not finish these, have no particular interest in finishing them anymore - many of them are in fandoms that went in a direction I was not interested in following. (71 stories in 28 fandoms, oldest is over 20 years old.)
There’s also a separate category of “things I have posted as finished even though I want to write more.” Also original stories. But those are just depressing, so we’re not going to enumerate them.
The point of the “Carrot” category is that anytime I finish and post something in category 1 or 2, I get to either move something from the “Carrot” category to the “Actual WIPs” category, or start something new and add it to the “Carrot” category, and otherwise I’m not allowed to touch that category. We’ll see if that actually works as a carrot!
Below the cut are the stories in the first four categories. They have tickyboxes! Not because the tickyboxes mean anything, I just felt like it’s been too long since there were tickyboxes.
True WIPs
The First Sedoretu of Ankh-Morpork: How Samuel Vimes of the Watch came to marry the Duchess of Ankh. And the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. And Lady Margolotta of Uberwald.
27 (67.5%)
A Big Enough Umbrella: The one where Enjolras is aro/ace and Grantaire is akiosexual and they become flatmates and everyone is very confused, especially them
8 (20.0%)
Shadow on Snow: The Alternate First Meeting AU where Breq and Seivarden stumble over each other on Gethen instead of Nilt.
9 (22.5%)
Next part of the Deadpool mpreg
9 (22.5%)
Body Meet A Body: The one where Mayor Madeleine's cock cures TB because of secret prison experiments and everybody is very very traumatized, just in general, not specifically about MAyor Madeleine's cock.
3 (7.5%)
Spidroin: The Jack Harkness/K's't'lk snuffkink pwp, because it needs to exist.
5 (12.5%)
Clark Knows Better: The one where Clark tells Lois he can't ethically have sex with her until she discovers his Deep Dark Secret on her own.
12 (30.0%)
I ♥ Boobies: the f/f where Cosette is a marine biologist and Eponine is a vet tech and Marius is a traumatized blue-footed booby.
11 (27.5%)
Natashenka: The one where the Winter Soldier is on a mission-gone-wrong with a four-year-old Red Room trainee and she has to go undercover as his kid.
23 (57.5%)
Stargazers: Ace OTP fic for Welcome to Mars which is a fandom nobody but me has heard of.
2 (5.0%)
Finish Quick
Hello My Name Is: Post-canon happy-ever-after Nimona fic about nametags
5 (12.2%)
Paris Lui-Meme Imite: from a dare to write modern-day Enjolras/Grantaire as Hugo himself would have if he were alive today.
10 (24.4%)
Children of Barrayar: The Barrayar/Study in Emerald crossover in which being Vor has slightly different meaning than canon.
14 (34.1%)
Slow Fire: PWP Amelia Rumford/Vivien Fay from the Fourth Doctor Who episode "The Stones of Blood"
4 (9.8%)
A Summer Wardrobe: Valjean/Montparnasse D/s porn that makes sense in my head. (Valjean wants to reform him! Montparnasse can only accept 'hot rich older dude takes an interest in me' in one context!)
5 (12.2%)
Deadpool/Reader fic: because people keep posting Deadpool/Reader fic that doesn't exploit his fourth wall powers sufficiently.
16 (39.0%)
Super-Soft: a rarepair porn prompt I have been attempting to fill for the Deadpool kink meme.
4 (9.8%)
Timekink: Fifth Doctor/Ainsley Master RACK porn with mindsex and sensory deprivation and species dysphoria and drums.
5 (12.2%)
Christmas, 1982: A very sad Harry Potter holiday story that absolutely nobody needs.
6 (14.6%)
Hot Cognition: Post-war f/f, Hermione gets really into both feminist theory and smart women.
26 (63.4%)
Not Made For Any Man (The Moon's Second Quarter): Next part of 2011 yuletide fic. I have ONE CHAPTER left.
5 (12.2%)
Finish Quick
Trigger Warning: Steve/Bucky soft trash party
9 (24.3%)
Hikarigakure: the Les Mis/Naruto crossover where Eponine, Cosette, and Marius are Valjean's genin team.
4 (10.8%)
The Fury Road/Highlander crossover where Max took a very bad quickening awhile back and needs to find a Holy Spring.
15 (40.5%)
Earbud porn: the one where the Leverage team don't need a telepathic soulbond because they have earbud radios.
24 (64.9%)
The Men Who Bond With Wolves: Psychic Wolves/The Men Who Stare At Goats crossover.
12 (32.4%)
Sleepy: Unfinished story from the Dresden Files kinkmeme
6 (16.2%)
The DoctorDonna meets the Dowager Duchess of Denver, started from a very old prompt for characters that start with D.
9 (24.3%)
Carry On Till The Night Is Gone: my Nick Fury/Peggy Carter fic, I will have to post this before Captain Marvel if I ever post it at all.
14 (37.8%)
Carrot
BfU prison AU
1 (2.3%)
Next part of the Deadpool/Cable kidfic
4 (9.3%)
Hermann/Newt serial killer AU
3 (7.0%)
The one where Grantaire voluntarily takes a sketchy 'love potion' that forces him to do whatever Enjolras orders him to do
9 (20.9%)
The Good Omens Easter fic
21 (48.8%)
The Imperial Radch wolfbond fic
11 (25.6%)
The AU where Javert picked criminal instead of police and he and Valjean run the Paris underworld together
16 (37.2%)
The one where Anne of Green Gables is a dragon but everything else stays the same
17 (39.5%)
The one where one of the uterine replicators from Escobar carried the Emperor's half-brother
18 (41.9%)
The one where the Winter Soldier is sent to honeytrap Captain America instead of assassinating him at the beginning of CA:WS
21 (48.8%)
The one where Spock grows pigtails for Vulcan religious reasons and McCoy can't stop pulling them, and occasionally dipping them in ink.
12 (27.9%)
The BfU one where Shane thinks he's posessed by a demon and Ryan has to talk him out of it
3 (7.0%)
The post-Pac Rim Uprising Newt/Hermann romcom fic
5 (11.6%)
The one where Methos has never dated a man before MacLeod
9 (20.9%)
The John/Rodney a/b/o knotting fic with the maths
11 (25.6%)
If anybody would like to mention one of the stories above in a comment, I will whine at them about how writing is hard and that story, in particular, is impossible. (The short version that all of these have in common, though, is: I only feel confident in my fanfic when I’ve been immersed in the fandom, and I can’t be immersed in 100 fandoms at at time all the time, it is not possible! So instead I finish nothing.)