Pocket Universe

So I have this one project that, despite my best efforts, was determined to be an epistolary novel. I say was, because apparently, writing some Kimberly-centric fic for no_true_pair served as enough incentive to get my main character, an itty bitty bitchy mathematician, talking. She has now offered me up an actual plot instead of dancing around one with letters and journal entries, and that's got the other POV characters talking. (Holy crap, they're a chatty bunch now!)

I'm sorting through the threads figuring out how I want things to go. I'm also being vastly entertained by her (dead) husband hunkering down in the back of my mind to talk soldiering with Kimberly. Sweetie, go rescue your husband! Kimberly's charming trouble. Yes, sweetie, I know you think that about your husband, but Kimberly is real trouble.

(The oh-so-wrong part of me is a little too in love with Archer my bitchy mathematician's former guardian. There is a potential plot line where he proposes a marriage of convenience, and I'm so tempted to have her accept. So very tempted.)

Hopefully, this momentum will carry me through an actual draft. The goal for today is to get a (potential) drabble outline worked out. I'm not writing much of anything else right now because I'm afraid if I switch gears, I'll lose my focus. Though I may have to find the time to eke out the ending for my "They fight crime!" piece for no_true_pair because it's Falman and Winry as the main characters in a children's series, and they're running around Central solving crimes, and they're just too damn cute!

I would also like to finish up an entry for Wiseguy's June contest, though the story I have sketched out is, um, kind of dark. And incesty. And probably not the sort of offering he has in mind for a contest titled "here cums the bride." (Apparently, I've already used up my sweet and cute points for the month.)