wip title meme

[flambeau]

I thought about doing this yesterday, and then when I woke up this morning Res had added the offer "Upon request, I will post a random line from any of these you choose." So hey, here's my wip folder, sort of. (Sort of because my actual wip folder has subdirectories by fandom, and also tends to have a bit of story2, story3 etc when I'm trying to

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[flambeau]

I think the Eroica story has suffered a bit from never growing a title...

Dorian pulled the dressing gown on, switching the receiver from one ear to the other. "You sound distressingly serious. That can't be healthy." He shook out his hair and went to the window, drawing back the curtain to let in the half-hearted sunshine of an English summer. He was looking forward to the welcoming warmth of Italy, to the comforts of Gian-Maria's villa, and to being surrounded by beautiful artwork and beautiful dark-eyed young men, none of whom were likely to shout at him, try to hit him, or ask him to perform dangerous jobs for trifling monetary rewards without so much as a kiss to sweeten the deal, not that he had anyone in particular in mind when he thought that, oh no.

With deanandthevittra, the whole thing is outlined from beginning to end, which unfortunately made me lose interest. Sad, because I really like the idea!

faded grass, and the woods were just stripes of faded brown and grey and silver; he could make out the tops of the trees, still stripped-down from winter and outlined against the hazy twilight grey of the sky, but down at ground level it was all camouflage stripes that fooled the eye, and a regiment of ghosts or soldiers or, hell, Ronald McDonald clones could have been hiding thirty feet into the woods and he wouldn't have seen them

[rheasilvia]

That is so very Dorian. :-) Lovely snippet - too bad it's just a snippet...

I think the Eroica story has suffered a bit from never growing a title

You mean it'd help your inspiration to have one? Hey, I'd be glad to look for a suitable title, in that case! :-) Just say the word, and give me an idea of what we're dealing with here...

the whole thing is outlined from beginning to end, which unfortunately made me lose interest.

That happens to you, too? I thought it was just me! These days I take care not to plot too far ahead, in order not to torpedo my own interest in the story. If I already know everything that happens, I often simply don't have enough drive to finish...

I love the excerpt from deanandthevittra for the lyrical elegance of the writing. That reads like it would have been a beautiful story - and a funny one too, with the Ronald McDonald clones. ;-)