Tiny apology

[itsallovernow]

This is a tiny apology to suelac for suggesting that Life During Wartime was WIP, but also a chance to pimp it for those few people out there who haven't read it. You've got all sorts of fabulous XF authors (well, fabulous authors in general. Except for cofax, I don't know that the others have written in other fandoms) writing self-contained, linked post-col. stories.

The whole series is fantastic, but the last chapter, Fimbulwinter, is really stunning (and leaves me wanting more, more, more which is how I ended up lumping it in with the typical WIP, which it's not. Anyway, for anyone who hasn't read it, go now and do so, and e-mail the very talented authors. These are the Mulder and Scully and Lone Gun Men that I fell in love with, and I'm far happier reading this series than I was watching the last two seasons. And now I'm tempted to go read it all over again.

However, that being said. Fire Sale really is a WIP (or was) and I do truly wish that haphazardmethod and Barbara D. would finish it:) Because it's sooo good.

In that same vein, what are some of your other favorite WIP's that remain unfinished, for curiousity's sake? I'm trying to think of others. There's another X-Files one that I think may even be in the novel archive that was profiley and angsty and gory, and damn, now I'm gonna have to go find it.

Comments

[ropo.livejournal.com]

//Uhm, I think one of the really old WIPs (about Scully going undercover with the Irish mafia or something) is actually getting updated after several years of hiatus. It's called "Razor's Edge", IIRC. I liked it a lot when it was coming out initially, but now, the prospect of following it up after all these years is incredibly fatigue-inducing, so I haven't.//

I believe it's being entirely rehauled, that story, and Blueswirl's not going to post until it's all done. She says she wrote herself into a corner and has started all over! So don't read the old one since apparently it's going to be muchly changed when it's all done. That story was the first (and really the only) WIP that broke my little heart. I read it in my early fic-reading days and didn't really understand what a WIP was, and when no more chapters were posted... I was adrift! And Scully was deep, DEEP undercover as Jamie, and she was hooked on coke! And she and Mulder had a very angst-filled talk on a rock! And, and, and....

*weeps herself into a corner*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I think starting it over again has got to be a daunting prospect, but good for her. And I still get that open mouthed, but, but, but what do you mean there aren't any more chapters with unfinished WIP's. Willpower. I need to develop willpower.