Ficly goings-on

[jadesfire]

Since I didn't get around to a fic-round up in January, this list covers both months. Not that there's much here. 6 stories, c.5,400 words



I wrote 4 ficlets for halfamoon. This was intended to be a whole series, with 14 women, one for each day of the fest. I still have my notes, so the rest may appear at some point, probably with a series title that has something to do with cookies :)

CTU
Criminal Minds/Jordan Todd
490 words/Gen
Everything is just how she left it

Home
SGA/Teyla
630 words/Gen
Coming back to her people has not been coming home

Domestic
Doctor Who/Martha Jones
470 words/Gen
Martha Jones. Defender of the Earth.

What Ails You
Torchwood/Tosh & Gwen
814 words/Gen
Four weeks. Still no sign.


These days, I tend to count anything under about 5k as a ficlet - either my ideas are getting bigger or I'm getting more verbose. Although I don't think the latter is possible, I'm still going to count short fics like these two as ficlets. They feel more like the illustration of an idea than a fully-fledged story, and I love writing them.

Tilting at Windmills
Criminal Minds/Reid & Morgan
1700 words/Gen
We've been using gunpowder as a propellant to kill each other for over nine centuries. I guess I'm just the latest inheritor of a long tradition.

Evaluation
Criminal Minds/Prentiss & Hotch
1300 words/Gen
Bruises fade.
Written for the Gen Battle. It possibly also wins an award for my shortest summary ever.

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Also, since I'm trying to get back into a writing frame of mind, a meme seen all over, but nicked specifically from szm

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence.

Despite always saying that I don't do WsIP, I did find lots of notes lying around, so some quotes are from them (including a co-written one - hope you don't mind, perspi!). The rest are from stories I plan to write, so are what a sentence from them would look like if I'd written them already.



1. "I said I couldn't leave this galaxy until every last Wraith was dead. Did you think I'd forgotten?"

2. She watched the odd curl of his fingers, his touch as careful and precise on the computer screen as it had always been with paper and pen.

3. John leaned on the rail, straining his eyes against the glare and watching until The Jumper became a mere speck, then disappeared over the horizon.

4. "If all else fails, we could always use him as a beacon to guide the jumpers in."

5. It looked open and enticing, the sunlight streaming down on him, inviting him up and up and up.

6. Jack is still watching her carefully, and when she's finished drinking, he takes the glass and sips from it before reaching out and pressing it to the back of her neck.

7. Because if you took down one of Sheppard's people – or Sheppard himself – there was no way you were going to walk away again.

8. The irony was, of course, that you had the same chance of dying with the first shot as you did of surviving to the fifth.

9. Jack looked up, keeping his voice even and casual as he said, "But you're not going to make that promise to me, are you?"

10. "I prefer to think of it as the application of scientific principles to the ultimate chaotic system: the brain."

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

is #3 more of your pirate verse?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*whistles innocently* That's possible ;)