Taming the Muse

Summary: The events of Hesperus in Retrograde weren’t quite memorable.
Prompt #288: Hercules @ [info]tamingthemuse & #001 Nibble @ [info]kinda_gay.
Rating: FRT: Mature Themes: Parental Supervision Suggested.
Word Count: 3,032.
Beta: Howard Russell.
Pairing: Buffy/Willow.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.

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Icons

25 Jan 2012 11:21 pm
Footprints

I’ve been in a Photoshop mood, so here have some icons.

Snag if you like. Please credit…and all that.

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Darth Rosenberg

I awoke to a bit of a treat. Bloodletting (the Final Cut) has been nominated for the 2012 Willowy Goodness Awards in the following categories:

  • Best Overall Willow Fic
  • Best Willow/Buffy Fic
  • Best Angst
  • Best Alternate Universe
  • Best NC-17
  • Best Vamp Willow Characterization
SD
  • Best Overall Willow Author
  • Best Willow/Buffy Author

Thank you!

Taming the Muse

Summary: A minor character fades into obscurity.
Prompt #287: Surely the bitterness of death is at hand @ [info]tamingthemuse.
Rating: FRT: Mature Themes: Parental Supervision Suggested.
Word Count: 840.
Beta: Howard Russell & The Lady Merlin.
Character: Owen.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.

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Buffy Cacophony

You know I’ve fallen in with some bad influences if I’m posting one of these. I figure if I’m gonna help with a community, I should probably play along, so…

Why not? As I meander through, I might even write something that someone else enjoys. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you, but it could happen.

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Willow

Summary: Questions can be dangerous.
Rating: FRT: Mature Themes: Parental Supervision Suggested.
Pairing: This is definitely Willow/Buffy, but it isn’t Buffy/Willow. Buffy’s clueless, as usual.
Word Count: 4,767.
Prompt #02: Rainbow @ [info]kinda_gay.
Beta: Howard Russell.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.
Author’s Note: This plot bunny has been sitting around collecting dust since before I started this series. It comes from an idea that Howard Russell had years ago that never came to fruition based on this Xander quote from the episode The Witch: “Alright. Into battle I go. Would you ask her out for me? No. Man. Me. Battle.”

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Buffy (tilted head)

How would you like to be able to post to the main page of BuffyWorld much like you can with Whedonesque?

Naturally, there would more to it, but just answer me that so we can gauge the validity of the project.

Note: This idea would be implemented to supplement BuffyWorld’s existing features, not replace them.

Progress

13 Jan 2012 08:57 pm
Buffy Blue

Bloodletting is officially on hiatus as of now. For those of you who were following along, I’m leaving you at a nice ebb in the story. Things are pretty relaxed. You can see the tidal wave in the distance, but it hasn’t crashed into the shore yet.

I could still use one more pre-reader for the closed beta. If you were interested, time to step up.

For the next few months my primary concern will be finishing Bloodletting, however I picked up another side project to amuse myself and perhaps you.

[livejournal.com profile] sparrow2000 and I had a rather extensive sidebar because of another event on LiveJournal. Really sweet lady for those of you who haven’t taken the time. I enjoyed our conversation very much. One of the things that carried with me as a result was how rewarding she found participating in [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse. Now I’m not a prompt writer. I don’t like them, but I will admit that participation in a community like [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse says something entirely different and valuable about a writer. It shows that they have dedication, the ability to work with a deadline and, in some cases, it shows off their cleverness.

I believe my dedication is pretty obvious, however proving it again isn’t a problem. Deadlines are something that I usually miss because I’m dumb enough to bite off more than I can chew. Five-hundred words in a week ain’t nuthin’. It’s a drop in the bucket. My one issue is cleverness. I have no clue whether I will ever pull off clever, which is the primary issue I have with prompt writing. On my own terms I can be pretty clever, but on theirs, with their deadline…there could be suckage.

So, yeah…interesting challenge. Who knows, I may come to love it.

There are also prompts up at [livejournal.com profile] kinda_gay that I may participate in, depending. That was the help desk ticket that I mentioned previously by the way. It was an orphaned community, now it has four mommies. That’s a good thing. We steered it in a slightly different direction, but we did our utmost to do that kindly. I spent more hours than I want to admit tagging old entries to keep the community friendly to all of the potential factions that the changes will hopefully draw in. The idea was to make it as lively as possible. Lively communities can be fun. We’ll keep working to that end so long as there seems to be interest.

Working, working, always working.

It’ll be amusing to see how I balance this. I’m not used to juggling stories. I should be fun, though. I have a couple more cute ideas for Empty Spaces fics that I hope to line up with prompts. Maybe I’ll have some success that way.

We’ll see.

Taming the Muse

Summary: Howard calls this a character study. I call that generous.
Rating: FRT: Mature Themes: Parental Supervision Suggested.
Prompt: #286 : Take a Stand @ [info]tamingthemuse.
Word Count: 1,662.
Comma Guy: Howard Russell.
Pairing: Buffy/Willow.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.
Author’s Note: This is set in my Steps-verse where Buffy and Willow are involved; however the primary purpose of this story is to show how Buffy is coping. The events here take place in a similar time frame with Epitaph.

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Buffy Giles Research

Summary: Forked Guy meets his match.
Rating: FRT: Mature Themes: Parental Supervision Suggested.
Word Count: 300.
Beta: Howard Russell.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.
Author’s Note: A cute scene to tack onto the end of Teacher’s Pet.

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Buffy Smitten

Summary: A brief commentary on the nature of women, monsters and angels.
Rating: FRC: General Audience: Content Suitable For All Ages.
Word Count: 100.
Beta: Howard Russell.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.
Author’s Note: The mangled quote is from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, though I doubt I needed to point that out. In my mind this is set directly after Buffy meets Angel in the crypt during the episode The Harvest. Although, it could fit nicely in any number of places early in season one.

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Buffy Closeup
Bloodletting (the Final Cut) (2009/2011-12)
Chapters Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen and Sixteen.
Buffy/ Willow, FRAO, 26,478 words.
Empty Spaces (2011-2012)
A Single Step (2011)
Buffy, FRT, 800 words.

27,278 Total.

Looking at this is making my brain hurt. What a year.

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