I want to get something DONE FOREVER; please help?

I couldn't cudgel my brain into producing fiction, so I spent the night doing some digital housekeeping instead. My master fic lists are up to date again, and I have been pulling fic links, wordcounts, and summaries into a single file so as to post an end-of-year analysis in a couple months.

I feel as though I have not written very much this year, especially compared to last year (when I cracked 135,000 words), but unless my calculator is pulling a fast one I have posted 99,775 words of fiction since January.

*blink*

So apparently I have been writing. It's just been so intermittent and scattered that it doesn't really feel like I've been getting anywhere. *sigh*

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I would like to finish at least one of my horribly overdue WIPs. That would actually feel like progress.

On that note:

Here is a list of stories I think I actually have a hope of FINISHING in under 15,000 words. (Not "finishing the next chapter." Finishing the story.) Which one should I take a stab at while my Narnia Big Bang is refusing to cooperate with me?

Poll #8524 Maybe I can finish something? *crosses fingers*

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 11

Which story should I try to finish forever?

"Secrets" (HP, Ginny-centric, one chapter plus epilogue left)
4 (36.4%)

"Friends and Neighbors" (Naruto, 'Apartment Manager' oneshot)
4 (36.4%)

"The Corners of the World" (Narnia, Jadis-centric oneshot)
0 (0.0%)

"A Question of Familiarity" (Enchanted Forest, Morwen-centric oneshot)
3 (27.3%)

"Intervention" (Star Trek: AOS, Red Cross oneshot)
0 (0.0%)

"The Light in Your Eyes" (Star Trek: AOS, Spock-centric post-film oneshot)
0 (0.0%)

"Five Things That Never Happened to Rex & Ana Lewis (GI Joe, self-explanatory)
0 (0.0%)

"The Body Politic" (Riddle-Master, Astrin-centric oneshot)
0 (0.0%)

I find it weirdly difficult to talk about reading romance novels...

I have ambivalent feelings about genre romance. On the one hand, a lot of it is... um... gender essentialist, sexist to various degrees, and frankly badly written. On the other hand, it gives me guaranteed happy endings, reasonably written porn, and an automatic focus on female protagonists. Of course the female protagonists are usually focusing on men, but I try to stick to books where there's another plot running alongside the romance, so both the heroine and the hero have something else to think about besides having (or not having) sex with each other.

Which is by way of leading to up to talking about Nalini Singh. Whose Psy-Changeling paranormal romance series (psychics and were-creatures in the same world, because why settle for just one when you can have both!) is one of my guilty pleasures.

I am pretty sure if I'd started reading with book one (Slave to Sensation) or book two (Visions of Heat), I would have finished the volume in question and not bothered with the rest. But my introduction was book three (Caressed by Ice), and I have to admit, I have a Thing for Judd Lauren, the hero of that book. I also really like Brenna Kincaid, the heroine -- I mean, she's working on inventing a technology to duplicate and improve on Psy teleportation! She has a degree in advanced computer programming! She can build remote-controlled bombs! Brenna's awesome. :-)

So after reading book three, I went back and read books one and two and inadvertently got hooked on Singh's overarching series plot threads. I need to know how the whole mess with Silence, the Psy-Net, the Council, and the shifting balance of power between the Psy, the changelings, and the humans is going to play out. To that end, I read each new book as it's published, whether I give a damn about the personal problems of the new heroine and hero or not. (Usually Singh is good enough that I care for the duration of the book, whether I remember much about the protagonists afterwards or not.)

Which is by way of leading up to saying the latest book (Kiss of Snow) arrived in the smoke shop this week, and I have a copy and am in the middle of reading it.

Sometimes I just want brain candy, deeper analysis be damned. *wry*