Writing!

[luzula]

Right, I've crossed off a couple of major things on my to-do list (not that it's empty now, oh no), so I figured I should get to writing again. I've written nothing except my C6DVD assignment since the holiday exchanges, and I think I needed that break, because wow, I wrote like crazy then.

But! It's time to write again. I have never during my years on this journal done a poll, so I figured it's time to try one.

These are my current WIP:s/ideas for longer stories. Anything you'd like to read in particular?

Poll #9267

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due South fic

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The Victoria Metcalf gen story about what happens after Victoria's Secret. I've already written 7000 words of this, although it needs revising.
8 (47.1%)

The Fraser/Kowalski story where Fraser is asexual.
4 (23.5%)

The modern-day due South/Temeraire fusion (this is all mergatrude's fault). I have a couple of worldbuilding issues with this, but also some cool ideas.
6 (35.3%)

The historical AU where Fraser and Kowalski are both on Amundsen's Northwest Passage expedition. This would be written all in journal form (Fraser's, obviously).
8 (47.1%)

The story of Fraser's first posting. I have a lot of this outlined in my head, but it's set in a smaller and more isolated community than Inuvik, and I'm not sure how to write that community. Research, research.
6 (35.3%)

non-due South fic

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A folk ballad fic called "The Prince and the Sea-Wife", based on a Swedish medieval ballad called "Herr Olof och Havsfrun".
1 (16.7%)

The "Sleeping Beauty in Space" fic. I have a couple of thousand words of this written already.
6 (100.0%)

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Ticky box gives us permission to work you too hard.

[luzula]

Hee. It would if I were actually taking orders from this poll, but I just wanted to see where people's interests lay. Knowing me, I will probably start off by writing something that's not on the poll at all... : )

[mergatrude]

I did not tick them all, though I was tempted. :-)

I think the Amundsen one sounds particularly fascinating. I read an intetesting article about Amundsen and another expeditioner spending some months alone together in a "Canadian shack" - it was effectively about how people manage living in "capsule environments." I can look up the article for you, if you like?

[luzula]

Please do! I've read a fair amount of the original books about polar exploration by Amundsen, Nansen, Shackleton etc, but it's good to read analysis of them, too.

[mergatrude]

I will have a hunt for it when I'm in the office on Monday. I suspect it's in an archive box of fic printouts, as once I wanted to write a story about Fraser and RayK trapped in an igloo or some such, and was interested in the psychology of it. If I remember correctly, the author(s) were drawing parallels between polar exploration and the International Space Station. *g*