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Because there's entirely too much discussion going on, here's the WIP meme thing.
When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

(I have folders. They are called "Finished Fics", "Fics that will never be written. I think.", "Variations of the one fic that will definitely never be written." "Ideas that will never turn into fic. I think". and "WRITE THIS!".

( NCIS and *hides* Stargate. *hides* )

Everyone is doing the 2006 in fiction Review thingy, and you all seem to have written mindboggling amounts of fic. I have no idea how you to it.

I have written exactly one ficlet, Learning To Play, Magnificent 7, Vin/Ezra. M7 is/was a completely new fandom to me, and the ficlet popped into my head quasi out of nowhere, asking to be written. I'm quite content with it, but it is more of a study, one scene to see what happens, if I can write them at all. I'd love to write a real fic for M7 (horses!), but my original plan to read lot of fanfic and rewatch the episodes to get a better feel for the characters didn't work out yet.

In NCIS, I polished up a silly little thing I once wrote for blueraccoon and hadn't posted in my lj yet, so I guess that almost counts as written in 2006. It's "How Stupid Mr Bates" and, as it was supposed to make the recipient feel better, it's really quite silly and happy, very much unlike the rest of my Gibbs/Tony, who still, no matter what I do, turn out to be all angsty and dramatic in my head, hurting each other in their inability to commit to their own feelings.

That's why the other little NCIS thing I wrote, "Fall-Out", a 100 word drabble, isn't happy at all, but I think it turned out to be at least a bit sexy. I actually like it a lot. I think 100-words drabbles are one of the hardest things to do, and I hardly ever give them a try, and I think this one turned out quite nicely.


So, that makes under 1500 words this year. Now you know what I mean when I say that I'm not a writer. Though, to be fair, maybe this just wasn't a writing year. January started with exams, then the move to Canada, where I didn't have much time for myself. More exams, and finally, freedom. Now, why didn't I write in the last months, when I had nothing to do at all?
I don't know. Maybe I'm one of those witers who have to be uhappy or stressed to find inspiration. I tend to get a lot more done when I have a lot to do, but get very unproductive when I have no obligations at all. Which means that this year, when I have a real job for the first time in my life, could become a really good writing year. Unless I have so little time that all the stories have to stay in my head. We'll see.

That said, I have a bunny for a Gibbs/DiNozzo fic right here, in said brain, and I even wrote the outline down on paper already. There's hope yet. ;-)

And while we are talking about writing:
The advantages/disadvantages of using present tense in fanfiction. Discuss!

Sign ups for ncis_tinsel are over, and I didn't sign up.

This makes me very sad, because everyone will get lovely NCIS fic for the new year, and all I get are my exams. Still, I wouldn't have been able to do it, and I'm glad it didn't sign up. I plan to start writing again next year. I have ideas, and I have a few unfinished fics. but I just don't have the time at the moment. At least it`s something to look forward to after my exams.

So, I wish you all lots of fun with ncis_tinsel. Next year, I'll play too, I promise.

It's a miracle, but I am writing. And I already told blueraccoon , so now there is no way I can drop out. Let's just hope that what I wrote still sounds good tomorrow, when I will hopefully have the time to finish it.

*runs off to write more*

These ficathons should come with a warning.

It's now almost 2 a.m., and yes, I'm still awake.

I wrote porn.

That's why I'm still awake. It got way longer than it was supposed to. And it's not the yet to be written Ficathon story. *weeps*

See, it was like that: this weeks challenge at sixtysecondporn is Fingers.
"Oh." said Tony (who has been thoroughly uncooperative whenever I tried to get him anywhere near Gibbs for the ficathon story these last weeks.)
"Fingers." he said and looked at Gibbs.
"We can do fingers."
And then he did that thing with his eyes and his mouth and I was like "Of course! They CAN do fingers!"

*writes*
*writes*
*writes*
GET THE BLOODY HELL ON WITH IT, I NEED TO SLEEP!
*writes*
*writes*
*finishes*

Now I'm too tired to read it again, so I can't post it just yet. I fear it will suck in the morning (Pardon the very bad pun, but I did mention that it's late, didn't I?). Let me just state this for the record: I hate them. I hate Tony and Gibbs with their sexiness and stubborness and their inability to talk and at the moment I really really hate their fingers. Also, finger porn would be a lot easier to write if their were any synonyms for fingers. I'm this close to calling them "hand appendixes" or "pointy things with nails".

Going to sleep now. Porn tomorrow, I hope.

Something really strange just happened to me.
I was reading some fic, and I found a piece of fic that may or may not have been written by me.
I (*please proceed carefully, I'm outing myself as a total weirdo*) save all the fic that I don't read online to a folder marked "Unread". In that same folder, I keep some of the little stories I write. Nothing serious, nothing that will ever get published. Let's just say that I feel inspired sometimes, so I write my thoughts down.
So today I found this piece of fic that is obviously unfinished, but I have no idea where it is going. I didn't recognize it, but I noticed a lot of typos. Exactly the same typos I make while I write down my thoughts, like "cna't", or "Jack'S", or "Dnaiel". Obvious typos, that no writer who puts his/her story on the net would leave uncorrected.
This was weird, but it didn't get me immediately suspicious.
But then I noticed things in brackets, which is something I always do when I can't decide what I want to do with the story. In this case it was "Janet called. (could also be Teal'C).
And then, and this was the last clue, I found german words. I write in english, but my english is far from being perfect, and sometimes I can't think of the english word, so I just write down the german one.
I guess this means that this has to be written by me. But I can't remember it! And the weirdest thing was that some parts are good, written so completely different from the way I hear my internal voice that I'm still not sure if it was really me who wrote this. But what are the odds of me having a fic saved on my HD with all the above mentioned characteristics that was written by someone else?
It is so weird! The story isn't long, but long enough to be the first chapter of something, I just can't figure out what. And it is about a pyjama party. Why the hell would I write about a pyjama party? Okay, so I just wrote about Jack wanting to have a pyjama party, and then stating that clearly SG-1 does not have pyjama parties, and no, they don't play truth or dare either, but why would I have that idea in the first place?
Maybe I'm just going insane...