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morgynleri) wrote2012-04-27 10:56 am
morgynleri) wrote2012-04-27 10:56 am
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WIP Meme
Snagged from a_lanart.
Post the first sentence(or 3) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!
If I posted all of them, it would become an extremely long list. But a selection of them, at least. Fandoms vary, and there are some original works in there as well. Ask away!
1) "What were you thinking?" The sharp tone of Pepper's voice makes Tony wince, though he doesn't move from where he's working. Not that he's actually focused on the changes he's making to the suit specifications, though he knows he should be.
2) The ship that loomed up from the fog-shrouded river was larger than anything seen since the ships of the Corsairs, though the blue and white of her sails, and gleam of golden wood that made her hull were nothing like the dark Umbar ships.
3) She wasn't entirely certain what had happened. She remembered the burn as she was hit by what had to be a staff-blast. Knowing there was no way they would be able to get her help in time, not unless they found a sarcophagus.
4) Ivan's eleven when she's born, the youngest of three sisters who live across the hall. The oldest is nine, and one of the group of kids he plays with, that he gets into trouble with. The middle sister is seven, and the youngest of the gang. All of them promise to look out for the littlest sister when she's born. Kseniya.
5) "You're kidding me." Jack wishes the man in front of him were kidding, but he knows this isn't a joke. It hasn't even been a month since he left Daniel on Abydos, after all, and there's no way for him to have gotten back to Earth without coming through the gate.
6) I was certain that the half-breed had damaged my captain while he had him in his custody. His behavior did not appear to be driven by the same madness that had overtaken him while he chased Crichton, but the erraticness of it remained. I had concerns about him, and more about the gunship, Talyn.
7) The telemetry back from a UAV made it clear they'd have to wait for winter to fade, though at least the snow-covered trees on the mountains hinted that it wasn't an ice-gripped planet. There was no sign of civilization near the gate, except for a ruin that Jack knew Daniel would like to see. If Hammond didn't just send SG3, like Jack'd suggested.
8) She's in his garden, planting dormant bulbs in every spare bit of soil that isn't occupied by herbs. Barely leaving enough of a path winding between her plantings to reach the herb beds. That they're not even real until she plunges her hand into freshly dug holes is a profligate use of her power that he doesn't expect.
9) The waves lap at the sands of the beach as Kronos picks his way along the shore, the ocean brilliantly blue and summer-warm. His horse follows behind him, the sturdy mare the only one of the string who'd survived the jungles he'd traveled through from steppe south to the sea. Following only the instinct to wander, until he'd heard the first tales of a goddess, fierce and proud as the ocean that was her mother and father. Undying, ageless, remote and wild.
10) The young man perched on the edge of the wall is dressed as if he's stepped out of the paintings of an earlier century. Not a ghost, even if James believed in such things, and not a vampire as Tesla had become in the Five's experiment with the Source Blood. Not even something like Helen, who hasn't aged or become ill since that experiment.
11) First of the Five had been Nigel, age catching up with him, though he left behind a legacy in his daughter, and his granddaughter. Then James, the mechanism keeping him alive and young most of a century finally failing. Now, he fears it will be himself, with his vampirism stripped from him.
12) The death of a man is a sorrow to his family. The death of a king is a sorrow to his people. The death of Henry of Monmouth, recorded as Henry V in England and Henry II in France, was a sorrow for the world.
13) I will not have you come to France, and put yourself in needless danger by so doing. That your brother is here with me is that he is of an age to be taking such a task on, and as my son is expected to learn how to lead men in battle. I may allow you to have a tutor who will teach you all your brothers may learn, but I will not have you placed in the same danger that they must face.
14) Swearing to uphold the treaty signed at Troyes is both the easiest thing he's had to do as Jehan, Montjoye King of Arms, and the most difficult. To do so means serving both the king he thinks of in much the same manner he might a child, and the king whose fire he wishes he could hold for a lifetime of lifetimes. It also means a careful distance between himself and the latter, for he cannot, in all honor, both uphold the treaty and come to Henry's bed.
15) There was no warning from the outlying radar beacons that something was wrong. Nothing to warn the miners before the fighters were swarming over them like ants, shearing drives from cockpits and slaughtering the occupants. Only a brief scream for help from one of the luckier miners to warn the destroyer and its convoy of frigates that something was on the way before the first missiles came screaming towards them.
16) She stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out over the rough seas of the narrow passage between her hard-won duchy and the island kingdom that had held it for over a century before they'd found their courage once more.
17) Darkness flickers out, darting toward the bright light that is her charge, and she interposes herself as a matter of course. As any of her brothers and sisters would for their own charges, without thought or emotion. She simply does - simply is.
18) In the forests of the north, there is a saying. Do not travel in moonlight unless you do not wish to come home. They do not travel in the forests, the people who live in the north, not for anything.
a_lanart.Post the first sentence(or 3) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!
If I posted all of them, it would become an extremely long list. But a selection of them, at least. Fandoms vary, and there are some original works in there as well. Ask away!
1) "What were you thinking?" The sharp tone of Pepper's voice makes Tony wince, though he doesn't move from where he's working. Not that he's actually focused on the changes he's making to the suit specifications, though he knows he should be.
2) The ship that loomed up from the fog-shrouded river was larger than anything seen since the ships of the Corsairs, though the blue and white of her sails, and gleam of golden wood that made her hull were nothing like the dark Umbar ships.
3) She wasn't entirely certain what had happened. She remembered the burn as she was hit by what had to be a staff-blast. Knowing there was no way they would be able to get her help in time, not unless they found a sarcophagus.
4) Ivan's eleven when she's born, the youngest of three sisters who live across the hall. The oldest is nine, and one of the group of kids he plays with, that he gets into trouble with. The middle sister is seven, and the youngest of the gang. All of them promise to look out for the littlest sister when she's born. Kseniya.
5) "You're kidding me." Jack wishes the man in front of him were kidding, but he knows this isn't a joke. It hasn't even been a month since he left Daniel on Abydos, after all, and there's no way for him to have gotten back to Earth without coming through the gate.
6) I was certain that the half-breed had damaged my captain while he had him in his custody. His behavior did not appear to be driven by the same madness that had overtaken him while he chased Crichton, but the erraticness of it remained. I had concerns about him, and more about the gunship, Talyn.
7) The telemetry back from a UAV made it clear they'd have to wait for winter to fade, though at least the snow-covered trees on the mountains hinted that it wasn't an ice-gripped planet. There was no sign of civilization near the gate, except for a ruin that Jack knew Daniel would like to see. If Hammond didn't just send SG3, like Jack'd suggested.
8) She's in his garden, planting dormant bulbs in every spare bit of soil that isn't occupied by herbs. Barely leaving enough of a path winding between her plantings to reach the herb beds. That they're not even real until she plunges her hand into freshly dug holes is a profligate use of her power that he doesn't expect.
9) The waves lap at the sands of the beach as Kronos picks his way along the shore, the ocean brilliantly blue and summer-warm. His horse follows behind him, the sturdy mare the only one of the string who'd survived the jungles he'd traveled through from steppe south to the sea. Following only the instinct to wander, until he'd heard the first tales of a goddess, fierce and proud as the ocean that was her mother and father. Undying, ageless, remote and wild.
10) The young man perched on the edge of the wall is dressed as if he's stepped out of the paintings of an earlier century. Not a ghost, even if James believed in such things, and not a vampire as Tesla had become in the Five's experiment with the Source Blood. Not even something like Helen, who hasn't aged or become ill since that experiment.
11) First of the Five had been Nigel, age catching up with him, though he left behind a legacy in his daughter, and his granddaughter. Then James, the mechanism keeping him alive and young most of a century finally failing. Now, he fears it will be himself, with his vampirism stripped from him.
12) The death of a man is a sorrow to his family. The death of a king is a sorrow to his people. The death of Henry of Monmouth, recorded as Henry V in England and Henry II in France, was a sorrow for the world.
13) I will not have you come to France, and put yourself in needless danger by so doing. That your brother is here with me is that he is of an age to be taking such a task on, and as my son is expected to learn how to lead men in battle. I may allow you to have a tutor who will teach you all your brothers may learn, but I will not have you placed in the same danger that they must face.
14) Swearing to uphold the treaty signed at Troyes is both the easiest thing he's had to do as Jehan, Montjoye King of Arms, and the most difficult. To do so means serving both the king he thinks of in much the same manner he might a child, and the king whose fire he wishes he could hold for a lifetime of lifetimes. It also means a careful distance between himself and the latter, for he cannot, in all honor, both uphold the treaty and come to Henry's bed.
15) There was no warning from the outlying radar beacons that something was wrong. Nothing to warn the miners before the fighters were swarming over them like ants, shearing drives from cockpits and slaughtering the occupants. Only a brief scream for help from one of the luckier miners to warn the destroyer and its convoy of frigates that something was on the way before the first missiles came screaming towards them.
16) She stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out over the rough seas of the narrow passage between her hard-won duchy and the island kingdom that had held it for over a century before they'd found their courage once more.
17) Darkness flickers out, darting toward the bright light that is her charge, and she interposes herself as a matter of course. As any of her brothers and sisters would for their own charges, without thought or emotion. She simply does - simply is.
18) In the forests of the north, there is a saying. Do not travel in moonlight unless you do not wish to come home. They do not travel in the forests, the people who live in the north, not for anything.