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[kellifer]

I've been thinking about my WIPs of late. I have a couple now and I don't like that I've got stories that have been exposed to the world that I never finished despite all the good intentions I started out with. I always promised myself I wouldn't do that and... I did it.

So, if you've got a WIP(s) do you have intentions of going back to it/them, do you know which ones are never going to see the light of day again? Are you in denial like me and keep saying to yourself that after X,Y,Z, you'll get back to it, you swear. Do you think of ongoing verses as WIPs? If you're a reader, do you see a chapter heading and back away slowly/quickly? Tell me about them, reassure me that I'm not alone... Or feel free to berate me about the ones I haven't finished, I'm pretty sure I deserve it.

I've finally, finally made a start on my SG-1 remix fic which *looks at watch* is horribly lax of me. I'm not sure why it took so long for me to work up to it. Mostly I think I have this kind of weird reaction to remixes of any kind where I get all keen and excited and then totally fail with the follow through.

I'm also a little worried about the way I'm remixing this time, taking a small element of the original story and kind of spinning outwards. I'm just hoping my remixee likes it or at least doesn't want to have me hung, drawn and quartered.

I keep writing these little stories in my brain while I'm driving or in the supermarket or lying in bed or whatever in other people's verses that I will never write because, you know, other people's verses when I should be actually writing my stuff. Ha... like, in poisontaster's Live Free or Die Hard 'verse I've got this whole scenario worked out where Matt accidentally runs into Jack's current partner in a Starbucks. *facepalms*

I've had an influx of new people of late *waves* and I promise to get my Master lists up to date because I'm very aware that's where most of them start out getting to know me.

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[beatrice_otter]

I once had a WIP. Well, it was actually two WIPs, because it had a sequel. I grew to hate it over the time I was writing it, but continued because I felt obligated. I finally slapped a really abrupt, bad ending on it just to get it over with. It was my first long fanfic, and I vowed to never, ever do it again.

I do have a story right now that's almost a WIP; both chapters are pretty self-contained--they're part of an overall plot, but it's not like you'll be horribly deprived if the next chapter never comes.

My gateverse_remix has kind of expanded from what I first planned. I chose to remix a 900-word piece of Sam/Jack near-fluff from Sam's POV (it's not quite fluff--there's a little bit of exploration of Sam's character and her romantic history, albeit not much). Figured, okay, do a nice character vignette for Sam, maybe 2-3k words, tops, no problem. It has since eaten my brain. It's now over seven thousand words with at least another two thousand to go in the first draft, and it hasn't seen a beta yet, and it's due end of the month. And I don't write anywhere near as fast as you do. And I'm kind of nervous about the beta because I'm not sure how well the sections hold together. Basically, it's a series of about twelve events in Sam's life, from age four through the end of season 9, that made her into the woman she is today. At least I've got a decent title for it--I usually suck at titles.

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Hehehee... if it reassures you any, that sounds awesome. :)