[Fic] "Fall Into the Sea" -- original

Yet another 15-minute fic exercise that ran overtime -- about 60 minutes for this one. Also, I don't think it works very well. It flails badly and keeps wanting to be a different story entirely.

I actually figured out, about two paragraphs from the end, what the "egg" ought to be, and therefore what story I should have been telling instead, but that one will take a lot longer to write and also hooks into some of my other original fiction, which will require me to revise a bunch of details, to the point where the finished version will be drastically different from this groping in the dark through half-remembered themes.

So I thought, what the hell, I'll post the bad version just to prove I wrote something this month. It's a fairy tale, kinda-sorta, 1,025 words long.

( Fall Into the Sea )

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And that is that. For now.

tell me what to write this weekend

As you probably know, I have a lot of unfinished WIPs. At the moment, I am equally annoyed with all of them, but also equally interested in getting some serious work done on all of them. So I would like people to tell me what I should work on this weekend. I am limiting you to one choice because, much as I love tickyboxes, the idea is for me to get something finished, not continue to be scattered hither and yon and back again. :-)

Hopefully I will be able to make the poll function, well, function... Please note that you have to vote on Dreamwidth. However, I think I have enabled anonymous voting, so it shouldn't matter if you have an account there or not.

Your options (with their current word counts) are as follows:

Poll #5700 Tell Liz What To Write

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Which story/chapter should I try to finish this weekend?

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"Secrets" ch. 15 (3,600) - Ginny's side of CoS
1 (6.2%)

"Strange Likenesses" ch. 7 (1,250) - Voldemort possesses Harry
0 (0.0%)

"The Guardian in Spite of Herself" ch. 14 (2,175) - sequel to "Apartment Manager"
7 (43.8%)

"Friends and Neighbors" (4,400) - an "Apartment Manager" sidestory
3 (18.8%)

"The Courting Dance" ch. 5 (1,550) - Cor and Aravis try to get married
2 (12.5%)

"Lemonade" ch. 18 (1,200) - Faith, Duo, and Sasuke fall into a hell dimension
1 (6.2%)

"Intervention" (12,675) - in which I insert the Red Cross into Star Trek: AOS
1 (6.2%)

"The Transient and the Eternal: Giving Up" (875) - Lucifer helps Alexiel escape Eden
0 (0.0%)

"The Transient and the Eternal: Clouds" (800) - Raphael and Barbiel visit the Mudos
0 (0.0%)

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" (1,350) - Mary Pevensie, in my Narnia genderflip AU
1 (6.2%)

Is there any story I didn't mention that you would prefer me to work on instead of the named options? Please list fanfic only, since that's what I'm trying to clear out of my to-do list.

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In other news, I shoveled the driveway around my (temporary) car, cleared snow off the car, and headed merrily off to the grocery store. When I came home, I got a better look at the driveway I'd backed out of, hastily parked the car at the side of the road, and went to shovel the mouth of the driveway so I could get back in, because I couldn't for the life of me understand how I'd gotten out in the first place! Snowplows are useful, useful things, but man, they leave some big piles in their wake.