my WIP folder

[starlady]

Seen around and around: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

the derailment, aka The Problem of Susan, mine (Narnia, the same story in two files, wtf)
The Winter King (Narnia, Edmund meets Father Christmas)
In Black Ink, Bright (Sherlock Holmes, sequel to Second Face)
T'Mir in San Fran (Star Trek TOS books, sequel to On Alien Seas, and Shores)
A Scandal in Admiralty House (Sherlock Holmes steampunk AU, #2)
Honi soit qui mal y pense (Sherlock Holmes steampunk AU, #3)
Nothing on Earth of Interest (Sherlock Holmes steampunk AU, #4)
Teahouse (Gmail teahouse theme)
The Skysong Limited (Tortall future fic)

There are some others in there, but none of them are going anywhere. Ask questions, if you have them; you shall be answered.

Comments

[yifu]

Gmail teahouse theme

Hee. *inches closer*

[starlady]

I have this weird meta idea about Fox and Monkey putting on a show every hour for the watchers they know are watching and secretly planning to escape over the hills at the same time...I should really try to write it again, I think I know better what I want to do now.

[starlady]

This is, in fact, all that there is of it:

Day in and day out, Fox strategizes.

He knows that it looks, to watching eyes, as though he does the same thing at the same time every day, unthinkingly. But in fact, Fox is always thinking.

[yifu]

And now I want to know what Monkey is doing meanwhile. Thanks for sharing!

[juniperphoenix]

Oooh, I would love to read about Edmund and Father Christmas.

[starlady]

It is almost all in my head still at the moment.

"There is a shard of Winter in your heart, Edmund Pevensie," Father Christmas told him, "and that is a wound that will never fully heal." Had Edmund not been quite so full of mulled wine, the cold star that winked in his chest at that moment might have chilled him to the bone; as it was, he shivered, even in his winter gear in the heated pavilion. "But scars ought to be borne honorably, and for you, Son of Adam, Winter is a very different thing than for the Witch."

And a bit later:

"She wanted to be Queen of Summer, if she could not keep Narnia frozen, but her heart was ice; she could not have ruled over Summer, not for long. And in truth, that is your sister's place."

Or basically, I could also title this, Tolkien + West in Narnia

[juniperphoenix]

I like this a lot.

[wintercreek]

Ooo, can I see a bit of what's in "the derailment" file?

[starlady]

Yes. Warning, it's only the extremely sad beginning that I've typed so far (there's more in the notebook):

No one dared remark on the fact that five of the coffins were draped in red and gold rather than the customary black. The undertaker had protested, but Susan had been adamant, and in the end he had bowed to her will. Susan had tried to forget, had tried to pretend it had only been a childhood game, but in the end she could no more forget than she could fly, and to continue to pretend otherwise at the last was too great an insult.

[cofax7]

Oh, I love that. Can't wait to see it when (if) it is finished.

[holyschist]

Tortall future fic...like their equivalent of now?

[starlady]

Now or a bit earlier--kind of like The Crown of Dalemark.

[holyschist]

Intriguing! I have been trying to imagine what the future of that world might look like.

!

[djkittycat]

The T'Mir sequel! And the airship Sherlock AU sequels! Are they things you are still planning on doing? Because if you are, I look forward to reading!

Re: !

[starlady]

Yes, I am!

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Of course, I'm much more interested in the papers/articles/non-fiction/whatever that are in the same folder? Or a similar folder.

...if you keep one to begin with.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

That's a different folder, or more precisely set of folders--my document organization needs an overhaul. I don't have much, though, aside from that paper I wrote on Sensouron a while back--my goal is to revise it and start sending it out this spring. Projected ideas: something about Tezuka; something about Eden of the East and labor in contemporary Japan.

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, looking forward to both Eden and whatever you have on labor issues! Mine is a short chapter on fansubs that I'm way overdue on, a revision that's already been tentatively accepted - now just need to finish said revision, two half-baked ideas, and two more that at this point are just titles waiting for actual content...

And I'm not still back in grad school/again back in grad school why exactly?

[larryhammer]

I like how the description assumes there's only one WIP folder. (Me, I have separate ones for poetry, novels, and short fiction, plus a file-transfer folder for moving between computers which overlaps with all three.)

---L.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this was the Documents-->Fiction-->Fanfic folder (Finished ones go into their own folder inside Fanfic).