October fic madness

[tanaquiljall]

October ended up a bit more manic ficwise than I expected because of various RL things that meant my brain wasn't in fic mode some of the time (although most of the RL things will have good long-term consequences, like earning money...).

Also manic because I posted 40,030 words this month. *stares in shock at total on calculator* OK, so I wrote the first draft of about half of those words before the start of October, in the second-longest-thing-I-ever-wrote, but all the words needed some editing.

Part of the reason for the mania was because I signed up to a couple of challenges this month that I was determined to complete successfully.

Firstly, I took part in the annual spook_me Halloween ficathon, where you pick a "creature" prompt and get two secret prompts, this year from the titles of pulp novels. I couldn't resist picking "Insect" as my creature prompt so I could write about Giant Ants in Jericho.

I also won the (story) lottery! I posted the seven stories for my prompts at story_lottery - five were for Jericho, one for Tolkien, and I wrote my first Supernatural casefic!

Jericho - Keep The Home Fires Burning - Adult
Tolkien - All The Days of Their Grace - Teen
Jericho - Take a cup of kindness yet - General
Jericho - Fool's paradise - General: Part 1 of 3, Part 2 of 3, Part 3 of 3
Jericho - All-American Hero - General
Supernatural - The Golden Hour - General
Jericho - Better Late Than Never - General

My partner in crime/co-dependant/enabler in all of this was the awesome scribblesinink, who not only made the stories so much better with her suggestions and beta work but who capped the month off by buying me 6 months of paid time on Dreamwidth. *squees* Because she is just That Damn Awesome. (Or possibly wading through the edits on her 40,000 word story has addled her brain....)

In short, this was a good month!

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