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caz963 ([personal profile] caz963) wrote2011-02-17 01:19 pm

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] canterlevi
Flying - answered for [livejournal.com profile] adriana_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 for [livejournal.com profile] bas_math_girl
ETA: Forgot one! - Doppleganger crack - answered for [livejournal.com profile] topaz_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 for [livejournal.com profile] snorkel_maiden and [livejournal.com profile] bingblot
Gaza-Hospital fic - answered for [livejournal.com profile] bingblot
Josh leaving - answered for [livejournal.com profile] segsig

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!

[identity profile] canterlevi.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Unintentional sounds intriguing...

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
How is it that you managed to sniff out the (potentially) smutty one! (Which reminds me - I've missed one off the list!)

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 :)

[identity profile] canterlevi.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
How is it that you managed to sniff out the (potentially) smutty one!

I'm perverted that way. It's a gift and a curse.

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Not perverted. Talented ;-)

[identity profile] snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the idea of a press scandal fic :D

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Waaaaaay back in 2008, there was [livejournal.com profile] sorkin_fest. I took three prompts (greedy of me, I know!) and managed to finish two fics in time - In Plain Sight (http://caz-fic.livejournal.com/14107.html) and Everything Old is New Again (http://caz-fic.livejournal.com/14517.html) - and to more than half finish a third one, the prompt for which was Josh/Donna - press scandal.

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!

bas_math_girl: Doctor Come With Me (blue doc)

[personal profile] bas_math_girl 2011-02-17 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I ask about "Tie Snippets" please?

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course:)

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."
Edited 2011-02-17 15:45 (UTC)

[identity profile] topaz-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, I have to ask about the doppelganger crack. :-D

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Bugger! I was hoping that one could remain in the shadows because it's certainly an idea that I was hoping would go away! I don't write crack-fic really - well, I've written stuff that I call cracky, but by most standards - it's not really.

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.

[identity profile] canterlevi.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you're darn tootin' you're gonna finish it because you won't hear the end of it from me if you don't. ;-)

Smirking already here!

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew there was a reason I should have left that one off the list!

[identity profile] bingblot.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to see your version of a J/D press scandal fic. (I don't really buy into the premise but they're fun to read, if done well. And I've missed your J/D fics!) Would also love to see the Gaza Hospital fic-- because you do J/D angst so well.

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello you!

Like I said to [livejournal.com profile] snorkel_maiden I always planned to make the press scandal fic different to so many of those that are out there.

"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 :(

[identity profile] bingblot.livejournal.com 2011-02-21 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, after those little snippets, now I'm REALLY intrigued! Please do finish them and post them!! I need my West Wing fix!

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep looking at the "press scandal" one, but I've not so far managed to get into the right mindset. But I've not given up completely!

[identity profile] segsig.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd kill for any of your J/D stories; so I'll bite and ask about the Josh leaving one. But, please don't make me cry!

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, don't worry - it's not "leaving" in a sad way. I just thought that there should be a point at which Josh realises that it's time for him to leave the WH and have an actual life with Donna; that

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 :(

[identity profile] adriana-divolpe.livejournal.com 2011-02-21 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a bit late, but are you still doing this? :O I'm curious what the "Flying" one is about.

(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 )

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Not too late at all :)

[livejournal.com profile] canterlevi and I were chatting one night and I asked if there were any fic ideas she'd like me to have a go at - and one of them was about how it came about that the Doctor was teaching Donna to fly the TARDIS. I had a couple of ideas that I jotted down - but then came across a fic (http://dark-aegis.livejournal.com/156342.html#cutid1) that did more or less exactly what I'd been planning, so it's been put on hold for now until I can come up with another explanation! Or it might see the light of day as a drabble/ficlet.

[identity profile] adriana-divolpe.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That IS a wonderful idea! When I read it I went, "Ahhh!", ha ha. I'll have to check out that fic you linked.