God, I'm useless. I mean, really, seriously useless. There I was, getting myself all hyped up for Yuletide... and I missed the deadline for application. I didn't even find out it had opened till it was closed, if you know what I mean. OK, there was other stuff going on in my life... but there will always be stuff going on in my life from now on, ( Read more... )

I don't know what's the matter with me today. I've had a sudden, overwhelming urge to sign up for ( Read more... )

Every year I think how wonderful it would be to do NaNoWriMo. I'm convinced I could do it, and it would be marvellous to get the creative juices flowing in a way that's not borrowing someone else's ideas on one level or another. Unfortunately it's the one month of the year when it's completely out of the question for reasons of work. Again. I  ( Read more... )

I did finish  my Peeves-Riddle-Anagrams drabble - with many thanks for the kind help of my more anagram-literate friends.

And then I thought I'd post it here, tidied up a bit... It's now 750 words long, and considerably darker in tone (this always happens when I'm trying to be funny. The same thing's happening to my Hagrid-fic, the first 2 pages of ( Read more... )

I'm signed up to the
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A meme, courtesy of mctabby :

When you see this meme, post a canon sentence in your own journal and invite people to make up another sentence to go with it. Either a sequel or a prequel is fine.

My sentence is:

"I can't," said Malfoy. "It's got to stay put. I just need you to tell me how to do it."

(HBP, British edition, p121)

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Other ( Read more... )

Anybody still remember my half-written fic for the perposterice challenge? I doubt it.

The "summery" for which I swore to write a story ran as follows:

This is a story. A teary story in which you'll cry afterwards. You'll be so happy and you'll like it! A story about words and chickens.

The first part of my story can be found here.

It's taken me a long time ( Read more... )