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- Yesterday
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...Technically not a new story, but it did receive a re-write and has never been uploaded to FFT before.. does that count? ๐ Story Title: Four Walls Pen Name(s): BLONDEbehaviour (bowandarrows on Ao3) Fandom: Harry Potter Link(s) and Rating: Teen Audience - FFT / A03 Advisory: Substance Abuse (Drinking) Genre: Angst, Drama, Romance Main Characters: Astoria Greengrass, Draco Malfoy Pairings: Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy Site(s) Posted On: FFT / A03 (keep in mind chps 2-3 haven't been rewritten yet on Ao3!) Complete or WIP: WIP Length (predicted length, if WIP*): Currently 1 re-written chapter on FFT at 2k words, it will be four chapters with an epilogue Summary: A jigsaw puzzle, sliding together piece by piece "You know, for a while people thought you'd died" "For a while, I had."
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crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
BLONDEbehaviour replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
Yes, just the inspiration I need to write something fresh! I'm in -
crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
Nigel the Backpacking Hipster replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
Yes -
crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
sirwolfeye replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
I think a plot has formed. I'm in! -
crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
quill and ted replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
original fiction is good! ๐ -
crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
The Impossible Girl replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
I'm so in!! Question, is original fiction okay or would you prefer fanfic? -
crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
RogueSlytherin replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
Seems like some vigilante shit ๐ I'm in. -
crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
Felpata_Lupin replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
Guess I need to give this a try... -
crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge | 31st May '24
Lost_Robin replied to quill and ted's topic in Challenges
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hello! i thought that it was time get to creative juices flowing again and see if this challenge inspires anyone. the challenge is simple - write a murder in one-shot. . entries can be any fandom but please consider that it's likely that i may not be familiar with the fandom therefore any key information/context/ complicated backstory (from canon fandom) towards your murder should be included within the story to help me judge properly. play the murder any way you like though! ๐ challenge rules: all entries must be posted to the fft archives no prewritten entries, but entries can be part of an existing universe story must be a one-shot (max 10k words) must include โfor crimson quill's murder one-shot challengeโ somewhere in the summary/story notes rewards: all entries will receive at a review third place: 2 reviews on stories of your choice, (bad) prize graphic second place: 4 reviews on stories of your choice, (bad) prize graphic first place: 6 reviews on stories of your choice, (bad) prize graphic, post in my recommendations blog it's a while since i've done one of those so please feel free to ask any questions or follow up about anything!
- Last week
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inmyownlittlecorner
inmyownlittletemporalanomaly replied to inmyownlittletemporalanomaly's topic in Writer's Journals
Unfortunately, I was not able to front load my word count goal in the beginning of this month. It's the 17th (Happy St Patrick's Day! โ๏ธ) and I am at 7160/20K words. Our dishwasher is STILL broken. We got a new one, and four repair people later, there is STILL some kind of electrical problem with the house, in addition to the old dishwasher dying. There is an electrician coming tomorrow, and I am not looking forward to finding out how expensive this is going to be to fix. On top of all that, 12 had to have dental work done, which was super stressful. He's doing much better now, so I am grateful for that. I haven't thrown in the towel quite yet. I will still try to get as close to that 20K as I can, but the next two weeks don't look great in terms of free time. Yesterday I did get to the end of the rough draft for ACT I of Kairos. Then I immediately went "wait a minute, it would be way cooler if that final scene in chapter 15 were totally different." So today I started a new draft of that scene to try that out. I also think I figured out a way to squeeze a little writing time into the morning routine, which would go a long way towards me actually getting those words in. It won't work tomorrow (because, electrician) but on "normal" days, I think I can sneak in 10-15 minutes while the kids eat their breakfast. I'm hoping that if I can get a few words in during the morning, I'll be more motivated to squeeze in a few more words when I get a little down time (lolol) later in the day. -
So now that the Review Drive is all over except for the voting, things have certainly quieted down here. After the mad dash to write reviews, we all sit back, myself included, and just take a breather. After the voting had been open for a couple of days, I bestirred myself to write a chart on paper listing all the candidates in each category and then start making decisions, category by category, using a red pen to mark stars, circles, and Xs on the chart. It didn't take as long as I had feared it would. Now I check the categories each day, just to see how many members have voted, hoping to see the number of members participating go up every day. A bunch of people have voted in the first few days, then maybe the voting will slack off, and then a mad dash at the end of the voting period as the tardy voters rush to record their choices. (I sound like Howard, trying to psych out the system.) I was intrigued by the category Best Series because I had never really thought much about the concept of series, but then I began to wonder if many of my stories would compose a series also. There is my WIP, the many-years-percolating Crofter/Snake, with all the one-shots connected to it that have been popping up over the years on my AP, and my also-many-years-percolating story about Tiramisu, the historical Arctic fox who lived in the Slytherin common room, and a couple of ancillary pieces that stemmed from it. And these two main stories Crofter/Snake and Tiramisu, are connected each to the other. When I add it up, there's quite a lot. Tiramisu, In Solitary: A Tiramisu Vignette, the existing-in-my-head sequel to Tiramisu, My House Is Empty and My Family Dead, Crofter/Snake, Greenhouse Seven, Maggots, Carried in My Heart, The Friar's Unexpected Army, plus whatever else I'm forgetting right now. So I asked myself what this series could be called. I occurred to me that I could call it Annus Horribilis because I would be focused on two separate years: 1348, the arrival of the Black Death in England, and 1997, the final year of the Second Wizarding War.
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Nigel the Backpacking Hipster replied to Agent Michael Scarn 's topic in Writer's Nest
The Outsider chapter 22 is here. -
Please cast your vote for Best Friendship! Finalists: The Crows in best of times, worst of crimes by @The Impossible Girl Lavender Brown and Seamus Finnigan in blue skies by @quill and ted Howard and Joel in The Crofter and The Snake by @Oregonian Harry Potter and Ron Weasley in The Pride of Burrough House by @RonsGirlTuesday Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley in What Means Most by @McFly Please do not vote for yourself. Doing so will result in your vote (and possibly your finalist) being disqualified.
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After the Review Drive, I have gone past 1,500 reviews written (1,525 to be exact), and with this post I have arrived at exactly 2,000 posts! One does not get a medal for either of those milestones, but it makes me happy to reach them anyway. Also passed my seventh anniversary on this site one week ago. My, that was a long time ago. I remember how happy I was to run across this site and see so many old friends here, a few months after Ye Olde Site went belly-up. Good memories.
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Spent some of my free time today working on the next chapter of Crofter/Snake, dealing with several story lines, each one being worked out on a separate page of paper, eventually to be assembled, making good progress. Also reviewed the Inky nominations in a semi-organized manner (!) and cast my votes. Was pleased that it didn't take as long as I feared it would take. Lots of good stories. ๐
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Story Title: sharp with the sharpness of grief Pen Name(s): VaguelyCreativeName Fandom: HP Rating: Teen (themes of war and grief, some swearing) Links: here! New Chapter Number: 1 Summary: Remus comes home after another mission, reflects on the futility of war, and has to come to terms with some unpleasant news. This one's a couple of weeks old, but I never posted here, so I might as well: Story Title: chance encounter Pen Name(s): VaguelyCreativeName Fandom: OF Rating: All Audiences Links: here! New Chapter Number: 1 Summary:
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Story Title: Za Hoteru Pen Name(s): KudoJin Fandom: Hazbin Hotel Rating: Mature (strong language, minor violence, minor sexual innuendo) Links: Here, Quotev, AO3, WattPad New Chapter Number: 10 Summary: When a newcomer arrives in Hell, he's forced to confront the reality of the afterlife he's been sent in. But what was he doing here? Why had he gone into Hell? He searches, but struggles to find the answer together with Charlie and her crew. In the newst update, Charlie does a show-and-tell activity for her patrons, but something unexpected happens when Kasha comes up to share!
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Hiya, just wanted to let you know that in the Best Short Form Story topic, the link for Call It What You Want by RogueSlytherin is actually linking to What Means Most by Owlpost68!
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Spent much of my free time today in writing review responses for the reviews I received during the review drive, Round 3. A big Thank You to @Predictable Chaos, @Gallifrey Gal , and @Nigel the Backpacking Hipster for all your much-appreciated reviews for Crofter/Snake and also for The Lethifold. Now my Unresponded Review list is empty again. ๐
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i'm not sure what happened there but I've opened that vote for that one now
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Best short form story is closed to new votes?? Not sure what's going on or if it's just me ๐
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Please cast your vote for Most Creative Story! Finalists: Don't Quit Your Day Job by @Goatspeed Loyalties Undefined by @Predictable Chaos The Pride of Burrough House by @RonsGirlTuesday The Princeโs Poems by @inmyownlittletemporalanomaly this is falling, falling in love (but not actually falling because we don't do that here, al) by @belgian quaffle Please do not vote for yourself. Doing so will result in your vote (and possibly your finalist) being disqualified.
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Please cast your vote for Funniest Story! Finalists: best of times, worst of crimes by @The Impossible Girl Days That End in Y @RonsGirlTuesday this is falling, falling in love (but not actually falling because we don't do that here, al) by @belgian quaffle Please do not vote for yourself. Doing so will result in your vote (and possibly your finalist) being disqualified.
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Please cast your votes for Best Page Turner! Finalists: as the lights went out by @dreamthief Call It What You Want by @RogueSlytherin In This Darkness by @quill2parchment The Outsider by @Nigel the Backpacking Hipster Saving Severus Snape by @MegGonagall Please do not vote for yourself. Doing so will result in your vote (and possibly your finalist) being disqualified.