The exchange fic master list is up over at labyrinth_ex, so all the secret identities are now revealed! We had a good crop of fics this year and whoo boy, some people wrote novellas. *cough* Including me. I think my final wordcount was a little over 27K, which was about 17K longer than I'd hoped and a personal record ( Read more... )

There's been quite a few of the one word challenges on labyfic that I missed. Some just don't spark any plot bunnies, or they do but it doesn't work out. I've been wanting to go back and write at least one drabble for each prompt, but limiting yourself to 100 measly words isn't easy! I did go back and write one for 'hurt', though. And... I may have ( Read more... )

Every time I undergo strenuous physical activity, I discover new muscles I never knew I had before, and they are sore, dammit. Roughly seven inches of snow fell overnight. It wasn't so bad at the top of the driveway but at the bottom where the snow trucks had been past, it was packed into a dense, slippery slush that took ages to clear. My left ( Read more... )

As you may have noticed, exchange fics are now up at labyrinth_ex and new stories will be posted every other day...ish. Hopefully, this will give people enough time to keep up with reading without having their flists flooded.

Totally unrelated, but I thought it was really useful: The essential guide to dim sum,, with pictures (LOTS of pictures) and ( Read more... )

We've reached that point in the fic exchange where people haven't turned in their fic AND aren't responding to my e-mails. It happens every year, and every year it sucks really, really hard. I don't get why seemingly cool people do this, but ultimately it doesn't matter because the end result is the same ( Read more... )

After much wrangling and wondering if maybe I am too set in my ways to start over on a new archive site, I posted "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" to AO3. Here it is.That was maybe harder than it should've been, but I screwed up the HTML and then whatever process AO3 uses to try and clean that up for you inserted a bunch of unwanted italics tags. ( Read more... )

When I first started writing fanfiction at FFnet, I had anonymous reviewing disabled because well, it's the internet and that seemed like a very good idea. Eventually, I enabled it because it turns out that there are quite a few people who want to review, but either don't have an FFnet account or don't want to be bothered with signing on. I can ( Read more... )

If it were humanly possible to will a fic into being with the blazing force of one's eyeballs, my story would already be done, you guys. And it's not that they're bad prompts, oh no, quite the opposite. It's just that-- as usual-- each one presents three different sets of challenges, and the pros and cons need to be weighed carefully ( Read more... )

Or not-so-mysterious-Mystery-Author, as the case may be. :-}

Hi. Sorry about not posting this a bit earlier, but I was wrestling with the stupid word processing program because it tried to eat the list of exchange prompts and I was all TURN IT LOOSE YOU BITCH and it was all OM NOM NOM SO DELICIOUS and it took a while to sort everything out.

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As the deadline for the fic exchange sign up approaches, we're getting a flurry of new participants. Woohoo!

Just a general tip for the people who are new to LJ-- if you have your PM settings on private, I can't respond to your PMs. To change it, you can go to Edit Profile, it's under "LJ User Messaging". Setting it to "Registered Users" ( Read more... )