Seriously, I'm trying to wrap things up here...

[quaggy]

So, I've been thinking about fic writing and writing in general and have decided that I will try to finish ever pending fic I have languishing around by next spring. So, I wrote down every fic I was either actively working on or mulling over.  I figured if I posted a fic a week, I would be done with time to spare. Ha.

The problems with the plan:
(1) I write at glacier speed. Seriously, I think drabbles are about the only thing I can knock out fast... and those are only 100 words!
(2) Work is crazy busy and I come home with very little to offer. I can barely form coherent posts, let alone anything longer than that.
(3) I keep coming up with fic that need to go on my god-forsaken list!!

The List With Color Commentary
(by fandom & likelihood I will actually finish said fic)


WEST WING

• Most Frequent (Donna's POV from season 6 and beyond as seen through her playlist. Having more trouble with the songs than anything else)
• Toby's Book Club (Sequel to Less Traveled By.)
• Behind Her Back (Post-ep for "Dead Irish Writers". This is a very, very old idea that I never got around to writing down.)
• Nobody Tells Me Anything (Transition Post-Ep from Santos's POV)
• CJ/Toby fic (Insititutional Memory post-ep from Toby's POV that I so want to write, but so know I won't)
• Destination (post-Transition fic combined with destination wedding fic. It's given me so much grief, I should just let it go, but  I just can't.)

AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER

• Not Exactly (I want to finish this one soon)
• List  (This one too)
• High School (Stupid brainless high school parody thing. Makes me laugh)
• Promise (post-ep for "Zuko Alone". Totally non-shippy!)
• AU (An actual chapter fic.  Goes off-cannon during the finale... and jumps 12 years into the future)
• Sequel to Afterwards  (mostly I just want to write the reunion scene)
• Zutara Week drabbles
• Over The Sea (Post-series companion fics from Katara & Zuko's POVs)

LWD  (I don't know why this fandom makes me want to write fic. I really don't.) 

• Atom Bomb (This thing just keeps on growing and growing. I should have been done ages ago!)
• For Her (Same goes for this one) 
• Five Ways Casey and Derek Didn't Live Happily Ever After... And One They Did (It's a pretty self-explanatory title actually)
• Sleeping Patterns (College life fic. Total fluff.)
• Playlist (The almost classic scenario of Casey & Derek becoming estranged when they get to college) 
• Last To Know (Sort of the complete opposite of Atom Bomb)
• Tragic (Yeah, this title pretty self-explanatory too.)
• Graduation Party fic (Why Emily doesn't work as Derek's girlfriend)
• A "HEDHOG"-inspired thing where Emily is awesome

LIFE

• Love of Her (Post-series idea I had after watching "Serious Control Issues")
• Afterlife (Post-ep for "One")
• Rock Garden (Charlie in a Zen rock garden in Kyoto, but that's all I got. I don't even know why he's there.)

Sports Night (All post-series. All Dan/Natalie.)

• Awkward Research (a Natalie/Dan fic for unoriginal_liz)
• Bubble Bath (an old idea for bubbleficathon that I never had a chance to write. Dan/Natalie get no love.)
• Rumors (Casey gets upset over the idea of Dan/Dana. Yes, it's actually Dan/Natalie.)

HP (It's pretty unlikely I'll finish either of these.)

• Harry & Hermione fic (I sort of regret I never let myself write an out & out H/H happy shippy fic.)
• Friend Like These (James/Lily fic. Started it. Liked it. Couldn't finish it.)

OTHER

• Firefly fic ("Safe" post-ep. Not shippy, which is rare for me.)
• Old Man Howl (Howl's Moving Castle fic for unoriginal_liz)
• Ugly Betty fic (a little bit post-series and a little bit of a post-ep for Season 1 "I'm Coming Out")
• Mickey/Martha fic (Doctor Who fic, but first I have to finish Season 4 and The End of Time first. Yes, I'm writing fic for things I haven't seen yet. This is what happens when you are spoiled.)
• Skip Beat fic (Just a little "what if..." for my favorite manga since it's unlikely to go in that direction.)
• Meeting in the Park (Witch Hunter Robin fic. Pretty easy to finish, but nobody will read it because nobody has seen the show!)

And, of course, I wrote this post when I could have been writing fic, but sometimes it's good to get things out in the open. 

Comments

[unoriginal-liz.livejournal.com]

I very much approve of this list :) I'm happy to see so many LWD plots, and yay for Dan/Natalie Sports Night stuff! And I'd love to see the Ugly Betty, James/Lily (<3), and Mickey/Martha (it is RIDICULOUS how much I ship them based on how little canon there is) fic, and of course the Howl's Moving Castle stuff :)

And I would read the Witch Hunter fic - I just looked it up on wikipedia, and it sounds really interesting.

It sounds like you'll be busy...but then, I've always been told that hard work is good for you!

[quaggy]

Thank you! You're really wonderful, you know that? You make me think I can finish ever fic on this stinking list. :-)

Witch Hunter Robin is probably my favorite anime series. I should warn you though, it's set post-series, so it's very spoiler heavy. And it's a non-canon pairing. I actually don't mind them now at all, but the first time I watched the series, I really didn't like the Robin/Amon pairing at all.

And as for Mickey/Martha... I've always wanted both characters to have a happy ending and the fact that they get to have one together is actually all kinds of awesome.

Isn't lucky we prefer the same ships?

[unoriginal-liz.livejournal.com]

Optimism is a nice way of putting pressure on people :) Anyway, even thinking about the ideas on your list is fun!

Witch Hunter Robin is probably my favorite anime series. I should warn you though, it's set post-series, so it's very spoiler heavy. And it's a non-canon pairing

Oh, I don't mind spoilers - and you know I don't mind non-canon pairings :)

And as for Mickey/Martha... I've always wanted both characters to have a happy ending and the fact that they get to have one together is actually all kinds of awesome.

I know, me too! I hated how Mickey and Martha got treated - and I say this as someone who loved Rose, and Rose/Ten. I liked Tom (though he didn't get much screentime), but there's something I really like in the idea of Mickey and Martha being awesome and saving the world together :)

[quaggy]

I totally agree with you about Martha & Mickey. (Note to self: I need a Martha icon.) I really loved the idea of Martha/Tom and if it had been anybody other than Mickey, I would have been really PO'd that they hooked her up with someone else. Actually, I know I should still be annoyed since it's technically "hooking up the spares"... or worse, "hooking up the ethnic minorities", but it's Mickey & Martha, so I honestly don't care.

And not to tip my hand too much, but my basic idea is that the Doctor (who knows this things being a Time Lord and all) chose a time in the future when Mickey and Martha were both together, but it had taken them years to get to that point. The fic is Mickey sort of admiring Martha from afar while she is married to Tom and what happens after she becomes a widow.