All the writing in progress

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[Main image description: A three-ring binder opened to show several B5 notebooks with colour gradient covers and rounded corners. The notebook shown in full has a beetle sticker on it under a label reading "The Gardener."]

 

It's been pretty dang warm and also humid (WHY?!) so my creative currency has been low due to being covered in a fine layer of sweat at all times. However, a great thing to do when you can't pony up the energy to make stuff is to organise the stuff around it. Plus, you know I love lists. So let's look at all my various writing WIPs that aren't Those Books I'm Working On (tm).

 

Project-projects

For most projects, I prefer to write by hand for the first draft. I'm also trying to get out of the habit of having writing that isn't about being immediately shared via link or AO3 existing on Google Docs. It's convenient because I can access it from a lot of my tools! But also I'm just trying to move from using gdocs much. And I am, somehow, faster at certain types of writing if I am scrawling it out by hand.

 

I have a (gorgeous and retro) Trapper Keeper with a bunch of projects in it. Each project, if originally typed, was printed out and bound into a little notebook using some very dope plastic ring binding. Those are hooked into the rings of the big binder itself. It's all very aesthetic, and in one place so as my brain opens up space to work on things, there they are.

 

 

That all said, here is what is in my binder of wips, with their working titles:

• Something Noir: A sci-fi version of "Puss In Boots," but also all the people are animals. Should be book-length in the end. Fully plotted as part of a weekend writing project and a good chunk of it is written (link for Patreons with more info).
• Pastoral Post-Apocalypse Horse Girls: This is the least planned or plotted story. It is basically what it says on the tin, with two (then and now) stories wrapping together about two rural women in a post-apocalypse.
• Tiefling: This is the non-pwp extension of a piece about the Raven Queen that can be found on my AO3. I was writing it during my commute and then stopped having a commute. Just indulgent exercise.
• The Gardener: Probably novel-length, something about identity and perception and a grandmother who gets to be a chosen one, sort of. If you read "Belief" in my Flash Fiction February collection from this year you've encountered part of it (ah!! that I need to print that out and bind in its workbook). A good bit is written and it is one of the stories I think about the most.

 

I've also got one non-game writing project that is on the computer (local files only), I have no idea what the length is going to be but it's a stylistic departure for me. Horror also! I shared a snippet of it to Patreon supporters last winter (link) and a new part of it also showed up during the Flash Fic Feb challenges (Day 18: "Colour", link for Comradery supporters and a link for Patreon supporters). 

 

Fanfic concepts

These are literally just post-it notes above my computer except for one which is a full thread in a very niche Discord server.

• Lady Cluck from the animal Robin Hood/Merlin from Sword In The Stone.
• Geralt/Yennifer, Geralt & Jaskier, within the framework of this concept I am very proud of the title of -"Romeo & Juliet, the ampersand stays in the picture".
• An OFMD fic that is maybe too complicated a plan but I am just letting it percolate in the back of my mind for now.

 

Storytelling Collective's upcoming next quarterly free thing is fanfic (link to StoCo's Fanfic Challenge page), so maybe these will get to see the light of day sooner.

 

I've well-learned not to fret when a project gets set aside for a long time. I know I haven't forgotten it, and if past me was good (which they often are) then I can easily step back with a fresh mind to any of these worlds and build them out more.

 

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