Status Report: Weekly Twenty-Six

SUCCESS!

Word Count: 6002
Subjects: imaginarybeasts (apocalypse/distopia); Sherlock Holmes (movieverse); yaoi_challenge; EPIC ROBOTS (c'mon guys, play with us!)

Excerpt: On a summer Monday, I was out with my brother and we were looking for food. Some plants had to be boiled and boiled and boiled to be edible, and others were okay as they were, but they didn't do us any good if they were still growing in the ground and we were going hungry. Mom had told us about "grocery stores" before, places where there was all the food you could ever want, ready and waiting for people to come and take it--I'd even seen one once, the one time we ventured as far as the city looking for things to eat or to bring back to the house. It had been a huge skeleton of a building, with the ground pockmarked and the shelves still mostly full--dogs and maybe other things had torn apart certain sections, but left overs completely alone. Everything in it was too old to take back with us, though, and to me it felt like such a waste.

I wonder what sort of world it was, that had been full of easy food and noisy people.

Thoughts: Oh man, sob. I had a very specific thing I wanted to accomplish with the imaginarybeasts fic, but it was a very ... well, okay, it was pretty hilariously pretentious, but the idea was in my head and would not go away. I want the story's ending, when read, to feel sort of unsatisfying and abrupt--like when you have a sneeze that doesn't happen, that kind of stuffed-up, stuck-in-your-head thing. I HAVE NO IDEA IF I SUCCEEDED, and I don't know that it's particularly something one should aim for, sob. XD But that is what I wanted to produce with the story; time will tell whether or not I really succeeded.

In unrelated news, I will very likely be doing a fic meme this week (or possibly in two weeks--or maybe I will do two), re: my new fandoms. I need to make some ground on my Big Bang fics, though the yaoi_challenge stuff has been going on at a nice clip--but crap, springkink just opened up too, and--! AHHHHHHH. I really hope I can maintain this excitement and eagerness to write when I actually have my vacation in two weeks. :|a