The Story So Far Meme

[m31andy]

So, for once, I know where a meme actually started! From draycevixen who thought it would be more interesting to list all the situations the lads are stuck in due to a case of rather serious writer's block.

Comments

[hambelandjemima]

Well, the ones from my fandoms look fab (finish no. 10 right now!!). Get on with your Big Bang fic then you can finish up these babies. And we may need to have a LoM Big Bang later on in the year :D

No. 22 looks a doozey, as does 24. And 5. And who is the chess-playing patient in no. 8? Anyone we know?

[lozenger8]

LoM Big Bang? Mmmm.

Would you organise it?

[hambelandjemima]

I've been thinking about it for some time, and I was going to test the waters after I've finished the current Big Bang I'm committed to (it's due in August). As I've never organised a fest of any kind I was going to see if anyone more experienced and/or more capable than me would like to take it on. Having said that, I wouldn't be averse to giving it a go *g* Indecisive, much?

[m31andy]

*grin*

#10 might get finished soon - it's quite short (and was a request from elfbert...) so yeah. Hmm.

The Pros Big Bang is eating my brain. Seriously! (and it's #15, if you hadn't guessed...)

If we do have a LoM Big Bang (and it's a great idea), I might submit #24 for it - it's quite long enough in story, but I've only got bits so far so it would qualify! (But let's do it after August, hey?)

#5 stalled because it's a three-parter (of which all of #1, some of #2 and the end of #3 is written) - the first part reads like an appalling self-insert (it's het, for one) and I really can't see anyone reading past it. *sigh*

As for #8, yes. The chess player is someone we know. Unfortunately he doesn't know... (dun, dun, duuuuun!)

[lozenger8]

I am crazy excited for a few of these!

[m31andy]

*grin*

Hopefully I'll get at least one of these finished for the Amnesty - there's more than one on the list that was started for a flashfic challenge!

[draycevixen]

*eyes your crossovers with extreme glee*

Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be eyeing your crossovers but who could resist?

Of course my heart belongs to #21 and I'm now humming "G - you need a helping hand, O - you know we'll understand..."

They all look to be made of win and sprinkles though. ♥

[m31andy]

I never doubted that #21 would be right up your alley.

(All I have to do is work out *why* Twinkle has made it all the way to Manchester...)

The crossovers, in the main, are pure crack. (except #22 and #24, which could go either way, really...)

[draycevixen]

Let's leave my alley out of this shall we?

Moi? Be interested in crack!fic? *bats eyelashes*

[m31andy]

Well if you will eye my crossovers with that look on your face...

And because you've never even entertained the idea of crack-fic, yeah?

[gritsinmisery]

So very many of these are pertinent to my interests!

(But srsly, #5 -- either someone is trying to knock off Gene's missus, or they already have done so, surely? You didn't stop writing right in the middle of the murder? Or was that "knocking up" the missus, in which case you stopped writing in the middle of teh sex?)

[m31andy]

It's British working class slang - knocking off...

Knocking up (also cognate) is exclusively used in the "getting someone pregnant" way now, not just the act itself.

(As in, Sam knocked me up - he either woke her up suddenly or got her pregnant. God, I love British slang...)

[draycevixen]

I love British slang too. It's enormously difficult to explain to American friends though as while they have quite a bit of very inventive slang here they don't have the same sort of... grammar, if you will, of slang that we do, like things "modified by context" and how very similar sounding things can have completely different meanings like dog's breakfast, dog's dinner and dog's bollocks.

[m31andy]

Context is *everything*!

[cuvalwen]

You forgot Gil Grissom et al being called to a body in the desert that turns out to have some sort of snake-like creature embedded in it, and the next thing is that a bunch of airforce types with a cover with so many holes in it you could use it as a sieve turn up.

[m31andy]

You're right, I've completely forgotten about that one. Although it's not really a WIP - more a proto-cane...

I shall write it the day you write Harry Potter and the Handmade Cosmetics!