Meme from 2011

[kate]

Going back through my stuff for a thing, and saw this:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

And it was cool to look at the list of 20-something stories and realize only one or two are still on it! I've posted most of them and thrown a couple away.

So here's my 2016 list:

The Grace Machine
We Three Kings
FakeMarriage
The Road Less Traveled
Dean Winchester and the Deck of Many Things
Jensen RPF
Alternate Season Seven fic
The Four Horsemen
Super dark freeforall
10.9 Episode cap
J2 French Mistake fic
Losers soulbond fic
Impromptu
How It Ends (You Already Know)
No Reins on This One
Permutations
Vampire Greg
Wampire Greg
Fresh Start
Teleportation fic
Weird dreamworld post-apocalyptic story
Olive

Aaaaaaaand just so I don't show up and put up nothing than a meme, a heartwarming story:

Last Sunday my wife said "Let's go to Melting Pot!" She had a craving. Okay, so we went. Because fondue! And when we got there, the waiter asked us if there was a special occasion and we were like, "nope, just wanted to come out."

And he proceeded to be the worst waiter in the history of waiters.

But then, something came up about the Oscars. Which I totally missed this year (which is the first year in like, two DECADES that I missed them). And then we realized... our first date was the Oscars. We used to use the Oscars as our anniversary. And then I realized our first date was in 2006. We were out for 10 year anniversary. ON ACCIDENT. Heh. :D :D :D

Comments

[china_shop]

Hee! I think we did something similar for our fifth.

Happy Anniversary! \o/

[kate]

:D :D :D It made up for missing the Oscars, at least.

Thank you!

[retsuko]

Ha ha, that's an awesome unintentional date! :D

Also, your WIPs have way more interesting titles than mine do. ;p

[kate]

:D :D :D RIGHT?!!

Well, for the ones with actual names, those come at varying points in the process, so it's actually interesting to me to see the ones that have them. Some of them have thousands of words, some of them have, like, two paragraphs. Weird stuff. (One of the not!titled ones has 35k words, and just... no title. SIGH.)

[grammarwoman]

What an amazingly romantic mistake - well done! :)

[kate]

Heeee, thank you! <3

[kinetikatrue]

So, I'm amused because I'm currently working on a similarly titled story to How It Ends (You Already Know) - though if I were the betting sort, I'd wager they didn't have much in common. Which just goes to show how many ways you can play similar titles. *g*

Also, congrats on the accidental anniversary date!

[kate]

Haha, thanks!

Yeah, that's a lyric from the DeVotchkas, right? It's the song from the Neil/Kent dance choreographed by Travis Wall in S... um. 8? of So You Think You Can Dance, which is what my story is about.

And actually... this is a sequel, and that is the title of the original story, so... apparently it isn't titled at all? UGH FIC. WHY IS.

What's your story about?

[kinetikatrue]

Hah, that's not my source, either, so even more divergent - I'm using You Know How They All End (Now), which is a play on a line from Romancing the Stone (referring to the endings to romances)...with the link there being that I'm writing a Hockey RPF story roughly based on the movie, with the setting changed to British Columbia and, well, a few other liberties taken. *g*

And as for the title to the sequel, maybe you could do something based on the 'You know there's a place in the sun' line or 'ask and you shall receive'...or 'forever's not so long', for something a little angstier?

[kate]

Oh, holy crap, ask and you shall receive is perfect! It's super not-angsty (a rarity for me), and that... is just perfect. :D

Also, hahaha, not even from the same source, HILARIOUS. I love stories! And brains!

[kinetikatrue]

Kat's titling service at your, well, service. Though, really, The DeVotchkas did all the heavy lifting; I just went and mined their words (and there's definitely a lot to find there). Anyway, glad one of those worked!

And aren't they great? Like, two titles that have four words in common, combined with one more pronoun apiece, plus an all or an already - and they imply entirely different things! SO COOL!

[synecdochic]

Sarah and I accidentally did this with the Bermuda cruise we took this year! (Also with the 10 year anniversary.)

[kate]

Hahahah, it's so easy to just gloss over isn't it? So weird to think it's been a decade! Also, congrats!

[synecdochic]

Well, we'd kind of been together for ages already ('kind of' because It's Complicated), but that was the 10 year anniversary of moving in together. :)

[kate]

Hahaha, nice. I don't know that I can remember our anniversary of moving in together. It was only like 3 months after we started dating, I think. I can barely remember what year we got our cats!

[synecdochic]

It's so comforting that we're not the only ones who can't remember this shit!

[kate]

Right? I'm a little stunned she even remembered the Oscar thing, I had forgotten about it completely.

[twistedchick]

Congratulations! (And sorry about the Worst Waiter.)

[kate]

Thanks! He was so terrible. I still overtipped him. Waiting is a tough job.

[trobadora]

Happy anniversary!

(And that's a great meme! But I could never do it. I have about ten million WIPs, and the files almost all have one-word names, plus version numbers. No one wants to read that!)

[kate]

Thanks!

I have that too, but I only put up the most recent version of my stories (they all have varying versions of their names, sometimes there are bits and pieces in other files, labeled by POV) and only one (there are 9 different The Grace Machine files and over 20 Impromptu files). I basically went with # of stories, not # of files.

[spikedluv]

Cute story! Happy anniversary!

[kate]

Thank you, and thank you! :D

[worlds_of_smoke]

Congrats!

[kate]

Thank you! :D

[brigantine]

Hee! Accidental celebrations are the best. Well done, you two. :)

Also, cool meme. "The Grace Machine" intrigues me.

[kate]

Hahaha, aren't they? Thank you!

Also, thank you - that's the big bang I'm trying to get done in the next three weeks. D:

[adafrog]

Okay, the waiter sucks, but the rest of the story is very cute.
Happy Anniversary!

[kate]

Yeah, bad waiters are definitely unfortunate, but it was a fun evening despite that. Thank you!

[umadoshi]

Happy anniversary, then! ^_^

[kate]

Thank you! :D