Six Sentence Sunday

ao3commentoftheday:

Since a few people were confused in the tags on this post I thought I’d explain.

Six Sentence Sunday is a writing thing where, on Sunday, you post six sentences from an unfinished work. It can be a new fic, a new chapter of a WIP, or even something you’re not sure you’ll ever post. 

Choose an excerpt from any section (and it doesn’t have to be six sentences) and post it, letting people know what it belongs to or indicating that it’s something you’re working on. 

People get a preview of what’s coming. You get some feedback on what’s there. If they like it, you might get some reblogs that will generate more interest in your story or you as a writer. 

You can find loads of examples by searching for this on tumblr (sometimes tagged “Sunday six”) 

Six sentences of my Supergirl Captain America AU, currently in progress! My first drafting procedure is writing things out of order, so these do not go together at all (and are not arranged in order either), but hopefully give a sense of it:

2. “It got on you,” the dark-haired woman says, eyes wide, looking at the vial Kara had broken when she’d been careless, when her strength had come back,  “the super soldier serum.”

37. “Lesbianism isn’t classified as a mental illness anymore,” Alex says one day, metal hand clenched tight around a shopping bag of what looks like far more vegetables than she’d gone to the market for.

51. It’s only to Lena that Kara haltingly admits she needs to eat more than what is provided in the usual soldier’s rations—and once she’s given more food she starts filling out, growing larger breasts she needs to bind, getting enough muscle that her real figure is almost as toned as the padded suit she wore for shows, that her fellow soldiers start looking at her differently.

54. “Was that your first kiss since 1945?” Cat asks once they’ve escaped, and Kara can’t answer, thinks of watching Alex press her lips to other women’s in that bar, of those lips pressed to her forehead, her hair, thinks of the cat she hurt as a teenager when she tried to pet it, of crying for a week after and not telling Alex why, of eating rations with her hands when she was particularly anxious as the other soldiers laughed at “how hungry” she was.

77. “Do you want different pronouns?” Lucy asks, and Kara has no idea what that means but something about the careful way that Lucy says it makes her pause.

96. Clark wears their family’s crest proudly on his chest, as he should, while Kara can barely stand to look at it, to see the symbol that had once adorned her family’s clothing, that she and Alex had sketched again and again as teenagers, reminding themselves what they were looking for—a baby, a child, and then, as too much time passed, a teenager. 

azriona:

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leafquake23:

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miketooch:

notkingkong:

this gets funnier every year 

The year is 2042. Your daughter is awkwardly silent as she eats her dinner. “Something wrong sweetie?” She sighs and puts down her fork. “I was digging really deep in AO3 last night…Why didn’t you finish that coffee shop au?” It happened. Your past has come back to haunt you. Nay, it never truly left.

U CANNOT OUTRUN UR CRIME

OKAY BUT WAIT. This has happened to me. Recently. Because I am old and I have things out there from previous fandoms with previous pseuds and one day my teenager begins a rant at me about people never finishing any WIPs on the pit of voles (which he does not call the pit of voles because he has No Knowledge of such a thing but yet he still reads on which I didn’t think anyone did any longer) and he points out an example to me of something I WROTE AND LEFT WIPing for ages and he has NO IDEA #1 that his mom wrote this and #2 How much it still haunts me to this day that it will. sit. there. for. eternity. because I am too lazy to pull it down.

oh my god

#why didn’t you finish cleaning your room?#IDK MOM WHY DIDN’T YOU FINISH THE RON/DRACO MERMAID AU? 

( @mrv3000 )

Fic, interrupted – Fansplaining – Medium

fansplaining:

We’ve got a new article out – by Caroline Crampton, examining fanfictional works in progress!

What’s your favorite? What’s the one that hasn’t been updated since 2009 but you just CAN NOT GIVE IT UP?

A cool article about WIPs that is totally worth a read!

My favourite WIP, off-hand (that hasn’t been updated since 2013), is the fatal plunge series by maleficently. An absolutely incredible Swan Queen fic that mostly uses season 1 canon (the part I actually watched), that’s… really hard to describe. In the first fic, post initial curse breaking, Emma and Regina cast a second curse–to give everyone their happy ending. Naturally, things are angsty as heck and wonderful. It’s only the third (and final) installment that’s unfinished. Wherever maleficently is though, I hope she’s doing well and knows her work meant a lot to a lot of people! (Or at least to me!)

As a sidenote, this series also had an amazing playlist by the author at one point, and introduced me to Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no 2 in C Minor, which… the best way to explain my feelings about this piece of music is that it’s my OTP of concertos and I love all versions of it the same way I love different fics of my OTPs. And the first movement at least is SO well-suited to these two characters.

Anyone else have fav WIPs?

Fic, interrupted – Fansplaining – Medium