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From looking at my journal entries, you wouldn't be able to tell that 90% of my free time is spent writing fic.  Seriously.  It's practically my default setting: "Hmm, I'm bored.  I know!  I'll write a few scenes."  It always has been, since even before I knew how to write.  I'd dictate stuff to my parents and then draw the illustrations.  The problem is, I don't finish things.  Ever.  Well, not ever ever.  I have a few short fics, drabbles and the like that are floating around on the internets. 

But for as much as I write, the proportion of it that is complete is so astronomically unbalanced that it might as well equal zero.  With that track record, writing is a huge, HUGE waste of my time.  So much so that I'm thinking I might give it up for lent this year as a vice.  0_o. 

It's a terrifying thought, but it's either that, or I finally discover a fount of discipline somewhere and start finishing stuff.  I'd very much prefer the latter to happen, but the only way it's likely to is if I become accountable to somebody other than myself.  I'd like to make it a quasi-New Year's Resolution, to finish my fics.

So in that spirit, here's the Unfinished Fic Meme that some of you out there have done already.  It's a simple one, to post snippets of things that are rotting away on your harddrive.  Since that basically constitutes the sum total of my documents folder, the following is a very small, hand-picked sample. 

First, the fanfic.  More specifically, the non-Doctor Who fanfic.

Star Wars

1. A tiny scene, set between the two trilogies. 

( Darth Vader! )

2. A longer scene from another project, set somewhere post-RotJ

( Jedi! And bombs! )     


The Mummy

1.  Would you believe there are almost no Indiana Jones/The Mummy crossover fics out there?  Here's the sum total of one I tried to write.

( Imhotep and Jones )

2.  I love the idea of an Imhotep revenge fic.  And ideas were about as far as I got on writing one.

( Imhotep! And snarky Rick! )

Star Trek: TOS

Set during the first five-year mission, I had a complete synopsis written up for this, and then...it just kinda stalled on me. 

( Kirk, Spock and McCoy banter! )


The Magnificent Seven

Demonstrating my love for teensy, tiny fandoms!  This thing died a quick death when I realized I was writing a Mary Sue.   

( Cowgirl! )

The Wild, Wild West

In the last couple weeks I've dreamed up at least 3 different, full-length fic ideas for this show, two of which I promptly lost interest in.  Here's a bit from one of them.

( James T. West!  )

Aaaanndd...that brings us to Doctor Who

1. My only attempt at writing Martha. 

( Martha! And regeneration! Apparently. )

2.  I keep toying with the idea of writing a sequel to Fission, but somehow it keeps eluding me.  My working title, appropriately enough, is Fusion. 

( Identity issues! )