wips

Sign ups for next year's getyourwordsout are gearing up and I'm thinking about my writing plans and life and general things, as one does, this time of year. I'm at 28 days of writing this year so far (I had signed up for the 120 day pledge again) which is, well, very little. I'm going to sign up for the 120 day pledge again for 2023 as I'm getting back into a habit of writing semi-regularly again now that I've been writing fic again and I also have a yuletide assignment, and I've got a couple of novel wips I would really like to get back to working on properly.

But anyway, one of the mods reminded me that last year I actually made 72% of my 120 day pledge which I had completely forgotten about (for some reason I thought that least year was much the same as this in terms of output) and I think my mistake was looking at what I'd posted to AO3 and not at what I'd actually written, because, uh, I have a lot of unfinished wips knocking about. which is what this post is about!

This is a collection of wips I'm never going to finish.

I'm putting them here so that I can put them out of my mind, for good, and because while I'm never going to finish them that doesn't mean the time I spent writing them was wasted, or that they're not good, or that I don't like them. I have just made the decision to abandon them because I can't keep wasting energy fretting about all the stories I want to write and finish, because realistically that's not going to happen.

Some of these wips are 5+ years old, some of them only a couple of months. Some are thousands of words long, some only a few hundred. some are original works, some are fanfics. There is no 'crown jewel' in this collection. The wips are complete in the sense that everything is included; every note to self, half formed sentences and abrupt/disconnected scenes, vague plot outlines, and so on. I haven't tinkered with any of these even to correct a typo, this is just copy pasted wholesale from my files.

*rolls up sleeves*

H/D plane crash investigators, about 300 words

monsterfucking short, 1,4k

sword wlw, about 100 words

trans!dean, 1,1k

spn post!s5 2k

Percy/Oliver, 1,2k

Draco and smoking, 240 words

Caius/Al SPACE AU, 8k

werewolf pirates mermaid ot3, 1,9k

fantasy heist novel 3.0 12k

thief detective romance, 3k

fake dating princes, 32k (separate post)

( H/D plane crash investigators, about 300 words )

( monsterfucking short, 1,4k )

( sword wlw, about 100 words )

( trans!dean, 1,1k )

( spn post!s5 2k )

( Percy/Oliver, 1,2k )

( Draco and smoking, 240 words )

( Caius/Al SPACE AU, 8k )

( werewolf pirates mermaid ot3, 1,9k )

( fantasy heist novel 3.0 12k )

( thief detective romance, 3k )

continued in wips part two.

wips part 2

for length reasons, the final wip is in this second post. wip posts part one.

( Fake Dating Princes, 32k )