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WIP meme (xpost from IJ)
Aug. 16th, 2007 05:17 pmI saw the "Post bits of your WIPs" meme go around a little while ago, but I didn't have most of my writing on my online computer. Now I do. That includes 61,000 words of the post-apocalyptic fairy tale, but I actually intend to finish that someday. Here are some of my orphans. I have, like, 18,000 of them.
( I'm really good at beginnings. Not so much middles, or ends. )
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This is the start of a romance that would never get published, because, as is my wont, I've gone and made the hero a verboten profession - baseball player, in this case. I gave him a giant, goofy last name because a big ol' name like Garciaparra or Saltalamacchia on the back of a jersey is one of those things I find inherently amusing. The title was going to be The Trouble with Mr. Franglopanini, which they would totally have made me change if I had gotten the baseball stuff past 'em to get it published, but it made me giggle every time.
I'm pretty fond of the bit where Kit is waiting for her brother in the hallway. I think I did an OK job with the description there. And I like Henry's overprotectiveness, especially given that he's otherwise kind of a cad.
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( Hee, Franglopanini )
( I'm really good at beginnings. Not so much middles, or ends. )
*
This is the start of a romance that would never get published, because, as is my wont, I've gone and made the hero a verboten profession - baseball player, in this case. I gave him a giant, goofy last name because a big ol' name like Garciaparra or Saltalamacchia on the back of a jersey is one of those things I find inherently amusing. The title was going to be The Trouble with Mr. Franglopanini, which they would totally have made me change if I had gotten the baseball stuff past 'em to get it published, but it made me giggle every time.
I'm pretty fond of the bit where Kit is waiting for her brother in the hallway. I think I did an OK job with the description there. And I like Henry's overprotectiveness, especially given that he's otherwise kind of a cad.
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( Hee, Franglopanini )
