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rose_cat ([personal profile] rose_cat) wrote2009-03-14 04:52 am

WIP Meme

Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] t_eyla. What the heck, I've got a lot more WIPs than finished fics anyway.

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have. No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

1) Just because I’m in a new body doesn’t mean I have to live in it.

2) The Doctor stared at the watch, bit his lip, pushed his hair back in a quick nervous movement.

3) “I’m never leaving you.”

4) The dials and levers and buttons blur, but I force my eyes to stay open.

5) “Andy, Torchwood has more important things to do than talk to every bloke with a hangover who thinks he sees lights in the sky.”

6) It was just cups of tea and a shared chocolate bar at her desk where they’d been working together on a Rift analysis program.

7) The Doctor looked into his own eyes.

8) The Doctor was quiet when Jack laid him down on the treatment table, much too quiet, his eyes glassy and his breathing shallow.

9) Gwen had been with him in the tourist office, her face lit up with that smile, the one that never fails to warm me from the inside out.

10) The Daleks were right.

11) Incoherent and shivering on a blood-soaked bed.

12) He’d wrapped his long limbs around Jack’s body, an amazing feat since he was in front of him.

13) Then he heard the scratching, on the outside of the ship, as if a rat, a really big rat, was trying to gnaw its way in.

Well, that was strangely liberating. Kind of like what happens when you hear the relatives are coming to visit in a couple of days. It's amazing what you suddenly round-file!

I'm not going to finish all of these, at least not any time soon. Three of them I will, though. (I hope.) Guess which ones?

[identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
HOLY SHIT! That is a lot of WIPS. I've pretty much beaten all my bunnies into submission so I can work on my novel. (Except when I'm distracting myself with meme projects.)

Here's the whip Icon-Now get to work.
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[identity profile] cscottd.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
1) "Acubens is swimming in my pool," she replied, as the rain paused, and the wolf was just her mother again, at least for the moment.

2) The rock struck the side of Jared's head, snapping his neck back and wrenching him from Donnie's grasp.

3) "Ask him about the cross and the garlic, Sheriff. Ask him about the water pistol. Ask him about the TOASTER."



[identity profile] rose-cat.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Those are yours, I take it? Hee! (Is one of them the book people are nagging you to finish?)
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[identity profile] cscottd.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yup :)

[identity profile] vail-kagami.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I right to asume that one of these is from Pandora?

Anway, they all sound fabulous! Especially this:
The Doctor was quiet when Jack laid him down on the treatment table, much too quiet, his eyes glassy and his breathing shallow.
WANT!! Okay, no surprise there...

I believe, maybe I should do this meme. Though I have hardly any WIPs going on.

[identity profile] rose-cat.livejournal.com 2009-03-16 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
...one of these is from Pandora?

Heck yeah! #13, in fact.

The Doctor was quiet when Jack laid him down on the treatment table...

I thought you'd like that one :) It's actually the most promising at the moment. It started out pretty lightweight -- I was responding to a couple of [livejournal.com profile] yoshiyuki_est's Jack/Ten works -- but [livejournal.com profile] karaokegal, who's beta-ing it for me, prodded me into doing something deeper. I'm still trying to connect all the dots, though. Anyway, that one (#8), #9 and, of course, #13, are the ones I'm determined to finish. Although #5 is a nice cracky one I just never got back to. Actually, I'm not sure it's fair to call all of them WIPs. Most of them are more like Works-Not-In-Progress-At-All :D #12 sounds better than it is -- cracky PWP? Maybe I should offer it to somebody as a prompt :)

Just to really annoy you, #11 is a line -- actually more of a fragment -- from a possible follow-up to "Mistake." *is evil*

...maybe I should do this meme.

Please do! And thanks for coming by and commenting :)

[identity profile] vail-kagami.livejournal.com 2009-03-16 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
Now I'm babbling incoherently. Just a bit. Because of # 13.
I had womdered if one of these was a (potential) follow-up to Mistake. The mere idea that it exists in concept is comforting.
And that line is so very nice. :P

yoshiyuki-est has done some very inspiring pictures. I had considered using them for input myself.