I'm more or less on schedule for daily posting of the Christmas story in that I've just completed typing and proofreading Ch2, and completed Ch4 in manuscript (with a great deal of crossing out; angst is easier than happy endings, and there was too much model-yachting detail, lovingly laboured over for hours) this afternoon. Whether I'm going to ( Read more... )

I've almost finished the final chapter of this -- enough to have a good idea of where it's going, anyway, and I think I can safely enter the first chapter for its contest without the likelihood of needing to make any further amendments. It's so short that it barely qualifies as a chapter, and the second scene isn't much better; but they don't ( Read more... )

A Ring Returned

Together, they dig a grave.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12245340/1/

(After a great deal of fiddling with the final seven words, I ended up posting the drabble more or less in the form in which it initially appeared here; none of the changes were really an ( Read more... )

Decided to try my hand at a drabble for the first time; I've never actually done it before, although I wrote a 150-word original fiction for a magazine contest once, which was arguably harder since I had to set up plot and characters from scratch! I ended up spending an endless amount of time counting and recounting words manually, since I really ( Read more... )

Written for the Halloween Challenge at the Writers Anonymous forum on FFnet -- or, to be more honest, this is the scene I was planning to write as an in-fandom 'Halloween Special', and which I thought I might be able to shoehorn into the terms of the contest. I'm not really sure it will qualify (and certainly won't win on the stipulated grounds of ( Read more... )

Final and even more fragmentary sections; I spent a bit of time trying to make it a little clearer what was going on and to tie it together better, which pushed the word-count just about over a thousand words. It really does come across as a bit rushed, though... and I suspect, going on reviews so far, that the fanfiction.net readers are going to ( Read more... )

The chapters are still very short, but this one is actually longer than the previous one. (The fact that it's two scenes run together helps.)
Unfortunately, once we get Yann as far as Christine's dressing-room we start running into sections of the story that have already been described in greater detail in canon, so at this stage my version starts ( Read more... )

I'm still not particularly happy with the first chapter of my Hammerstein-story, despite having rewritten three pages of it to cut out most of René and add in old Oscar himself. My suspicion is that it's a boring info-dump - and while I'm usually pretty good at those, the trouble is that this time no-one has any reason to care about any of the ( Read more... )

After much procrastination, I finally managed to get this typed-up over the course of a couple of days by virtue of running a 'changeover' scheme with the other stuff I was supposed to be transcribing; every ten minutes an alarm was set to go off on my computer advising me to switch material and start typing in the other document! Of course this ( Read more... )

I decided not to split this into two chapters. The place I had in mind ("He did not think he could ever feel like this for anyone but Christine") doesn't really work as a chapter division, since it's in the middle of Raoul's thoughts about his feelings for her, and the logical place (after "sweet and round and wrinkled as a winter apple") is too ( Read more... )