The Library

My Snarry Swap fic is growing into even more of a monster than I'd thought. Argh! 11,600 words, and I'm only on part four of my plot outline. Four. Out of thirteen!

I'm so doomed.

But I love it. I seriously do. It's an amazing fic. At least, it's amazing to write. Things just flow along, and the boys talk, and stuff happens, and then backstory pops up I'd never thought about or planned. The whole thing is just amazing!

Now to finish it on time without killing myself dead.

My first time doing Yuletide. Ooh, excited!

I got the assignment today. My first reaction was something along the lines of "AAHH!PANIC!!ICAN'TDOTHAT!!" The standard reaction. *bg* But I can trust my muse, and an hour or so later, she had already thrown three lines at me that I'll be using, and had proceeded to plotting the fic around those lines.

There should be ficcage by December 21. And it should be a lot of fun to write that.

Gotta finish Snarry Swap first, though.

Today, I wrote more porn for santas_lap. *cackles*

It's like I'm doing my own kind of NaNo. Today, I added 7,157 words to the count.

On the smut count, I added chan, dirty talk, frottage, spanking, some good ol' fucking, and teacher/student with some D/s undertones.

On the Weird Things Cira Writes count, I added deliberately exploded cauldrons and Al collapsing parts of Hogwarts.

Man, sometimes I crack myself up. *sniggers* I like this story. It is funny. And porny. I seem to have mastered the subtleties of dirty talk.

I iz verra pweesed.

And now I'd better go and actually claim the prompt I just wrote. :D

Okay, what do you do once you've finished one fest fic and the deadline for the second is still a month away?

Grab a prompt and write another fic. *g*

I felt inspired this morning, and what with finishing the yule balls fic, I decided to reward myself. And wrote a little something for santas_lap. It's about 5,900 words long and about the porniest thing I've ever written. I think. Yes, definitely porny. Starts out slow, ends with a bang. Um. Something.

Oh, yes, it's finished already. Don't ask me how I did that, almost 6000 words in four hours. I'm in a fucking good mood today.

Literally. *sniggers*

So, can I tempt you to beta some nice, dirty, straight-to-special-hell porn?

You know, I might even be tempted to go grab another prompt ... more nice, dirty, straight-to-special-hell porn ...

Finished my hp_yule_balls fic! Yay! :) And I managed to finish in under 30k! Yeah, okay, 400 words aren't that much. But still. Under 30k. *grins proudly*

So, anyone interested in beta reading? Deadline's November 28, so you'll have plenty of time.

And now, off to pick up work on the Snarry Swap fic again.

I am, I am! If I keep this up, I might be able to finish my hp_yule_balls fic either tomorrow or Saturday!

Gosh, it feels so good to just let the story flow through you instead of having to constantly struggle to get a few hundred words down. Who needs chocolate? *is on fic high*

Now, my progress, let me show it to you: yesterday, I wrote 3.233 words. Today, I got down even more, 4.921 words! And the really great thing about this is, I like what I've done! What's even better, I not only added a lot of words to the count but actually managed to move the plot forwards. Best, we're getting closer to the actual smut!

I'm very happy and also very hungry, so I shall now turn off the computer and eat something.

Oh, btw, fic now stands at 21k words and will end up 30k again. And because I'm feeling so good, I'm not going to worry about boring my readers to tears before we get to the smut.

Now, food!

Soooo, I have today successfully finished part two of my hp_yule_balls fic.

Which is good.

Given that I'd planned to be done with the entire fic by today, not so much.

At this moment, the story stands at 12,860 words. A cautious estimate sees the fic finished in 8-10k more. Yes, that's the fic I thought would be finished in 10k.

Stupid fic. Stop producing dialogue. You annoy me. *huffs*

But I'm still in a pretty celebratory mood. Part two ends in a way that is very entertaining for the writer and bloody frustrating for the reader. Not to mention the characters.

Allow me a cruel chuckle. Haaha!

*goes off to read pretty originals at Shousetsu Bang*Bang*

My hp_yule_balls fic is growing into an effing epic. 8,200 words, and I’m not even half-way through! The smut’s still light years away. And, knowing myself, said smut will be at least 2k. At least. If I keep it up, I'll have another 30k monster on my hands. Deadline’s in four weeks’ time. Argh.

And then I’ll still have to finish the Snarry Swap fic, which is beautifully plotted right up until the end and should be very straightforward. And only 15k, at the most.

It should. But the Yule Balls fic should have been done in 10k, too.

Argh.

On the plus side: have money, can buy books. Yay!

Especially those for santas_lap. I only went to look because I was curious about what prompts people submitted, and now I want to write #11 and #28 and #43. Evil, I tell you.

I'm sitting on my hands to resist claiming one of them. I don't think I'll have the time and energy to write for three fests.

Yep, three. hp_yule_balls, and then I had to be crazy and sign up for the Daft Day Snarry Swap. So no more crazies for me, and no Santa's Lap either. Though #28 would make a lovely Harry/Lucius fic ....

And I'm nervous about the Snarry Swap. Snarry is my OTP, and I read way more Snarry fics than is probably healthy for one single fangirl, but I've never really written Snarry. There's "Need", but that's from Ginny's POV. And "Slytherin Love", but that's a threesome with Draco, and from Draco's POV. No pure Snarry yet.

And I hadn't meant to sign up, anyway. I blame alisanne - one of her prompts did the killer!bunny thing (and it hasn't let go of my throat yet), and I couldn't resist.

Allow me to repeat: prompts are evil.

EVIL!

*goes back to sitting on her hands*

Dear flist, I need your help. I'm stuck and I hate feeling that way. I want to write but I don't know what.

The problem is that I have too many WIPs languishing on my laptop. I can't decide between them, and every time I start having trouble with one, I go off to the next, and end up getting nothing done. But if I spend one more day whining about wanting to write without actually doing it, I might do something painful and lasting to myself.

So I turn to you to help me decide. Which of the following stories should I concentrate one? (For as long as I have time to do so before the hp_yule_balls assignment arrives.) Which one would you like to read? Pick any one (or two if you can't decide):

HP fanfiction

1. Just a Fantasy: Draco and Severus help turn Harry's fantasy into reality. (Draco/Severus, Harry/Draco/Severus, also mentions Draco/Astoria and Harry/Ginny).

1. Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus: the ninetenn-years-later sequel to The Dragon and the Pygmy Puff. Young, gorgeous, and self-confident, Scorpius sets out to seduce Harry Potter. (Harry/Charlie, Harry/Scorpius, Harry/Charlie/Scorpius).

3. Blood Magic: my first ever Snarry, still unfinished. The trio's raid on the Ministry takes a different turn. (Harry/Snape, will also at least mention Harry/Ginny and Harry/OMCs).


Original fiction

1. Bitter Blue: John gets a promotion but has to move to the other side of the country for the job. What will his lovers Suzy and Alex do? (Obviously M/M/F at the beginning.)

2. Invocation: Two wizards Summon and Bind a demon to protect them from being drawn into a wizarding war. Unexpectedly, the demon becomes fond of his human life and his human masters. (M/M and M/M/Demon).

3. Elain: Prince Elain loses the war and becomes the slave to the new lord. (M/M)


Once I have a story to focus on, I plan to set myself an amount of words to be written a day. Maybe that will work.

This morning, I signed up for hp_yule_balls again. I seriously need a deadline to get anything written. I'm very cross with Muse. *glares*

Back to the fest. Just now, I went to have a look at who else had signed up. And, on reading through softly_sweetly's request, I was pounced on by a plot bunny. Just like the Pygmy Puff did last year. I wonder if I can perhaps engage sweets as my Muse? She's apparently very inspiring. :D

It's a pity I won't get to write for her again this year. It's such a lovely bunny. Could work as many-years-later-sequel to "The Dragon and the Pygmy Puff", where Auror trainee Scorpius attempts to seduce Head Auror Harry Potter, not knowing or caring he's still in a relationship with Charlie. And then there's Charlie spanking Scorpius for hitting on his lover, with Harry tied up ... or, better, Charlie spanking Harry for thinking about shagging Scorpius, with Scorpius tied up and watching ...

Very nice bunny. I don't suppose I get it written without a deadline and the threat of modly people being angry with me for not finishing on time. Writing without a deadline stopped working after the thesis. It makes me very annoyed with myself.

Hmmm, but that bunny is tempting ...

I have written 46 words for my hp_sas fic today.

Estimated length is 15,000 words.

It will probably end up being 20,000 words.

I suppose I ought to speed up a little.

Seen everywhere and borrowed from everyone. :)

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

( iz cut cuz long )

There you are: Five fandoms, numerous genres, two pennames, and an overactive Muse suffering from ADS.

I'm getting back to writing. Yay! Wrote 2,700 words of PWP today that wanted to be more than PWP. It's amazing how I can write smut without much trouble when everything else refuses to be written, but have huge trouble when I write smut for a story with some plot in it.

Anyway, Maddox and Bill had fun today. Will post fic in a couple of days, once I've had the time to go through it again.

And now, because I'm still feeling good, I'll go back to Watching Him. That's an older story, and for the longest time I've only had the beginning of it. About one page, perfectly in my head, and I even got it onto a page. But after that, nothing. The other day, though, I had an idea for the rest, and managed to write four pages on Thursday (though I was dead afterwards). Next: the smut. But, as I said, I'm feeling good, and after Maddox and Bill, I might even manage Stuart and Sebastian. :)

*off to write more smut*

It's interesting but rather disturbing: I can't write. At least, nothing that is longer than, oh, 500 words. I started writing the long-time overdue review for maderr's Prisoner, and although it's perfect in my head, it won't come out. The sentences are not right and just nothing fits.

It's the same with anything remotely fictional. I want to write - hell, I've been putting off my three short stories since December! - but it doesn't work. I stare at the screen, in my head the characters run around and do what they are supposed to do, but my brain is busy with staring at the screen.

I think the thesis broke me.

And it's not as if Muse would shut up. Nope. She's been very busy last week, brought me two new bunnies. I really wish she would stop doing that!

( One isn't even a bunny but more like one scene and I have no idea what to do with it! )

After that scene and its participants vanished, I tried for something else. Some Cinderella-like story, perhaps? And voilà, there are Adina and Beliza, beautiful and not-so-nice sisters. There is Coryn, average looking younger brother whose only saving grace in Society is that he can read people and Society has learnt to not anger him, or he accidentally on purpose spills their secrets. Then, there is Prince Merrick, returned from his three-year-journey through the empire on which his father the emperor has sent him. But Merrick hasn't returned alone. There is a foreign mage with him, and it takes Coryn only one glance to know that they are lovers.

Not much better, that one. Can somebody please tell me why lately almost all of stories want to be threesomes? That mage totally wasn't planned, but once Merrick showed up, there he was. Now I have to somehow get Coryn together with these guys. But Coryn is shy, and he can't look at the prince and his mage because he sees things he really shouldn't see and they embarrass him. There's one talk to the mage but once that's over ... what?

And of course Muse has wandered off and wants me to write Breaking Heart is Hard to Do.

Which doesn't work, because brain is busy staring at screen.

I think Someone - or Something - is laughing at me.

( Status Report: Temperature )


( Status Report: Thesis )


( Status Report: Writing )


Also done today:

Ordered book from Amazon.com this morning as b-day present for Sandra. Then decided to order myself b-day present from Amazon.com as well. Yes, I'm buying myself birthday presents. I don't often buy myself things, so I indulge on Christmas and for my birthday. ^__^ Ordered Prisoner and Sandstorm by Megan Derr. And then couldn't resist and bought Regency too. ^__^


Then I read The Deathly Hallows in Script Form and laughed my head off. Brilliant!

"Characterisation: [Takes an extended break]"

LMAO.

Highly recommended for everyone annoyed with DH.

Yeah, I know, DH is long past, but just last week I had to re-read the bloody book twice. For the thesis. You don't know how annoying the book can become until you've been forced to read it several times in one go to try and make sense of it. Once I'm done with thesis I never, ever want to have to read DH again!

Now I'll go and see if I can find good fic to read.

Seen on meri_oddities's and dementordelta's LJ. Am not as important as they are but hey, it's a list! I can't pass the opportunity to make another list, nope, can't. So.

Done Dids in Fanfiction

March:
Unique - my first H/D fic, yay!
Twenty-Five Years Later - which might be a WiP. Or maybe not. It's all Muse's fault, anyway.

May:
Ginny, Don't Be Hasty - just a little SS/HP/DM ficlet I wrote for fun.

May-June:
Slytherin Love - for ravenna_c_tan as part of hp_summersmut

July:
A Beautiful Plan - SS/HP/DM ficlet for the July challenge at harrydracosnape

August:
At the Ministry Ball - because Muse wanted Harry/Scorpius smut.
Dangerous Dark Artefacts - written for the August challenge at harrydracosnape

October:
Die Tür - translation of klynie1's story The Door

October-November:
story for hp_yule_balls - longest I wrote this year

December:
bunches of drabbles

all year (and beta still in progress):
Auge um Auge - translation of Arsenic Jade's fic An Eye for an Eye


Also, I've got a couple of WiPs going:
A Curse that Binds - which is an incredibly stupid title and should I ever continue this, it will change!
Just a Fantasy (SS/HP/DM)
The Advent Mystery (Harry/??)
An Evening's Entertainment (SS/HP/DM)


Also: Originals! *gasp* Nothing much so far, just a couple of ideas and random bits of writing. Working titles only:

Novel-length
"Laeithe Child" - which started off as a very pr0ny HP fanfic and then gave birth to a new universe. It's still very much PWP, though.
"Regency" - which isn't even a title, uh. Began life as a Snarry AR but I liked the plot too much, so now it will be an original.
"Jewels" - Jalal, Jemal, Rashim, Sherid and Zelid: don't ask me where they came from, but they're in my head and want a story!
"Stories from the Harem" - inspired by maderr's The King's Harem.

Short Stories:
"Masquerade" - Regency & cross-dressing
"Invocation" - was SS/HP/DM, and now it's ... now it's got a demon.
"Breaking Heart is Hard to Do" - will be a threesome sort of thingy.

( Masterlist, sorted alphabetically by Fandom and title )