#currently a good chunk of the way through writing another fic for this ep

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Trolley Problem text posts part 3 (part 1, part 2)

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Writing Update

This is mostly just a list of fics that I’ve started since NaNo ended October (wow, I’ve been horrible about updating. lol.) for those of you who are interested. Assuming I don’t ramble too much I’ll stick a note at the end about what I’ve been working on the most lately.

Mac Memoir AU: Set current day-sh. Mac didn’t came back to the States after getting stabbed in Fallujah in 2009, but she’s back now and working on a memoir about her time as a foreign correspondent. She calls up Will to talk about the book. Ten years on he’s retired and not as cranky as you’d expect.

Current Day AU (Sloan’s playing  matchmaker): Sloan tries to set Mac and Will up on a work date but Will’s not having any of it until he decides it’d be fun to mess with Don (his current EP) who needs someone to cover for him while he’s on vacation.

Nebraska Backstory Swap: Sloan’s the one from Nebraska this time (I have so many backstory swaps, sorry not sorry). Mac’s caught without enough people for her panel 40 minutes before air so she strong arms Sloan into agreeing to fill in. Sloan who used to work in marketing and now does data modeling with Neal for the website. [I’m trying to squeeze this into something short but it’s falling kind of flat without enough setup.]

Sports AU/Cuddling for Warmth: Mac and Will have a friendly snuggle/nap on the bus after a match/game/meet. [oneshot for my bracket fic challenge. This is my second attempt with this prompt set and I’m still not sure what’s missing.]

Breanna AU: Premise: Mac’s asexual, Brian is now Breanna (I can’t turn Brian into a wholly good guy. ugh.). Mac asks Brea to sleep with her because she doesn’t want to sleep with Will, find out she finds the whole thing utterly repulsive and have to explain that to him. Things don’t quite go according to plan. Fast forward four years to when Will asks Brea to write the New York Magazine piece.

Why Did You Tell Me AU: Mac doesn’t tell Will about Brian. Things continue as planned: they get married, have twin boys, Will semi-retires and goes back to consulting/practicing law part time while Mac works for a local news station to be able to spend more time with the boys. She slips up, says something that grabs Will’s attention and he can’t let it go; she tells him about Brian and suddenly they’re on rocky ground. The story picks up from there.

The other post-NaNo stuff I’ve been working on: I have a Valentine’s day fic (between seasons 2 and 3 plotted in my head. We’ll see how long it takes me to get it down on paper. Similarly I have a female bodyguard AU swimming around in my head without a plot other than Will’s traveling for work and needs some discrete security. Sloan suggests Mac. I’m thinking St. Lucia, pool time, leather jackets, and bossy!Mac.

And the the older stuff, aka the stuff I started in November:

Family of Choice/Cabin AU (prompt bracket fic): Mac’s spent the last couple of years getting shipped off to various boarding schools and then finally a military school because she’s not really into following rules she doesn’t agree with. Problem is she doesn’t have anywhere to spend the summer so Sloan invites her to stay with her, at Will’s cabin and now 19 year old Will is stuck with 17 year old bookworm MacKenzie.

Mac ends up Car Camping in Will’s driveway: AU with no real plot yet

The first Sports/Cuddling for Warmth AU: Cabin in the ‘dacks after a cross country meet. Sloan thinks Mac and Will are adorable. Also it snows.

Nebraska Radio AU: Domestic/future gen AU. Mac runs a radio station in Nebraska. Will’s one of her hosts. They’re married with kids and a few issues. Don and Sloan have a couple of kids, Jim and Maggie are married with baby #2 on the way. Charlie’s retired and is everybody’s grandpa.

Acro AU: Basically just an excuse for a circus like AU. Trapeze and aerial silks. Mac is Will’s new partner. He’s not happy about that. He’s less happy about being berated by Sloan for being a jerk to Mac because as he finds out Mac left her previous job after some traumatic events.

Pre-series Mac and Will on vacation: This may possibly be morphing into somewhat of an AU. Cabin in the woods. Early days. Mac wondering what the hell she’s doing with Will.

Intertwine: Mac and Will through the seasons if Wade hadn’t existed and Will was less interested in Nina and/or Mac and Will both had some serious impulse control issues. Definitely not PG.

Another Musician AU: Charlie’s a manager at a well known record label playing matchmaker with some of his artists. Will’s kind of a big thing but quickly realizes Mac’s a whole lot more famous then him which makes  her a sellout in his books until he realizes she’d be happy to give it all up. She started out as a child star and she’s sick of her mom masterminding her whole career.

Crime Reporter AU: Mac’s just broken a story on corruption in the city police department. While her name’s been left out of the byline everyone still knows it’s her and she’s having a hard time doing her job. Working for the Brooklyn DA Will steps in to help and ends up tangled in a mess when a bunch of guys decide to try and shut Mac up a little more forcefully.

Forensic Pathologist AU: Mac gets pregnant in med school (decides not to practice medicine) and marries Will. Now he works for the DA and she travels around helping identify victims of violent crimes. One part domestic!fic, one part omgCharlienooo

Family of Choice/Wilderness AU: Will and his gang are headed to his cabin Upstate to hunker down and wait out the dystopian nightmare playing out in much of the country. Everything’s going great except Mac won’t stop picking up strangers. Will’s pretty peeved about this but starts coming around to the idea after Mac adopts 8 year old Jenna.

Church and Horses AU: Will meets Mac after Sloan insists he come to the church dinner to meet people since he’s relatively new in town. He’s a large animal vet. Mac’s a mom with four kids and a jerk of a husband who’s just left her for a more exciting life.

Mostly I’ve been working (kind of) on my original backstory swap (Mac’s the anchor with issues up to her eyeballs and Will’s the EP). I’ve made it through the first part of season 3 plotwise. The last couple of days has been a lot of the ‘Why Did You Tell Me AU’ with a couple of chunks on the Brianna AU. I’ve also worked on some shorter stuff that didn’t make the list above for brevity’s sake. I’m not sure any of it’ll ever get finished but at least I’m writing something :) I’ve also been messing around with the current day AU (election night is in 2016 instead of 2016; Will sticks his foot in his mouth and doesn’t fix it before the night is over -> trying to stick to any sort of news timeline is making my brain explode) and the Mac Memoir AU.