Ah, the joys of having ADD muses

Jul 11, 2010 21:48

As they go "Hey, why waste what little time we have where you can actually write fluidly on anything as silly as original fic? There's fanfic to be written, woman!"

Of course, this does not stop them from chattering madly about Quis Custodiet (hey, at least they've finally explained to me why little Gabriella will be so pivotal in the story's climax; on the other hand, Gabe and Wade may not be talking to me any longer, lol) but they're less willing to actually write any of it down. I don't think I've gotten more than a few hundred words of that written since the day after Origins. However, I have it on good authority that Gabby's 9th birthday party is going to be EPIC in nature between the freely flowing dwarf whiskey, the elves showing off their mad skills on the dance floor, Nettles giving the birthday girl a magic-show she'll never forget, a certain pigeon deciding she's finally found a human she likes as much as Nettles, and a total "wtf?!?!" revelation coming out of nowhere. but all the adults consider it an oasis of calm given the crazy happenings in the city and the kids don't know that things out there are crazy so everyone has fun (their last real bit of calm before the storm)

Last night, they also started chattering at me about this original science fiction idea we've had for ages but haven't written on in over a decade. New ideas are flowing which I should be pleased about but I want to finish the second part of Quis Custodiet *rolls eyes* Or, better still, finish the, oh, TEN PARTS of it that are still just scenes and fragments and outlines

Instead, they want to work on fanfiction (imagine that).

New fanfic ideas:
1) a fic addressing the reasons why Will's father has never once been mentioned (angsty, angry times for Will)
2) about 3 post-"Always and Forever" fluff!fics
3) a Sanctuary mirror!verse fic (kind of like the Trek mirror!verse only in the Sanctuary verse; but this may just be a desire to satisfy our Will/Watson and OT3 leanings)
4) a couple post-Kali fics (they have declared that Will won't survive that mess without multiple organ transplants, btw)

WiPs that they haven't touched in months that they suddenly want to start on again instead of working on ANY of the above ideas:
1) assorted Will/Watson AU bits of fluff (it's possible that there are more than six of the things floating around)
2) Will on Source blood (or, more accurately, Will on Magnus' blood which makes things that much weirder and creepier)
3) an epically long and convoluted Five origin!fic
4) a fic in which Will and Magnus exchange pieces of their soul by breathing from each other's lungs (~8,000 words written before I stopped going "Oh, GROSS!!!" whenever someone tried to ship them, because I am perverse like that)
5) a pre-"Veritas" fic in which Magnus has some fairly terrifying hallucinations

they also have numerous song!vid ideas which i may or may not actually buckle and do
Don't get me wrong. I love being full of ideas and inspiration. I just enjoy it a lot more when I can pound out 5,000+ words a day without batting an eyelash. When I have to stop and ice my hand after a few hundred words, it's just frustrating. Got to get myself that voice recorder, methinks. But at least the kids are HAVING ideas; this I consider a vast improvement :)

original fic, fanfiction, quis custodiet, muse!rant

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