WIPs list
The Scrivener file has over 500,000 words. There are 222 stories in 47 fandoms, plus 32 distinct crossovers. There are only 9 where I have absolutely no idea what I was going with the thing! (Including one where my only hint is the filename "fpscnsw", so that's... helpful, past me.) There are plenty of others where I don't really know what happens *next*, but I think for most of them that was always the case, which is why they're still WIPs.
Anyway, call it 209 months since I started seriously writing fanfic, that averages about 2400 words a month in WIPs alone over the whole period, and almost the same per story, which isn't great but is a lot better than I would have guessed! (And just over one new WIP a month, which could be... better.)
Anyway, so I have indexed them by Simple Trope, and made a poll. I will use the results of this poll to determine which one(s) I should work on, and either post here as definitely absolutely never to be finished, or actually finish.
Have fun with the poll!
Or, if you want to comment with one of the poll entries, I will give you a long excuse as to why I never finished it. :P
Which WIP is which?
a/b/o
4 (11.4%)
accidental marriage
14 (40.0%)
addiction
0 (0.0%)
Aladdin AU
4 (11.4%)
aliens make them have sex
9 (25.7%)
aliens make them not have sex
17 (48.6%)
allegory
2 (5.7%)
altermate pov
3 (8.6%)
angel/demon AU
5 (14.3%)
animal yransformation
4 (11.4%)
apocalypse
2 (5.7%)
aquarium AU
7 (20.0%)
archaeology
16 (45.7%)
Arthurian AU
11 (31.4%)
artificial intelligence
9 (25.7%)
babyfic
3 (8.6%)
baseball
2 (5.7%)
blowjobs under desks
3 (8.6%)
boarding school AU
2 (5.7%)
bro sex
6 (17.1%)
buddy cop
3 (8.6%)
Byzantium
11 (31.4%)
Canadian shack
6 (17.1%)
car-shipping
3 (8.6%)
Casablanca AU
4 (11.4%)
casefile
7 (20.0%)
castaways
5 (14.3%)
character survives AU
12 (34.3%)
chastity kink
7 (20.0%)
chess
3 (8.6%)
child soldiers
8 (22.9%)
Childe Ballads AU
7 (20.0%)
christmas
3 (8.6%)
Cinderella AU
2 (5.7%)
clothes porn
6 (17.1%)
coffeeshop AU (canon setting)
8 (22.9%)
coffeeshop AU (modern-day)
1 (2.9%)
college AU (in space)
12 (34.3%)
college AU (modern day)
1 (2.9%)
coming out
6 (17.1%)
consent
7 (20.0%)
country house
4 (11.4%)
crossroads deal AU
4 (11.4%)
cyberpunk au
3 (8.6%)
D/s
6 (17.1%)
dance
5 (14.3%)
darkfic
2 (5.7%)
Demon AU
3 (8.6%)
Different first meeting
8 (22.9%)
dragon au
10 (28.6%)
Easter
3 (8.6%)
elementals
8 (22.9%)
elopement
4 (11.4%)
epistolary
15 (42.9%)
Evacuation
2 (5.7%)
Fair Maid of the West AU
0 (0.0%)
fake dating
5 (14.3%)
family secrets
5 (14.3%)
feminism kink
9 (25.7%)
fixit
8 (22.9%)
Flying Aces AU
3 (8.6%)
forced obedience
9 (25.7%)
found family
16 (45.7%)
fuck or die
6 (17.1%)
genderfluid
9 (25.7%)
genderswap
9 (25.7%)
ghosts
6 (17.1%)
glasses kink
9 (25.7%)
Greek love
5 (14.3%)
hacking
2 (5.7%)
Hamlet AU
3 (8.6%)
het romance
1 (2.9%)
hiding a body
3 (8.6%)
high school sweethearts
1 (2.9%)
Hogwarts AU
3 (8.6%)
holodeck
4 (11.4%)
hometown boyfriend
2 (5.7%)
honeytrap AU
6 (17.1%)
hurt/comfort
6 (17.1%)
identity porn
13 (37.1%)
it was all a dream
1 (2.9%)
kidfic
5 (14.3%)
kittenfic
11 (31.4%)
linguistics
18 (51.4%)
long-lost parent
5 (14.3%)
long-lost sibling
6 (17.1%)
LoTR AU
6 (17.1%)
love notes
4 (11.4%)
Lovecraft AU
4 (11.4%)
mad science
8 (22.9%)
magic powers AU
7 (20.0%)
magical healing cock
8 (22.9%)
medieval AU
10 (28.6%)
megacrossover
7 (20.0%)
Mentorship (1)
6 (17.1%)
Mentorship (2)
7 (20.0%)
Mentorship (3)
6 (17.1%)
mind-altering drugs
3 (8.6%)
modern AU
2 (5.7%)
mpreg (1)
8 (22.9%)
mpreg (2)
7 (20.0%)
mpreg (3)
7 (20.0%)
music
5 (14.3%)
mythology
9 (25.7%)
names
9 (25.7%)
nanny AU
0 (0.0%)
Neuromancer AU
2 (5.7%)
ninja AU
5 (14.3%)
noir AU
4 (11.4%)
ofc (1)
5 (14.3%)
ofc (2)
6 (17.1%)
ofc (3)
5 (14.3%)
ofc (4)
6 (17.1%)
ofc (5)
7 (20.0%)
old flames meet again
2 (5.7%)
one-night stand
3 (8.6%)
open relationships
5 (14.3%)
Ordeal AU
4 (11.4%)
organized crime AU
6 (17.1%)
orgasm control
11 (31.4%)
orgy fic
4 (11.4%)
OT3
14 (40.0%)
paintball
1 (2.9%)
period kink
4 (11.4%)
Pern AU
6 (17.1%)
phone sex
4 (11.4%)
pigtails in the inkwell
1 (2.9%)
pirate AU
10 (28.6%)
politics AU
5 (14.3%)
poly wedding
9 (25.7%)
pon farr
10 (28.6%)
possession
5 (14.3%)
post-canon
9 (25.7%)
post-not-quite-apocalypse
11 (31.4%)
post-post-apocalypse
14 (40.0%)
post-redemption
12 (34.3%)
Prairie Home Companion AU
7 (20.0%)
prison au
3 (8.6%)
Problem of Susan
15 (42.9%)
protest
2 (5.7%)
pseudo-incest
3 (8.6%)
pulp sf
6 (17.1%)
quarantined together
10 (28.6%)
queer history
17 (48.6%)
quest of the holy grail
9 (25.7%)
readerfic
0 (0.0%)
redemption
9 (25.7%)
reincarnation
5 (14.3%)
revolution
9 (25.7%)
riddle-games
6 (17.1%)
road trip
6 (17.1%)
role reversal
5 (14.3%)
roommates
3 (8.6%)
royal courtship
10 (28.6%)
secret agents
8 (22.9%)
secret dating
5 (14.3%)
secret engagement
6 (17.1%)
secret marriage
11 (31.4%)
sedoretu AU (1)
15 (42.9%)
sedoretu AU (2)
14 (40.0%)
sensory deprivation
3 (8.6%)
serial killer AU
0 (0.0%)
sex club
4 (11.4%)
sexswap (1)
6 (17.1%)
sexswap (2)
6 (17.1%)
shifters
4 (11.4%)
size kink
2 (5.7%)
Slytherin au
3 (8.6%)
snuff
2 (5.7%)
social media fic
3 (8.6%)
soulmark AU
6 (17.1%)
squirrelfic
5 (14.3%)
stable time loop
11 (31.4%)
Star Trek AU
9 (25.7%)
Star Wars AU
10 (28.6%)
steampunk AU
4 (11.4%)
Study in Emerald AU
4 (11.4%)
superhero AU
5 (14.3%)
superhero not-AU
8 (22.9%)
suspended animation
2 (5.7%)
teacher/student
3 (8.6%)
Temeraire AU
5 (14.3%)
tentacles
9 (25.7%)
they make aliens have sex
15 (42.9%)
time travel
11 (31.4%)
transfic
9 (25.7%)
trapped in a simulation (1)
4 (11.4%)
trapped in a simulation (2)
4 (11.4%)
Trapped in a video game (3)
5 (14.3%)
treasure hunt
5 (14.3%)
triangulation
3 (8.6%)
unexpected offspring
8 (22.9%)
unresolved incestual tension
6 (17.1%)
unstuck in time
8 (22.9%)
untitled goose game fusion
8 (22.9%)
vampire AU
4 (11.4%)
Very Secret Diary
0 (0.0%)
virginity
5 (14.3%)
War with the Newts AU
3 (8.6%)
wedding fic
4 (11.4%)
werewolves (not AU)
3 (8.6%)
werewolves AU
4 (11.4%)
Wolfbrother AU (1)
3 (8.6%)
Wolfbrother AU (2)
5 (14.3%)
Wolfbrother AU (3)
3 (8.6%)
Wolfbrother AU (4)
5 (14.3%)
Wolfbrother AU (5)
4 (11.4%)
Wolfbrother AU (6)
4 (11.4%)
Young Wizards fusion
7 (20.0%)
Of course, that only includes the ones that made it to files on my computer - ones I only ever wrote into DW entries or comment threads or on paper or only talked about a lot and never put words down aren't counted....

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Which that WIP was actually set up really well to address a lot of the issues I had with Narnia, but when I started it I hadn't really thought through that I didn't actually want to give the amount time and energy to Narnia canon that it would take to do a good job of it.
So it's a really good start to a fic! And if I ever do, for some reason, decide it's time for a Narnia close read, I may work on it some more.
I'm more likely though to finish the one, that isn't on this list because it exist solely as one typewritten sheet, where it's the Baudelaires instead of the Pevensies that find the wardrobe, which would address some of the same frustrations but probably not have to address Narnia canon specifics as closely.
(Though this reminds me, there's a Inklings fic that should be on this list but isn't, I wonder where the file for that is.)
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I never put pen to paper on any Kesh fic except the one I finished for yuletide, though, I think I wanted to finish the LHoD one first.
(...and actually there's another LHoD I could swear I started waaay back in the day that's not on here either, I wonder where that one went. Or maybe I only wrote it in my head.)
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There's actually at least one more mpreg-ish story on there but I hid it under a different trope. :P
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mpreg (2) and (3) are both fics I posted the set-up for pretending they were finished. (3) I have about half of a chapter two done and would like to keep going but voices in that fandom are hard and I would need to do heavy canon review first. (1) and (2) both got so heavily messed up by canon I will probably never get any farther, sadly.
My favorite part of mpreg is figuring out a creative way to make the pregnancy plausible, and once I've done that I always seem to lose steam...
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And awww, that's a real shame about the Lovecraft AU. I always more of those.
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There's another Lovecraft AU on there under another name that is maybe more likely to happen!
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And then the only fully written scene is here: http://sophia-sol.dreamwidth.org/136181.html?thread=727029#cmt727029
I honestly did not expect so much enthusiasm for that one but people *still* remember it!
It's not so much that I don't want to do the canon review for that one - TOS will always be fandom of my heart - as that there would just be so much canon to review, especially since there's at least a couple dozen of the novels that I consider basic canon too, but also the timeline around the movies makes no sense so I'd have to figure out how to finagle that too, and, well, there's so many other canons to review too.
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And let's be honest, I would still read it.
Note that I have no memory of how the exchange or matching worked, but I definitely read the Prydain Chronicles for it!
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I kind of lost a lot of enthusiasm for most of my Snape ships after book 6 went all friendzone though. Alas.
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*waves pom-poms of encouragement*
ETA: and now I'm imagining mashups of some of these being fics with *multiple* of these tropes applicable.
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It's probably been long enough now that the scorched ground has started to green over again and it would be safe to start, but then I'd have to get back into Holmes canon which I haven't dipped into since the Before Benedict Crumblebumble times.
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I have everything backed up to solid state memory now, which will hopefully endure at least a little better than my luck with external sata drives.
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The baseball one is mostly about how people's loyalties to their teams affect their relationships, and also because every year I go to one or two minor league games (hopefully that will happen this year!) and spend the whole time daydreaming about fic, and then go look for some on AO3 and not find much. (Why isn't there more baseball fic out there, really? Both AUs and going to games. There's a fair amount of original M/M romance with baseball players, it ought to happen.) (I also have an epic Black Socks AU I dream about when I go to the games, but I have not written so much as a single word of it. I drew fanart, though.)
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(If it is not the Les Mis one then I really want to know where else you have written squirrelfic.)
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Are "cyberpunk au" and "Neuromancer au" two different wips?
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I would love to know more about car-shipping... ;) And what's your canon coffeeshop and non-AU werewolves?