So, as I discussed last night, I haven't written much lately. Not since my dad died in 2012, really. But I want to write again. In that vein, I'm going to make a claim on a prompt table in 10_fics in the hopes that it'll make me write. I'm going to claim this for the Arrow fandom, and I'll be writing Olicity (Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak), because I adore ( Read more... )

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So, I was going to be all cheerful, because, hey, I only have three days until I'm off work for 10 days in a row, and I got a lot accomplished at work today (even though I came in to find that mice had gotten in and destroyed a flat full of seedlings I planted on Friday...chewed them all up). But then I went to go transfer the laundry from the ( Read more... )

You gotta love a job that pays you to make mudpies. (I had to add more soil to some of my plants so they won't fall over, and the soil has to be wet-ish when you do that, so yeah. Mudpies.)

Also, we had our holiday party at work today. It was...awkward, like usual. I had no idea that half of those people even existed, much less worked in our ( Read more... )

So, I've decided. I'm not going to try to do the real NaNoWriMo. It's just not going to happen until we don't have 8 bazillion things to do with our kids in the evenings. Instead, I'm going to do my own version of NaNoWriMo, sort of. My goal isn't going to be a certain number of words, it's going to be finished fics. There are 4 one-shots that ( Read more... )

Especially for my fellow Hufflepuffs. :)

Title: House of Comfort
House Category: Hufflepuff
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Pomona Sprout, 'next gen' unnamed Hufflepuffs, beloved old characters of other Houses
Rating: G
Summary: Thus it was that even after centuries, the tradition of the Head of Hufflepuff House gathering the Hufflepuffs for a reminder ( Read more... )

Between this excellent article I found through the lovely stmargarets, and this


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If you're looking for some great H/G fics, get thee hence to takingitinturns, where flyingcarpet  has posted the masterlist from this year's fest.

I'm going to start making my way through the masterlist tonight. I grounded myself and wouldn't let myself read anything until after I'd gotten mine done, so I haven't read any of them, other than my gift *waves at mollywheezy* and the fics ( Read more... )

Whoop!

Aggies 58, Bears 46

:)

Dear authors on my flist,

Talk to me about points of view, please.

( Rambling ramble inside )