#wipii the game

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I'm going through the list I made of all my WIPs and, damn they're all such amazing concepts. I would read every single one of those.

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Last Line Tag

*Piglet from Winnie the Pooh voice* Oh dear, oh dear, d-d-d-dear! I seem to have a lot of these.

Let's see which of my beloveds hath tagged me:

@sarandipitywrites over here

@duckingwriting over here AND here

@hallwriteblr over here

@tabswrites over here

@scifimagpie over here

@sarahlizziewrites over here

@sleepyowlwrites over here

@autumnalwalker over here AND here

@laplumedemaureen over here

@zmwrites over here AND here

@late-to-the-fandom over here

@pandoras-comment-box over here

@sunset-a-story over here

...oops

I did not realize I had THAT MANY in my drafts WTF

ANYWAY...

The coarse hairs of a woolen cloak, cool and damp from the night air, scratch the nape of my bare neck as a callused hand seizes my wrist. A sliver of icy metal stings against my throat.

I love when the people I tag @ me and/or link back to my post. I love it when you reblog my post with questions, compliments, words of encouragement about my WIP, or even no comment at all. But please make your own post to complete this tag. Please do not turn my post into a reblog chain.

Optionally tagging, as always: @maskedemerald, @olivescales3, @blackrosesandwhump, @zeenimf, @moonandris, @pen-for-sword

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Okay, actually, you know what, here's the master list of all my current original fiction WIPs. Because I feel the need to prove that some of them do have actual names. For honour's sake.

WIPs with actual names:

The Game duology: I Lost the Game and [unnamed sequel] - functionally WIPII

Evil Plans Trilogy: How to Take Over the World, How to Rule the World, How to Destroy the World (+ companion novels: Nefarious Schemes, Villainous Plots, How to Save the World) - functionally WIPIV

Evil Plans AU (Alien Universe) Trilogy: How to Conquer the Universe, How to Reign Over the Universe, How to End the Universe - also WIPIV

Tall Tales of Terribly Tempest Tseas Series - functionally WIPVI

Old Timey Pirates Duology: Good Ol' Fashioned Piracy and Ye Olde Skull and Crossbones - functionally WIPIX

Princess of Decay Trilogy - functionally WIPXI

Swincorn Classical Academy of Magic (S.C.A.M.) series - originally WIPXII

I am actually so proud of every single one of these names. If I trad pub these books I will fight to keep these names. These names are final and will not be changed.

WIPs with working titles that will probably be changed later:

House of the Windtaken series - functionally WIPVIII

WIPs with numbered placeholder names because idk what to call them at this point. The title is either one of first things I know about a story or it is the last thing I will figure out. (The only exception to this rule so far has been S.C.A.M. which I figured out after a significant amount of worldbuilding.)

WIPI (fucking massive series)

WIPIII (trilogy)

WIPV (series)

WIPVII (standalone)

WIPX (standalone)

WIPXIV (four books)

WIPXV (idk at this point)

WIPXVI (also idk)

On the other hand... my WIPs in order of priority (subject to change on a whim):

WIPVII - 60% done draft 3

WIPI - stuck on worldbuilding, stuck on plot

S.C.A.M. (WIPXII) - stuck on plot (got stuck 25k into a first draft, decided to scrap it)

WIPX - stuck on plot

Evil Plans (How to Take Over the World etc.) (WIPIV) - avoiding research that will probably get me put on a list hehe

Princess of Decay (WIPXI) - needs more direction

WIPIII - stuck on worldbuilding

The Game (WIPII) - needs more direction, ideas

WIPXIV - needs more ideas, putting it off bc it's a very new WIP and older WIPs get priority

WIPV - still only have a vague idea of what I want for it

Old Timey Pirates (WIPIX) - no idea what the central conflict is

WIPVIII/House of the Windtaken - no idea what the conflict is

WIPXV - yeah I got nothing but vibes for this one so far

WIPXVI - not emotionally ready to write it yet

Tall Tales of Terribly Tempest Tseas (WIPVI) - waiting bc these are my dad's stories to tell first.

so uhh yeah... my WIP having a name has nothing to do with where it sits on the priority list ahem

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BTW - anyone who is interested in my WIPVII content #wipvii is the most used tag on my blog. It has all my snippets and writing updates and live-blogging thoughts. I don't post full chapters though.

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Happy belated STS! How many WIPs are you currently juggling?

uhhhhh.... ahaHAAHhahahHAHHAHe ha... umm... well...

Happy Storytelling Sunday to thee as well! Thanks for the ask<3

So I have 27 project ideas. 15 are novel (or novel series) ideas. 4 are long-form stories but that I don't intend to turn into novels. 8 are fanfictions (7 of the 8 are long-form fics).

However, I am not currently working on all of those. That would be insane.

My projects can be categorized as:

Shelved long-term. Do not touch.

Everything else.

Shelved short-term. Do not touch. [for WIPs I am taking an intentional break from, such as between drafts]

Nothing currently. Though this will be WIPVII soon (I hope)

Informally shelved (6). [for WIPs I play with occasionally but am not ready to do serious work on]

WIPIII, WIPX, (all four whump WIPs)

Up next (5)

WIPII I Lost the Game, WIPIV How to Take Over the World, WIPXII Princess of Decay, WIPXII S.C.A.M., WIPXIV

Active, low-priority (2)

WIPI, FICI

Active, high-priority (1)

WIPVII

I just need to decide with of my Up Next WIPs to commit to (aka Active, high priority) once I take my obligatory break from WIPVII before draft 4.

Pretty much all of my WIPs are still in the planning stage except WIPVII. WIPXII S.C.A.M. and WIPXI PoD were in the drafting stage for a bit but I couldn't keep them going so I realized I had to go back to the drawing board.