November 2020 - Day 29

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Finished Chapter 11 and posted it to AO3 and otherworlds_lib, as an Advent-opening gift for Torchwood fans.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I gave myself the day off because I am done with my Christmas fics. :DD A new record, even for me. I will admit that I sort of fudged the last prompt because it was a mishmash of things, but it ended up at 3476 words.

He glanced at the first direction - soak fruit and nut in vodka. Make sure to test vodka as this will make a difference in the… It took him a moment to translate the word …the quality of your final product.

That was easy. He went back out and pulled another bottle from the package. He knew the bottle they were using was good, but it was half gone. He’d better test this one as well just to be sure.

He carried it carefully back to the kitchen, paused to drain his glass, and poured some of the new vodka in it. A swig and he gasped. Yup, perfect.

Napoleon dumped the dried fruit and nuts into a bowl and covered the mixture with the vodka. He took a drink from the nearly empty bottle, just to be sure it was good all the way down. Then he started the pesky task of converting grams to ounces.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Well done! :D

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Today I posted the chapter I completed to my usual 2 archives - and considered whether I should post the series to AO3 (Some of my things are there, transferred from the old Henneth Annun Story Archive along with the rest of that site - but my long series stories weren't allowed on HASA because they began as a cross-over, and cross-overs weren't allowed even if a man with a red flag walked in front of them, or they rang a bell and called 'leper!' ). Maybe I will but not right now.

And I have almost finished betaing another chapter for Ellyn.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the best way to cook, to me!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Well done you!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I left HASA early on because all of the mean-spirited hostility that went on there and the Yahoo Group of the same name. I think you should post to AO3. It is a very tolerant site, even though the feedback is rare like hens' teeth.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You wrote an amazing amount during this session. If I had a hat I'd take it off now. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Now I'm hoping that the two or so people who actually follow the story will read and perhaps even comment. Christmas is coming up, after all.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I completely agree

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It has been a good month

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think I originally posted Pure Morning at HASA at just_ann_now's suggestion as she wanted to enter it for the MEFAs (now long gone!) - and thought it better to have it at a Tolkien site. But it was a really strange place. I wasn't welcome at Stories of Arda, either, because there are sex scenes in some of the stories, and as my characters often talk to each other at such times, and I use them to move along the plot, I could hardly just cut them out.

When AO3 started it was only tolerant in some ways (like allowing under-age sex and stuff that was, frankly, paedophilic in the Potter fandom) but in some ways it was anything but tolerant - they would not allow male writers like S2C as they saw fanfic as a female pursuit and regarded men as, well I'm not sure - but they reckoned men couldn't be 'real' fanfic writers... which put me off. But it even allows men these days :)

I actually post my stuff at Twisting the Hellmouth, as the Returnverse began as a Buffy crossover. People are nice there and comment sometimes. Also Faerie, and, some of it, at Many Paths to Tread. But when we get to the gloomy days of January I should make an effort to begin posting them at AO3 - but there are about 20 stories, ranging from only 1,000 words up to the longest at 150,000 words and 34 chapters. So I keep putting it off...

Did you notice I had left a comment at AO3 on The Last Yule in Halabor, by the way?

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

10 minutes on the WIP and an hour putting together a post for tomorrow. One day left of pico! I may be free to spend some extra time on writing tomorrow.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! What a lovely gift:)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on finishing all your Christmas stories! It's not even December!! Awesome!

I have a feeling the conversion calculation is going to be a little off:D

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on posting the chapter! Very nice accomplishment. And I salute your beta work!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Holy cow! Go you.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Great progress!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Notes from my small group meeting today.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

2500 words! Feeling good about the month! I'll have a more detailed update tomorrow. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you!