Colby's Unrequited Love: "Unfocused" - Explosion Prompt 212 (NUMB3RS)

[bobthesungod]

Title: Unfocused
Series: Colby's Unrequited Love
Pairing/Characters: Colby Granger
Rating: R
Prompt: #212 Explosion
Summary: Colby explodes.
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: Season 5
Warnings: Strong language
Disclaimer: Numb3rs belongs to CBS.  I'm just taking it out for a spin.
Notes: This is the beginning of a small series of drabbles. I am pretty new to this,

Comments

[bobthesungod]

No worries, it's okay about that draft accident. Ultimately it just gave me the push I really needed to post it actually, so I thank you. :D And thank you for your lovely commentary on the fic itself! I really think Colby's such an interesting character. He appears so cool and collected, but you just gotta know it's a mask for all these different emotions he's feeling inside. And I wanna explore that.

I've got the basic idea of where the story is going and how it'll fin, but the journey to this destination... that's something else entirely. I just want to see how the journey arrives there.

In regards to the formatting and stuff, I guess you can easily tell I'm new to this. :D I believe I understand your recommendations, and I will adjust accordingly. (YAY and THANKS for helpful community leaders!)

I want to say another thank you for taking the time to detail everything out for me. My gratitude for your help... well, it's HUGE. Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

About the PS you posted, I honestly didn't even know I "screened" comments, haha. I'm not computer savvy by nature; it takes practice for me. So thank you for catching that and hopefully I turned it off. I am hoping all comments that get posted will be seen.

[emmademarais]

NP! All of us were once new too, you know? Mel and I didn't start this comm, we inherited it from the previous owner back at Prompt 50 so we needed a few weeks to get our feet wet as mods before we got good at this. :-) We just really wanted this place to be a real community, not just a place to post fic and it's really become that for us and so many people. It's just great.

So feel free to ask questions as they arise. Lots of people are new to making Drabble Series Master Lists so we have code made up to make it easier and are happy to share it and help people get them together. It really is handy for readers and in the long run less work for authors. Plus we've got that handy dandy page to help advertise your drabble series so people can easily find it in the future. We pimp it out each year around awards time since there's a special award just for drabble series!

As far as screening comments go, you might have it set as the default for your whole LJ if you didn't do it on purpose. There is a place on each post form to turn comments on/off/etc but normally it just defaults to what your journal defaults are, so that's a heads up to look in your overall LJ settings to see how you've got them.

BTW HEE! I like your new disclaimer. There are some fun ones out there. I make a point to read them on everyone's N100 posts because I find them so entertaining. (Mine is boring in comparison, but I really like other people's fun ones.)

In regards to Colby we know that he put on a fake face and kept secrets hidden for years so that mask might just be a little too well welded to those features for it to be healthy. Perhaps that's what precipitated his loss of control - having had to stay in control without a break for way too long. We've seen Colby go off book, if you will, twice in Season 5 so he's ripe for a third - and much worse - infraction.

Enjoy the journey!

[bobthesungod]

I feel kinda bad for asking for assistance with a master drabble coding thingy majigie, since you've been so very helpful already... but only if you have free time, would you mind helping me just once more with that? : / (My email is gloriacherjcfan at yahoo dot com )

I was curious though, where do I find the handy dandy master list of the master lists? I couldn't locate it on the community profile page. (It's probably there and I'm just blind.)

Oh and I wanted my intro to have a wee bit of "me" in there, not completely formal, ya know? Thanks for helping me set up the actual format.

-hands over homemade baked cake- enjoy! :D

[emmademarais]

Hey, I'm a mod so helping is my job, you know? ;-)

What I need to know is how you'd like to handle it. Some people have an overall master list of all their fic and they just put the drabble series as part of that (irena_adler is like that), some have a whole separate page for every drabble series (which I do) and some have a page just for drabble series so they don't have to have a separate one for each drabble series they put out (I just helped jlm110108 set hers up that way). Fair warning: drabble series are like potato chips. Bet you can't write just one! Hehehe FWIW I do separate ones because I'm *hopelessly* verbose when it comes to author notes so I like the extra space. If you're just doing it for quick access to links then sharing a page works fine. If you already have a master list of your fic and don't want to maintain any additional pages, it works fine to share them.

Pick which option and I can send you the relevant code to do it as needed.

Cake! Nom nom nom I actually was planning on baking one tonight /looks at clock/ but maybe not. ;-)

At N100 we have the Drabble Series Master List which is found via the Table of Contents link on the N100 home page. The Master List of Master lists is actually on the numb3rs_notice comm - always found on the first day of the year. It's not just N100 - it's a list of every N3 author (who participates) so if you have what it asks for (It's limited in what kinds of links it accepts), just put a comment on it with a link and I'll add you.

My email's my username at gmail.com, but for now just LMK what option you want and I can email over the code.

(Forgive me if the email seems disjointed - I'm *really* tired.)

[bobthesungod]

Thank you for having such detailed options available, you really think this stuff out thoroughly! For me I'd just like to have a huge list of everything I write (not that it'd be that huge, all the drabbles I've posted here thus far...3, -cough-, but in the case that it does become huge, I just like things in all one place.) So if you could email that one to me, pretty pretty please?

And I'm gonna check out the Drabble Series Master List, as well as the Numbers Notice community.

Sincerely, thank you for taking so much time out to help me. You have no idea how incredibly nice you're being, and how much I appreciate it. Really, I know it's probably getting SO old hearing it, but thank you.