First: Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating, and happy Sunday to everyone else!

Second: Squee! My Mistletoe and Hallucinogens gift at bowtiesnblasters posted, and it is lovely!

Title: I See Your Face
Author: keenquing
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating/Pairing: PG, River/Doctor
Prompt: Sting's "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You"
Why you should go read it: It's a lovely ... I almost want to call it a character sketch, though that isn't quite right, but it has very cool insights into River's character and how she views the Doctor. And it's both Christmassy and not, with wonderfully telling details.

Third: My M&H fic has also posted. If you're up (heh) for a bit of Eleven/River/Jack, swing on by and check out Chance Would Be a Fine Thing as well.

I have yet to write a single word of fiction today, and I didn't succeed in my goal of finishing my M & H fic for bowtiesnblasters, but I did meet the 5_for_five goal and got a cool sticker for it:



I think I can tie the fic off with a scene or two, though, and have the rough draft done before Wednesday's art-prompt-claiming frenzy at who_reversebang. Then it'll be editing that one and getting it beta'ed whilst working on the others. It's good to be writing again.

For those of you who write, how has your week been? I've seen a few NaNo tickers floating around and am cheering from the sidelines.

How is everyone doing? I'm sorry I've been crap at keeping up with LJ. Work continues to kick my ass. I'm in my 3rd week covering for the regular evening supervisor's vacation, which is moderately insane (how am I supervising nurses with 20+ years experience???), and am finally getting a bit less panicky about it all. Hence the reading the flist more and attempting to get back into the swing of things.

So, of course, I went on a writing sign-up binge. I haven't written since the summer, to go by my 5_for_five tracking spreadsheet, and sadly that sounds about right. Mostly I've about had the energy for mindless games when online or passively reading.

I didn't get my act sufficiently together for tw_bigbang, but I've modified the idea and run with it for tw_classic_bb. ETA: before anyone else has a minor coronary reading that before they see the banner below, TW=Torchwood, not Twilight. You know, that other batshit big-T fandom. :-D That seems to be taking off better, though I'm hanging onto the 3k or so I got done of the original to play with another time maybe. One of the nice things about tw_classic_bb is you have the option of a "mini-bang" of 7500 words, which is where I'm aiming for starters. If the characters get chatty, well, then maybe it'll go big.

Also signed up for the who_reversebang and Mistletoe and Hallucinogens at bowtiesnblasters. Yes, the deadlines are sufficiently staggered to be sane. Ish.

Fest	Word Min	Due date(s)
who_reversebang	3000	Dec 6 check-in Dec 19 posting starts
bowtiesnblasters	500	Dec 20
tw_classic_bb	7500 mini 15000 big	Jan 10 draft Feb 1 posting starts

Okay, the first two are on top of each other, but if I can't crank out 500+ words of Doctor/River before I even get to claim the art prompt for the other? Something is very wrong. What'll kill me is if either of the smallish fics blows up. Not that my fics ever do that. *eyeroll* At least I'm already on a roll writing the one that's due last, so it should be in good shape even though it'll get set aside when I get my prompts for the first two.

Erm, anyone got a TARDIS I can borrow? Vortex manipulator? Time-turner?

In case I've not yet tempted you to join in the two that are still taking sign-ups, here are their shiny banners:



Author Sign Ups | Artist Sign Ups
Come and join us at the who_reversebang


Author Sign Ups | Artist Sign Ups
tw_classic_bb

So, what's everyone else up to?