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YOU GUYS, MY

apocabigbang DRAFT IS DONE.

I mean, it's going to need some heavy editing - mostly for tone and pacing, but also for other stuff; I wrote it in a bunch of sittings, and didn't actually read over it each time, so there are probably a lot of words, phrases, etc. that I've overused. (God, this is such a rough draft.) And I need to make sure the plot actually makes sense, that there are no plot holes or stuff I've left out or stuff I've repeated, and I want to go over the plot and make sure I like it and there's nothing I should change or could do better. (Like the romance angle, which I was kind of like - should it be moving faster? Slower? Is it totally uneven? Should it be overt, or kind of unspoken like in Mnemonic Devices, OH GOD, SHOULD IT BE GEN? But I like where it ended up, I think, so I just need to go over the stuff leading up to that.) And it'll undoubtedly need a line edit for grammar/spelling/typos/whatever. And after get all that done, I think I'll send it off to beta :P

BUT. IT IS DONE, AND FINISHED, AND I CAN SEND IT OFF AND MAYBE, LIKE, NOT LOOK AT IT FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, WOULDN'T THAT BE NICE?

I think I'll start drinking now.

Next up:

help_haiti fic, and then post-Yuletide fics and

halfamoon and

purimgifts, and then maybe stuff that's just for fun! It could happen.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: bonnie hayes - girls like me

Damn. For some reason, I was convinced that the porn battle didn't end for another few days - oops! Well, I'll be writing Cara/Kahlan fic anyway, just not for that.

My

apocabigbang fic is at 20,000 words, and the first draft is *thisclose* to being done. All that's left to write is the big final battle scene; I'm hoping I can finish it off tomorrow, otherwise I'll just have to send the draft off with notes like "insert cool fight sequence here," and "this part is in the cafeteria."

I really want to participate in

halfamoon, since it's an awesome community, but I'm not sure if I'll have time. Still - if you give me the name of a female character(s) in any fandom you know I'm familiar with (and some kind of prompt), I'll try to write at least a drabble. Femslash and female friendships also welcome :D

And February birthdays! Happy upcoming birthdays to

purple_cube,

hobbitofkobol,

boonies,

_cereza,

misscam,

rosa_acicularis, and

juleet! I hope you all have an awesome month, and if you'd like a birthday ficlet, etc. let me know and I'll try to get it to you on time :D

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: david bowie - i'm afraid of americans

I finally put up (and decorated) my Christmas tree today! I know, it's less than a week until Christmas, but the less time it's up, the less time my cat has to eat it, so. I also finished wrapping presents, watched Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, which, shut up, I still love, and then, I wrote stuff! (I love having my holiday ficathon assignments finished early, even if it's only by a couple of days, it makes me feel SUPER ACCOMPLISHED or whatever.)

So, since I'm actually making progress on stuff, I figured I'd do one of those fic check-in things.

( Current fics in progress )

So, yeah, I still haven't started my second

apocabigbang fic, but I do have an idea for it; I'm not sure if it's something I'll actually manage to finish, but AtVS is definitely a go, regardless. And I probably won't be able to finish To Wish Impossible Things by the end of the year, like I would have liked, but I might be able to make some progress on it, and maybe make a concentrated effort once

apocabigbang is finished.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: the decemberists - summersong

I broke 1000 words on my

yuletide fic! After I got a solid idea for it, it was actually pretty easy to write, so that's good. And I wrote 1000 words of Demi/Selena fic which is SO COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS, it even has the cheesiest summary ever, like, it could be a blurb from an actual harlequin novel. I'm not sure if should keep it like that or change it to something less cracky, hmmm. It was supposed to be a snippet, but is turning into an actual fic, like, I'm not sure the premise actually warrants it, but whatever. Also, I realised that this is my first ever ridiculous AU, I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF.

Anyway, I'm past the minimum word count on both my holiday ficathon assignments, so I'm feeling good about those. I still need to work a lot more on my

apocabigbang fics if I want to be on track for the halfway point check-in at the end of the month, but I'm pretty confident about the first one, and I can deal with the second one once I have a few less things to worry about. And I'm having a lot of fun with them (especially the Alex the Vampire Slayer fic), so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard.

Current Mood: productive
Current Music: pj harvey - dear darkness

Firstly, happy birthday to

crickets! I'm sorry this is so late, but I hope you had an awesome day :D

Secondly, wow, I have been totally absent the past few days. I haven't even been writing quite as much as I should have been, but I should probably do a fic check-in, anyway, since we're about three quarters of the way through November.

( Exchange fics )

( Other stuff )

My second

apocabigbang fic, and my

yuletide fic, are still sitting at zero, but I have a potential idea plotted out for the former, and a solid grasp on the latter. I finished my Fall Fandom Free-For-all (yay!) - on time, even (double yay!) - which makes two fics down out of the seven I was working on at the start of the month. And my

prettylightsfic assignment, while still unfinished, is at least past the minimum word count, so that's something.

All up, I've written almost 15,000 words this month on Stuff I'm Officially Supposed To Be Writing, and about 1000 words in unrelated ficlets; it's not exactly a record breaking word count, but at least it's progress.

Current Mood: bored
Current Music: the rapture - pieces of the people we love

It's a little late for a mid-month check-in, but whatever, I'm doing one anyway.

( Exchange fics )

( Other stuff )

So. I don't want to jinx it, but the Fall Fandom Free-For-All fic is finally going the way it was supposed to. Already there have been things that could possibly qualify as wacky hijinks! A reboot was definitely the way to go, I think. (It's still a lot later than I intended to have it finished, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to work on To Wish Impossible Things as much as I wanted, but still. I'm just glad it's actually going somewhere now.)

I'm still keeping up with

wrisomifu, and in the past week I've made progress on four of the six fics I'm working on. So, yay.

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: david bowie - starman

It's (roughly) a quarter of the way through November, so, fic check-in time! The only thing I haven't made progress on is my Disney RPF big bang (excluding, of course, my

prettylightsfic and

yuletide fics, since those assignments haven't been sent out yet). And I've managed to write something every day for

wrisomifu; so far, not counting random ficlets, I've written 6256 words, which ... is not extraordinary, but considering I was majorly blocked on one particular fic for most of that time, it's not horrible.

( Exchange fics )

( Other stuff )

Current Mood: recumbent
Current Music: ok go - get over it

Spook Me

5335 / 5335

HA, TAKE THAT, FIC! It's finally finished, and will be posted in a minute. And I totally credit my big bang for making that possible - I took the last couple of days off to start working on that, and being able to write something else made me realise that this fic was not the huge, all-encompassing roadblock I imagined it to be. Which means

apocabigbang is now awesome in that it a) EXISTS, b) features a teenage (ex?) cheerleader vampire slayer, and c) fixed my Halloween fic! And ... I maybe even like this fic again, I don't know. But I don't hate it, and it's done, so that's a huge win.

So, one fic down, six to go.

(Also, while my mood theme says 'relieved,' it is actually a picture of 'secretly disappointed I can't nail my hot sister.' Totally appropriate for everything I talk about ever, y/y?)

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: monsters of folk - say please

Awesome Ficathons, Redux:

prettylightsfic is still open for sign ups until November 6th. If you can't sign up with the requirements currently in place, comment at the exemption post and you might still get to play.

apocabigbang is in need of more artists/vidders/mixers; if you're willing to create art, graphics, a vid, or a fanmix for someone else's fic, please considering signing up. Rules are here, and sign ups are open until November 9th.

yuletide sign ups just went live, and are open until November 12th. There are literally thousands of small fandoms to choose from, and it's definitely a fannish highlight of my year.

Not only did I plot my Wizards Of Waverly Place

apocabigbang fic, but I actually started writing it:

Alex the Vampire Slayer

694 / 10000

Take that, writing! In less exciting news, apparently my Halloween fic has become exactly like a chore in my mind; like, it's something that isn't particularly difficult, and can even be fun, but I dread doing it, anyway. But at least it's specific to that fic, and not writing in general, given that it's ficathon season and I just signed up for two big bangs.

Now I'm off to narrow down the list of fandoms I want to write for

yuletide, post my dear author letters, and maybe even sleep, if I can manage it.

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: bell xi - he said she said

My Alex the Vampire Slayer

apocabigbang fic is plotted, yay! It will ... probably end up being significantly longer than the 10,000 word minimum, but that's okay; I still have three months to write it, after all. And I'm totally excited about it, which is awesome. Now if only the Disney RPF fic would come as easily.

In other news, Greek had its mid-season finale last night, and I'm going to miss it so much. But, thoughts on the episode:

( Greek )

And now we have to wait until January for new episodes, which sucks. (Though chances I'll rewatch the series before then are probably high, ngl.)

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: cobra starship - good girls go bad

Wow, I am awesome at procrastinating. So far, in the past couple of days I've signed up for

prettylightsfic, written my Dear Author letter, started compiling my

yuletide requests and letter, put together word count meters for half a dozen fics that don't need them because they're currently sitting at a grand total of nothing, and written a ficlet that's completely unrelated to anything else I'm supposed to be doing. And, okay, I did manage to write another few hundred words of my

spook_me fic, but the way it's going right now, I'm pretty much just hoping that people don't hate it.

I also tried to sleep, but obviously that didn't work out so well for me, since I'm still awake.

(But, apparently, ~~last night~~ the night before last I dreamed that my Disney RPF

apocabigbang fic should be a Sliders AU. And that they should slide to a post-apocalyptic reality or something. And I woke up pretty firmly convinced that this was an actual thought I'd had while awake, and was therefore something that was actually awesome, instead of dream awesome, until I realised that, nope. In my dream, though, it was the best idea ever. And now I kind of want to watch Sliders. Specifically, I want to watch the pilot, but I do have a random season three episode that, for some reason, was included as a bonus feature on my Earth 2 DVDs. So maybe I'll watch that.)

Current Mood: groggy
Current Music: nick cave & the bad seeds - fifteen feet of pure white snow

Unlike large swathes of my friends list, I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year (good luck to those who are!), but I am doing

wrisomifu, in which I am going to make an attempt to work on (and possibly finish) at least a couple of the fics I'm supposed to be writing. So, November is still a writing month, just ... not writing from scratch. Anyway, to that end, I thought I'd compile a list of stuff I wanted to work on, which may or may not actually help me do that. Now with bonus progress meters!

( Stuff With Concrete Deadlines Before The End Of The Year )

( Longer Stuff That's Not Due Until Next Year, Or With Deadlines I Totally Made Up )

Plus assorted fics from the movie title meme,

omgjustinalex, and stuff I might actually want to write for fun. And As You Like It, which is probably not going to be written this month, but maybe in December.

Current Mood: intimidated
Current Music: sunny day real estate - seven

Happy birthday,

areasontofight! I hope you had an awesome day. If you'd like a request ficlet of some sort, you know the drill.

I think I'm going to go with Alex the Vampire Slayer for my Wizards Of Waverly Place

apocabigbang, mostly because that's what I have a solid idea for right now. Which is exciting, bcause I think it's going to be really fun.

Speaking of fun stuff: Awesome Ficathons You Should Totally Be Participating In.

1)

apocabigbang is open for sign ups until November 3rd, so if you've ever wanted to write a 10,000 word + fic about the end of the world, in any fandom (and, really, who hasn't?), or if you like making art, graphics, or fanmixes, you should go sign up.

The rules post is here, writer sign ups are here, artist sign ups are here.

2) The Fall Fandom Free-For-All is still open until November 18th. Post a wish list of up to ten things you always wished someone would make for you, and see what you can give other people in return!

The main post is here, and my wish list is here. If you post a wish list, link me to it!

3)

prettylightsfic is polling on potential fandoms until October 26th, and sign ups run from October 27th until November 6th. It's a multifandom RPF (actor fic) exchange that's always a lot of fun, so if you're thinking about participating, go vote in the poll here. (And put in a good word for Disney RPF as a write-in fandom!)

Now, back to seeing whether I can finish To Wish Impossible Things before the end of the month. It's possible, right?

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: dead kennedys - riot

Partly because I'm procrastinating, and partly because I feel like I should at least be thinking about this stuff already:

What should I write for

apocabigbang?

Take the poll at my livejournal

And in case you haven't already, you should all consider signing up for

apocabigbang as a WRITER or an ARTIST/VIDDER/MIXER. It's going to be so much fun!

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: the bird and the bee - witch

I totally fail at on-time birthday wishes. But happy birthday to

prozacpark for October 3rd, I hope you had an awesome day! If you'd like a ficlet, etc. of some sort, just let me know :)

Finished another remix fic (yay!), which means I've written three out of five, including my primary assignment. I'm still planning on writing the other two, but at least I can relax about those. And so far I've written five fics for

omgjustinalex, which. Is awesome? I mean, it's only been running for about ten days, so. (I'll still be writing more, probably, but also other non-kink meme stuff.)

I've (finally) started writing The Shake Up, which is also yay. I'm only about 500 words in so far, but I think it's coming along well.

Also, because I will probably keep pimping this:

apocabigbang! RULES / ARTIST SIGN UPS / WRITER SIGN UPS. Sign ups run until November 3rd, final posting is in mid-March, artists can create art, graphics, vids, or fanmixes, and the minimum word count is only 10,000 words. It's open to any fandom, including RPF and crossovers, and the only requirement is that the fic somehow centre on an apocalypse.

(And, yes, I signed up to write two fics, I am officially insane.)

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: blur - tender

OKAY, SO, LET'S TALK AWESOME FIC-RELATED STUFF.

apocabigbang is a multifandom big bang challenge for fic about, obviously, the end of the world. Which is so cool, for many reasons, but let's list some:

1) Apocalypses! ♥ I love apocafic, like, a ridiculous amount, IDEK why. I love happy action/adventure fic where people try to stop the apocalypse, and angsty fic where they can't, and totally cracky fic where, whatever, it's the end of the world, I say we party. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS AND ALL GOOD.

2) Big bangs! ♥ These are something I also love, though I have not actually tried very hard to participate in one before. But, um, I blame bad fandom timing? Which can be a problem with fandom-specific events especially for people with too many fandoms and lamentably short attention spans, but this is open to any fandom, so!

3) The minimum word count is only 10,000 words. Which is so totally doable. And you get art for free! (Or, alternatively, make art/graphics/vid/fanmix for someone and they will love you forever.)

4) IT'S JUST AWESOME, OKAY.

And, more specifically-to-me:

5) Justin/Alex! Oh, you knew this was coming. I have been toying with the idea of writing some kind of Wizards Of Waverly Place apocafic ... um, basically since I got into the fandom, and now I actually have an excuse to write that. And I can so write 10,000 words of WOWP fic, it's not even funny.

Haha, also, I was maybe thinking about signing up to write two fics? BECAUSE I AM CRAZY, OBVIOUSLY. And because rough drafts are due in, like, four months, and if I'm being honest (and the way things are going right now), I can write 10,000 words in way less time than that. So, because I am totally predictable and single-minded at this point, IMPORTANT QUESTION TIME:

David/Selena apocafic, y/n? I mean, I am slightly less confident about my ability to write 10,000 words of Disney RPF, but, I don't know, it could potentially be a lot of fun. And ... IDK. I am definitely doing the Justin/Alex thing, at least. I think I might try to come up with a plot? And then, if I can do that, I can probably write it.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: heartless bastards - all this time

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I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish

Success!

Roses are red. And useless.

Writing, etc.

I and love and you

And all our time together is tearing me apart

That lemur was sure surprised to see me again

You can't fire me, I don't work in this van

I drink from the keg of glory

Stake me, bite me

We're all in this together

To do lists are also a great way of procrastinating

N is for Nutrition. Or possibly November.

Rule #9: Never go anywhere without a knife

I am a witch and I have conjured you

Every cereal I've ever eaten, or the names of every planet mentioned in Star Wars

OMG apocalypse

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