what a wonderful thing

Another all_unwritten prompt, since that's more or less all I'm writing lately.


She liked to think that one day she would head off for distant shores. She would learn about the world -- not the way tourists do, although of course she'd see the Louvre and the Pyramids and maybe make a silent, solemn visit to Buchenwald -- but by living there, in that elsewhere, for a month or a year or however long it took to understand something.

She would go to South Africa and see if Apartheid had ever really been lifted. She would go to Germany and see the difference between a little farming village and the bustle of Cologne, where she would have to guard her pockets against thieves even in the cathedral. She would work backstage in the West End.

Not today. Today she sat on the couch with a bowl of macaroni and cheese and a geography textbook studying maps. Someday, though, she thought, and drew a red circle around Pretoria.

Another from all_unwritten.

( Prompt: No one needs to know. )

. . . The subject matter of my writing is all a wee bit too similar lately. :/ Oh well. They say to write what you know, right?

Today's prompt:

Take an emotion, any emotion (ex: anger, sadness, happiness, lust, jealousy), and turn it into a fictional character. What you do with that character is up to you.

( Love. )

( all I could do )

( silent wilderness )

( 122 Words: How it happened )

Title: Unconditional Love
Fandom: Love! Valour! Compassion!
Characters: James Jeckyll, John Jeckyll, Catherine Jeckyll.
Summary: Two very different coming-out stories. I don't know where the characterization of their mother came from, honestly. She's not meant to be passive-aggressive, though I'm afraid she comes off that way in the second. She just doesn't know how to respond to John, I think. XD These were originally going to be longer, and there were going to be other Incidents, but I've decided to leave them as is.

Because I'm too much of a wuss to post it on contrelamontre. It's based off of this challenge, but I'm just going to post it here.

Characters: Dorian Gray, Adrian Singleton
Words: 317, because I'm lazy

( Wildefic! Gaspshock! )

Fandom: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Characters: Alan Campbell, Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward (corpse of)
Notes: It's in dire need of editing. Also, apparently I can't write about him without writing about his suicide. :/

  ( 657 words of Alan Campbell )

Still no NaNo idea, but here's a bit of random writing from a couple of days ago. It probably can't be expanded, and it ends rather abrubtly, but we'll see.

( 231 words of something-or-other )

( 193 words of Lady Macbeth. Blame Brit Lit. )

I've decided to try to write at least a little every day in preparation for NaNo-ing, and to hopefully write things that will contribute to my actually having some idea of what I'm doing, come November, so here's the result of today's efforts. Actually, I wrote three pages, but 2 1/2 of them sucked. And this . . . I don't know what this is, but it sucks marginally less, anyhow. These characters probably are getting tossed, and I probably don't want to write about theatrical people (I have enough trouble being one, I don't need to have new fictional ones living in my head) but at least I wrote something.

( 343 utterly random words )

... aaand, the little bits of repetition in there I was attempting to use didn't really work. Oops.

Yes, folks, I've given in and created a NaNo journal. "I" being jiasachan .

Expect lackofwriting. I'm terribly unproductive.