Rose's Rambles

Time once again for that old "post a bit from your WIPs" meme, which I'm going to expand a little with short summaries where appropriate:

( WIP Hot Stove Report )

There are a few other bunnies in the hutch, mostly "Changing Channels" crossovers in the When Is A Ghost Not A Ghost? series, but they're very much on hold. There might also be a few more timestamps to "De Profundis," but I'm not currently planning on it. The Crossed Swords multiverse is pretty open-ended, and I'm not planning to give a hard and fast end to the Tok'ra Apocalypse 'verse, but I don't have a lot of ideas for either AU.

Now, the reason I'm posting this list: I currently have 97 stories/collections up on FF.n, and I'm trying to decide what to post when so that #100 will be properly momentous. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean I'll *write* them in any particular order! But I am curious as to what y'all would like to see first. I'm planning not to do spn_cinema again and may be dropping out of sncross_bigbang, so it's not like I'll have deadlines, although my fourteenth (!) anniversary of posting there will be Feb. 6.

So, since apparently anyone can post a poll these days, here goes:
[Poll #2030245]

The Naval War College has just e-published Admiral Nimitz's Command Summary of the war in the Pacific! Not only is it a great historical source in and of itself, but I imagine it'd be a great help to anyone wanting to write fic set in the Pacific Theater (Black Sheep Squadron, McHale's Navy, etc., or WWII AUs for other fandoms).

Hi.
Sorry I've been so quiet lately--lots going on IRL. Also swotting away at my story for spn_gen_bigbang and other writing projects; guess I owe y'all a fic roundup soonish, too. But my big fandom news at the moment is that my Deaf!Dean 'verse has been nominated at wicked_awards (fair warning, you might need images blocked if you look around there much and are as much of a prude as I am--quite a few of the banners are slash manips >.o) and "Gwaith i Innas Lain: Quenta Ando Rauco" is nominated for the MPTT Tree and Flower Awards! No Rest for the Wicked is juried, but Tree and Flower is by popular vote, and there are loads of other good stories that have also been nominated. So if you're in the LOTR fandom, go read and vote!
Also, congrats to shirebound, dreamflower02, antane, surgicalsteel, lindahoyland, and all my other fellow nominees!

Welp, February snuck up on me, and I need to figure out for sure what I'm doing for sncross_bigbang. Soooo....

[Poll #1893710]

Well, you all are no help. :D
All of these WIPs will eventually get finished, I'm sure, unless the muse totally deserts me, and I'll probably tackle the possibles at some point as well. I'm starting with one of the "Changing Channels" crossovers because it's semi-seasonal, but then I'll do my best to prod Musie into letting me finish the Deaf!Dean story. Tok'ra Apocalypse might have to wait for sncross_bigbang and the SPN/M:I story for spn_gen_bigbang, but I'll see how things go after the first of the year. Ditto the LOTR AU--Dreamflower, are we having lotrgficbigbang next year? As for the mashup... well, as En knows, I've used the term "epic" advisedly. No promises on speed there, especially since it's been in the works off and on for a year or two.

I owe y'all a round-up, too, don't I? Here:
Dinéchesters: "The Dark Wind" is a series of gapfillers for When the Badger Grows Horns. Bi'ee' Łigai (Woman in White) and Nihighan (Our Home) are already posted; the other two stories in the arc are off to beta.
Make It Right, another collaboration with jennytork, which goes AU from "In My Time of Dying" thanks to Gabriel.
Magic Carpet Ride, which is a sequel to Ring the Freedom Bell--SPN/M:I vs. Illinois Nazis. Yes, really.
And for hoodie_time, Not This Time, which is likely to be the only canon-compliant SPN Season 8 fic I write until quite a lot of things get fixed. Probably going to be Jossed, but I don't quite care. :D

Annnd that's all for tonight, I think. Wonder how far I can get on this crossover before it gets too terribly much later....

I are a tired taquito, though not from partying too hard. :D Work's just been keeping me crazy busy and/or up all hours. But many thanks for all the birthday wishes and sweet surprises! It's been a good day, all told. :) I'm not sure if I'll be able to respond individually, but I have read and smiled at everything I've gotten. Wish I had a mathom ready to post, but I don't quite--yet. What I will have, as soon as I can get them finished and betaed, are the last two stories in the Dinéchesters "The Dark Wind" arc! And they are long and plotty and *should* tie up all the loose ends. ;) I think that will be it for that 'verse, though I never say never where sequels are concerned if it's an AU I like.
Speaking of which, since I'm not posting those for a challenge, would those of you who read on LJ prefer that I post all at once or that I post a chapter a day, the way I do on FF.n?
Next year I'll be focusing more on original fic, but don't think I'm giving up on fanfic. Oh, no. I've still got stories to finish in at least four other AUs, including that Tok'ra Apocalypse sequel that stalled out on me, plus two Big Bangs that I'll be posting after the first of the year and an A-Team crossover that I started for an spn_bigpretzel comment-fic meme but took off on an angstier tangent on me and now needs its plot sorted out. And you never can tell what plotbunnies will ambush me over at hoodie_time....

Right, I'm rambling. Time for food and sleep, I think. :)

For those of you who read my SPN meta, rare as it is: would there be any interest out there for a piece entitled "The Inconsolable Secret of Dean Winchester"? (If you get the title reference, you might be able to work out the thesis on your own....) I'm trying to decide whether to hammer out the idea soonish or save it for a potential journal article I'm poking at that has a related thesis.

Scientific proof that not only is reading fiction different from reading other kinds of writing, it's good for you! (Also proof, IMO, that "show, don't tell" actually does make for better writing.)
Thoughts, obeliamedusa?

Fic roundup!

Sufficiently Advanced Technology, a Tok'ra Apocalypse timestamp
Two comment-fics for comment_fic and three from the hoodie_time winter-themed comment-fic meme
From the same meme, The Fifth-Grade Grinch, for a time-travel prompt by bellatemple
The Closer We Are to Danger, an SPN/SGA one-shot AU for spn_in_space
And a bit of hurt!Dean silliness, Ol' Diz

And have a meme, while I'm at it:
Post the first sentence (or three) 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, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!
( Well, this isn't all of them, but they're ones I haven't completely abandoned... )

I come bearing... thoughts! :D Namely, my latest piece on Goannatree.

Sunday was my birthday, and a cold and rainy day it was, too. But we're still not completely recovered from the drought--still on Stage 1 watering restrictions--so we needed the rain badly. And I got to have a good homecooked meal with my parents, along with some unexpected presents, so it was a good day. :)