Is it WIP excerpt time? I think it is!

[vulgarweed]

So htebazytook and I have just a handful of scenes left to write, and the first draft of "The Bone Fiddle" will be done! (I think we're looking at 60-65,000 words--by far the longest fic I've ever written even though only half of it's mine

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[applegnat]

DIES

I cannot WAIT. This is captivating.

[vulgarweed]

Oooo thank you! I hope the rest of it lives up to your expectations!

[espresso_addict]

I'm loving the idea of Vulgarweed Sherlock, and your description of Castle Sherlock is amazing.

[vulgarweed]

Vulgarweed and htebazytook Sherlock. :) I don't think either one of us would have gotten this far on our own, we're both mostly short-story writers. We contain multitudes.

When we first started, I sent her pictures of common houses of the region: sad little trailers, neat little brick cottages with flower gardens, and run-down old farmhouses that scare children and attract the crew of Hoarders. There was never any question whose housing was whose.

Sherlock has bees already because he has the space, and his boonie-dwelling self gets bored more than his urban counterpart. Mrs. Hudson's flower garden is very well-pollinated.

[espresso_addict]

A convincing non-urban Sherlock is a draw :)

[vulgarweed]

It's really, really difficult! We're cheating a little on this; while the land and the house have been in the Holmes family forever, it comes out in the story that Sherlock lived in Washington DC for a while (also where Mycroft is based) and that things got hot for him there. He's not here entirely by choice, but he's making the best of it, and going native in all the weirdest ways.

[eris12]

First things first - jlsdfjdlskfjdsl another teaser.

Second - It makes perfect sense to me that Sherlock has a moonshine still and could care less that it's out in the open.

Third - I know that we've only been given a few teasers, but I really like how in-character everything feels to me.

Fourth - I really like the voice of this. Seriously, every time I come across a piece of dialogue, I can hear Sherlock or John speaking with a drawl. It's fantastic.

I'll stop gushing now :)

[vulgarweed]

Moonshine, and who does and does not make it or drink it, is a little bit of a recurring gag.

I'm so, so glad you see it as IC so far: the goal is really to keep them pretty much exactly themselves...except in a totally different setting, which would change them in subtle ways.

I hear Sherlock as speaking in that sort of brisk, educated way that makes people not trust him, and John's speech changes a lot depending on who he's talking to, which he does mostly unconsciously.

You can gush if you want to. It's very motivating. :D

[_silverfox]

Oh, I love this!

And oh dear, by brain: I read 'horse named Arthur' - It says 'Wellington' - and so now in my head Sherlock's horse looks and behaves like Wellington's Copenhagen.

[vulgarweed]

Ahahahah.

Arthur is named after Sherlock's creator, who also tried to kill him with a deadly fall--and failed.

[_silverfox]

*headesk* And I ought to have remembered that, too.

Brain, what do you have to say for yourself?
Brain: *points at The Great Shadow*
That is no excuse, brain!

And that's how I manage never to get the obvious ...

YAY FUN!

[htebazytook]

. . . I'm fixated on that 'wip it good' tag