Kurt Big Bang's First Author Check-In Post (w/Snippets)

[gwendy1]

First Author Check-In for Round 1 of the Kurt Big Bang!

ROUND 1 - LOCKED
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[adeina_rhyddha]

LJ Username: adeina_rhyddha
Current Percentage Finished: Uhm. I'm really not sure, because I know where I am going but know how much I'll end up writing. I'm about half way through the plot, but knowing me I'll go off on a big waffley descriptive tangent. Let's say 50% and be done with it. Sorry, I talk way too much.
Current Word Count: 6649.

Title: Where There Was Weakness.
Characters: Kurt, Finn, Mercedes, Rachel, Will, Burt, April, various OCs.
Pairing(s): Finn/Kurt, Finn/Rachel, Kurt/vaious OCs.
Genre: Romance, angst, drama.
Rating: NC-17. Like woah.
Warnings: Angst, fluff, waffley descriptive stuff, prostitution, lots of sex.
Summary: There is only one cardinal rule for a whore - never fall in love.
Snippet: This is probably my favourite scene so far that I've written, so I thought I'd share it.

I rise again at eleven, still not rested well enough but knowing I can’t let Mercedes down. She knows what I do and she doesn’t judge me for it, though she is always trying to set me up with men, despite my continued insistence that I don’t believe in love. Mercedes is a true romantic at heart. I, on the other hand, am not. She says it makes me a cynic. I say it makes me a realist.

I dress myself in tan pants, a white button down shirt and a short tan waistcoat. I brush my hair and carefully spray hair spray onto it - organic, of course. I look good, if I do say so myself - and I do. I slip on my shoes and pull on a brown Peabody coat. I do the buttons up slowly, smooth my hair, and take an umbrella with me. It is autumn, and in New York, you never know when the sky is going to go from clear and cloudless to grey and heavy with the promise of rain, especially this late in the season, when autumn is slowly starting to merge into winter.

I like winter. There are more clients during winter, too. Largely lonely guys just wanting a warm body for an hour or two.

The air outside is crisp, and I smile as my feet crunch through the autumn leaves that litter the sidewalk. The carpet of orange-gold is beautiful, in its own way, and one of my favorite things about autumn. I love the colours. I love the trees slowly shedding their leaves, like a snake shedding its skin. It’s like starting all over again. Autumn is a time for new beginnings.

It was autumn when I got that first paid, life changing fuck. It was autumn when I first moved to New York. It was autumn when I applied to the agency and got a job.

It was autumn when my mother died.

Autumn is a time for endings, too.

Anything Else: Yes, it is first person - from Kurt's POV - and present tense. Yes, it's hard work to write that, I brought it upon myself. And yes, Kurt is a whore. There, everything is covered now. xD