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[nightanddaze]

Hello, fanworkers! How are you? How are your stories going? Progress report time!

Also, I think everyone should post a sentence or so from their stories. I, for one, am dying to get a peek at what people are doing.

Comments

[noelia_g]

I have something over 5000 words, I'm maybe in one third of the fic, and I'm hating the story with vengeance. It will pass ;))

I got the 'Interlude' as my song, which means no lyrics but some baby talk, so I'm writing a between-the-lines companion piece to a previous fic of mine (well, two fics): Set Out on a Narrow Way and it's sequel: Like Northern Stars.

Nate had never envisioned himself as a father

[justaotherwitch]

so I'm writing a between-the-lines companion piece to a previous fic of mine (well, two fics): Set Out on a Narrow Way and it's sequel: Like Northern Stars.
I love this verse! So excited! I hope you get through the hating part soon, I'm certainly deep in that with my own story.

[nightanddaze]

I'm super, super jealous of your 5k. 5k is about where mine should end!

And your snippet is excellent! Can't wait to see more!

[kubis]

YOU HAVE 5k OF THIS AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT? ME BEING GONE IS NOT AN EXCUSE.

♥

[justaotherwitch]

Back before the deadline was extended, I was so completely blocked that I just wanted the opportunity to walk away for a week and come back fresh. Four weeks later, and I am still in the exact same position, except more frustrated

[nightanddaze]

It's totally a mental thing too. I mean, it's writing, so it's always mental, but I'm so far into my own head with thinking that I can't write this story that I've made it so I can't write it...if that makes any sense whatsoever.

This makes total sense! I kind of did the same thing. I thought of a pretty cool idea and then thought AND YOU'LL NEVER DO IT JUSTICE!! Good, great. Wonderful.

But! That snippet is awesome! I am so intrigued!

[justaotherwitch]

I thought of a pretty cool idea and then thought AND YOU'LL NEVER DO IT JUSTICE!!
Yes. This exactly.

[pjvilar]

Still love this; still offering beta services. :)

[salvadore_hart]

The song I was assigned is "Satin in a Coffin," and I'm writing a character study (of sorts) on Walt and how he deals with being back.

I have about 700 words that I actually want to use and its depressing, but it's getting somewhere.

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There's an imprint of her lips made in lipstick on Walt's neck. He stares at it in the bathroom mirror, watching the tendons in his neck make it look like its dancing beneath the harsh fluorescent lights. When Walt runs his fingers over it he does so softly, so as not to smear it.

For a moment, Walt seriously considers making it permanent - tattooing it into his skin.

[nightanddaze]

1) Walt

2) Depressing

I LOVE IT ALREADY.

[spirited_lizard]

*sighs* I think I love it already! *g* Walt! <33 And that first sentence... *sighs*

[nightanddaze]

Mine is...sort of going? It's all a big jumble in my brain which is making it a pain to get down.

On the dry run Lilley dies and all the men hesitate, even if they don’t stop. Nate can see it in the slight turns of the Humvee tires. They want to go with their man, even if the worst thing wrong with him is the need to shit.

Touching rocks, Brad outlines a plan where someone could go back for him, to save him if they could, even if it means putting themselves at risk.

Nate reminds him that that plan only works if you don’t care. Brad squints up at him and puts the rock down.

[justaotherwitch]

I love how you've built the tension in this snippet!

[pjvilar]

Really nice take on canon.

[kubis]

Well, I have started. And I sort of have an idea what I want to do with it.

It takes them three years. Nate has to come back, leave the Corps, fight through the memories, sleepless nights, apathy and never agains, and go back to college, where he works hard and doesn’t lose sleep over anyone’s life. Brad has to come back, take a trip, drink some, exercise more, feel the water closing around him again and again, go to England, go back to Iraq, live through it again and come back home again.

[nightanddaze]

I am loving the flow in that snippet and can't wait to see the rest!

[pjvilar]

Gorgeous.