The Unforgotten Country

The semester ended yesterday at midnight leaving me with either two A's and a B or two B's and a A depending on an ungraded assignment. Either way, I'm more than pleased and insanely glad that it's over!

Which means I now have an approximately two week break where I have no work and no school... and hopefully I can figure out an order to my life that doesn't including staying up until midnight, sleeping in until 10am, and getting nothing done. *sighs*

It's like freshman year in college all over again! ^_~;;;

Anywho lofs of hugs to my abandoned f'list and I will try and get back into the flow of LJ things! *pokes her fanficitves who curse interesting curses and demand to remain in hibernation* I hope. >.<;;;

Sadly, I did not make it up until midnight for the first few minutes of NaNoWriMo 2008. Candy only works up until a point and it's been a long week. *yawns*

I am remedying this somewhat by the fact that I am wide awake on Saturday and it's not yet noon (huzzah?). I've got Sven the Laptop powered up and Q10 open and ready to write. (At some point I really need to make a post proclaiming my love of that program!) Now I just need to sit down and get my mind to paper…

For those of you playing along at home, my NaNoWriMo profile is here and I'd love to have some more writing buddies! ^_^ Fourth times the charm!!

[Cross-posted from Unquiet Bones]

The following are the first lines from all of the original fiction postings from the August 2008. These are friends-locked posts sorted under my Writing filter, as I have no desire to spam those on my flist who aren't interested. *grin*

Please comment on this post in order to be added to the filter or check out my archive: Unquiet Bones (www.UnquietBones.com).

Note: The number is the date of the entry and the stuff in parenthesis is the genre and/or working title of the universe in which the story snippit took place.

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11 - Good may have won the day, but Evil cannot be killed, only contained. (Fantasy)

9 - The river was half crusted with ice, the snow trampled where various wildlife and villagers had come for water. (Fantasy; Traveling Songs)

6 - It wasn't healthy, but she couldn't bring herself to give up what little hope had made it through the war. (A Candle in the Window; Fantasy)

5 - It's grown while he was gone, enveloping the house in coppery-green leaves glinting in fading sunlight. (Ashes of the Fire; Fantasy)

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These snippits are copyright Martha McMahon Bechtel and may not be reproduced or distributed without express permission. All rights reserved.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

Stargate Atlantis to end after Season 5 (but will continue on in direct-to-DVD movies)

COME PLAY!! ^_^

Come find your Muse in 100 Words!

drabbles has 25 days of Verbs and Nouns and Settings and Colors (well, 75 colors, to be precise! ^_~) and Smells and Songs and Images and Fandoms and TV Tropes and Wikipedia pages... all waiting for plot bunnies!

Only five posts left and the 30 Days of Drabbles will be no more!! (Of course you can still use the prompts from now until eternity, but heck, I hate posting alone! ^_~;;;)

COME PLAY!! ^_^

TITLE: Plausibly Deniability
FANDOM: House, M.D.
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG-13, Gen
SHIPS/WARNINGS: none
SUMMARY: drabbles Day 21 Prompts: Setting: Hospital/Clinic

( 'Shh, I'm hiding.' )

Title: Genii to the Rescue!
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Length/Rating: 100 words, PG-13, Gen
Summary: Written for sga_flashfic Role Reversal Challenge. I blame my Silly!Muse. *solemn nod*

("Oh no, hell no.")

For those of you watching the Everyday Dragons filter, you know I've started chewing on a new programming project ('Choose Your Own Adventure' meets 'Audience Directed Storytelling' meets 'Collectible Card Game'. No, really. ^_~). For those of you who want to play along (and to stop spamming the ED filter) I've set it up on it's own filter.

Lemme know if you want in! ^_^

TITLE: Somewhere Ages and Ages Hence
FANDOM: Doctor Who and Torchwood
LENGTH/RATING: 187 words, PG-13, Ten/Jack (yes it's possible to have PG Slash, now shush)
SUMMARY: Written for drabbles Day 8 Prompt: Song/Poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, but horribly, horribly too long... *mourns*

( Jack's younger the next time the Doctor sees him, centuries younger and still flaunting that unabashed joy in life he never seems to lose. )

The following are the first lines from all of the original fiction postings from the July 2008. These are friends-locked posts sorted under my Writing filter, as I have no desire to spam those on my flist who aren't interested. *grin*

Please comment on this post in order to be added to the filter or check out my archive: The Unforgotten Country over at EverydayDragons.com.

Note: The number is the date of the entry and the stuff in parenthesis is the genre and/or working title of the universe in which the story snippit took place.

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30 - "I am-- mm, forgetful." (Science Fiction; The Rabbit Who Ate the Moon)
24 - The very first First was nothing more than an accident. (Science Fiction; The Rabbit Who Ate the Moon)
23 - The first day he wakes up enough to focus on something other than the pain, he realizes the First has bound him to a raft. (Science Fiction; The Rabbit Who Ate the Moon)
21 - In an age of rampant computer use, space ships, and sentient machines, you'd think they'd have done away with paperwork. (Science Fiction; Carson and Ship)
20 - There's a thunderstorm creeping along the edge of the horizon, and if she concentrates she can catch the faintest whiff of rain. (Fantasy)
17 - She spends the first month along the shore, following the pod as it works it's way along the lake. (Science Fiction; The Rabbit Who Ate the Moon)
16 - There is noise and then there is song, and while it's a fine line between the two, Soya was pretty sure Til had wandered irrecoverably into noise. (Fantasy)
14 - "I am the death of hope!" (Fantasy)
1 - It isn't fog, though it looks so from far enough away. (Science Fiction)

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These snippits are copyright Martha McMahon Bechtel and may not be reproduced or distributed without express permission. All rights reserved.
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