WIP meme - a goat following the flock

[elingregory]

This is all over the place today, posted mostly by proper writers with followings. But I'm posting this as a cautionary tale to anyone who thinks "oh hey, I have a shiny idea, I'll write a book about it!"

Shiny ideas can be evil. Shiny ideas can take over you life and your hard drive. Shiny ideas are truculent and aggressive ratbags who interfere with each other. And the worst thing about them - they travel in herds!

Solitary shiny ideas that can be properly attended to are lovely things but when does that ever happen.

Meme:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.



Alike As Two Bees
Anatolios
Applejack
Blighs Ferry
Eleventh Hour
Emrys
A Fierce Reaping
A Gleam of Splendour
Henry Vance
The Imperial Ideal
Keladra
The Language of Flowers
Moonlight Shadow
Norton Wood
Old Stories
On a Lee Shore
Regency Rubbish
Short in the Saddle
Spices to Belhaven
Tears of Heaven
Town Mouse
The Wanderer

Name one of them and I'll give you a snippet from it and/or tell you something about it.

In other news, I find I am required to write a guide book for work, during my normal working hours in addition to my normal tasks, and it needs to be print run ready by the end of January. OMG so much fact checking!!!!

Comments

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Who is Henry Vance?

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Henry Vance started off as a role playing character but I decided that he had at least one novella in him.

He was a society portrait painter both sides of the pond in the later 1920s. Opportunistic, a survivor, rarely in funds, charming, kind and not particularly practical.

The novella incarnation would be set in 1925 with PTSD angsty flashbacks to 1915 [when Henry spent a particularly traumatic night trapped in a collapsed bunker under an artillery barrage]. Henry has a commission to paint the debutante daughter of a well connected family, a commission that puts a roof over his head. This is all right as far as it goes but complications arise when Henry discovers that the family chauffeur is the man with whom he shared that bunker back in 1915, a man he's never been able to forget.

The file contains a load of notes on the Great War, scraps from the RPG and what remains of Henry's fake Wikipedia page. Of the story very little that makes sense was written, I have more on paper, but there is a body of art work:





Funny the things one does when one is bored. I'd like to write the story, Henry was a darling.