Crack the Whip 2023 Progress Post

[rubick]

We are about halfway through the creation period – how are you doing on your WIP? If you want, here is your chance to give us an update, a progress report, an interpretive dance of your status! This is optional, but we’d love to hear how you’re doing! How many words have you written? Did you stick with your original WIP or switch to a new one? Wanna drop us a short snippet(~200 word or less)? ‘Cause we wanna read it!

If you signed up to make multiple things, feel free to tell us your progress on one or all of them. 🙂

Comments

[tillwehavefaces]

Well, the WIP itself/themselves is/are fine (just under 5k words so far for the one I mentioned in my sign-up post, and the broad countours of the story--which is really just PWP--more or less outlined). The only problem is I have SO MUCH ELSE TO DO. As always. And my autistic brain telling me I have to do things in order and do all these things before you do that thing. If it weren't for that I could probably finish it like, tonight, but as it is I doubt if I'll make the deadline. But ah well, we lives in hope. Anyway, here's a little snippet for anyone who cares to read it (mildly smexy and very Victorian, be advised):

He passed no word over his shoulder, neither turned his head, but his hands I could see already working at the fastenings of his trousers, though he’d hardly set foot over the threshold.

As he slid them down his vast corded thighs, it wanted no hands to raise what lay within the suddenly unbearably tight confines of my own trousers; indeed it almost required both my hands to keep it contained.

The thought of where he was going, and what he meant to do—to do to me, there—my mouth went dry and there was a wretched throbbing at my temples as well as in my drawers.

I seemed to see the world then as a picture or an engraving: the brown barn-door, the earthen shadows inside, the frosty ground blacked with the bruises of shoes and hoofs, the smudged and dreary sky, yet the mellow mollasine light in which the ascending sun set the scene rendered it not unpalatable to my recently stiffened and coarsened appetite. Round, ruddy cheeks with mahogany curls like chocolate shavings, still dewy from his morning wash; the gold and dusky tones of his loins and thighs, the inclining indents above the crotch drawing the eye down the scrubby slope to the full and fragrant thicket and its single standing tree.

The tree swayed, sprinkling a little foggy dew from its stiff trunk; he turned from me and walked into the dark interior of the barn.

And I followed.

[rubick]

Wow! That imagery is beautiful. And also a very delicious tease.

[tillwehavefaces]

Well thank you haha, it's from the perspective of the narrator-character of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood, who is rather pompous and self-important, hence the floweriness (though in fairness I can only give him half the blame for that lol).

[eve_n_furter]

Ehm. I kinda started a new fic and haven't made any progress on the WIP, sooo... To be honest, the work that is left is intimidating to me. I should just get my act together and start, and I'm sure I could manage SOMETHING that wouldn't be half bad, but it is so HARD. Especially when these sweet, bright, jumpy plotbunnies are passing my procrastinating lawn all the time.

[rubick]

I mean you can do any WIP sooo... new WIP to complete? :D Sometimes you gotta follow those bunnies!

[smallhobbit]

I've written just over 3K words in the last month, but I'd be happier if I knew how it was going to go and that it would be finished on time...

Short snippet:
Then John spotted Caradoc disappearing inside the chimney in one of the larger rooms, and he went over to take a look. He was rewarded by soot falling onto his face.

Leo laughed. “I presume Aurora warned you about Caradoc,” he said.

“Yes!”

Caradoc descended the chimney, grinned, produced an incredibly lacy handkerchief from one of his pockets and used it to remove the soot. John glared at him, but his grin grew even wider.

[rubick]

3k words is awesome!! Good luck in figuring out where that fic is gonna take you.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you!

[lilly_c]

I've added quite a bit to it and then deleted a couple of scenes that weren't working at all which is gonna mean more canon review. I'm not too sure what the word count is now but I'm going to wait until it's finished before I add the total in. I'm still working on the same WIP I signed up with.

[rubick]

Awesome! Good luck in the canon review.

[yuuago]

I ended up working on a completely different project than the one I had planned! On the upside, I'm happy with this one so far. If I'm really lucky, I'll be able to finish both stories. We'll see!

[rubick]

Nice, that's awesome! Definitely follow where your muse takes you, good luck on both projects!

[the_no_name_system]

...Well. I recorded one podfic, the one I was gonna illustrate, and realized that perhaps...that was a tad ambitious of a project to complete when I haven't mapped out everything I wanted for it yet. So I might instead make a podfic anthology? Maybe? Follow the bunnies and see where they take me.

[rubick]

Heck yeah, go after what feels right! Follow that bunny!

[handmaid]

I love when I reply to a comment and not the post, lol.

I've written 10k words in a week and things are looking up. I'm hoping to have this fic done by posting!

[rubick]

10k in a week! Hot damn! You're killing it, keep on going!