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Where is time going?!
But then I've lost 4 days being ill with a bad cold. It was definitely man-flu by Friday.
It was at least good weather so while I couldn't stand to be at the pc, I sat outside dozing and reading actual printed books. Finished a Jack Higgins I'd started last year. Read an entire mystery novel by Georgette Heyer (Death in the Stocks) and read a lot of a Wilbur Smith Egyptian series novel "Testament".

I do still have to do sign up for intoabar, catch up on DW reading and try to do something about the DW inbox, do some more editing on the unconventionalcourtship fic. I was at least ahead in my GYWO so losing a few days isn't a big deal.

Snagged from colls I think, the online quiz What AO3 Tag Are You.

My result: only one bed
the main character, the mood the vibe the moment, you might be a little basic, but cliches are cliches for a reason!

I do love a good bedsharing fic. It's just that I don't always want that to be sexual. But the cuddling. Oh, yes. This one. Even if I'd pick one of my current most used tags to be 'angst with a happy ending' :)

Maybe others would like to give the quiz a whirl!

I seem to be playing catch up since the start of the year, partly because I allowed myself a hiatus for a couple of weeks - putting myself behind on my sfbb fics as well as my internet reading and commenting.
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I edited the fic from yesterday – I know, I know, but I want to get something posted soon. 325 words.
Total today: 325
NaNoWriMo total: 20123
deficit: *wilfully ignores*

As I wrote here I've decided to do Rebel NaNo. In preparation I decided to clear up some of my files so I knew what existing WiPs I have and to make my PC tidier before my planned full back-up in December. Turns out I have three huge folders of downloaded/to file items and about five folders of various WiPs/ideas, plus various specific folders for ongoing projects, and about 200 misc files in the My Documents folder that ought to be in their specific folders. For someone who likes organising things I have a lot of "to be sorted" piles of stuff.
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Title: To Train A Cardinal
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker, The Borgias
Pairing/Characters: Denna, Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Micheletto. Implied Cesare/Denna and Cesare/Lucrezia.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3094
Prompt: For my dark bingo prompt "imprisonment"
Summary: First Mistress Denna has Cardinal Cesare Borgia at her mercy and attempts to make him loyal to her alone.
Content Notes: Author chooses not to warn.
Author Notes: The first scene of this fic was originally written some time ago for a legendland crossover challenge but was never posted publicly. As I'm trying to wrap some things up, I've now significantly revised and expanded on the fic. It's almost the fic I originally had in mind, though it still feels slightly rushed to me, and maybe Denna shouldn't be quite so easily taken in, but I feel this is as good as it will get and that it is to be posted now or never.
At AO3



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Banners, fic, graphics, a vid, and a few other things made for the Legendland Final Battle behind the cut.( Read more... )

Over the last couple of weeks I've taken a break while I tried to get my head straight. Very little online activity – though Facebook games can be a relaxing reward! Lots of finishing up clearing and tidying, sorting the decades worth of accumulated clothes and books, etc, and putting what's left into better storage systems to make it more accessible. I thought I'd miss it all more, but missing/being missed or not, I think I'm ready to come back and make a new start for the new academic year. Autumn is a favourite time of year and I'm hoping to feel more inspired about writing as the nights draw in.

Thanks for the comments on my previous BAG post, and the birthday wishes – and thank you to bleodswean for the virtual gift :D

I'm leaving tvuniverse since that hasn't grabbed me personally in the same way other comms have, but I'm sticking with gameofcards which gives me some small sense of belonging.
I'm also rejoining writerverse since that comm originally got me writing a lot of original fic and I hope it might help with inspiration and a sense of community. I'm considering smallfandombang again this round; I'm still so very proud of the epic novella I created last time.
I've got my h/c bingo card to work on and I'm signing up for trope bingo again too, so hopefully I'll be creating again, audience or no.

I also hope to get my professional blogs and pages running again after the brief hiatus. I'm considering posting my fic to my previously non-fic only blog, or at least linking fic there (WP) since it gets more traffic than my fic blog. I'm thinking I need to post items to my fannish blogs here too to help get audience, and maybe to write meta and fic that I'd usually only post to LJ/DW and risk posting them to my author sites. Stop being wishy-washy and dare to be a little bolder, a little more controversial. IDK, I'll play it by ear.

I signed up for the Get Your Words Out (GYWO) challenge at the lowest level ("modest", 150k goal). I mention my progress on the monthly post rounds, but I was going to do an actual halfway point survey last month. Computer issues put a stop to that.

Better late than never, however, here is the midpoint post. I'm going to ramble a little about the challenge and what I'm learning from it, and yes, I'm going to count this as words towards the GYWO because this is an essay.
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I said I'd do the ship meme for some of my original characters so here goes

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Something different today. I like to sometimes try different poetic styles for a challenge or prompt or just because. I've written sonnets, limericks, and a variety of other experimental forms.

One thing I wanted to make was this:


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