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7. Will you change anything about the way you interact with other writers?

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Hmm … yes and no.

I don’t think I do anything particularly wrong in how I interact with other writers BUT I do feel that I need to make more of an effort. I think it might have been last year I made a resolution to read and review older fics, but I haven’t even been able to keep up with current ones.

#SupportFellowWriters sounds like a sound-bite but I really do believe it’s important. Writing can be lonely, it can feel like screaming into the void. I very much hope that I’m seen as someone who is approachable and friendly. I would willingly help any writer I could. Not that I’m saying I would be able to help but I can cheer and *wave pom-poms* at least 🙂

So basically I want to keep being me but I want to try harder. The comment fairy needs to go visiting a lot more often.

Ask Me? New Year fic meme

5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?

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Thanks so much for the ask!! 🙂 *hugs*

Well … I can’t post a snippet as I don’t have anything written on any WIPs. I’m kinda terrible that way. Once I start a chapter I usually finish it in reasonably short order and then I post it. Waiting is hard, I just like to post things when I have them. Although I’m more terrible for it having been 11 months on one and 9 months on another without me working on them. Where has the time gone?

Anyway I know you want me to say Painting Layers of Love. I WANT to say Painting Layers of Love. It’s just that fic is nowhere near done. It’s going to be double or triple the length at least I would think. So from a personal point of view it makes more sense to me to finish the shorter WIP so I have less to worry about.

I am trying super hard this year. I know it’s only the 2nd and so I have tons of time to screw up but I’m hopeful? I’ve organised myself to the nth degree, my alarm is going off at 5:50 so I can be at my desk for 6am for a guaranteed writing hour every day of the year. I know, I know, I said I was going to do that before and then got tired and didn’t manage it. I’m not promising that won’t happen again but I have two weeks to get used to the schedule before uni starts again.

I really, really, really want to do better. I want to write more, I want to finish stories, I want to get stuff done. I don’t want to look back at 2018, the way I look back at 2017, and feel like I totally let myself/the world down.

TLDR: Under My Skin will be finished first because that shouldn’t be more than five chapters and then I can cross it off the list.

Ask Me? New Year fic meme

For the writer meme – 9 & 10

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Yay I haven’t done asks in ages. I forgot how fun it is 🙂 Thank you so much!

9. Short term goals… what do you hope to complete this week or in January?
This week? I’m aiming to write everyday but my focus is on art. I’m doing a 12 panel comic/art thing on creativity for my universities comic book and it’s due on the 7th. Writing will always be my main thing but I’d like to get better at art. Signing up for my (probably rubbish) drawings to be published is probably a bit dumb but hey at least it’s making me stick to a creative deadline for the first time in six months.

In January? I really want to finish my novel. I know that’s not the answer I should give on tumblr because it should be my fic WIP’s. It’s just I started this damn book October 2016 and I’m still only just halfway through. I want to be done with it. I also want to go through some feedback I got on another novel and maybe do the edits. To be honest as much as I hate to say it I don’t think I’ll get to fanfic this month *hides*

10. Will you keep a record of all the fics you write and/or post this year?
Always hehe 🙂 I am the Emperor of tracking. My “fanfic year in review” wasn’t very accurate on word count because I was lazy – not because I couldn’t have totalled it to the last word because I totally could have.

Forget entire fics I can look back and tell you how much I wrote on a specific day – on a specific story. When I focus write I keep note of how much I write in the set time frame, so I can see how my speed/focus is doing. I love tracking because it shows me what I’ve done, and helps me formulate goals to do better because I’m never satisfied.

Actually forget writing I just track everything which is probably why I’m so in love with my new Apple Watch. Steps, stairs, distance, heartrate, sleep – I’m in stats heaven. Plus I installed this new app on my phone called HabitBull to remind me to drink enough water, hoover the house, read books etc. It timestamps when I do it and how many times if applicable. Same with words done everyday or hours spent drawing etc.

TLDR – Yup tracking is my thing 🙂

Ask Me? New Year fic meme

2017 Fanfic Year in Review

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I haven’t done a fic status update since April because I haven’t really been writing. Therefore I figured there was no point in doing one of these but looking back the beginning of the year is saving me. The last several months have been a drought but the first few months were ok-ish. Anyway onwards!

January

– Counting Stars: Chapter Two
– Enter Sandman
– All I Needed (Three Prompts, Two Prompts)
– Once Upon a Lifetime (nsfw)
– Painting Layers of Love: Chapter Eight
– Fall All Over Again: Chapter Four (nsfw)
– Full Circle
– Under My Skin: Hands All Over (nsfw)
– Random Ficlets (How can anyone not be afraid of love, I didn’t intend to kiss you, If you want we could go together (attached ask), Please don’t make me socialize)
– The Price We Pay (Why are we whispering?, Wishing Well)

February

– Under My Skin: Chapter Two
– The Price We Pay (Three Prompts, Three Prompts)
– Counting Stars: Chapter Three
– Belle and Gold Dance (Drawing)
– A Little Insurance
– Another Second Chance
– Sweet Masquerade (nsfw)
– Painting Layers of Love: Chapter Nine
– Bless the Broken Road
– Fall All Over Again: Chapter Five (nsfw)

March

– The Price We Pay: Belle saves the day
– Across the Stars

April
– Painting Layers of Love: Chapter Ten
– Brighter Days (Rushbelle, nsfw)
– The Auction (nsfw)
– Last Friday Night (nsfw)
– Highway to Hell (Lachacy, nsfw)
– Happy Anniversary (nsfw)
– What Makes You Different (nsfw)
– To Be Loved (nsfw)
– Costume Party
– This Afternoon (nsfw)
– The Quest (Rumbelle/Rushbelle/GoldenLace, nsfw)

May
– Dream Come True
– Bright Lights
– Missing scene ficlet (Captain America: Civil War)

June
– Things never seem so bleak after a cup of tea (Drawing)

July
– True Love Ways
– Miracles Happen
– Random ficlets
– More ficlets

August
– Star Force Laceskin Poster (Photo Manip)

September
– Cuddling to keep warm (Drawing)

October
– The Price We Pay: Don’t Call Me That
– I Believe My Heart (GlassBeliever)

Stats:
Words Posted on AO3: 218,474
Stories posted: 24
Verses created (multiple fics, same verse): 2
WIPs finished: 3
WIPs still to complete: 2 (+ 1 prompt verse)
Art (drawings/photo-manips): 4

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Tesco bag. I know it’s the bolt from a pulse pistol but it really looks here like Han Solo is wielding a lightsaber…

#I fully support the Han is Force-sensitive headcanon#never tell me the odds

Hello, you have been identified as An Awesome Writer™! Congrats, you rock! So that all of your readers can shower you with some extra love today, please tell us your favourite five (or as many as you want) stories of yours and why you like them and then send this to another five fic authors you think deserve this title! <3

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Awwww *huge hugs* you are so nice!!! I haven’t posted anything in six months and my WIP’s have been neglected for nearly a year and you still think of me? *sniff* I don’t know what to say beyond I love you and that I’m trying valiantly not to tear up. Thank you so much!!

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The Beauty and the Tragedy [Tumblr, AO3] – No idea if it’s true or not but I’ve always felt this is one of my better written fics which is weird as I wrote the whole thing in a day. It kinda poured out of me. I just love the imagery and how it flows, which would be the narrative structure I guess. [NSFW]

Painting Layers of Love [Tumblr, AO3] – My magnum opus in many ways. I know it hasn’t been updated in forever and I feel really guilty. Don’t worry it’s not been forgotten, I’ve just had a really bad mental health year personally and I’ve barely been able to keep up with anything. Fic took a backseat. Anyway I love this one because of the feelings I guess. I’m trying to do it right, I really want to do it justice.

Between Two Fires [Tumblr, AO3] – I created a sci-fi world! Hehe 🙂 I went a bit nuts with the world building, I have a whole history and solar system and interplanetary war and *deep breath* and it’s combined with some of my favourite espionage tropes. I know I shouldn’t enjoy my own fic but I really kinda do with this one, it really was tailor-made for me *hides*

Fall All Over Again [Tumblr, AO3] – My first Lacey fic. I had an absolute blast writing this and once again did far too much worldbuilding/planning. It’s technically AU even before the canon-divergence in The Outsider because Lacey and Gold were married during the curse. Also Belle woke up first. I have so many details of how things were during the curse, how season one was different and I also had some thoughts about a sequel. I had fun writing this one. [NSFW]

Across the Stars

[Tumblr, AO3] – Picking #5 is always difficult but I think at this moment it has to go to this Star Wars fusion. Love is strength and if I ever write more (oh please let me scrape the time to write more) balance will be brought to the force very differently. Once again I just have tremendous fun 🙂

Book Meme

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@bookwormchocaholic thanks for the tag! 🙂

1. Favourite book of all time?
Can I pick a series? I know it’s not exactly high literature but the Diagnosis Murder books by Lee Goldberg are such a joy to read. I’ve never enjoyed a set of books more and I think that should count for something.

2. What are you currently reading?
A lot of fanfic is on my TBR pile! However, I do have this Anthony Horowitz book that is begging to be read so both?

3. Have you ever considered writing a book?
More than considered. I’ve typed ‘The End’ on several novels thanks to NaNoWriMo 🙂

4. Favourite series?
Erm I kinda already answered this *hides*

5. Book you’d like to read?
Kinda already did this one too – The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz.

6. What’s on your TBR pile?
Honestly it’s mostly fanfic because a) you guys are all so damn talented and b) I’m ashamed to say it’s free. I walk around the bookstore and wish I was a millionaire because there are so many awesome books. This morning I input a dozen titles of books I saw into the library and got a big fat zilch. I guess maybe I should try again in a year or two when they aren’t so new.

7. Favourite fictional character(s)?
Impossible to say. Characters and their stories are so intertwined and while I can see common elements in many of my favourite characters that’s not what this is asking. Characters are compelling for various reasons and I love far too many.

8. Favourite ship of all time?
Not book related but it kinda has to be Rumbelle really doesn’t it? Strangely not Beauty and the Beast though. I find Rumbelle so much better because there’s no ulterior motive. In BatB the Beast wants Belle to fall in love with him because he needs her to break his curse. Rumbelle is more romantic for me because it’s accidental love. Belle and Rumple didn’t want to fall for one another, they didn’t need the love for anything, there was nothing selfish about it, it just happened.

9. Pick up the book closest to you, open page one and write down the first paragraph.

‘Like a wolf on the fold.’ In recounting the Syrian attack on the Israeli-held Golan Heights at 1400 local time on Saturday, October 6th 1973, most commentators automatically recalled Lord Byron’s famous line. There is also little doubt that that is precisely what the more literary (<– hehe found a typo in the book) inclined Syrian commanders had in mind when they placed the final touches on the operations plans that would hurl more tanks and guns at the Israelis than any of Hitler’s vaunted panzer generals had ever dreamed of having.
– Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

10. What’s the 1st fandom you were in?
The Royal/Heartbeat – I was eleven.

Tagging: @rumple-belle, @mariequitecontrarie, @sarashouldbestudying and @little-inkstone. If you don’t want to/already done it then no worries 🙂 and sorry for the bother.

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I had an idea yesterday. I usually have at least half an hour, usually a lot longer, on the bus everytime I go to uni. I’m struggling to read fic on a regular basis because I like to comment and of an evening I’m just often too tired.

Solution? Loading my kindle and reading on the bus!

Then I just need to copy over/tidy up the comments when I get home. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before. I have thought to myself while on the bus what a waste of time it is and that I should do something but it never occurred to me until now what I could do 🙂

Holiday Tag Thing

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Thanks @mariequitecontrarie I hope you have an amazing christmas! *hugs*

Name/Nickname: Samantha/Sam
Gender: Female
Favorite Cold Weather Drink: Coffee I guess
White or Colored Holiday lights: Either but they have to be fairy lights, not LED or they give me a migraine. LED are too bright.

Favorite Winter Sport: N/A
# of Blankets I Sleep With: Depends how cold I am. I always have a duvet and sometimes I have a second duvet, and I have been known to have 2 blankets on top of that.

Preferred Holiday Confection: Fake chocolate cake
What I’m Currently Wearing: Blue slacks, purple/crimson t-shirt with a crown that says “Evil isn’t born it’s made” and a red christmas sweater which has a white dog wearing headphones on it.

Preferred Snowy Weather Activity: Staying inside all day, Britain is not equipped, driving is not safe. Honestly we barely ever have enough snow to do anything. If we did then I’d attempt to make a snow creature of some description.

Last Thing You Baked: A birthday cake for my mum … five years ago? I’m not much of a baker.

Homemade Gifts or Store Bought Gifts: I love to give people anything that is humanly possible for me, so long as it brings a smile to their face that’s what matters. So either is good, it’s just whatever they want 🙂

Favorite Christmas/Holiday Movie: I really don’t like christmas movies. My mum is mad for them and starts watching them in October or whenever TrueChristmas starts airing on Freeview. Does Iron Man 3 count? That’s set at christmas and Tony gets Pepper a big bunny and blows up all his suits.

Open Presents Eve or Morning: Christmas morning after breakfast.

Favorite Holiday Song: “A Winter’s Tale” – The Magnets. I need to fic this.

Tagging: @sarashouldbestudying, @rumple-belle, @theoneandonlylittlebird, @bookwormchocaholic – I hope you guys are having a relaxing and enjoyable day!