Let's write!

This is a David and Will story and it's about half-done, most of it written years ago. It's mostly about Will's family, and it's not an adventure, so I'm not particularly optimistic about how it will come out - I'm not good at these entirely mundane stories. So, I got stuck at a part that seems rather stupid. The problem is that there's another story that follows this one and needs all of this backstory to make sense, and I really want to write that story, so I keep poking at this one.

I thought I might use the WIP Weekend to force myself to write the next few paragraphs that I've been avoiding, but instead I ended up revising an existing scene - something near the end of the story, long after the place I got stuck.

Things to know: Sarah is Will's mother, and she and his dad are divorced. Ritchie and Beth are Will's siblings. In this story, David meets Will's family for the first time, when they go down to London for the Christmas holidays. Because of the packed house, David and Will had to share a room. The family does not know David is an alien.

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WIP Weekend!!! For today’s challenge, write at least three paragraphs for one of your own projects. Do a bit more in a work-in-progress… Write something concrete for an idea that so far has only been rattling around in your brain… Take one of the fills you’ve done for this comm and write the next scene in the story….You can even go back to something you’ve finished and rework/rewrite/reimagine it… Or, if you prefer, revise and edit a few paragraphs of a WIP to improve style, language, character, plot, etc.

Yes, you have to post the snippet that you do, so don’t work on something that you want to keep secret. :) Or, if you completed and posted your work, post the link!