Fic: Brought to Knees (a drabble and a bit)

[lou_angel]

Title: Brought to Knees
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Rating: PG-13 (for suggestions)
Disclaimer: I own nothing but an overactive imagination. And a computer.
Summary: Merlin shows off his magic and Arthur is rather impressed.
Warnings/spoilers: Not beta-ed.
Words: 120
A/N: This is for my lovely friend hils who is awesome and inspiring and who puts up

Comments

[amato]

I'm sure Arthur will come around to Merlin's way of thinking ;)

[lou_angel]

I don't think it will take long :D
Merlin's a very talented guy.

[amato]

I'm sure Arthur insists he gets lots of practise in

[lou_angel]

I think the command "do that again" may be uttered several million times.

How's your spying!Merlin muse coming along btw?

[amato]

You think Merlin would do as he was asked that many times? :P

It's doing slowlyh. I got a bit stuck at 150 words, but I've rewritten it now and I've got about 600 so that's a bonus. I've found I'm quite liking writing Nimueh which is rather worrying since, you know, Arthur and Merlin really should turn up in this fic eventually. I've banned myself from rewriting anything that doesn't need it (because the plot has gone a bit wrong) just so I can attempt to get the word count up a bit. The plot has been hijacked quite a bit so I have a feeling I'm going to spend quite a lot of the time in the dark about the plot. I was worried yesterday when the Mob boss Uther, fed/special branch Merlin fic that I'm writing for fun (so I can shoot muses should it be neceesary) was longer than my Big Bang fic.

[lou_angel]

Hmmmm...yes that can be quite worrying, but I'm sure it will all sort itself out in the end!

I have this awful tendency to re-read and edit everytime I open a fic. I've got one at the moment that stands at about 9000 words and it takes forever from me opening the file to me actually continuing...then I usually write a line and have to save and close it because it's dinner time or something, only to repeat the whole process later!

[amato]

so long as the muses don't start playing in the other fic otherwise it'll be a bit O_o I had fun writing prompts for comment_fic which helped a bit with getting over my "I have no idea what I'm doing"

I hate it when that happens. I've got one that's at 38k at the minute and I keep on leaving so long between writing chapters I have to read the thing through before I can write anything again and then half way through I decide it's not working. I aim to write 3k chapters for that and first draft is always a bit of a struggle to get to around 2k but once I have the general plot of the chapter figured out the rewrite seems to be more a case of not letting the chapter get too long. Long fic is good though :D

[lou_angel]

I don't really tend to write stuff that's very long so I think I kind of overwhelmed myself with 9000 words and still unfinished which is why I'm so critical of it.

[amato]

it can get overwhelming sometimes. Fics tend to have a time scale all of their own when it comes to getting finished. What's it about?

[lou_angel]

It's a sequel to my AU fics that were supposed to be finished until the Bunnies attacked me again!

[amato]

Bunnies are nice like that, I've found they never pay any attention to what it is I want. Hopefully they'll play nice soon *crosses fingers*

[lou_angel]

Well I love my AU boys so I'm quite happy to play with them again :D

[amato]

hehe. that's good :D

[lou_angel]

Especially as they are particularly...fruitful... with their bunnies.