I was trying to finish the story that I was writing for Fandom Trumps Hate, which is a Silmarillion First Age story with Maglor, Elrond, Maedhros and Elros, but I seem to have stalled on that.

Then there was a Tolkien Original Character week on Tumblr, and somehow I ended up writing several thousand words about Berengar, who is a part-Numenorean OC ( Read more... )

The Tuor and Idril story is done, and after much prodding and poking, seems a decent shape.

The Tropical Yavanna story came together really quickly in the end.  It's a story that is half Vanyar and half Avari and *mostly* worldbuilding.

They will be live... when is it?  A week? Two? Something like that anyway.

I really want to finish Rexque ( Read more... )

Goodness. I haven't updated since February! I don't know why. I have been reading here, but not managing to comment or post so much. I'm probably only doing it now because I have a fic to write for a Friday deadline and I apparently have no energy for it. I should have written it when I first got the assignment. I did start it, but then I told ( Read more... )

I've been installing server updates.  It's taking a while so I'm thinking about what to write next which for some reason feels a more reasonable form of multitasking than actually doing other work while the updates do their thing.  I keep dotting in to add a word or two, it's taken me all afternoon to write this ( Read more... )

The bluebells are fading now, but this weekend I caught these just still scented in the sunlight at Grenofen on the edge of Dartmoor, on a short walk with my mother.  It was rather warm, and we retired to the cafe at the top of the lane for smoothies and ice cream.  The cafe used to be a pub, but there's more market now for selling tea and cakes to ( Read more... )