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Hello there! Just your RCIJ santa stopping by to say hello! I hope life is treating you well. I’m not even sure — are you American? Are you doing anything fun for the holiday weekend if you are?

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Heya. You know I think I must have summoned you, I was just thinking about you and hoping that you were ok. It’s nice to hear from you 🙂

Ah yeah I don’t tend to talk about myself much. So three quick facts. No I’m not American, I’m from England, I’m 26 and I’m very excited for Camp NaNo which starts today. So no holiday weekend for me but hopefully a lot of writing will be done regardless.

Are you American Santa? Do you have fun plans for the weekend? Do you like NaNo? Sorry, I might be a bit of a NaNo fan. It’s going to be my 10th anniversary this November, although if I include Camp I have done more than 10 events already.

I hope you have a good week and a good month!

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I’m supposed to be writing, instead I just went and found a bunch of Nicholas Rush gifsets and added them to the queue.

I’ve never done a queue before but it occurred to me that I’ll get a nice surprise whenever they are posted. I’ll be scrolling through my dash and go “Rush!!” and then realize it was me that reblogged it 🙂

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worryinglyinnocent:

So instead of anything I should be writing, like F&F, Maison Rouge proper, or the GBBO AU, I am writing yet another little rumbelle Maison Rouge ficlet. 

It seems like that’s all my brain wants to write at the moment. 

Damn you brain!

In other news I’ve finished my RCIJ fic, but I’m absolutely buggered if I can think up a title for it… 

*sigh*

You have finished your RCIJ fic? *is jealous* You know if you want to message me privately with a fic summary I could try and help you brainstorm a title, titles are hard.

Also, I totally get the “writing but not what I’m supposed to” thing – I have that problem right now. I should be doing more RCIJ but I’ve done about 1.5k today and my brain wants to work on something else now.

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wizzygold:

sarashouldbestudying:

still-searching47:

maplesyrupao3:

still-searching47:

There has been a murder in Storybrooke.

Detective Belle French is assigned to investigate. The only evidence found was a single vintage playing card concealed beneath the body. She takes the card to the local pawnbroker Mr Gold, along with a photograph of the victim. Hoping because the playing card was old, maybe it could provide a lead, they have nothing else to go on.

Surprisingly Mr Gold is very helpful. He reveals the existence of a hidden high stakes poker game, that is held in the shadows, always moving location between games. The victim had accompanied one of the players at the previous game but apart from that he knows nothing about her. Belle asks him how he knows so much about the game. His answer? He’s one of the players and then the plan is formed.

Belle goes undercover as Lacey, Mr Golds provocatively clad escort for the evening. All the players are in powerful positions around Storybrooke, an open investigation would just make them lawyer up. Belle quietly investigates but when she is nearly caught sneaking around, she gets caught in a completely different manner as Gold disguises her actions with a kiss.

The stakes are high as the conclusion of the case approaches. It’s not just the killer who might fall.

I’d read this fic!

Don’t tempt me! Though thank you 🙂

I saw this inspiration pic thing on my dash this morning. Now I see a lot of these and I love them all, I always like them because they are so pretty, but I hadn’t been particularly inspired by any until this one. I typed up the summary and figured that would be it.

Then I went to do some chores and my mind was still spinning. This is a high class event, where the women are more like ornaments so Belle would have to look the part. So I thought up this scene where Gold gives her his credit card with orders to get a designer outfit, because otherwise “your cover will be blown the second you walk in there”.

I then figured if one of these games takes place at a remote estate and they have to stay overnight, they’d have to share a bed and pretend to fake some noises etc. because they have to keep cover.

I mean it’s kinda like fake dating but with the whole “secret mission” thing which could get them into all sorts of circumstances like the one where they have to make out to avoid detection etc.

Oh who am I kidding? This is going to go on my ideas list.

I want so desperately to read this. Please????

me too!!!!!

Wow, I know it’s probably wrong but I love this response and thanks to @maplesyrupao3 as well. I write for myself because I love writing but well, it’s a really nice boost to get comments like this.

Yup I am definitely going to write this 🙂

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I’m writing the next chapter of The War Within and you guys are really going to hate me. I say I can’t do angst and then I do this. To be fair though I’m just working with what canon gave me.

Want a snippet? Might as well.

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“I can’t lose you too, I just can’t,” Rumplestiltskin whispered brokenly.

Unbidden the memory of the town line came to him, with Belle saying ‘You already have’ and another sob ripped from his throat.

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Rumple needs a hug bigtime, poor guy.

TMI Tuesday

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Not done this before. I’m not actually expecting anyone has any questions yet but if I don’t ever do this, then I’ll never find out. So I’ll be here every Tuesday possible just for the fun of it 🙂

I just posted Chapter Two of The War Within as my fic update for the week.

Ask Box

Masterlist

I rather like what @rowofstars does on their TMI Tuesday posts but I don’t want to steal their idea. So full credit to them and if they don’t mind, then you can ask me for a word in my WIP docs.

It does seem like a sneaky way to get fic teasers, I wish I was better at thinking of keywords to do that. Anyway, ask my characters questions if you have any. Ask anything about my fic really.

#am writing the next chapter of The War Within right now

Rumbelle meets Voodoo

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I had a good day yesterday, my arm didn’t hurt that much so I did a fair bit of writing. Today I am paying for it because it hurts a ton. Anyway, that’s irrelevant.

At dinner it was suggested that I made a voodoo doll of myself so that I could give my shoulder/back a massage.

The second that suggestion was made my brain went:
“That isn’t the normal use of voodoo, usually it’s to inflict pain not make it better.”
“What if Rumple made a voodoo doll of Belle/made one of himself and gave it to her. So there would be a voodoo doll of one of them, which would be given to the other. Then throughout the day, whomever has the voodoo doll counterpart feels the transmitted phantom touch.”

Literally it was a two step process. My brain has been warped to think Rumbelle guys.

Anyway, obviously this prompt is suggestive of porn which isn’t in my skillset. Admittedly I haven’t tried writing any in, hmm must be eight years now, but it was terrible and I would be far too self-conscious to even try. You guys are all very good at it.

So I’m just throwing it up here in case anyone else likes the prompt and feels like adopting it. I thought it had potential.

woodelf68 replied to your post:Rumbelle meets Voodoo

I’ve got to think about this for a while. I wants it, I do.

If you want the prompt it’s yours 🙂 but no worries if you decide against it or never get round to it. I just posted it in case anyone liked it and because it amused me that my brain apparently has been conditioned to Rumbelle everything.

#I figured out how to reply to replies

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“You can have more than one.”

They should definitely have that dinner. That would be so awesome, right up there with the incredibly awkward scene with Rumple, Emma and Milah “so you’ve been with my former lover and my son?” because this is one screwed up family tree and they need to hang a lampshade on it.

#I want Rumple and Henry scenes#they are the only remaining gold men

You know you are a writer …

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still-searching47:

… when you are halfway through getting a meal (or doing anything really) and have to stop because this scene just popped into your head and it has to be written right the hell now. At least in rough form because the dialogue is good and you can see the faces, feel the emotions and while the picture is clear and not fuzzy, it needs to be recorded.

… when you have a picture in your mind and you aren’t sure whether it’s an actual scene you saw on the TV, or just something you imagined yourself.

… when watching TV often has no appeal anymore, because there is nothing that compares to the TV in your mind, of your own stories and ideas.

… when you can’t sleep at night because you want to be writing, but when you go to write, you just want to sleep.

I’ll stop for now. Anyone got any others?

… when you know little details about fics for stuff that wouldn’t happen until a long way into the fic, and it’s not even a fic you are writing a the moment. It’s sort of like knowing a little detail about book five of a book series when you are only starting on book one.

Example: My fic ‘Her Happy Ending’ I have about 8k written so it’ll probably become a thing eventually but it’s not on the horizon anytime soon. However, I happen to know that when the Charming’s have their baby son, they are going to call him Nicholas (Nicky) based on someone’s suggestion. Only afterwards are they going to realize to their mild horror that they inadvertently named their son after Rumple because that was his cursed name.

The certain someone who suggested it was very self-satisfied with themselves. Especially when Nicky starts calling Rumple Grandpa because Henry does it and he wants a Grandpa too (and of course both David and Snow’s parents are dead).

… when you have fanfic for your fanfic.

Example: I have this incredible urge for some reason to cross over show canon with the ‘Her Happy Ending’ universe, just for a oneshot because it would be very funny, possibly for no-one but me. However, I just want the Charming’s to be so horrified at what they see because Rumple is so evil etc. and the alternate Charming’s to be like “well Rumplestiltskin is family through Henry” and just shrugging because he’s brilliant with Nicky and isn’t it better to have him with them than against them?