Daydream believer

Title: 264 Hours
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: John/Rodney
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Set after Seige. The battle is over, except in Rodney's mind.
Notes: Big thanks to barely_bean for the story inspiration, handholding, beta reading and all-around fabulousness.

Posted to sga_flashfic for the Exhaustion challenge.

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264 Hours

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To take part in:

Lenore's Utterly Egocentric Summer of Love Challenge

It's the least pressure-filled challenge ever. No signing up necessary. No commitments. No restrictions. Just pick one of the top 100 songs of 1966, pick a fandom, and put your creativity to work. Post what you come up with on June 20th.

How about an SGA AU to the tune of "If I Were a Carpenter" or a sexy vampire SPN-something riffing on "Hungry." Come on! You know you want to. :)

Title: What Happens on Telarus (Or The Adventures of the Radiant One and the Village Idiot)
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: John/Rodney
Rating: R
Summary: It's all about the amnesia! And the beaded thong. Written for the Cuff ‘Em, Vamp ‘Em, or Just Make ‘Em Come Already Kink and Cliché Multi-Fandom Challenge.

Notes: Big thanks to barely_bean for doing super fast beta reading on short notice. You're the best!

( What Happens on Telarus )

Title: Paradise Where You Choose It
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: N/A
Rating: PG
Summary: Paradise is open to interpretation.

Notes: Thanks to catmoran, joyfulgirl41 and estrella30 for beta and audiencing. This is for slodwick's A Picture is Worth 1000 Words challenge.

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( Paradise Where You Choose It )

If you're looking for some action, check out:

Pucker Up: The Multifandom Mini Challenge

All kissing scenes, all fandoms, all day long. Go have a look-see!

Also, if you're writing for the challenge, don't forget to leave a link to your story. Thanks!

Let me remind everyone that the Pucker Up: Mulltifandom Mini Challenge is still going on. You have 3+ days left to write a kissing scene, any kissing scene. You know you want to!

Here's my stab at it:

Title: First Kiss
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing: Hotch/Spencer
Rating: Fandom Rated for Teens
Note: This is a scene from a longer story I'm going to write when I finish up other things I'm working on. To solve the case of who's targeting gay couples, Hotch and Spencer go undercover to lure a suspect out. Also, for people who don't watch this show, Spencer is an adorably dorky, probably virginal boy genius, and Hotch is his older, experienced supervisor and mentor figure.

( First Kiss )

You know it's official now that it has a name!

Pucker Up: The Multifandom Mini Challenge

The rules are simple:

Write a kissing scene you feel good about.
Any fandom, any characters, or original fiction.
Post your scene to your own LJ on or before November 22.
Post a link to your scene in the official challenge post I'll make on November 22.

Also, please feel free to pimp!


I'm going to post kissing scenes from published works that I especially like to set the mood. The first one, ironically enough, takes place when the couple are on their way for a date at a cavern:

"Pinky shifted the car into park, but left the engine running. "I want to kiss you now, before we get in the cave and I lose complete control." He turned toward her, and suddenly his body, jacketed and huge, appeared suspended above her, hovering, as she sank back against the car door. He closed his eyes and kissed her, long and slow, and she left her sunglasses on so she could keep her eyes open and watch, see how his lashes closed on one another like petals, how his scar zoomed quiet and white about his cheek and chin, how his lips pushed sleepily against her own to find a nest in hers and to stay there, moving, as if in words, but then not in words at all, his hands going round her in a soft rustle, up the back of her sweater to her bare waist and spine, and spreading there, blooming large and holding her just briefly until he pulled away, gathered himself back to himself, and quietly shifted the car into drive."

--"The Jewish Hunter" in Like Life by Lorrie Moore

At last, the communal story experiment or blind round robin or Clexy mad libs, whatever you want to call it is complete. Or, I should say, as complete as I could get it. There are one or two people who signed up to contribute that I was just never able to get in touch with. Sorry! Hopefully, it will work out next time.

Here is the list of participants in order of contributing to the story:
( The Writers )

If I missed anyone on the list, please let me know!

And now without further ado, here is the story:
( The Story )

And here's how I thought it could swing back to the beginning:
( The Continuation )

Anyone interested in keeping it going? Just add to it in the comments. And thanks to everyone who took part!

I am all bored and fidgety today, and that is a bad combination, my friends. So I thought of a game we could play. I've been thinking for a while now how interesting it would be to do a communal story, but one that was completely blind. You would only get to see the passage that came immediately before yours, and you'd have to write something based on that. I think it would be really revealing about fandom, about some of the underlying assumptions we make about Clark and Lex, and about storytelling, in general. Or it could just be a hoot, a Clexy sort of mad libs.

So let's give it a shot. Here's how it will work:

1. Leave me a comment with your email.
2. I will email you the preceeding passage of our communal story.
3. You write a short passage to follow it. No more than THREE SENTENCES, and you only get one turn. This thing will only work if it's a true communal effort. If you write more than three sentences, I'm only going to take the first three.
4. Email it right back to me. This is supposed to be spontaneous. So don't fret over it. Just go with your first thought. If the thing comes out completely wacky, then we'll all get a laugh!
5. If you don't have time to participate when I email you, let me know immediately. I'll put you at the end of the list and try you again later. It's important that we keep the line moving.
6. The experiment will run until we've gone through the list of everyone who has signed up, and they've either contributed or passed.
7. I'll compile the resulting story and post it to my LJ (along with the list of participants) for the amusement of all.

Sounds fun, no? And you only have to write a few sentences! It should take no more than ten minutes or so. Come on out and play! Leave me a comment with your email.

And to make it really communal, let me know how you'd like the story to start. I'll pick one (my secret!), and we'll get the story underway.

[Poll #583012]


ETA: The poll will close at 1 p.m. Eastern time. Then I'll send out the prompt to the first person on the list.

ETA 2: Sign ups to write are now closed (as of midnight Eastern time). Thanks to everyone who's playing the game!

First, I want to say to all those in the path of Hurricane Katrina that my thoughts are with you. I hope everyone stays safe and well.

Here's my story for the Writers' Workout Challenge, using the first person subjective, a completely new fan fiction writing experience for me. I loved this challenge. It really did push me to consider new things. Very cool.

Title: Not Even a Hint Left Behind
Fandom: Smallville
Rating: PG
Summary: What does it feel like to lose something you never really had?

Notes: Big thanks to my lovely beta readers stone_princess and pun for their help with this. And to the ingenious oxoniensis for coming up with the idea for this really cool challenge.

( Not Even a Hint Left Behind )