Scratching Post

It might not seem like it right now with the distinct lack of posting, but I really am actually writing. I've got two long fics I'm poking at that are nowhere near done yet, so it'll be a while still.

So, here's the issue: both fics focus on the same characters and I've reached that almost-obsession stage about said characters. I think I need a break? Like, a little distraction so that I can come back to them with the excited "what are they going to do next?" and not just "oh, hey, you guys again..."

Which leads me to: Prompt me? Please?

List two characters and a one to two word prompt. No promises for epic-length results, but you'll get something short and sweet in the very least.

Check out my tags for a list of fandoms I usually write in. I'll also toss in The 100, The Originals, and Galavant though were slightly behind on The Originals right now.

Hit me? Pretty please?

I was wondering when this would come out again and was trying to keep an eye out for it, but totally missed it until I went back through my feed this weekend.

It's time for hc_bingo again!

I know some people have qualms about it and whatnot, but I have found it to be a wonderful way of breaking through writer's block by offering prompts that you can take literally, or turn on their head.

Anyway, my card is ( beneath the cut )

So I had hoped to have this fic I've been poking at finished prior to AOU coming out. Not sure why I set that as a deadline when CATWS had already Jossed it, but whatever.

I didn't quite make it? Work and home stress and everything else just all piled up at once. So I'm on the epilogue and then have the editing process to go. But considering how little I've actually written lately, and that this thing is 30K already, that totes counts, right?

Yuletide fic is almost done! Like at least 80% as of today. It would have been more, but I got one of those annoying cluster headaches that wouldn't go away so...

Once I wrap that one up and post it for the reveal, I can work on finishing up the drafts for hc_bingo - all but two of what I want to post are at least in "almost finished/polished" draft format, so there's that. Just not fully liking one other, and honestly haven't started on the one that I was so excited to get the prompt for because, really, that's how I roll... *headdesk*

So, yeah... That's me on the writing front? If I could just write at work at lunch instead of playing Bejeweled the entire time, maybe I'd actually be done with these challenges and back to trying to finish my huge long fic that no one will read. :)

Poking at some WIPs that have been sitting for a while, but my heart's not really in it. Out of nowhere, I really want to work both on my original stuff again, and a couple of WIPs that I have forgotten about for literally years because they are trapped on my dead laptop and/or on a thumb drive that I'm not sure our server will take.

Laptop was Windows-based and has a key stuck in a way we cannot get fixed. It reads as jammed, but we removed it and can't find any actual noticeable issue, even as it still registers as stuck. Partner was trying, and couldn't get it and everything keeps shorting out because you seriously cannot get anything but error messages out of anything. She set it aside, and now we're not sure where the power cable is, so even if I take it in, I'm not sure I could turn it on. Not to mention I am now spoiled with the battery life of my iPad versus the two hours that sucker could hold a charge.

Thumb drives should, in theory work, save for two things: The first is that they are formatted to Windows and we only have Macs now save for the dead laptop. The last time my partner tried one (which thankfully only had one thing on it), it tried to erase and reformat the thing. The second thing is that I am terrified of using a computer at like a library or something and getting a virus and losing everything.

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on this? Or a smack upside the head for being technologically inept when computers should totally be able to read a fricken word doc on any platform?

I am (once again) behind on answering comments, both on the journals and on AO3. I hope to play catch up this weekend? Maybe? For now, though, I have to pry myself out of bed and off to work.

Thank you everyone who has taken the time to read!

I have reached the point where I am stalling re-editing two stories because of that whole "fear of posting" thing I still have mixed with the "almost done with others but don't know how I want to finish them" thing I also have.

So one of the squares on my hc_bingo card is "attacked by a creature." I've been hemming and hawing over this one for a few weeks, not sure what I want to write.

I had an idea, and then had a different one a few days ago, and then had a different one this morning. I possibly should not have had caffeine so close to bed time last night because, while my ADD took care if it and put me to sleep, I had an odd story idea that led to another one that lead to another one.

So, ideas, in order from a few weeks ago to now:
1) A look at how Natasha and Bruce learned to become friends, how she came to not just accept the monster within him, but both the monster and her learned to trust each other.

2) Standard Avengers Creature of the Week arrives via portals. They kick ass and take no names.

3) Merlin vs monster, the knights and Arthur along for a ride.

4) Screw the usual and have Thor travel back in time to fight mythological monsters with Xena and Gabrielle.

5) Play around with a Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters stories in which Hansel gets attacked, Gretel kicks ass, and has to figure out this magic thing to heal him.

#5 is what led to two other H&G related ideas for non-bingo fics, both of which crossover with Avengers, or at least Hawkeye, because it amuses me greatly. Yes, one involves Mina leaving a little gift, and the others involves time travel of a sort.

Now I can't decide, again, what to write - or at least what to write first. Yeah, I know, I should totally finish the other ones I'm writing first but if I don't at least jot notes I'll forget these and my notes tend to become actual complete sentences and plot and...

Um, fun with ADD?

I'd ask if anyone had a preference, but am beginning to think LJ and DW are the eerily quiet of the dying lately, so... If anyone actually reads this and has an opinion, let me know?

Have spent the past week reading epically long fics instead of writing. Have also spent the past week with a headache randomly peaking into a migraine that I blame on the weather/season change, so being able to pick something up and set it down again and have someone else keep track of the plot was nice.

For proof there is stuff in the works, however, doing the WIP meme thing:
List just the working titles, current word count(approximate is fine), and (if you want) a brief description.

Mind Games - 7,700 words - Natasha and Clint get hit by an AIM experiment gone wrong, with interesting consequences (telepathy/empathy fic).

Periphery - 6,000 words - Someone goes after Clint's past and, needless to say, he goes after them.

Breathing Excercises - 2,000 words - Sequel to Breath Again.

Purple Converse - 21,000 words - Obligatory kid fic that is eating my brain.

SGA_Merlin - 9,000 words - Crossover fic originally promised to emeraldteal years ago, lost, and found again.


Ta-da? Or something?

Ever had like three stories that you were actively writing and they are all so despairingly different from each other and you work on one and want to take a break and know you should work on one of the others so you actually finish something but there is no way you can bring yourself from Mindset A to Mindset B or C without like a serious break or brainwash in between?

Yeah, so, um, that's kinda where I am right now. Well, mixed with RL stress, but it still pretty much sums it up.