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WIP meme - baaaaaaaaa!
This isn't something I normally do because I tend to like to keep fic fairly close to my chest until I'm satisfied that it's in a decent enough state to let someone else see it. But I'm still at home - recovering, thankfully - and I'm determined to stay awake so this is by way of stopping me dozing off!
Gakked from many places on my flist:
Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Ask about one and I'll tell you something about it, or post a snippet.
I've never been one to be overrun with plot-bunnies, so there aren't too many of these.
Here goes.
DW - Ten and Donna
First night on board
Don't want to go
Unintentional - answered for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
canterlevi
Flying - answered foradriana_divolpe
Five (or maybe Four!) Times the Doctor didn't kiss Donna Noble - and one time he did. (Hopefully this will see the light of day fairly soon!)
Tie snippets - answered forbas_math_girl
ETA: Forgot one! - Doppleganger crack - answered fortopaz_eyes
The West Wing - Josh/Donna
Press Scandal fic. (This one has been sitting here 80% done for the last two years and it's starting to annoy me. I keep promising myself that I WILL FINISH IT!)
- answered forsnorkel_maiden and bingblot
Gaza-Hospital fic - answered forbingblot
Josh leaving - answered forsegsig
There ya go. Ask a question or ask for a snippet and I'll do my best to indulge your curiosity!
Oh - and I'm posting answers in comments rather than in separate posts to save spamming the f-list!
Gakked from many places on my flist:
Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Ask about one and I'll tell you something about it, or post a snippet.
I've never been one to be overrun with plot-bunnies, so there aren't too many of these.
Here goes.
DW - Ten and Donna
First night on board
Don't want to go
Unintentional - answered for
canterleviFlying - answered for
adriana_divolpeFive (or maybe Four!) Times the Doctor didn't kiss Donna Noble - and one time he did. (Hopefully this will see the light of day fairly soon!)
Tie snippets - answered for
bas_math_girlETA: Forgot one! - Doppleganger crack - answered for
topaz_eyesThe West Wing - Josh/Donna
Press Scandal fic. (This one has been sitting here 80% done for the last two years and it's starting to annoy me. I keep promising myself that I WILL FINISH IT!)
- answered for
snorkel_maiden and bingblotGaza-Hospital fic - answered for
bingblotJosh leaving - answered for
segsigThere ya go. Ask a question or ask for a snippet and I'll do my best to indulge your curiosity!
Oh - and I'm posting answers in comments rather than in separate posts to save spamming the f-list!
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If this one ever sees the light of day - and I hope it will because there's something about it I like (unusual for me, as you know) it'll be a ficlet really. About how they'd never intended to end up in bed... but for some reason it keeps happening :)
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I'm perverted that way. It's a gift and a curse.
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There are so many fics out there which take the view that Josh and Donna having a relationship would create some big scandal, result in the press having a field-day and making all sorts of accusations about her competence and calling his judgement into question - but I never really bought into that scenario. So I decided that my fic would be about them dealing with a scandal about someone else.
I hate having done a fair bit of work on something and not finishing it, and I keep saying I'll finish it if it kills me! I did look at it the other week actually; part of the problem I'm having is that my current writing style is different (all my DW fics are present tense, whereas the WW ones were in the past tense) and the old way looks "wrong"!
But you never know. Keep watching this space!
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One of the things many of us liked about The West Wing were the scenes where Donna tied Josh's bow-ties (usually when he was wearing a tux - yum!) And there's something intimate about a woman tying a man's tie - not just that they get physically close, but that it shows they're comfortable with each other and being in each other's personal space. It struck me that my "other" Donna should have a moment like that, too.
There's a scene in Beautiful Chaos where Donna ties Ten's tie - not a bow-tie, but still... and I wrote a drabble, Lady Luck (http://caz-fic.livejournal.com/19518.html) in which he remembers her doing that for him. It went through various incarnations and I ended up with a load of "outtakes" (one of which got used in Rewriting the Script (http://caz-fic.livejournal.com/21338.html)) - but there's more and I'd like to turn it into a ficlet if and when I can.
"Well. You clean up nice, at least."
"Huh?"
"And it appears you do actually own a comb."
"Oi!"
She rolls her eyes at him and moves closer, picking up his tie from where he’d left it draped over the viewer screen and stuns him into silence by slipping the fabric around his collar and starting to tie it.
"I can do this for myself, you know," he says trying to swat her hands away.
But she’s having none of it. "I've seen the way you wear your ties."
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It took me a while to admit to shipping T/D in public. Then it took me a while to write shipy(ish) fic. Then I banged my head repeatedly over writing smutty T/D fic. I have no idea what my problem is - I love them together as friends or more (provided it's done well and in the right tone) - but I seem to have a resistance to shipping non-canonical couples. I dunno - I find it embarrassing or something stupid like that.
Anyway. One of the barriers to the shippy is Donna's attitude towards Ten. It's there on screen that he was more than a bit smitten - but Donna was oblivious, so it's tough getting her to the point where she admits to herself that she fancies him enough to want to sleep with him. So... I started to wonder if I could write something that could get her past that barrier, but ... not to his face.
This is - literally - first draft stuff-
“What the hell are you doing here?”
He looks mildly surprised. "I never left."
“But,” she splutters. “I’m not – I wasn’t thinking about – I don’t fancy you!.”
The right eyebrow joins the left one.
“I was thinking about Brad Pitt. And Gerard Butler. And – Harrison Ford, when he was in Star Wars, of course, not - ” she waves a hand around for emphasis. “Him!” You said you could be whoever I wanted!"
"I did. And I am."
"No – this isn’t right. This isn’t what I- "
"I said whoever you want, Donna. Not whoever you like."
Oh, God. Now I'm hanging my head in shame. I have no idea quite where it's going or if it'll ever get finished. There is scope for the funny as well - I like to bring the funny with teh smut!
But the damn thing won't leave me alone.
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Smirking already here!
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Like I said to
"Just because she’s glamorous, doesn’t mean she can’t be ”serious” ... we had some discussion about how she wants to present herself, what she wants to accomplish as First Lady things she wants to do, you know, which causes she supports, charities..."
He sniffs and leans back in his chair. "Being glamorous didn’t do Jackie Kennedy any harm."
"Apart from the fact that her husband was shot."
"I hardly think her underwear choices were the cause of that."
The Gaza one is less far along... but it's from Marjorie Moss' pov.
She was shocked at the sight of his face – granted she hadn’t seen Josh Lyman in a while – a couple of years maybe – but this man sitting next to her wasn’t the man she remembered. The Josh she knew was a handsome charmer, quick witted, funny, the centre of attention without even trying… not this dishevelled hollow-eyed man.
He focused on her finally, and opened his mouth to speak. Nothing came out at his first attempt; she saw him swallow hard before he tried again. “Mrs Moss?”
Can't make any promises on that one - but I do want to finish the first one. My writing style has changed a bit though - so it may be a case of rewriting it :(
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Hell, we spent more time together when you were my assistant than we do now.
and it's not what he wants any more.
There may be a proposal in there somewhere...
Sadly, it's not a lot more than a set of notes and bits of dialogue :(
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(And I knew there was a reason I loved that scene in Beautiful Chaos where Donna tied his tie for him; you said it really well. :P )
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