WIP Big Bang thoughts

[edenfalling]

wipbigbang will open for signups on Friday the 24th. Here is this year's schedule and FAQ post.

I want to participate again, since last year the pressure of a deadline and an artist kicked me into finishing "The Courting Dance" despite various and sundry obstacles, and this year I am feeling much less flattened by life -- well, let me rephrase that. Much less flattened by depression. I am currently feeling a bit flattened by my work schedule, and will continue to feel that way until sometime after April 22nd. (I would say until after tax day, but I agreed to cover some extra shifts at the rental office that week, so. Still going to be an ~50 hour week. *sigh*)

I have my FandomTrumpsHate fic to work on, but I think once I reconnect with the mythical thing known as 'free time' that should go fairly quickly. (I want to start working on it NOW, but I know if I do that I will never finish the edits to "Second Chances" and dammit, I want to get those done.) I also want to use this year to finish off a bunch of projects that have been hanging over me for a while, so. Definitely going to sign up for something.

I just need to decide which fic to tackle.

At the moment, I'm leaning toward "Five Things That Never Happened to Rex and Ana Lewis" (GI Joe: Rise of Cobra, shut up, I know), "Intervention" (Star Trek: AOS, featuring a cast of entirely original characters), "Ephemera" (Angel Sanctuary, following Belial's pre-canon journey from heaven to hell), or maybe "Strange Likenesses" (Harry Potter, wherein Voldemort tries to possess Harry pre-Hogwarts and it does not end well for anybody). You may note that this list does not include some things I put in my 'tell Liz what to write' poll from last year, and does include two fics I left off that poll. The projects that sound most interesting to me do tend to change over time. *wry*

I think I'll take another look at my various languishing WIPs and see if there's anything else that sounds both interesting and doable within the Big Bang's timeframe, and throw up a poll within the next few days.

Comments

[the_rck]

I'm looking at wipbigbang and dithering a bit. The WIPs that I'd most like to make progress on are almost certainly not things I could finish within the challenge window (one is already at 190000 words, and the others are all likely to be over 100000-- possibly a lot over-- by the time I finish). The WIPs that I'm reasonably sure I could finish are all likely to come in under the minimum word count. There are a handful of things that I've put aside because I'm not really interested in them right now that I maybe could finish.

[edenfalling]

Ugh, yeah, finding the right combination of length and interest level is always tricky. Good luck!

In my case, I've left off one WIP I really want to finish this year ("Trollstuck: Make Her Pay") because I do the illustrations for that myself, which kind of defeats the purpose of a Big Bang collaboration, and I've left off another ("Lemonade") because I realized that I like posting it chapter by chapter and don't really want to finish it by dumping a giant lump of story on the internet in one go -- even though I would like some illustrations for that fic. *sigh*