Catching Up (that's part one; it's concluded here) is gfaynefan's first posted FOL story, and what a way to start a (hopefully prolific) career in the fandom. Cute without being too mushy, laugh-out-loud funny in a couple of places, and touches on several interesting ideas: Blair's hesitancy to come out to old friends; Blair's natural flirtiness; Jo's ( Read more... )

I'm running a Jo/Blair ficathon over at fol_fiction. Sign-ups are open all week. I'm of two minds about this... On the one hand, it will force me to write again (I've been on a kind of hiatus -- not exactly blocked, but similar) since before Christmas. On the other hand, it will force me to write again ( Read more... )

The latest chapter of my ginormous Jo/Blair fic, Affinity, brings the word count up over 12,000. Which makes it the longest piece of fiction I've ever written, already, surpassing my unfinished Murder in Suburbia seriesUp until now I've been so good about updating once a week (usually on Fridays) but I think I'm going to have to put it on hold till ( Read more... )

I'm procrastinating on various projects (my weekly subtext report and the latest chapter of Affinity) so I thought I'd do some recs.

That Time They All Went Camping by Rysler -- A camping trip highlights Jo and Blair's "pretend to hate each other" dynamic, and a dirt bike race gives Blair a better understanding of Jo. Which always leads to good ( Read more... )

If you are a P&P member and you haven't posted your Christmas wishlist, do so immediately. I plan to participate in that challenge (even though I should be devoting all my writing time to Affinity, which is now up to part 4).

When I contributed my 5 prompts, I forced myself not to make them all FOL, even though that is all I'm really interested in ( Read more... )

The highlight of P&P's FOL month (which sadly comes to an end today) has been being guaranteed at least one new story per day, thanks to caveatreader's 31 Slices of Jo/Blair Life. The first slice also inspired me to write my first drabble. I intended to pick the top 5 to rec, but I had too many favourites, so here are the top 9 (and why I like them):

• #1: ( Read more... )

I spent most of the weekend writing Waiting Up (Jo/Blair), a response to ralst's Halloween challenge, which was 48 hours instead of the usual 24. I have never participated in any of the 24-hour challenges because there is just no way I can write anything in that amount of time. It's nothing short of a miracle that I managed to grind out 1450 words that ( Read more... )

Last night I posted part 1 of a long Jo/Blair story I'm working on called "Affinity."

There's another FOL story sitting unposted on my hard drive, which is 1800 words and (if I had to categorize it) preslash. For some reason I'm just not happy with it; that's why I haven't thrown it up on fol_fiction. Maybe I need a beta to tell me what I don't like about ( Read more... )

I've just been made co-maintainer of fol_fiction. Coincidentally, I have also ordered the season 1/2 DVD, which should arrive in a couple weeks. Once it does, I plan to post some "subtext recaps" (kind of like the episode commentaries the_girl_20 did for ashscribbs), in the hopes of inspiring fic from other members and maybe cranking the volume up on the community ( Read more... )

The Facts of Life is my current fandom of choice. I'm actually working on a fic of my own that I hope to contribute to P&P for October's Fandom of the Month. In the meantime, I offer my picks of the stories archived there already. (Side note: Do I need to mention that they're all Jo/Blair? Does anybody actually write any other pairing?)

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