the deep moans round with many voices

This is part 3 of An Ounce of Prevention, which is a Naruto/Harry Potter crossover that I started as a giftfic for askerian.

Technically, it's an insertion of one element of HP into the Naruto world, but that does count as a crossover of sorts, and the HP element will be playing a larger role as time goes on. This story will not affect canon in either series; that is, it takes place during the Naruto timeskip, and significantly before CoS in HP.

( An Ounce of Prevention, chapter 3 )

( NaNo Word Count )

Yes, it's time for another thirtyforthree ficlet! Just one more and a tag to go! (I'm putting this one up first because the next one has alternate versions -- one's in story form, and one's in memory/character study form -- but I'm an idiot and forgot to save the extra version to my floppy disk.)

Theme: #17 - Fever
Warnings: none

( Fixation )

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Interestingly, this is not at all what I intended to write for this theme and title. The fic, as written, covers the main points I wanted to make, but the form and structure were a huge surprise to me. Stories that write themselves are always somewhat disquieting, even if they're also something of a relief when I'm beating my head against more recalcitrant projects... but overall, I'm okay with the way this one turned out.

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( NaNo Word Count )

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On a completely different note, it's Election Day. US citizens, go vote! Free, democratic societies are only as good as their citizens are willing to make them, and voting is a responsibility as well as a right. So go punch holes, or mark ballots, or press buttons, or flip switches, or whatever. Each individual vote may not have much effect, but they add up, and it's the principle of the thing that matters as much as anything else.

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Besides, sometimes they hand out stickers. :-) I got one today. I also got a corn muffin for 50 cents, because my polling place is an elementary school and the local PTA took advantage of the day and held a bake sale. Mmm, corn muffins...

1. I am moderately peeved. See, I was hit by an idea last night and wrote another piece of "An Ounce of Prevention" -- yes, against my better judgment it seems to have become a WIP -- but I can't post it because my latest transfer disk has gone kerflooey.

Electronic media degeneration is such a pain.

Anyway, I am determined that this story, at least, will not have any sort of update schedule. I will write it when I damn well feel like it, and no oftener than that.

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2. I've worked out an amusing way to decide what to write during NaNo. I'm going to buy two 6-sided dice, which lets me roll eleven potential numbers (2-12), and I've assigned ten stories a number, with the final one being 'choice.' Probabilities are weighted so the more important stories are more likely to come up: ie, "Beauty" is 7, because I really need that done by Thanksgiving, whereas "Harvest," an Ekanu story, is 2, because that has no time-pressure at all.

My dad suggested this method, when I told him about my subverted version of NaNo. He's not much use at emotional stuff, but he does have a lot of nifty ideas!

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3. ( I've been rereading Death Note... )

Last night, between 3 and 4am, I wrote the twenty-seventh piece of "Fixation, and Other Stories" for thirtyforthree. This one is another utterly cracked AU, in which Draco is a vampire, Ginny is a member of a mystical order of vampire hunters, and Harry just wants a normal life, thanks, and for these weird people to get out of his bedroom.

Also, I have PLANS for my remaining three themes. I begin to think maybe there is hope of finishing "Fixation" before the end of October!

Then, of course, I get to muck around with various organizational schemes -- I seem to have ended up with a sort of 'main sequence' continuity, and then several sets of thematically related fics (3 crack AUs, 3 scene-shift AUs, 3 depressing drabbles from Ginny's POV, 3 alternate get-togethers, 3 dystopian futures, and 3 rondos/by-the-numbers character studies) -- and hopefully get somebody to look them over, because I'm sure they need editing even though I've already posted most of them.

What I have left to write is one dystopian future, one alternate get-together, and the final main sequence fic. (Not chronologically final. Just the last to write. Unless... *wards off plot bunnies* No. I may add a 'tag' ficlet after the requisite 30, but that's a separate issue.)

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In semi-related news, I've joined NaNoWriMo again this year. Except I'm cheating. Instead of writing a new novel, what I plan to do is simply write 50,000 words. Of anything. As long as I write an average of 1,500-2,000 words per day in November, I will count the month a grand success.

At the very least, that ought to get me a couple finished one-shots and some completed chapters of my too many WIPs!