What to write next?

[luzula]

I have almost finished the draft of chapter 29 of my current long fic, and after that, there's only one more chapter to go! \o/ So this seems a good moment to consider what to write next…

Poll #28814 My next Flight of the Heron fic

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What should I write?

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A Temeraire fusion (gen like canon)
11 (73.3%)

An AU where Ewen is a werewolf (Keith/Ewen)
8 (53.3%)

An AU where Ewen is transported and Keith saves him (Keith/Ewen)
3 (20.0%)

A sedoretu AU of my first poly fic (with Keith, Ewen, Alison, OFC)
3 (20.0%)

A fairy tale AU (Keith/Ewen)
6 (40.0%)

A crossover with Flemington (Keith/Ewen + Flemington/Logie)
3 (20.0%)

Some more about these fic ideas:

• I think I could have a lot of fun with the Temeraire worldbuilding in the 1740’s! I don't remember the Temeraire books doing anything with how the dragons interacted with British history in the 17th and 18th century, but dragons have long memories. They would remember the Civil War, the union between Scotland and England, etc, and probably have opinions about it. And how do dragons interact with the clan system in the Highlands? In my head, this would not be a terribly long fic, perhaps 20K or so. I already replotted the course of the ’45 once, and though I'm sure it would be fun to do it again with dragons, I'm not sure I'm up for it (at least I say that now, ha ha).
• The Ewen-as-werewolf AU is one of my oldest ideas, that I haven't written yet. Actually it's pretty much the same kind of werewolf worldbuilding as in my due South werewolf fics, just in a different canon. The plot would be that of the book, but modified, because werewolves.
• In this story, Ewen goes to trial in Carlisle, and is sentenced to transportation. Later on, Keith is posted to the colonies, comes across Ewen, buys his freedom, and they later return to Britain. There’s a lot more of the story in my head, of course. It would require research, but the real difficulty of the story is that Keith’s work would be defending the interests of the British government in a colony where there's slavery. : (( I mean, not that the same issue isn't present in, say, a Regency romance where the rich characters are probably making money off of slavery in the background, but it would be more, uh, immediate.
• The sedoretu story would be an AU of an AU, but I'm not above that! *g* This would also have lots of fun worldbuilding, but realistically, I'm not about to write this next because I just wrote a long poly story and would like something where I'm not juggling multiple romantic relationships.
• The fairytale story is not very settled in my mind yet, but it would involve Ewen bargaining with the fairies to save Keith’s life at Morar, and the fairies, as payment, taking Keith away to fairyland.
• I feel strongly that there should exist a FotH/Flemington crossover, but unfortunately I don't have a good plot for it yet! Just some small ideas which haven't coalesced into a whole.