fandomhigh | Creative Writing [Tuesday, 5th Period]

Today there were coffee and pastries laid out on a trestle table at the side of the classroom, and the caption '7 DAYS TO DEADLINE' written on the whiteboard in large letters.

"Okay kids, next week is our last class, and you're going to be presenting your finished stories to the rest of the class," Rick said, leaning against his desk. "That means that we're going to spend today buckling down and doing some intensive work on them. If you need to make that last trip to the library or computer lab for research, get going. If you're having trouble or if you need a fresh pair of eyes to look over things, talk to me or ask a classmate for help. I'll be holding office hours for last minute hand-holding later in the week but if you want in-depth critique I'm going to need your current drafts by the end of the class."

He gestured towards the trestle table. "There's coffee and snacks if you want them, and you may listen to music on headphones provided it's low enough not to be distracting for everyone else. Otherwise, let's get writing."

[OOC: OCD up.]

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You haven't got much time left.

Free coffeeeeee.... yes, she'd already had three cups today, but Emma was happy to start on her fourth as she set to work on her story.

"Anyone willing to proof American football terms for me?" she called out sweetly. "I'm not very good with sports."

Chloe looked up and without realizing she was saying it, she heard her voice say."

"S-sure. I c-can help with that."

What had she done? She had just volunteered to talk to someone she didn't know without being pushed to.

"Fantastic," Emma sighed, handing over the notebook with her most recent draft. "I tried watching clips on YouTube, but I still don't really understand the rules."

Not that the rules were very important to her story, but still. Some accuracy was required.

Chloe read over the draft carefully and nodded at Emma. "T-they d-don't always include the c-complete information that you n-need."

After a few minutes, she handed the notebook back to Emma. "It looks g-good," she said. "T-terms are c-correct."

"Thank you, darling," she replied dutifully, taking it back. Stammering? Really? While Emma enjoyed having people intimidated by her, she wasn't even trying.

"It's not too overtly homoerotic, is it? I was going for satire over lurid romance novel."

After talking to Joan, Kate started writing. There was still a whole lot to be written, but she was pretty sure she would get it done in time.

Seriously, where the hell did all the time go?

Jennifer was worrying that she'd accidentally just written a very special episode of ~~the meta for~~ Matlock, except Matlock was now a plucky, pretty young woman.

Too late now, though.

Robin ~~flailed wildly with a pencil against paper~~ worked feverishly on his story. His heroine had become an amalgamation of many girls here at school. And any resemblance between himself and her wacky, handsome and loveable frog sidekick was strictly coincidental.

Eleanor was finding it both hard and easy to write. Easy, because she knew Reggie's story, hard because it was Reggie.

But she was determined to push on.

She just hoped that Reggie never saw it.

Jill's story needed some serious editing, considering that Jack had written parts of it. Yikes.

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