#snick writes

This got long, so, behind the cut: how much I trust the reader, and unintentional trends in my writing.

Here are the first two sentences for the super self-indulgent Sid/Geno project I have been working on for the past 2.5 months, and which is currently sitting at 10k (w00t!) with probably 10k more to go (sigh):

“WIP meme”

Princess Jared, please!

This was started for a prompt meme once upon a time and continued in hopes of turning it into a Genteensybang entry (y’all got fairy tale AU with enemas instead), but I still hope to finish it someday. Think of it as a twisted take of Disney princesses (hence the name).

For some reason I am still a little shy of explaining what it is actually about, so here, have a snippet:

“Mice,” Gen squeaked, sounding like a damned mouse herself. “You have rodents in your house.”

Jared seemed to see them for the first time, but he didn’t squeak. He put his hands on his hips and said, “You know what I told you about Gen. Now scram.” And scram they did. As one, they flowed down the shelves and out the far doorway, a squirming, furry tide.

It took Gen a moment to find her voice again. When she did, what came out was, “That’s unsanitary.”

I am going to mince through this field of terrifying hockey mpreg mines and ask about the Adrianne-Gen creaturefic. … also, I am stealing this meme.

I’m not sure why I was being coy with that title, because Adrianne is very definitely a werewolf from the get-go, who has fled her life in the city (in some indistinct mid-Industrial Revolution time period) to lead a wolfly life out in the woods, away from everyone. Except she has no survival skills, in either form. Fortunately there is Gen, accomplished woodswoman who mysteriously lives in the woods for reasons of her own (as yet still unknown to this author), and she takes pity on Adrianne and shows her how to do things. Basically the entire fic was an excuse for me to relive all those survival stories I read as a kid.

I don’t have much! Basically it’d be when Ovi is out for the season being pregnant and bemoaning the terrible state of the Caps (he’d say it was all his fault and they’d be way better if he were in, but he’d be wrong) and the fact that he had to miss THE OLYMPICS (which he’d also say were his fault, and about which he’d also be wrong).

At some point there’d be something where Sid would have to explain to the team exactly what was going on with Ovi and why he was staying with him, and then sometimes there’d be Pens hangouts at Sid’s house where Ovi would be the life of the party - he can’t get out much, right, now that he’s showing - and the guys would eventually forget that was anything weird about it.

I am: posting the names of all the files in my WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Will you, please: pick out the title that most intrigues you, appeals to you, or whatever, and I’ll post a snippet or tell you something about it!

These are the titles of my WIP documents. I tried to limit it to stuff that might one day actually be finished and/or has been worked on recently.

16. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?

D: I think I’m going to steal ladyofthelog's answer for this one and say GEN, GEN FOREVER. I have maybe three pairings that I've written more than three fics for, ever. (Spike/Buffy, Jared/Gen, and Sam/Jo, if anyone's counting.)

20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.

On the couch in the morning, when I’ve had at least 8.5 hours of sleep and sufficient breakfast, it’s cool enough I don’t need the fan on, the neighbor upstairs is not playing his TV, and the cats are content to sleep on my feet rather than wanting to crawl onto the keyboard. It’s ideal if Comcast is on the fritz, so I can’t access the internet (unless I’m writing hockey fic, in which case internet is crucial for the million and one details I’m always having to fact check).