Update 2-23-11

Nothing new to post yet, although I have a number of things cooking:

1. A short story that could be described as a crossover of sorts, although it is more fair to say I am merely borrowing a cup of plot from elsewhere. It seems like two great tastes that will taste great together, although it is slightly in the supernatural realm and I hadn't meant to go there with Holmes. But it's a neat idea brewing and we'll see where it goes.

2. An amnesia story, which, while as a plot line is hopelessly contrived and cliché, is still a fun toy to play with. Holmes and Watson are such excellent action figures to put in different, fun scenarios.

3. I have some good ideas for my novel and have been outlining as much as I can. This is my first attempt at anything of this length, and I want to lay a good groundwork for it. It's also my first real experience plotting a full mystery story and it has been extremely fun to try to leave myself breadcrumbs of clues along the way for Holmes to find.

4. My first foray into the realm of the shkinkmeme. Wanted to post an idea, then realized it made more sense if I just did it myself. I have never written anything like this before. I have a good, sexy idea but it has been hard to get those ideas and images into text. At this point, I have one excellent (if I do say so myself) line for the end and one and a half paragraphs at the beginning. Progress is slow.

Drabble: One Word

Title: One Word
Author: spacemutineer
Word Count: 100
Prompt: none
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings/genres: none
Author's notes: This is Jeremy Brett's Holmes all the way. Of course, if I'm writing it, it always is.


I have never stopped wondering what it is he sees when he is at work. Arrested in thought, he is an elegant statue of stone and smoke, a sculpted gargoyle perched delicately but immovably on a parlor chair. He stares into the middle distance, rubs his hands together as if they were made of the smoothest silk and finds what he is after. The answer, the solution, the thread that binds the problem into a beautifully wrapped gift to be bestowed upon the world. With it, his grey eyes flash and I receive the one word I have awaited.

“Watson!”

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