Gold: *coughs* I would be lying if I said that idea didn’t hold an appeal, but I don’t think Belle would be comfortable. We agreed to just stay as friends and I’m going to honor that. I know I have a reputation at work but I assure you I’m not the type of man to pressure a lady for more than she is willing to give.
(OOC that was the prompt! That was the actual prompt, a reenactment of Ghost. I think if you’re hoping for that in chapter eleven you’ll be disappointed but there’s still a lot of story left. Maybe eventually…)
Ask me about the show. Ask me anything about my fics, ask my characters anything. You can send me a word and if it’s in my WIP doc then I’ll post a teaser snippet. I accept prompts for any of my existing verses.
I wrote four fics for this event so I figured I’d do a mini masterlist 🙂
Brighter Days
Two weeks after they drop the colonists off at ‘New Novus’ Destiny drops out of FTL. The colony of Misthaven is technologically advanced, a real dream come true. They have all the food and medical supplies that Destiny could ever want, and they even have a way round the limitations of the gate system for long-term trade. The only catch is what they want to trade for – fresh blood. To seal the alliance Rush marries Belle French but she has plans of her own. They make a secret deal to be partners in science, not partners in the bedroom, but then Misthaven’s council starts to ask questions. [Tumblr, AO3]
The Auction
Boston PD is in dire financial straits so the Police Foundation decide to hold an auction – win a date with one of Boston’s Finest. Resigned to her fate Detective Belle French goes under the hammer. The winning bid belongs to the notorious defense attorney Carl Gold, but he never had any intention of using the date, and tells her to just enjoy her night off. Instead Belle decides to honor their deal, surprising him at his office at the designated time of their contracted date. [Tumblr, AO3]
Last Friday Night
The trial of the decade might have brought them together but it’s also why their relationship has to stay secret. Both Belle and Gold know that a case of this importance can’t be risked just because the lead detective and the ADA prosecutor fall in love. However, when the attorney’s for the defense hack the security cameras at the DA’s office, it seems the months of sneaking around have been worthless, unless they can get the video file back. [Tumblr, AO3]
Highway to Hell
When Lacey French gets hit with twenty hours of mandatory community service she’s furious, but she soon discovers that it has it’s perks when she meets Lachlan MacAldonich. However, it also has it’s problems. Soon she finds herself taking risks she would never have dared take before, including
maybe breaking her golden rule not to fall in love. [Tumblr, AO3]
I was afraid when I first saw this title that the Black Fairy was going to get Rumple’s dagger and turn him into her ‘helper’. With the sheer number of people that have got their hands on Rumple’s dagger lately, that didn’t seem impossible and I’ve never been more glad to be wrong. Anyway, onward to the actual review!
Spoilers for 6.16 Mother’s Little Helper under the cut.
I was afraid when I first saw this title that the Black Fairy was going to get Rumple’s dagger and turn him into her ‘helper’. With the sheer number of people that have got their hands on Rumple’s dagger lately, that didn’t seem impossible and I’ve never been more glad to be wrong. Anyway, onward to the actual review!
Random but does anyone’s queue sometimes miss posting and then get out of sync? That’s why I double posted this morning because I’d noticed that overnight it had gone wrong.
Anyway, it’s Saturday and I’m going to try and write all the words! I’ve felt really exhausted last couple of days and my hard won buffer from the start of the month has dwindled to nothing. I should be writing my book but like I said in yesterday’s pep talk, I can tell when I’ve reached ‘that’ part of it and yup I’m there. Once I hit around 20k I always lose my oomph.
Taking a day off won’t help, I just need to push through but I’m going to take the day anyway. So today I’m going to see if I can conquer my fourth Order in the Court fic. I only wrote 273 words yesterday, which was snippets from three scenes because that’s how done my brain was. Let’s see if I can make sense of it today and pull this story together.
It’s the end of week one. The initial burst of enthusiasm has past, the energy from
starting something new has begun to fade. We’re heading into the trenches now, the muddy middles and the end seems so far away. At least that’s how I view the end of week one; for you it might look like something else, everyone is different in the writing process. I can tell what my word count is by how I’m feeling, I don’t even need to hit recount, I know that I’ve reached ‘that part of the book’ without looking.
I love beginnings, I find beginnings easy, it’s the middle I always struggle with. My friend hates beginnings, loathes them and absolutely loves middles when everyone has met and the story is past the awkward set-up stage and things are happening. We talk about week two blues, or the post-50k slump but there are far more highs and lows than just the standard ones.
Whatever your word count and however you feel, just think about one thing for a moment. You have a lot more words at the end of this week, than you did when you started. Progress has been made. You might have had an absolute killer week and be on cloud nine. Your story is awesome, you are ahead with your goals and you are rocking it. Maybe your week wasn’t so great, maybe you’re behind or maybe you’ve decided you loathe your story and want to kill it with fire.
Personally I go from one extreme to the other on a day to day basis, sometimes on an
hourly basis. From the depths of despair to sheer elation when something goes right. We are writing people and that is hard. Non-writers don’t get it and that is our eternal compliment. That is why the NaNo months (whether the challenge is in April, July November), have such magic about them. All around the world there are people going through exactly the same thing.
In this cabin we have a wide spectrum of goals but we are all making the same sort
of journey. It’s all about our personal bests, what we can do, climbing our own personal mountains. It’s the end of week one and whether it went good or bad, it is just the end of week one. There are three more weeks left. It is not the end, it is just the end of the beginning. There’s a long road ahead and we are all going to walk it – together.
Now I’m going to end this pep talk by altering a couple of cool quotes to make them more NaNo orientated. Bonus points if you recognize their origin 🙂
“People are going to tell you can’t write that much, that fast, your whole life. You just got to punch back and say no I can do it. You want people to believe you – make them. You want to write a freaking story, you are going to have to go out there and write it yourself because there are no word fairies in this world.”
“Something wrong?”
“No. I’ve just never written this much before.”
“Well, they say the first 10k is always the hardest.”
“Do you ever give up?”
“Not till I’m all out of words. And sometimes, not even then.”
I die of laughter everytime I see this, I mean it is their fault a lot of the time. I think they addressed that once by saying that they were explorers and there were risks to everything but what they learned was worth it.
You know there is one positive thing about being so behind on Agents of Shield. If I was up to date right now I would probably be dropping everything to write some fix-it fic. I don’t know the ins-and-outs but this gifset keeps popping up on my dash that get’s me right in the feels.
You know what I think we should have a little discussion here with a certain robot. I’ll say:
Sorry for being noisy(or asking a ridiculous question) but what does nano mean? And good luck with your goal, looks like you’re almost half-way there.
All righty!
NaNo is short for NaNoWriMo which in turn is short for National Novel Writing Month. The website is here: www.nanowrimo.org
In short, the goal is to write a novel (or an amount of stuff equivalent to a novel, IE 50,000 words) in 30 days.
NaNoWriMo is actually in November, but there is also ‘Camp NaNoWriMo’ (www.campnanowrimo.org) which runs during Spring/Summer – this year it’s April.
This is my first Camp NaNo, but so far as I can see it, it’s basically like a practice run for NaNo. You can set your own word count target (the NaNo word count target is automatically 50K, I just chose 50K for Camp NaNo but you can choose as many or few words as you like), and there are ‘Cabins’ of up to twenty fellow writers, which basically form a large message board where you can encourage your cabin mates and talk about writing. Or random facts about facial hair and ambulances, like in our cabin. @still-searching47 is modding up a rumbelle cabin this year. They’re a NaNo and Camp NaNo vet, so I’ll leave them to add in any more info!
I did NaNo in 2015 and 2016 but honestly I think that with the Cabin experience I’m enjoying Camp NaNo more than actual NaNo.
which runs during Spring/Summer – this year it’s April.
Actually it runs in both April and July. It’s not a spring or summer thing. I’ll be seeing if any of you guys want to join in the fun in July for a cabin as well 🙂
This is my first Camp NaNo, but so far as I can see it, it’s basically like a practice run for NaNo.
It can be a practice run with options for a lower goal sure but it’s also more than that. They allow you to track time and pages, so you can write screenplays, or work on editing. I know someone who’s outlining/planning a new series. The flexi-goal system makes Camp a very different beast from the traditional 50k/30 days of the original November NaNo.
Personally I prefer Camp as well. I like the cabin system because it’s more community oriented. I also like being able to set my own goal because then the stats adjust accordingly so it’s easier to keep track of where I should be. I would thoroughly recommend NaNo to everyone. I wouldn’t be where I am today without it 🙂
