swiped from chordatesrock with a typo correction

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current works in progress in your journal.

"What if I get it wrong?" Gillian asked, the smell of copper and grass and primroses all around her.

( and a whole lot more )

(1) Rereading my Supernatural WIPs is making me want to rewatch the show. Argh.

December Days 11: things I can do / qualities I express & compliments (dialecticdreamer)

things I can do or qualities I express, but am surprised when other people compliment me on them

Cooking. I like it. I get really frustrated by it. Nothing ever turns out how I want it to, though some times I get closer than other times. Like, I mentioned the other day (possibly under lock for reasons—I forget) the failcookies?

Monster cookies are essentially butter, peanut butter, oats, sugar, chocolate chips, and M&Ms (there's actually like twelve ingredients, but none of them are flour) tossed in a bowl and mixed and then tossed on cookie sheets and baked. Note the oats. They must be rolled oats. Not steel-cut oats. The shape, size, and texture are entirely different and using steel-cut oats in monster cookies results in monster ice cream topping. I found this out after running out of the gluten-uncontaminated rolled oats and substituting gluten-uncontaminated steel-cut oats for the remainder of the oats in the recipe. I got maybe a dozen cookies and about four times that weight of cookie crumbs.

And yet, when we brought the cookie stuff to the party yesterday, I got a stack of compliments on the cookies. And I'm all like wtf why—these are failcookies!

December Days 03: sequels and series: love or hate, and why? (dialecticdreamer)

LOVE. Usually. Depends on the quality of the sequel, really. But if I've fallen for the first book / movie / episode, I love being able to find more. I'm not sure I've even read a standalone novel in the past year.

December Days 08: things that make me giggle helplessly (nenya_kanadka

Voila. Video, NSFW language. Not sure if transcript available but if anyone needs one I'll be happy to provide it. Not now, though. I can't find a volume control on the video, and my computer volume is literally on 1 so any quieter on that control is Mute, and the video is loud enough that I'm afraid my mom might hear from upstairs.

(no, it is not a rickroll, I have better sense than that)

December Days 10: favorite aspect of the MCU that's not a character (newredshoes)

Gotta be the fundamentality of female characters to the narrative. Pepper, Betty (iirc—been a while since I saw Hulk), Peggy (though here is the point where I confess that I have not actually seen Captain America), Natasha. These movies aren't these women's stories—Marvel is not that progressive—but these women are crucial to the stories and (though three of those four do in fact double as love interests) not through being love interests.

December Days 14: writing I do when I can't sleep (dialecticdreamer)

This one really isn't all that interesting. I write plenty of stories in my head while I'm lying in bed trying to sleep, but any time I get the impulse to actually write them down, they're gone by the time I get to a keyboard.

I am planning to move all my crap, including the computer, from the basement to my bedroom. So it is possible that that will change and I'll actually be able to write my bedtime stories down. I'm not sure I'd bet on it, though.

December Days 16: a food which reminds me of best parts of childhood (dialecticdreamer)

Baby Jesus Birthday Cake. Also known as crumb cake, but neither my mom nor her mom ever made it for any occasion other than breakfast Christmas morning.

Here it is three days after Christmas and I haven't had any yet this year. That probably says a lot in itself.

(I should probably apologize for the many small posts in a row. So: Apologies for the many small posts in a row.)

(Also, balsamandash, I may not be getting to the "recommend books" December Days post this year at all. I haven't actually read a whole lot this year, and I get the impression that my Dreamwidth readers are mostly a crowd to whom Pratchett's Hogfather needs no recommendation.)

moar yuletide kudos!

Come the Good Peasant to Cheer (13323 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE RPF, 14th Century CE — England RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Edward the Black Prince/Joan of Kent, Anne of Bohemia/Richard II
Characters: Joan of Kent, Joan of Kent (14th Century CE — England RPF), Edward the Black Prince, Edward the Black Prince (14th Century CE — England RPF), Richard II of England, Richard II (14th Century CE — England RPF), Anne of Bohemia Queen of England, Wat Tyler, John Ball, Jack Straw
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Peasants' Revolt, Women Being Awesome, Women In Power, Obscure Medieval Women, Folk Music, Folktales, Mention of Rape TW, POV Third Person Limited, Past Tense, Historical, Wordcount: Over 10.000, Misses Clause Challenge, POV Female Character, Kings & Queens, Rebellion, Rebels
Summary:

AU. Edward the Black Prince--now Edward IV of England--has been king for four years. Now the peasants have rebelled, the Black Prince wants to declare war on them all, and his stubborn, determined queen, Joan of Kent, is desperately trying to prevent utter disaster.

Jesu dulcis memoria (1022 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE England RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Anne of Bohemia/Richard II
Characters: Richard II of England, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Medieval Painting, The Wilton Diptych, Lots of Historical Conjecture, Everyone Richard Loves Is Dead


Also, everything in the Emelan and Enchanted Forest Chronicles sections of Yuletide. I read them on a different computer, though, so I wasn't copying the share data to a post after I kudosed.

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soooo does anyone have word on when the BBC's radio play of Good Omens will be available for legal purchase / download? (I realize I could just spend the next three hours listening to it all.)