Master Post: watsons_woes July Writing Prompts 2013
1 July: Another Life
BBC Sherlock. PG. John/Sherlock. 370 words
The taller cat stares back at him while the other one doesn't seem to care too much about where he is so long as he's with the other cat. John can't say he's unfamiliar with the feeling
2 July: Two of a Kind
BBC Sherlock. G. 482 words.
The attempt to divert his attention from the fact that John is wearing a lab coat fails utterly.
3 July: Call to the Faithless
BBC Sherlock. G. 519 words.
John's dog tags say C of E on them but he is far from a religious man.
4 July: Writer's Block
BBC Sherlock. G. 127 words.
John definitely despises this sentence
5 July: Diversionary Tactics
BBC Sherlock. PG-13. 1350 words. Warnings: past/ongoing physical abuse, suicidal thoughts
John does not want to leave the house let alone the country. He doesn't care what scheme his father has conjured up to get him out of the way. His mother should never be left alone with his father for so long.
6 July: Here Comes the Sun
BBC Sherlock. PG-13. 596 words. Warnings: Depression/grief, post-Reichenbach
There was a time, a time that felt like another life but was really not all that long ago, when he'd have welcomed open curtains and a sunny day.
7 July: The Living, The Dead, and the Shadows
BBC Sherlock/Nolan!Batman. PG-13. 2237 words. Warnings: Crossover, Spoilers for 'The Dark Knight Rises'
"Which are you?" John asks his table mate. "Dead man or a shadow?
"Neither," he smiles. "A shadow really, I suppose."
8 July: Photo Album
BBC Sherlock. G. 686 words. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (implied)
Sherlock is flipping through a photo album when John gets back from Tesco's.
9 July: Priorities
BBC Sherlock. PG-13. 797 words.
Great, he and Sherlock have codes. And it's taken him this long to notice too. Well done, Watson.
10 July: Heads Up
BBC Sherlock. PG-13. 773 words. Language, violence
John drops his groceries. An apple rolls its way toward the homeless man's foot. He does not stop playing that song
11 July: Intervention
BBC Sherlock. G. 1476 words. Original Character POV (Philomena Kensington)
They both know something is not right with the whole affair but, unlike Mycroft, Philomena has learned to leave Sherlock to his own devices
12 July: Naming
BBC Sherlock. G. 824 words. John Watson, Original Character (Philomena Kensington). Sort of follows: Intervention
Sherlock's flatmate and Sherlock's sister discuss the Holmes family's choices when it comes to baby names.
13 July: A Phone Call
BBC Sherlock. G. 307 words. John Watson/Mary Morstan. Sherlock Holmes.
"Your idiocy is an issue for another day."
14 July: Any Excuse for a Holiday
BBC Sherlock. G. 1022 words. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock now only takes cases internationally if they will at least pay his airfare and he is never gone very long
15 July: Miles to Go
BBC Sherlock. G. 824 words. John Watson/Sherlock Holmes. Mike Stamford.
"How long do you mean to keep this up?"
16 July: SOS
BBC Sherlock. G. 203 words. John Watson, Harry Watson, Sherlock Holmes.
"It's this or your dress uniform."
17 July: Carry On
BBC Sherlock. G. 756 words. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes.
He takes stock and, being as he definitely does have sensation, decides to stand up. It is a painful process made more awkward by the slabs of whatever parts of the warehouse are on his back.
18 July: One Slip
BBC Sherlock. G. 944 words. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes.
This case is already a failure and he will not let it end in the worst failure of all.
19 July: "Best Foot Forward"
BBC. G. 606 words. Greg Lestrade. John Watson. John Watson/Sherlock Holmes.
"If you keep walking around in circles like that you are going to fall over. Then we're just going to have to postpone the wedding and do this mess all over again."
20 July: Total Recall
BBC. G. 46 words. Warnings: Character Death. Memory Loss
*One sentence story*
21 July: A Reminder
BBC. PG-13. 819 words. John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes. SPOILERS FOR SERIES 3, drug use
He'd been doing so well and...well all things considered he supposes that Sherlock would have had to crack eventually.
22 July: Battles Won, Battles Lost
BBC. PG-13. 2132 words. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes. Molly Hooper. AU Reichenbach
Sherlock really must never wonder what John does in his spare time. Then again if he had a handful of hours to plan his own death then John supposes he can forgive him for being distracted
23 July: If I Get Ya
BBC. PG-13. 2682 words. John Watson/Sherlock Holmes. Greg Lestrade. Sebastian Moran. Sequel of sorts to Battles Won, Battles Lost
When this is all over with, John decides. He's going to find that way to delete the song from his brain. Maybe Sherlock will teach him.
24 July: Art Appreciation
BBC. G. 425 words. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes.
In which John and Sherlock receive a thank you gift from a client
25 July: The Object Lesson
BBC. G. 1115 words. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes
"I thought I'd lost this," Sherlock mumbles as it falls open to an image of a little girl lying dead in the snow with an axe embedded in her. "I learned to read with this."
26 July: The Space Between
BBC. PG-13. 1207 words. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson. Harry Watson. Warnings: Language, implied past physical abuse
"He's going to live you, know." Harry informs him. "That man has the hardest head of us all. You'd know best, of course."
27 July: Brave New World
BBC. PG-13. 902 words. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson. Prequel/Companion to The Space Between
John has upset his world more than once. Once by coming into it, once by kissing him, once by forgiving him, and now by falling
28 July: Resurrection Fern
BBC. G. 1995 words. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Harry Watson. Sequel to The Space Between and Brave New World
ohn is not dead nor is he really playing at it. His body is reacting to the injury the best it knows how to give him time to come back. Sherlock just needs to provide the correct stimulus
29 July: Elegy
BBC. G. 221b fic. John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes. Warning: Character Death
Sherlock had always known that John could play the piano
30 July: The Nurse
BBC. G. 1555 words. Original Character (Marion Edwards), Sherlock Holmes/John Watson. Same universe as The Space Between, Brave New World, and Resurrection Fern
She's done a good job of keeping a professional distance from her patients over the years. Mostly because once she knew that she couldn't she'd changed careers. What gets to her about John Watson and his family is that there's hope.
31 July: Seize the Day
BBC. G. 2072 words. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson. Same universe as Same universe as The Space Between, Brave New World, Resurrection Fern, and The Nurse
"Ask."
"Now?" Sherlock squeaks.
"Might as well. Who knows? Maybe... the next time you work up the courage to I'll... be dead!"
Amnesty Prompts
2) Turn Left
BBC. PG-13. 234 words. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes.
The alley split before them. John was on the right to he took the right. Sherlock was on the left so he took the left
5) The Raid
BBC. PG-13. 1157 words. John Watson, Greg Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes
In all the mad things he has done since partnering up with Sherlock Holmes this has to be the maddest.
3) On The Third Day
BBC. PG. 979 words. John Watson/Mary Morstan (implied), Sherlock Holmes.
The both of them had changed and it would take a bit to get used to things. Like the fact that John wasn't living here. Like the fact that John was going to be married.
Answers to the Mysteries
1)
Prompt 4: "Oh Say Can you See" is the opening line of the "Star Spangled Banner" , the national anthem of the United States of America.
Prompt 13: "The Naming of characters if a difficult matter" is a play off of the line "The naming of Cats is a difficult matter" from "The Naming of Cats" by T.S. Eliot
Prompt 15: "Miles to go before I sleep" is a line from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Prompt 18: "Words, words, words" is a reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet
Prompt 20: I'm fairly sure 'Rabbit Season' is a Bugs Bunny cartoon...
Prompt 28: "Botany Bay" is the name of Khan Noonien Singh's ship in the original Star Trek episode "Space Seed" as well as in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
Prompt 29: "Drabble, Drabble, Toil and Scribble" is a play on "Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble" from Shakespeare's Macbeth.
2) I'm assuming you mean either the first July Writing Prompt ever or the one from this year. The first prompt from this year was a picture prompt of two cats under an umbrella.
The very first July Writing prompt ever was actually two prompts at the same time since the post was late. They were:
DATE: July 1
PROMPT: Watson injury (any severity), from a different POV than Holmes (meaning Mrs. Hudson, Scotland Yard, Baker Street Irregular, The Villain (whoever he/she may be), etc.
DATE: July 2
PROMPT: Rain, Lamp-post, Handkerchief, Flowers
OR, if you are being exceptionally devious, the first prompt the community ever gave ever in the month of the July was a weekend writing prompt. Number three, actually, and it was to describe the scene at 221B, in any genre, the night of and/or morning after the capture of Colonel Sebastian Moran.