WIP list and LJ Spam
Is anyone else receiving a ridiculous amount of spam comments on their LJ posts? Although LJ seems to be catching most of them and screening them, it just makes me feel like locking down my LJ. :/
WIP list
Active WIPs
These WIPs are being actively written with the goal of completing publication between now and March 2014:
1. A Necessary Arrangement - AU DA novelette for kinkmeme (8k-14k words), Marian Hawke/Cullen, Meredith, cast. Meredith insists on arranging a marriage between her loyal templar Knight Captain and the Champion of Kirkwall in order to keep that politically dangerous mage under Meredith's thumb. Neither Hawke nor Cullen like the idea one bit. [Status: story outlined, first chapter posted, next two chapters drafted.]
2. A Selfish Act - DA fanfic novelette for kinkmeme (8k words), Alistair/SolonaAmell/Cullen. Angry templar threesome with very angry Alistair giving Cullen orders. Solona gladly obliges. [Status: entire first draft complete (7.5k words), waiting for final edit.]
3. A History of Lies - DA fanfic novel or collection of short stories in my main canon (?? words), Merrill/Mari Hawke, Mari Hawke/Cullen, Fenris/Anders, Cullen/IncreasingSenseOfDoubt. Always keep your enemies closest. Ten years in my canon Hawke's Kirkwall with a mage-supporting mage who decides that social justice for Kirkwall's underprivileged--mages, elves, and poor--is best served by getting Meredith out of power as quickly and as cleanly as possible, even if that means pretending to side with Meredith when Anders bombs the Chantry. [Status: entire story outlined in great detail, all key scenes drafted, some key scenes posted as preview shorts, many other drafted bits... but some of this might get pulled into my expy pile, not sure what final structure of AHoL will be.]
4. Ten Thousand Swords - DA fanfic novella in my main canon (22k words), Surana/OC, Surana/Cullen, Greagoir/Wynne, selected cast from all DA games & novels. A coming of age story about Neria Surana's attempts to improve her lot in life in a world that hates elves even more than mages. [Status: story outlined, 4000 words written, may finish for DABB?]
5. This Bird Has Flown - DA fanfic novel in my main canon (80k words?), Alistair/Surana, Surana/Cullen, DA:O cast. Alistair's memories of the Fifth Blight as a meditation on love, loss, sorrow, and friendship. [Status: story fully outlined, 10-12k 20k words drafted (found the scenes I thought I lost!)]
Inactive WIPs
These WIPs feature elements that are strongly grounded in canon so they are unlikely to be expied in a manner that makes sense as orig fic, BUT I'm not in a burning hurry to finish them.
Retired/pulled/withheld WIPs
These WIPs are permanently put to sleep. If they are still online, yay. If not but you have a copy, great. If not, well... gone.
WIP list
Active WIPs
These WIPs are being actively written with the goal of completing publication between now and March 2014:
1. A Necessary Arrangement - AU DA novelette for kinkmeme (8k-14k words), Marian Hawke/Cullen, Meredith, cast. Meredith insists on arranging a marriage between her loyal templar Knight Captain and the Champion of Kirkwall in order to keep that politically dangerous mage under Meredith's thumb. Neither Hawke nor Cullen like the idea one bit. [Status: story outlined, first chapter posted, next two chapters drafted.]
2. A Selfish Act - DA fanfic novelette for kinkmeme (8k words), Alistair/SolonaAmell/Cullen. Angry templar threesome with very angry Alistair giving Cullen orders. Solona gladly obliges. [Status: entire first draft complete (7.5k words), waiting for final edit.]
3. A History of Lies - DA fanfic novel or collection of short stories in my main canon (?? words), Merrill/Mari Hawke, Mari Hawke/Cullen, Fenris/Anders, Cullen/IncreasingSenseOfDoubt. Always keep your enemies closest. Ten years in my canon Hawke's Kirkwall with a mage-supporting mage who decides that social justice for Kirkwall's underprivileged--mages, elves, and poor--is best served by getting Meredith out of power as quickly and as cleanly as possible, even if that means pretending to side with Meredith when Anders bombs the Chantry. [Status: entire story outlined in great detail, all key scenes drafted, some key scenes posted as preview shorts, many other drafted bits... but some of this might get pulled into my expy pile, not sure what final structure of AHoL will be.]
4. Ten Thousand Swords - DA fanfic novella in my main canon (22k words), Surana/OC, Surana/Cullen, Greagoir/Wynne, selected cast from all DA games & novels. A coming of age story about Neria Surana's attempts to improve her lot in life in a world that hates elves even more than mages. [Status: story outlined, 4000 words written, may finish for DABB?]
5. This Bird Has Flown - DA fanfic novel in my main canon (80k words?), Alistair/Surana, Surana/Cullen, DA:O cast. Alistair's memories of the Fifth Blight as a meditation on love, loss, sorrow, and friendship. [Status: story fully outlined, 10-12k 20k words drafted (found the scenes I thought I lost!)]
Inactive WIPs
These WIPs feature elements that are strongly grounded in canon so they are unlikely to be expied in a manner that makes sense as orig fic, BUT I'm not in a burning hurry to finish them.
- A variety of DAKinkMeme stories I've drafted plus a few that I've posted as shorts with the option to continue. This includes my infamous Hawke/Fenris story.
- Possession - FFXII novella in my main canon, Drace/Gabranth, Drace/Bergan (704-706 O.V.). Drace is married to Bergan. She has an affair with Gabranth. It ends tragically. [Status: story outlined, 2/3s posted somewhere on DW]
- Not in a Place Like This - FFXII novella in my main canon, Vossler/Basch, Vossler/Ashe (689-706 O.V.).
- Scars - FFXII novelette for a kink prompt "No holds barred," Drace/Gabranth (700 O.V.). Drace and Gabranth spar as Drace attempts to prove her strength as the only woman promoted to Judge Magister. [Status: jaysusfuck. All 15k words written. Just needs to be edited and reposted but... yeah... sigh...]
- Oh, It's You - FFXII novelette in my main canon, implied Penelo?Basch, Penelo/Tomaj, Penelo/Noah (post game). Basch stands up Penelo and Noah on the same night...for reasons. [Status: entire first draft written, 8500 words. Needs heavy editing. Probably 10K when done]
Retired/pulled/withheld WIPs
These WIPs are permanently put to sleep. If they are still online, yay. If not but you have a copy, great. If not, well... gone.
- Aveline/Kirkwall versus Athenril/Kirkwall - two strong women with very different views about what makes Kirkwall work.
- A boat load of random DA WIPs inspired by kinkmeme prompts or tossed around as ideas that didn't, in the end, get folded into my canon.
- All of my unfinished Basch/Penelo and Basch+Penelo friendship will not be continued. Some ideas of them may loosely expy in orig fic.
- All of my modern world FFXII AUs. These are being kept as expy food for orig fic
- My entire Noah fon Ronsenburg arc - Noah in Landis, Noah in the Akademy, Noah/Fran during the 690s, Fran's sudden unexpected disappearance (with Ffamran!), Noah climbing the ladder in the 9th, and paraplegic Noah surviving post-game after being dumped by Larsa and Basch into Penelo's care. This entire arc is a giant piece of expy food for my decopunk/dieselpunk ofic universe.
- My multi-decade Ashe epic -- not sure what I will do with this. Probably to become expy food?
- Anything I've forgotten to include because there is so damn much fic scattered across my harddrive and cloud services...
- The decopunk/deiselpunk epic with ceremonial magic societies who really can work magic. ...This baby is influenced by a wide range of things (books, movies, games) and it is slowly moving from a collection of character studies to something that hangs together with an overarching plot. Most of the ideas from my Noah fon Ronsenburg arc, and my Aveline/Kirkwall+Athenril/Kirkwall have been folded into this, as have some of my Cullen/Gallows+Hawke/Cullen ideas. Still baking... tbd.
- The psychological faeryverse collection of connected short stories that cannot decide if it wants to be magical realism or urban fantasy. In a sense, this is a giant fanfic universe since it is based on actual faery tales and mythology. Some of my Basch/Penelo has been folded into this universe as has many other ideas from before I "sidetracked" myself into writing fanfic. ;)
- Two of my FFXII modern world AUs want to be folded together into a post-cyberpunk globe hopping thriller mystery that involves central asian oil barons, eastern european crime, the sex industry in america, homeless runaway/throwaway (gay) teens, and the dark side of the pharmaceutical industry.