follow me into the rain

Post six sentences from whatever you're working on!
This time it's all from the same WIP, and the same chapter to boot. But I took there's three different excerpts, two lines to each.

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The sounds of the city around them didn't bring him back to sober discretion, they just helped the moment feel even more real. The two of them stumbled forward, aching and shivering, step by step.

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Sakamoto’s voice is nearly drowned out by the noise in the bar. “I know what you’re doing, Zura,” he says, chin resting in hand, pouring more wine into Katsura’s glass.

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They hardly ever talk about him during all that time, and when they do, Gintoki’s not the one to bring him up. There’s no use to it.

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This question is for anyone who's ever written a fic who happens to read this!

Have you, like me, ever found yourself taken in with an idea for a fic or a scene within a fic you really like, only to later remember that there's an inconvenient canon detail, or a RL detail that's relevant to canon, which will make the idea as you first pictured it impossible?

Did you manage to rework the fic or scene to fit better in with canon? Did you decide to disregard the small detail because it's not in the end all that important? Or did you give up on the idea entirely and wrote a different fic or another scene instead?

An example: Recently I've had an idea for a ficlet which would depict a quiet scene between two former enemies, sharing something of themselves and trying to get used to being on the same side now. Since they're both Japanese and since I love bath scenes, plus I wanted a kind of semi-intimate vulnerability involved, I wanted to put the scene in a public bath. That's how it arrived in my head. With a different setting, the atmosphere would also be different, and it wouldn't feel like the same idea anymore.

But then I remembered that one of the characters was recently shot in the stomach in canon not long before when this scene would take place. These are ridiculously strong shonen characters who heal very fast, so if I wanted to I could probably get away with not mentioning the wound at all. But unfortunately that wound is relevant to their characterization and where the plot has taken them. In a scene where they're undressed, it would feel remiss of me not to mention it... but that means the wounded character wouldn't take a bath at all, especially not one shared with other people.

So I will either have to shelve that idea entirely or find a way to rework it, however I decide to do that. Unless I will disregard that canon fact after all and hope nobody notices.

What kind of experiences do you have with this?

[repost from Tumblr earlier today, edited. Yanked this meme from egelantier on Tumblr]
Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Comment about the title that most intrigues you or interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

This seems like a cool meme!

I am nevertheless going to be a tiny bit secretive and not mention a couple of long-runners. Also, most of the below are old fragmentary drafts for One Piece and a couple of other fandoms that never went anymore. (Although the one titled “nami usopp cold time” was supposed to be a gift to someone, I feel bad about not having worked that one out… and I haven’t given up on it yet.)

Tagging anyone who wants to play!

ginzura businesslike or more
Fifteen years and two weeks old
pirate banchina more
Usopp wait
Want to help me hang up the laundry
blueprints frobin
Cold town
dreamlike
early timeskip
He never remembers the gunshots
It should have been easy
loose draft lusopp idk pining
love and be silent
Luffy is almost always quiet
nami snowstorm II
nami usopp cold time
mud voices in the cave
trouble zosopp
dehors en janvier
fantasio seccotine bar
City By The Ocean
till i’m gathered safely in
alchemist ryoga
or maybe
the mountain path
akane walk volleyball
akane ukyo training
for two weeks
they came upon the ruins
spectators
you know, akane
sena monta suzuna
sena pov
monta pov

I've started to think - a bit late, I know - that maybe I ought to be more responsible about the ratings I give my fics, especially perhaps when I post things outside my private journal on comms or on ffnet (though they have their own rating system over there). But when it comes to swearwords, I still don't think I really know enough about their impact and how it affects the rating. (Nor do I know the MPAA system very well, for that matter - but I'm not expecting an indepth explanation of that.) Should anyone reading this have the inclination and patience to give me a hint, I'd be very grateful - though I understand if no-one feels like it.

( Cut for swearwords )