tackling the hard stuff: WIPs

[cimorene]

I want to attack my failed resolution from last year more firmly this year. Namely, I want to learn to work on more than one WIP at a time. (Long story, OCD, paralyzed perfectionist yadda yadda.)

On reflection I have decided that I need to work on a different WIP each day, and try to write at least a few sentences of it daily, and that to begin with, I need to pick an order out of a hat. (Last year, no joke, I lost several weeks of actually potentially productive writing days agonizing over which old WIP to try to work on.)

To that end I have grabbed random sentences lacking character or place names which should for the most part be without identifying markers for anything except genre/mood. Pick one or more (but not all of them, because a five-way tie would defeat the purpose) according to any criteria you choose and I can put them in order for an initial schedule that way.

Hopefully having put it in writing, and someplace I can't possibly miss seeing it, will help guilt me into actually doing the writing thing daily, or almost.

Poll #9078 Pick one or more sample sentences using any criteria you like

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Which order should I work on the WIPs?

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"Oui, mon ami, and she has also the filing system most excellent."
17 (37.0%)

In a city like Vienna where pickpockets could rub elbows with princes in the streets, vampires and werewolves must also coexist: ordered their coats at the same tailors, bowed at the same courts and played cards at the same parties.
13 (28.3%)

As usual, his brother made his arrival with the force of a storm wind, the grace of an angry swan, and all the subtlety of a lightning strike.
17 (37.0%)

He had surprisingly nice handwriting for a man who didn't have to insert his own cufflinks if he didn't feel like it.
25 (54.3%)

"It's not so much the danger to me, because of my time in the dark arts, and I've been to the Other Side before of course - I mean, it's not like I get off scot free, it's more or less a pint of blood here or there, normal hazards of the trade."
8 (17.4%)

Comments

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

Here from network. Poirot fanfic? Can it really be true? Awesome!

[cimorene]

Yeah, that one didn't have any sentences more than a couple of words long without character names or distinctive, er, speech patterns in them.

The story itself is kind of crack though.

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

Then I will have images in my head of David Suchet dealing with crackiness, and that is really the only way this could have become more awesome.

[msilverstar]

This!

My daughter's been on a Poirot kick lately :-D

[krait]

"The grace of an angry swan" won me over. :D It got first vote, followed by the cufflinks/handwriting chap.