Every year, I participate in a personal writing challenge called Haunted October. I started this back in 2006 with the aim to post a horror story on my LJ every week in October, ending on Halloween. It serves the dual purpose of forcing me to write at least five short stories, as well as serving as a fitting celebration of Halloween, which is Bobby
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I don’t think I will wish you luck on the schoolwork; you really don’t need it. Oh, I forgot that I had started and was interrupted from writing a response to your last email to me relating to a point about your Tolkien class. I should finish it soon and send it off.
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I look forward to that email! :)
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Suggestion: Could you post a link post when we get closer to Halloween? I think I'd find that helpful.
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Do you mean that you'd like a list of links to the stories posted thus far? I can certainly do so, I just want to be clear that I'm understanding what you mean! :)
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You know, I was thinking... if this seems like a lot of work, you could just tag them and include a link to
http://dawn-felagund.livejournal.com/tag/halloweenfic08
or whatever you decide to call it? That might be easier for you.
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http://dawn-felagund.livejournal.com/tag/haunted+october
I can add tags by year as well, if you think this would be useful. (When I first tried this challenge, I figured it would be a one-year thing, never counting on how much I enjoyed it and [especially!] how much others looked forward to its repeat in '07! :)
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I always write some of mine way before October too; this year's "Quail" started back in the spring when I was still working at Guilford Avenue! (That place would inspire even Oshun to write horror. ;) If you share yours, I am really, really looking forward to it. You have proven yourself quite good at creepy fic, at least in my humble estimation! :)
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*Really. The trees are tall (many beeches and incredible tulip poplars), there are black squirrels, and nasty arthropods -- deer ticks that carry Lyme disease -- lurking back there in the woods.
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I love the names, and I have to laugh at your "Dorchester" in dialect. We have a Dorchester (County) as well, which we manage to pronounce pretty normally ... but we also have a Worcester (County), which has somehow earned the pronunciation "Wooster."
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But I can't talk; I have stories that have taken years (or stories only several thousand words that have taken months ... one of this year's Haunted October stories is one such). If you get it started and post it somewhere, let me know! :) I'm really hoping for schoolwork to settle down enough to allow some reading for fun again.
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I can't believe it's that time again either. Time flies!
I hope that I can write all the stories in addition to school. I should be able to; the next week should be relatively mild schoolwork-wise, so I should be able to catch up on writing and betas. I'm going to give it my best try! :)
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