WIP meme

Jan. 30th, 2012 08:53 pm
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Stolen from various people including de_nugis [info]claudiapriscus, & [info]adrenalineshots.

The meme: Post the first sentence (or three) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!

#1.  Perhaps he should have been more wary.  Should have realised it was a trap. 

Scratch that. He knew for certain he’d been the biggest kind of dumbass, and there was no perhaps about it.  But by the time realisation dawned, it was too late and the demons (yes, there was more than one of the bastards) had him pinned, helpless, splayed like a butterfly in an entomologist’s prized collection, up against the warehouse wall. 


#2.  Helpless, Dean watches with a pain-blurred sense of detachment as Sam rocks back on his haunches, maintaining the strange sing-song chant, the lighter voice of Ahnah keeping counterpoint with Sam’s tenor.

His little brother’s bulk is silhouetted against the twilight of the white-night solstice, the wide skies still impossibly cerulean blue at midnight. 

#3.  Sam fired.  The creature was freakishly fast though, and dodged the shot.  His brother was not so lucky. 

#4.   Dean hates fucking rain. 

So much so he thinks he might have been a cat in a previous life.  Whatever.

#5.
Jensen couldn’t work out how everything got so messed up. Correction, he couldn’t work out how he had got everything so messed up.  Because it was down to him.

That's all my nascent SPN fics, below are the first lines from my 2 original novel length fics I've been faffing with for the last 2 years.

#6  In the beginning there were no words, there was only light.

In the beginning, they were nameless, formless.  They existed and that was enough.  Then one of them found an opening, slipped through, and discovered – a different world.  This world was one of form, and of matter that had names; with solid earth, air that moved and was breathed by living organic beings; and home to forces that threatened to tear the nameless one apart.

#7 

What are you afraid of, Jake Kyle? 

Sleeping.

Dying.

Living.

The colour red.

He was dreaming again.

Flames, a woman burning; a man dying, pinned to a kitchen wall.  Screaming.

Nightmares.  And not even his nightmares; they had belonged to someone he had loved.  As if, he thought bitterly, he didn’t have enough of his own.


                                                                                        ******

Mmm I hadn't thought I had as many as 5 works on the go, but actually there were 3 more with a few lines written....

Edited to include my non Supernatural stuff which I had kind of forgotten about.

Date: 2012-01-30 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adrenalineshots.livejournal.com
Oh, my! I need #2 and #3 ASAP!!!!

Date: 2012-01-30 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
#2 is my 2nd (very late) fill for 50 States (Alaska) and it is very nearly finished, but I got stuck in the middle over a plot device to get them into the final scene. I had sent it to someone who said they'd Alpha/beta it but haven't heard from them yet. Maybe if I go back to it now after a break something will spring out at me.

#3 - appears to be finished! I don't know why it's sitting in a folder and I don't seem to have posted it anywhere. I'd better read through and see why!! LOL

Date: 2012-01-30 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tifaching.livejournal.com
Then post it, darn it! I need some shot Dean.

Date: 2012-01-30 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
I just realised I had left a bit out in the middle which is why I hadn't posted but I think I can fill that in now - some Sammy surgery needs to be written then I can post a bloody Dean.

Date: 2012-01-30 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tifaching.livejournal.com
So, was Dean a cat in a previous life? Because that would be cool. Can't wait to read these!

Date: 2012-01-30 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
I really want to write Dean the cat now. That wasn't where that one was going but...

Date: 2012-01-30 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tifaching.livejournal.com
LOL, well if it's not where it was going, I guess I can deal. But if you really want to write Dean the cat you should go for it!

Date: 2012-01-31 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] borgmama1of5.livejournal.com
From what I have seen posted, this is an evil meme because it hold out the promise of lots of great stories but I have to wait and I am not terribly patient!

Date: 2012-01-31 08:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
I know, I've seen at least a dozen fics-in-waiting I want NOW!

Date: 2012-01-31 02:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] de-nugis.livejournal.com
I am voting for cat!Dean. *takes things literally*

Date: 2012-01-31 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
It seems you are not the only one! I did read a rather good cat!Dean fic the other day but I'm blowed if I can remember where.

Edit: it might have been this one http://teashopmuses.livejournal.com/45629.html
Edited Date: 2012-01-31 08:52 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-02-03 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tifaching.livejournal.com
Haha! I want cat!Dean fic also!

Date: 2012-01-31 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miki-moo.livejournal.com
These look really exciting!

Date: 2012-01-31 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
Ta muchly! I did actually end up finishing #3 last night thanks to the reminder that it had been languishing for ages. So I guess the meme did it's job!!

Date: 2012-02-01 04:34 pm (UTC)
ext_120093: (SPN Sam and Dean cheers by bittersweet-a)
From: [identity profile] morganoconner.livejournal.com
Oooh, #2 has me really intrigued. O_O And #7 looks intense in all kinds of awesome ways. :DDDD

Date: 2012-02-01 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
#2 is my 50 States Alaska fic that I know the ending to but am stuck in the middle. I need to revisit to see if having a break from it has helped!

#7 is the sequel to #6 (which is my first novel and kind of finished but needing a thorough editing). I am really starting to feel drawn back to these now...

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