Somebody is reading my stories on fanfiction.net. Starting with the really embarrassing early ones. I know this because those are the ones that this person has favorited.

On the bright side, I'm 4K into my 15K minimum for sncross_bigbang. On the dim side, my Law Office Management homework due tomorrow is not yet done.

In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

whydoyouneedtoknow, aka Anne Walsh, and damkianna. Both are fabulous authors who hit my big fic kink: MOAR LADIES = MOAR AWESOME.

damkianna avoids killing or otherwise writing out canon female characters—one of her big projects, Flying Blossoms, is a bunch of Five Thingses that are either 'five women X's mother might have been' or 'five things X's mother might have done', and in every instance the mother in question is someone never or rarely seen in Avatar: the Last Airbender. And in Imagine the Ocean and Listen to the Earth, the Avatar Gang is populated by an ever-increasing number of canon female characters. Suki. Yue. There's also a friendly Fire Nation commander OFC, Yin. The central plot point of Imagine/Listen is that Katara is the Avatar; I am dying to see what happens when damkianna gets hold of The Legend of Korra.

Anne makes use of original female characters as well as canon female characters—not that damkianna doesn't, but damkianna's epic doesn't rely on the OFCs the way Anne's epic does. The Dangerverse is named for the OFC who sets everything in motion, Gertrude 'Danger' Granger, Hermione's twenty-years-older sister who has psychic abilities and who marries Remus and with his help kidnaps Harry from his more-abusive-than-canon relatives and frees Sirius from Azkaban so that Sirius can marry OFC #2, Aletha Freeman, Lily's best friend, and with her have a kid, OFC #3, Meghan. Remus, Sirius, Danger, and Aletha collectively raise Harry, Hermione, Meghan, and Draco Black—yes you heard that right; Narcissa gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome into the bargain. And from there the changes just sort of spiral.

Anne and damkianna are the two authors I tried but failed to imitate with my spn_j2_bigbang last year, and the authors I am trying and hopefully succeeding to imitate with my sncross_bigbang this year. (It helps that Anne wrote A Widow in Waiting, first of the Chronicles of Glenscar, which is the 'verse I'm crossing with Supernatural, and I have conned Anne into doing beta work for my Big Bang.)


I'll come back to day twelve.


In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favourite interview, a book) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Supernatural 3x11 MYSTERY SPOT. This is the defining episode of Sam in seasons one through five. He goes utterly batshit crazy trying to save Dean, and when he thinks Dean is beyond saving, he shuts down into superhunter mode. I can't really explain my glee over this episode but it is beyond question my favorite of the series.

Guess what I'm still not doing?

The document's open. I'm staring at it. The words are just not coming. I'm going to have to post with an apology to my beta for not listening to a word she said. Either that or take off work tomorrow, and to be honest, while the Big Bang is worth losing the day's pay to me, the Big Bang is not worth dealing with Mom's reaction to my losing the day's pay.

Big Bang posting date is Tuesday and I'm bored. Am I editing the Big Bang? Do I have any inclination to edit the Big Bang?

Nope. Not in the slightest.

Gaaah tomorrow evening's gonna be FUN. 'Cause I gotta be posting-ready before bed on Monday, because Tuesday evening is entirely occupied by class.

WASTING MY WEEKEND ARGH. No motivation no NOTHING. Mountain of books to read. Big Bang to edit. Soap and candles to make, though that latter might annoy Dad, he made me put away my stuff for that earlier today. TV to watch and analyze and transcribe. And while I do have motivation to watch Elena Undone, I am not spending money on additional functionality for Windows Media Player in hopes that makes the DVD play, 'specially when the additional functionality for WMP is stuff VLC is supposed to already have.

Did sign up for ladiesbigbang. So there's that.

ETA: Now I need to clean my room so I can get at all the books I just put in a LibraryThing collection with Jess's name on it, so I can get those books onto the empty bookshelf currently inexplicably in our library, so I can do an art that's a character study of Jess.

I know who my Big Bang artist is! \o/

Under a thousand words. Under eight and a half hours. Give me one-word prompts, please?

Three thousand words. Twelve and a half hours.

Can somebody do a speedy read-through of my Big Bang and tell me what scenes you think need expanded upon? Because I have 16.6K of my 20K and I have about thirty-one hours to write thirty-four hundred words and I have no idea what to write.

I HAVE A DRAFT.

It's only 15.6K, but it's a DRAFT. And there's plenty of room for expansion in what I've got so far.

I HAVE A DRAFT.

I might be able to get this done after all.