Valyssia

Summary: The events of Hesperus in Retrograde weren’t quite memorable.
Prompt #288: Hercules @ tamingthemuse & #001 Nibble @ 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.

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

Best Overall Willow Author Best Willow/Buffy Author

Thank you!

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 @ 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.”

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.

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 tamingthemuse. Now I’m not a prompt writer. I don’t like them, but I will admit that participation in a community like 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 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.

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.

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.