fox | a kind of sobering WiP meme

from

dira: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

I am modifying this to require me to post the names of all the works in progress in my WIP folder, because some time in the past several years that folder (cleverly titled "in progress") has managed to accumulate quite a lot of finished stuff. Someday when I'm avoiding something I will probably make some progress on the file organization on my hard drive, but it is not this day.

eleven.doc - 2600 words of Part Eleven of Missa Discriminis, if you can believe that, which realistically I might as well admit is abandoned, but I can't quite bring myself to call it that. I can still remember conversations from years and years ago about where it was going and where it was going to touch back down with canon, how Han Solo was going to get his "discuss this in committee" crack from Qui-Gon Jinn, all kinds of stuff. I could still pick it up again. Really, I could. file last modified: January 2003.
DS - new.doc - 4500 words of Benton Fraser is Victoria's Babydaddy, about thirty of which are probably worth saving. Half the people I've got listed at the top as having given me beta help on the thing are people I've barely seen in fandom in years. file last modified: December 2003.
snape and trelawney.doc - 86 words of just what it says on the tin, from a time when I think I was trying to do more Snape-focused stuff, particularly in unusual pairings, for bethbethbeth. In fact here it is in its entirety:
He could have levitated her with a simple spell; but even if he'd supported her head, to prevent its hanging back grotesquely, her robes would have fallen away from her legs all the way up to the belt above her waist, which would never do. So he lifted her in his arms, and discovered he didn't even need to bother casting a charm to lighten her. Spindly as she was, he could carry her comfortably – or perhaps she wasn't particularly heavy because her head was essentially empty.
I've never managed to get anywhere from that beginning, alas. file last modified: February 2004.
snape and hermione.doc - about 300 words, also for bethbethbeth as I recall; this is some post-war stuff where they're just about the only grown survivors and someone has to look after the education of the orphaned children. It's a promising beginning for a very grim story, but again, I've never managed to get any further. file last modified: March 2004.
Monte Carlo Story.doc - 5800 words, co-written with mrshamill, of TPM AU set on the Cote d'Azur in the 20's, in which the Qui-Gon Jinn/master/Liam Neeson character is this legendary jewel thief and the Obi-Wan Kenobi/apprentice/Ewan McGregor character is this aspiring cat burglar. It's very, very rough, to my eyes now, but it does have a bit I've always been pleased with, where Liam Neeson and the OFC are at the bar, eyebrows raised, watching Ewan McGregor ply some girl with his wiles (and steal the bracelet off her wrist without her even noticing it): "Not very subtle, is he?" says Liam Neeson. "One hardly has to be," says Mary Sue. "That child wouldn't recognize a rake in a garden shed." file last modified: March 2004.
danny.doc - 8600 words of Blair Sandburg's Dad Shows Up, nine-tenths of which (at least!) are crap. file last modified: April 2005.
loanshark.doc - 500 words of Charlie McCall is In Some Trouble. I was playing with the idea of Dan and Casey in a long-term relationship and Charlie as a teenager, but I couldn't get it going. file last modified: March 2006.
hamlet2.doc - 1400 words of Horatio Is In Love With Hamlet, which I started writing for Yuletide 2005 before I decided I'd run aground and wrote Also Ran (Chariots of Fire) instead. I like everything I've got here, but it was getting to where I was going to run out of time before I worked out what the story was actually about. I tried to get back to it but I haven't been able to get it together the last half-dozen or so times I've looked at it. file last modified: May 2006.
sn-snow-haiti.doc - 440 words of Dan and Casey playing in the snow with Charlie, which is, to my eternal shame, one of two stories I pledged for help_haiti over - that's right - over a year ago. (The other is a TPM story that doesn't even have a file in the folder.) Not, repeat, not abandoned. It will be finished ... someday. This is the thing I am least proud of in my life right now. file last modified: May 2010.
psalms.doc - holds the first verse of every psalm, and not at all the second verse of several of them, riffing on something resonant started several months ago. Example:
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Why, indeed? Who the hell knows why those goyim do anything?

Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
If they can't agree, perhaps they should switch after the winter break.

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.
Because these mosquitoes are eating me alive out here.
file last modified: October 2010.
ghost story 4.doc - almost 6000 words of the last story in the Credulity and Conviction series, in which everyone (chiefly Bill and Remus, and Snape and Harry, but really everyone) gets some closure. file last modified: January 2011.