(originally posted on tumblr)

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

24 (though it should probably be counted as 23 because the crossword puzzle solution isn't really a separate work)

2) What is your total ao3 word count?

49,608

3) How many fandoms have you written for, and what are they?

Around 12 or 13 on AO3, depending how you count various ( Read more... )

Since a couple people in the story_works discord seemed to like the idea, I'm reviving this old writing game for anyone who wants to participate!

Here's how it works: I'm going to post a grab-bag of first sentences from my own posted fic, sans context. Anyone who wants to can then use one (or more) of them as a line starter to write a whole new fic, of any ( Read more... )

So far it seems like the closures and physical distancing measures are working to keep the rate of increase in new cases down in the Bay Area.

Books started in March:

John Kerry, Every Day Is Extra
Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost
Mo Hayden, The Devil of Nanking
Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red (selection for a reddit book club)
Joe Biden, ( Read more... )

I did a little work on a Reddie WIP and used up a can of black-eyed peas on some nice fritters.

This story began in November with the jotted line "Eddie finds himself groundhog-daying (or, more accurately, russian-dolling) his way through his last day on earth until it ends better" in my running WIP file. [Emphasis because there were already a couple of popular Reddie time loop fics at the time, but they tended to center on Richie time- ( Read more... )

Tagged by onlymorelove (well, okay, by default, but you won't see me passing up an excuse to do one of these).

Rules: go to your current WIP (or one of them), go to the seventh page, find the seventh line on it, and share the next seven sentences with us. Then tag seven others to do the same.

I cheated and did two, because I am drowning in WIPs, you ( Read more... )

WRITER HALF OF MY BRAIN: Look at all these words! I knew I had this covered. I might have just been working on it in my head until a week before the deadline, but once I sat down to do the actual typing I blew past the word minimum in an afternoon. We're having a good time.

EDITOR HALF OF MY BRAIN: Cool! Hey, now that we're looking at the draft, ( Read more... )

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Okay, I got myself a trope_bingo card.

UNREQUITED

LOVE/PINING
ACCIDENTAL

HERO
ROLE REVERSAL
SLAVE FIC
WING FIC

FIRST TIME/

LAST TIME
SHARING A BED
MEET THE

PARENTS/FAMILY
UNEXPECTED

FRIENDSHIP
PRESUMED DEAD

HAPPY ENDING
CAN[N]ON FODDER
FREE SPACE
CELEBRATORY KISS
RARE PAIRS

CHOSEN FAMILY
ART INITIATES LIFE
TIME TRAVEL
EPISTOLARY
FUTURE ( Read more... )

Leave me a comment asking for one of these and i will post a reply with:

• FIRST - the first two sentences of my current project
• LAST - the most recently written two sentences of my current project
• NEXT - the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.
• [insert prompt here] - you post a prompt, and i’ll ( Read more... )