I've been sitting on this for weeks now because (thank you, hormones) every time I get close to a computer I forget that I need to do it! So, with the greatest of apologies to kylathelurker for my tardiness, here is some more of her most excellent and beautiful artwork for Winter Lights.

( Beautiful artwork this way )

I've just spent two hours uploading this thing to seasonal_spuffy, so yes, I am going to pimp it all over the place!

Title: Winter Lights
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~18,000 total (each chapter ~3,000)
Warnings: Attempted suicide and character death (both off-screen, but discussed)
Summary: Life, death, love, grief. Buffy takes a mission in the Arctic Circle with a ( Read more... )

It's gone 2am, and I've been writing all evening, once again very few words for the amount of time spent, but... this story, Winter Lights, it's the kind of story I haven't written in years, where I take care of every single word, and everything ties into everything else, like ribbons on a kite-string. Blech, it's late, I know what I mean. Anyway, ( Read more... )

I have had my week in Sweden with yavannie82, which was completely splendid and exactly what I needed, and now I am back in England for the second week of my hols. Today I went cycling through the local countryside and I was all fuck yes, this is exactly what I've been missing. There's not really any people here I get homesick for, but the scenery - yes ( Read more... )

I managed to fit in some writing today during my breaks at work. I always mean to do this but usually end up reading. I've just finished something really good, though, and didn't feel like starting anything new just yet so I picked up my notebook and got scribbling. Typed it up just now and I had written 1.1k, which is the most I've written in one ( Read more... )

Cross-posting from tumblr.

Asking in the hopes that one of my northerly friends might know something about this…

I’ve recently been trying to research Alaskan Inuit culture for an OC in my fanfic and (perhaps not surprisingly) there’s a bit of a dearth of information out there. In particular I’m trying to find out about naming conventions so that I ( Read more... )

For anyone waiting for an update to The Soul Lies Down -- I'm sorry. It's been a tough couple of months that culminated in a miscarriage, and so I'm sure you can understand why I need to take a break from baby!fic. In the meantime, I've been working on something that better suits my mood, that I first started talking about here. It's been slow- ( Read more... )

Not to keep harping on my woe about the length of The Soul Lies Down, but I just noticed its word count has now trundled over into the third longest thing I've ever written! The longest, to date, is The Lady of the Gift (81k) and the second longest is my novel draft from last year's NaNo (50k). Soul is currently sitting just under 42k and could ( Read more... )

I got a new and very persistent plot-bunny, and it's not even particularly spuffyish. Like, not really at all. Like, Buffy character piece that maybe deals with her post-Chosen feelings over Spike by tangential object lessons and wondering in the wilderness. And I want to think it'd be a shorty little piece that I could whip out inbetween chapters ( Read more... )