title: Dog Days of Summer
characters: Ellie & Charlie
word count: 2109
author's note: Prompt was Cotton for week 3 of September's brigits_flame contest. It was a really strange prompt.

( Ellie's room was on the second floor and it was like a refrigerator that had broken and had caused all the food inside it to rot. )

title: The Wrath, The Wretched, The Fury.
universe: unnamed vampire one.
characters: C.C. Howlett, Flynn Gallagher, Alex Delmar, Prudence Genovese, Murmur/"Murphy."
word count: 2,484
A/N: This is for week two of brigits_flame's September contest. The prompt this week was really a make-your-own prompt (i.e: pick a quote you like and write something for it), and ( Read more... )

title: Blind Eye
universe: N/A
characters: Brannoc Llyr
word count: 1116
A/N: For brigits_flame, September Week 1. The prompt was the video version of a cover of The Rolling Stones's "Gimme Shelter." It's one of my favourite songs by the Stones, and I took my inspiration mostly from the lyrics. Granted, I have no idea how this came out because I just kept ( Read more... )

So here is the breakdown of how my writing life is going right now:

Not only am I competing in the regular contest this month at brigits_flame, I'm also part of the all-stars competition. Which means two different prompts, two different pieces. Up until last night, I had no ideas whatsoever for either. And now I've got one strong one. However, it's a novel- ( Read more... )

- word count: ~30365 ( Read more... )

Update ( Read more... )

As of right now, I am:

A) at 21,470 words.
B) in the midst of Chapter 5 (that may be split into two chapters, but who knows at this point)
C) technically way ahead, but in terms of plot and the book itself, I'm at page 56 of my draft and have a looooot more to go before the book is actually done.

( Here's the most recent excerpt, what I've written so far today: )

This year I will be participating in NaNoWriMo, working on my novel What the Dark Looks Like.

For all you other NaNo-ers, you can friend me here. Or just keep tabs on my progress. Or whatever. My username, if the link does not work, is Bellumina. I want more friends on there! So friend me! And stuff ( Read more... )

title: Kids with Guns.
universe: N/A.
characters: Jim Cleaver, Mikey Finn.
word count: 1,548
summary/notes: Written for week #4 at brigits_flame for the prompt Poppy; technically the prompt that really got me going was a line from the Gorillaz song "Kids with Guns," which is "And they're turning us into monsters," which I used as my first line. This is totally ( Read more... )