Here are the results of my latest mini-ficlet prompt meme, in case you missed any of them. :D

1. Kiss the Bride: Corin proposes to Susan. Prompt: Susan Pevensie as Queen of Narnia, coping with marriage proposals. 425 words, for
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I am having serious trouble working up motivation to write, which is frustrating. Like, I will open a document, check where I was in the story, type maybe five words, and... nothing. Blank. It's particularly annoying if I've been mentally juggling and arranging ideas earlier in the day so I know roughly where I want to go and just can't quite get ( Read more... )

"Tides" is a Naruto AU series, which currently contains one finished multi-part fic, one long one-shot, and a fragment of another, mostly unwritten multi-part fic. It goes AU from the manga shortly after the timeskip. The basic idea is that Gaara was rescued before his tailed beast was removed, Kakashi wasn't wiped out by the mission, Sakura didn ( Read more... )

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I didn't get any writing done on Tuesday (boo!) but I went to bed around 10:30pm and slept until 11am (with one half-hour break to read a couple chapters of background research for Yuletide when I woke at 3am), so I figure I will excuse myself on the grounds of obvious exhaustion. And today I wrote about 500 words, which is pretty good for me, so ( Read more... )

I was going to write Sakura fighting Kabuto and pulling off his trick of healing herself mid-battle, which is something that would happen in my vague and shapeless idea of the proper sequel to Tides (...technically the second proper sequel to "Tides," since my old outline got adjusted to take canon revelations about Itachi into account and now ends ( Read more... )

Two of my betas were clobbered by life this past week, so I used the one and a half responses and did some fine-tuning of my own. (Thank you for the reactions and for trying, lurker_lost, valles_uf, and baka_mazoku!) But I am still iffy about the ending sections -- seriously, if you are unclear on who is playing what role at any point, tell me -- and I would love any and all ( Read more... )

I gacked this from ladylisse (and then tweaked it a fair bit). The idea is to post the first lines from ten of your recent or in-progress stories. I decided (since I won't have anything ready to post in the near future), that I might throw up some slightly longer excerpts. Fanfiction only.

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( The Transient and the Eternal )

And at long last (or at short last, really, considering my usual writing speed on chaptered WIPs), "Tides" draws to a close. With Sakura, of course, since she started the whole thing, and my long-awaited scene on a boat. Take a wild guess which image it is. :-)

The rice paper, I think, comes from The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, which I've been ( Read more... )

And yet again, I attempt to make Naruto be thinky, and I continue to belabor the same damn point I've been pounding into the ground through all these ficlets. Part 9 is currently about halfway to 2/3 done, so it may be up sometime this week...? I dunno. I'm also trying to edit "Knives," write "Secrets," and transition into the next fight scene ( Read more... )