Oh noes! WIP meme

[antennapedia]

From ngaio via lostgirlslair: When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

I love this one. I warned you I'd ficspam you a bit today...

Comments

[fuzzyboo03]

Yays!

I love how much you write about your process, because it's something I'll never get, and I'm a special features junkie.

[antennapedia]

I should post an outline for one of my completed stories, so you can see how close I stay in some ways and how far I wander in others. For anything < 5000 words, I usually fly sans outline, though. "Readings" will be about 20K words when it's done, and it has a very tight outline. "Metastasis", no outline, just in-file notes. The Buffy-POV one has a lightweight in-file outline.

[fuzzyboo03]

Oooh, that would be cool! I read Charles Stross' blog (Sci/Fi, Hugo winner) and he just today finished the first draft of his newest novel. At 95k of 105k words suddenly this huge twist appeared that he had no clue would happen. It's crazy stuff.