What is on the back burner?
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hmpf1.) Found in Translation: about Methos, and Adam Pierson. A story about identities. Consisting, so far, of about five pages of notes (ideas, and a few nice sentences/paragraphs), and a page and a half of more or less coherent text which needs a thorough rewrite because, although there's some seriously awesome sentences in there, it's mostly in a style that's just too different from how I would write something like that nowadays. Started in 2004.
2.) An untitled Harry Potter AU, which needs to be at least a novella. Currently consisting of about five pages of coherent text, mainly just setting the scene. I rarely look at it, but when I do, I invariably think "Hey, this is actually quite nice. I should work on it again sometime!" Still needs a plot (beyond "nearly everybody is dead, and magic doesn't work anymore"). Oh, and I should probably finally get around to reading the last three HP books before I continue writing this. Started in 2003 or possibly in early 2004.
3.) Zombie!Sam fic avant la lettre. One day, the sun goes out. When it switches on again, Sam notices that he has stopped breathing. So far consists of about two pages, badly in need of a rewrite. Stalled because I didn't know where I wanted to go with it, except that it should get more and more psychedelic. Also, because I felt I needed a lot more research before I could hope to construct a psychedelic world from the mental furniture of a male British police officer born in 1969. Actually started before the zombie!Sam fad, in spring 2006. My very first attempt at LoM fic.
4.) A Farscape fic that at the moment only consists of a catchy title, a vague idea, and a page of mood-setting that I'm still rather fond of. Intended to deal, eventually, with the Moya crew's uneasy adoption of an identity that at least partially incorporates the role of terrorists. Conceived in 2004.
5.) An untitled Farscape fic made up of two WiPs which, as I suddenly noticed sometime last year, felt as if they belonged to a larger fic. The WiPs in question were Personal Space - a story about Jack Crichton just before Terra Firma, and Sisters, about a conversation between Liv and Susan, post-Terra Firma. I've forgotten already how exactly I meant to patch the two together in that flash of inspiration, unfortunately. I may have to publish them as separate fics after all. (Obviously they form a sort of trilogy with Normal, of course.) Component WiPs both started in 2003 or 2004.
2.) An untitled Harry Potter AU, which needs to be at least a novella. Currently consisting of about five pages of coherent text, mainly just setting the scene. I rarely look at it, but when I do, I invariably think "Hey, this is actually quite nice. I should work on it again sometime!" Still needs a plot (beyond "nearly everybody is dead, and magic doesn't work anymore"). Oh, and I should probably finally get around to reading the last three HP books before I continue writing this. Started in 2003 or possibly in early 2004.
3.) Zombie!Sam fic avant la lettre. One day, the sun goes out. When it switches on again, Sam notices that he has stopped breathing. So far consists of about two pages, badly in need of a rewrite. Stalled because I didn't know where I wanted to go with it, except that it should get more and more psychedelic. Also, because I felt I needed a lot more research before I could hope to construct a psychedelic world from the mental furniture of a male British police officer born in 1969. Actually started before the zombie!Sam fad, in spring 2006. My very first attempt at LoM fic.
4.) A Farscape fic that at the moment only consists of a catchy title, a vague idea, and a page of mood-setting that I'm still rather fond of. Intended to deal, eventually, with the Moya crew's uneasy adoption of an identity that at least partially incorporates the role of terrorists. Conceived in 2004.
5.) An untitled Farscape fic made up of two WiPs which, as I suddenly noticed sometime last year, felt as if they belonged to a larger fic. The WiPs in question were Personal Space - a story about Jack Crichton just before Terra Firma, and Sisters, about a conversation between Liv and Susan, post-Terra Firma. I've forgotten already how exactly I meant to patch the two together in that flash of inspiration, unfortunately. I may have to publish them as separate fics after all. (Obviously they form a sort of trilogy with Normal, of course.) Component WiPs both started in 2003 or 2004.
