There ought to be a place to put up abandoned WIPs for adoption. I've been going through my old story folders, and there are so many unfinished stories that I still like the idea of very much, but will never finish...*
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In the case of that particular story, it was really more a problem of *everything* combining into a horribly embarrassing whole. But in my defense, I think it was entirely in the tradition of ST:VOY fanfic! I pretty much just ran with it...
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Yeah, I also liked the ST:VOY fanfic way more than the canon. Paris/Chakotay was the first slash pairing I really read extensively, and my standards were very low - I was still in the first glow of "wow, this exists!!" enthusiasm. :-) I remember I was wowed by The Left Hand of Madness, for example, and even read a really really long epic of highly dubious quality (I remember only that it featured about 20 pages of Chakotay climbing up some kind of cliff carrying the severely injured Paris, who periodically regained consciousness and then fainted again).
Ooh, RPS? Who is it? Do tell! :-)
And Vampire Diaries, hm...? I think I tried to watch the first ep of that, but gave up. Should I try again?
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I have random WIPs, some very old - Crowley inna kimono (Crowley goes to 16th century Japan, inadvertently inspires Toyotomi Hideyoshi as future unifier of the country); On Her Majesty's Martian Service (more Bracy and Gedge on Mars); the never ending 14th century Hetalia fic (Poland and Lithuania get together and form a superpower); the boy-runs-off-to-join-the-(ancient Egyptian)-army fic (original) and more!
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Isn't it?? By rights that story should be finished just for the great title! When I consider how much I usually wrestle with the title issue... grr...
I see I am not alone... and your WIPs sound really interesting! It's odd how some stories just get stuck, even though they have a lot of things going for them.
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speaking of Harry Potter, though, I remember I used to have a series of fics developing Terry Boot and Anthony Goldstien, because I love them and even though they barely did anything in the series, I liked my emo nerd and kid with (probable) Jewish sensibilities. :3
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Minor character love! Ah, I understand that so well. :-)
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I agree, we should set up some kind of WIP bazaar. :3
Let's see what I have:
An old~ Gundam Wing metaverse in which the boys are now older and working as the head of various bad-ass divisions of the Preventers. The story started with Treize Kushrenada waking up in a secure gov. facility and I think I was going to have the Gundam boys get a long-term mission to retrieve him.
A number of Prince of Tennis ficlets that tie into a universe that my friend psiten is writing. Mostly Golden Pair fic.
I think all of my others are JE ideas. Stuff like: KAT-TUN tries to find out definitively whether Koyama is gay or not using their own individualized methods, a NakaNaka AU in which Koki is a vet, an Ohmiya PWP set to the mood of Lady Gaga's Monster... those kinds of things. :3
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I agree, we should set up some kind of WIP bazaar.
It would really be a good thing, wouldn't it? It would even work just as a LJ community - except that I doubt we could get it publicized widely enough to be truly useful. *sigh*
Your GW WIP sounds interesting! I used to read every GW story with Zechs I could get my hands on...
And, LOL! The Koyama JE fic! :-)
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