works in progress and BSC writing goals for 2014

[ozqueen]

Happy 2014, you guys!

Time for a quick works in progress post/goals post/head canon discussion post to launch the new year? ♥


• How many unfinished works relating to babysitters100 do you have saved?
• What's the one you're most excited about or most eager to finish?
• Pick one and discuss why you're stuck on it. Is there anything we can help you with?


• Have you got an idea of how many prompts you'd like to finish this year?
• Did you set any goals last year? How did you go?
• Are you going to try anything different this year?


• Pick one (or all) of these three characters: Kristy Thomas, Alan Gray, Jackie Rodowsky
• What are they like in 5+, 10+, 15+ years time after canon?
• Do they go to college? Where? What do they study?
• What do they do for a living?
• Do they get married? Do they marry anyone we know? Do they have kids?
• Do they live in Stoneybrook or have they moved away?

Comments

[mkrobinson]

• How many unfinished works relating to babysitters100 do you have saved? I have five
• What's the one you're most excited about or most eager to finish? Probably smoke, the Dee/John fic that will be a sequel to 1977. Boston, Massachusetts
• Pick one and discuss why you're stuck on it. Is there anything we can help you with? Deep. I'm stuck on it because it's a Byron/Jeff fic and over the past year I've really come to loathe the pairing. I will probably trash the fic.


• Have you got an idea of how many prompts you'd like to finish this year? I would like to finish at least ten.
• Did you set any goals last year? How did you go? I also wanted to finish ten, this went poorly.
• Are you going to try anything different this year? I'm going to try to finish a fic a month.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Icon love! I'm not keen on the Pikes as a whole, but what are the other three? Maybe we can help with those? :)

[mkrobinson]

They're a Richard/Sharon fic [that one I forgot about lol I could probably finish that if I remembered too]; a Dawn/Kristy fic, and a couple random ones that I think I'll just trash. I know they're bsc because they have the prompts in the saved names, but yet I can't remember them.

Basically I just have a lot of old fic saved, story of my life.

[isabelquinn]

I have hilariously few docs with incomplete fic, because plot bunnies tend to make camp in my brain rather than actually become words on the screen. The only one is House, which is supposed to be a creepy fic set around Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook. I haven't looked at it in forever, actually ;)

And I want to play the game!! I'll be back to post my reply <3

[ozqueen]

YOU NEVER CAME BACK TO PLAY THE GAME, OI

[ozqueen]

• How many unfinished works relating to babysitters100 do you have saved?

Less than I used to, woo! Mostly due to me scrapping stuff I hadn't touched in forever, or changing my ideas about how to use the prompts and having more success the second time around. Prompts I've still got half-done are:

Rain
Cocktail
Accident
Evening
Sweat
Handcuffs
Career
Carnival
Intrude
Exclude
Pure
Television
Sex
Bake
Stubble
Watch
Red
Black
Picnic
Abandon
Writer's Choice aka I need to find a prompt for it because I've already used too many writer's choices.

Also, WHAT at how many I have. 21?! I thought it was half that!

• What's the one you're most excited about or most eager to finish?

I really want to get Handcuffs or Cocktail finished because I like the characters and the world I'm building around those prompts, buuut there are other things crowding my head at the moment. Including that writer's choice.

• Pick one and discuss why you're stuck on it. Is there anything we can help you with?

Stubble, and I know exactly why I'm stuck on it: I need to reread the California Diaries again and I don't have time. :( It's my attempt at a Ducky fic. I'm pretty sure there are like four lines in that doc and I'm just as sure once I read Ducky's voice again those lines will be scrapped. It's about his first kiss with a boy.

• Have you got an idea of how many prompts you'd like to finish this year?

I want to get to 60 but let's be real, that's probably a bit unrealistic. (I'd have to write 12 more fics this year. IDK if I can do that.)

• Did you set any goals last year? How did you go?

I wanted to hit 50 fics last year and I made it to 46. I still have two prompts to post from fandom_stocking, but they were written in January so don't count. Still - last year was terrible for sooo many reasons and fic just did not get done or take priority, so only falling 4 short isn't bad.

• Are you going to try anything different this year?

I say every year I'm going to try and write a different character. Maybe I did, last year? But not different enough to really make it memorable. MAYBE THIS IS YOUR YEAR, DUCKY.

[mkrobinson]

Ooh, what are handcuffs and cocktail about?

[ozqueen]

Handcuffs is a Claire Pike fic with bonus appearances from Claudia and Alan. IDK my head canon for Claire is that she's pretty flighty in her future career choices, never really sticking at anything much and wanting to be independent or self-employed, which I also think fits Claud pretty well. So I have them sharing an apartment somewhere and Claire is toying with the Private Investigator business. I've got a little bit written and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but it's one of the ideas I really like and want to do properly, so it's slow going.

And Cocktail is a Shannon Kilbourne/Logan Bruno fic which I have tried to start like 10 times and always give up on, but I *do* want to finish it.

[isabelquinn]

Lol at how many you have. That's good though, it's better than staring at your table and getting a big ol' blank.