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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 1 -- Tuesday

Hello on Tuesday! Did you write?

- Yes!

- No!

- Not yet!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in? How do you feel about it?

If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits? What will you do differently tomorrow to get more writing done?

If not yet, because the day hasn't gotten going yet, what kind of writing activity are you planning (or hoping) to accomplish?

Current Mood: hot
Current Location: my desk

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Dust Challenge: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Dusted

Title: Dusted
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: Early Season 2.
Summary: Vampire dust goes everywhere.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 439: Dust.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Dusted... )

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Borrowed Title: Guardian: fanfic: Pages for You

Title: Pages for You
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: T-rated
Length: 1,767 words
Notes: Title from a novel by Sylvia Brownrigg. Much thanks to

trobadora for beta. <3
Tags: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Post-Canon, Everyone Lives AU, Established Relationship, Domesticity, Fade to Black
Summary: Over the course of the evening, an impulse had taken root, and now Shen Wei submitted to it. He switched on his desk lamp, laid out several large sheets of paper and quietly ground some ink. If Zhao Yunlan wanted to read of their time together through the eyes of a Dixingren soldier, who better than Shen Wei to write an account—to show Zhao Yunlan exactly how much his arrival had meant to the war effort and to Shen Wei himself.

( Pages for You )

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264 - summer vacation

Admin Post: [#264 | Summer Vacation] Mini-Amnesty

Since we only have two entries this week, I'm declaring a mini-amnesty for the remaining two days! If you have any fills for Summer Vacation, please feel free to post them any time up until Wednesday, July 2 at 9pm US Eastern Time. Challenge #265 will be up at the usual time.

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Hit the Wall Challenge: Greek Myth: Fanfic: Be Well

Title: Be Well
Fandom: Greek Myth / The Iliad
Characters: Paris, Hector
Rating: T
Warnings: injury, blood, vomiting
Length: 868
Summary: Paris comes running as soon as he hears about Hector's injury. (There was good Hector angst in Book 14, but I decided I needed more. :3)

( Read more... )

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Dragon: The Double: Dragon and Phoenix

Title: Dragon and Phoenix
Fandom: The Double (cdrama)
Length: ~700 words
Content notes: No warnings, implied power dynamics around political marriages

Summary: Xiao Heng and the emperor, playing games.

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Rebuilding journal search again

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

Current Mood: tired

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Influences Challenge: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Bad Influences

Title: Bad Influences
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Joyce, Buffy.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Everything up to School Hard.
Summary: Joyce is worried that Buffy has fallen in with the wrong kind of kids.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 448: Influences.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Bad Influences... )

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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 30 -- Monday

Hello on Monday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

- Excellent!

- Terrible

- Somewhere in between

- Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

- None

- 30 minutes or less

- 30-60 minutes

- 60-90 minutes

- More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?

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Amnesty / Bounce | Original Fiction: the key to bonding is at the base

Title: the key to bonding is at the base
Prompt: 452. Bounce
Word count:500
Rating: E
Summary: Markus' anatomy was very, very interesting sometimes
Warnings: explicit sexual content, A/B/O elements

( Read more... )

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Cave + Nightmare + Spark Challenges: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Flicker of a Dream

Title: Flicker of a Dream
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set shortly before S7.
Summary: Buffy is having recurring nightmares about girls being chased down and killed. But this one has something different.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: Amnesty #80 + #260 Cave, #314 Nightmare, #356 Spark

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( READ: Flicker of a Dream/Double drabble )

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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 29 -- Sunday

Hello on Sunday! What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?

- I thought about my fic once or twice

- I wrote

- I did some planning and/or outlining

- I did research and/or canon review

- I edited

- I've sent my fic off to my beta

- I posted today!

- I'm taking a break

- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Sunday Discussion: It's a new writing week, and the last week of the current month. How are you doing so far with meeting writing goals for the month?

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Rainbow Challenge: FAKE: Fanfic: Pride At Work

Title: Pride At Work
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Chief Smith.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: It’s Pride month, and the detectives of the two-seven are flying their colors.
Word Count: 250
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 451: Rainbow.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.

( Pride At Work... )

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[#264] STAYCATION (TORCHWOOD)

Theme Prompt: #264 - Summer vacation
Title: Staycation
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: No vacation would be complete without a little bit of Torchwood intervention.

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School Challenge: Torchwood: Fanfic: Treasured

Title: Treasured
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,507 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 483 - Amnesty, using Challenge 26 - School
Summary: Ianto has some important documents to file in the archives.

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Nap (Amnesty): Tokyo Mew Mew Olé: Fanfic: Interrupted Cat Nap

Title: Interrupted Cat Nap
Fandom: Tokyo Mew Mew Olé (Manga)
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 300 words
Content notes: Established Shibuya/Anzu, fluff
Author notes: N/A
Summary: Ever since getting his Mew Mew powers, Shibuya would nap more often than before. But this time, his nap gets interrupted.

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Daily Check-In: Day 28

Hi everyone! What are your plans for next week?

Starting a new fic
Working on a current draft
Editing it myself/with my beta reader
Going to post it somewhere in the week
Taking a break
Working on something else
Life has other plans at the moment

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Amnesty / Feed | Original Fiction: Melancholic, And Hungry

Title: Melancholic, And Hungry
Prompt: 240. Feed
Word count: 788
Rating: M
Summary: sometimes Mack hated her biological needs.
Warnings: implied past abuse, implied sexual content

( Read more... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Finger Challenge: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Battle Wounds

Title: Battle Wounds
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Giles.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 250
Spoilers/Setting: Sometime late in Season 1 or early Season 2.
Summary: Buffy has suffered a loss while battling a demon.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 467: Finger.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.

( Battle Wounds... )

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Spy Challenge: Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: The picture in Vogue

Title: The picture in Vogue
Fandom: Spooks (MI5) [werewolf!Lucas verse]
Rating: G
Length: 516 words
Summary: What's a werewolf to do when he suddenly realises something?
Also written for ficlet_zone Madonna challenge

( What's he reading? )