GO Fic: Temptation

[out_there]

Some stories start as a great idea. Some stall. And sometimes, you fracturea bone, get waylaid by real life, and it takes you months to come back and write the last two sections. (Having said that, it's now done. After this, I want to finish the Clint/Coulson story I started *last January*. And then, my wips folder will be clean.)

Temptation (4123 words) by out_there
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Jesus (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Two bros hanging out in the desert, Temptation in the desert, Name Changes
Summary:

And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. (Matthew 4:3)

Comments

[that_mireille]

Good for you! (The fic alert is in my inbox. I'm a good six hours from having the time to read fic right now, so this isn't specifically about the fic.)

I don't even know what a clean WIP folder looks like. I mean, I did finally let the Due South and X-Files WIPs that I hadn't touched since the nineties go...

[out_there]

Hee. Its so hard to let them go, isnt it? I still remember the Heroes wip I had to consign to the dead wips folder because it was 8K but I just couldnt make it work. And that was 11 years ago.

But these days, I write less and only work on one story at a time, and I like keeping tat wip folder clean.

[that_mireille]

I work on a few things at a time--usually one long fic (or fic with a deadline) and one short thing (or thing that's fun/easy/light and a good balance), but my WIP folder is full of things I've outlined so I don't lose the idea. And things that need to be edited so I can post them.

Very few *actual* WIPs.

[out_there]

Ah, I worked out years ago that writing down plot notes for things I wanted to read usually meant I never came back to actually write them. So I might as well let the idea be forgotten.

[that_mireille]

I don't write all of them (some are not actually good ideas! Also, in this very prolific month, I have written 5-1/2 fics, 60K words...and had 12 ideas, at least two of which will be very long if I write them.), but if I don't write them down, at least one of two things happens: (1) I forget them, or (2) I get distracted from what I was already writing.

And for some things, I'm not ready to write them yet. There's a fic I am dying to write ...but I haven't worked out the plot yet. There's a lot of "and somehow they beat the bad guys," and "somehow" needs to percolate in my brain a while longer.