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Stuff I have done today:

1) Got a haircut. I could easily have gone another week without -- probably three if I wanted to push it and deal with hair falling in my eyes all the time -- but I am going away on vacation starting September 1 and I wanted a trim before I left.

2) Spent nearly half an hour at work on my day off, because I dropped by just to check how things were going and discovered that BW had somehow managed to lose an entire carton of cigarettes. After eliminating all the other possibilities, AO, MS and I determined that, in fact, the carton in question had never been delivered, but BW had apparently neglected to check the delivery against the invoice and just assumed it was right. ARGH. I am going to give myself an extra half hour of phantom time on my punch card tomorrow to account for the time I spent tracking down his error when I wasn't even supposed to be there.

3) Made a prelimary packing list for my trip, because I do, on occasion, pretend to be an organized person. *wry*

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So, about that poll...

Thank you to everyone who voted! "The Guardian in Spite of Herself" won with 4 of 10 votes, while "The Courting Dance" came in second with 3 votes. However! I got completely bogged down on "Guardian" the last time I ran a poll -- the Amane family was being very uncooperative -- so I will see if I can knock off "The Courting Dance" ch. 7 tonight and then get cracking on "Guardian" tomorrow.

*rubs hands, sets to work*

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Poll #7920 Tell Liz What To Write

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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Which story/chapter should I try to finish this weekend?

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"Friends and Neighbors" (an "Apartment Manager" sidestory)
1 (10.0%)

"The Guardian in Spite of Herself" ch. 15
4 (40.0%)

"Lemonade" ch. 19
0 (0.0%)

"Weregild" parts 17 & 18
1 (10.0%)

"The Courting Dance" ch. 7
3 (30.0%)

"The Transient and the Eternal: If It Wasn't You..."
1 (10.0%)

work on your Femgenficathon story, lazybones!
0 (0.0%)

something else which I will name in a comment
0 (0.0%)

If you do not have a Dreamwidth account, I believe you can use your LJ account (or an account on a number of other social networks) to create an Open-ID account and vote that way. If you have no such account and/or wish to remain anonymous, please leave a comment on the DW version of this post (so as to keep all data in one place) and I will consider that your vote.

This is your last chance to get anything out of me until October-ish, because the minute I post my Femgen fic, I am going to reread all 140-odd thousand words of "Secrets" and then plow through and finish the bastard, because I am sick to death of it hanging over my head, I have it outlined, and there is no reason for me not to sit down and damn well write the ending and epilogue.

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This is still basically a giant infodump -- in other words, this is the "let me explain about Fisher, Lebrun, and Robert; some of Mal's backstory with Lebrun; what exactly Dom and Arthur are planning to do and why; and how and why Eames is involved in their mess" section, which is rather a lot to throw at you all at once, sorry! -- but now there is at least a bit more back-and-forth in the dialogue and some actual character stuff going on around the exposition. (2,200 words)

( Weregild, part 14 )

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And I think that wraps up chapter two, unless anyone has a burning need to see Eames talking with Sally and Robert? I think it would muck up the pacing and focus, but I could maybe be persuaded otherwise if someone makes a good case. (Or maybe not, but you can always try. *wry*) Anyway, chapter three will start with Ariadne fetching Arthur and Dom to meet with Jean-Claude. Yay Ariadne!

This chapter needs more editing than chapter one (though I do want to also go back and make sure chapter one hints more pointedly at the nature of Dom and Arthur's plan, now that I know more or less what it is), but I should have the final version up on AO3 by, say, Tuesday night. :-)

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And now, an experiment:

Poll #7528 Weregild, part 14

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 7

Weregild, part 14

I read this section.
6 (85.7%)

I liked this section.
7 (100.0%)

I would like to read more of this story.
5 (71.4%)

I would not like to read more of this story.
0 (0.0%)

Tickybox!
6 (85.7%)

I don't think this will show up on LJ, since I don't have a paid account there, but I am testing out a kind of response poll I've seen a few other people do. Even if you don't have anything to say, please consider ticking a box or two to show you're reading!

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I have no self-motivation at the moment, so I would like to borrow some from other people. In other words, assuming I can get my computer to play nice this week and weekend, what should I be working on?

Poll #7226 Tell Liz what to write

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What should I try to finish this week?

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"The Courting Dance" ch. 6 (Narnia; Aravis & Cor attempt to get married)
0 (0.0%)

"Friends and Neighbors" (Naruto; "Apartment Manager" sidestory)
1 (8.3%)

"The Corners of the World" (Narnia; Jadis backstory)
0 (0.0%)

"Lemonade" ch. 19 (BtVS/Gundam Wing/Naruto; Faith, Duo, & Sasuke in a hell dimension)
1 (8.3%)

"Intervention" (Star Trek; a Red Cross ship deals with plague and pirates)
0 (0.0%)

"Strange Likenesses" ch. 8 (Harry Potter; Voldemort kinda-sorta possessed Harry as a child)
1 (8.3%)

"The Guardian in Spite of Herself" ch. 15 (Naruto; sequel to "The Way of the Apartment Manager")
6 (50.0%)

"The Transient and the Eternal" (Angel Sanctuary; 30 stories about Kira, Setsuna, & Sara)
1 (8.3%)

"A Question of Familiarity" (Enchanted Forest Chronicles; how Morwen got her familiars & lost touch with Telemain)
2 (16.7%)

be proactive and work on my Femgenficathon assignment
0 (0.0%)

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Thank you to everyone who voted on what I should write today and tomorrow. The winner is ch. 14 of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself," with "Friends and Neighbors" as the runner-up.

I will get to work on that!

(There will be a gap while I go to a teacher appreciation dinner at church this evening, but aside from that... well, I can write at least a thousand words a day, given the right motivation, and I do have an outline, so fingers crossed.)

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As you probably know, I have a lot of unfinished WIPs. At the moment, I am equally annoyed with all of them, but also equally interested in getting some serious work done on all of them. So I would like people to tell me what I should work on this weekend. I am limiting you to one choice because, much as I love tickyboxes, the idea is for me to get something finished, not continue to be scattered hither and yon and back again. :-)

Hopefully I will be able to make the poll function, well, function... Please note that you have to vote on Dreamwidth. However, I think I have enabled anonymous voting, so it shouldn't matter if you have an account there or not.

Your options (with their current word counts) are as follows:

Poll #5700 Tell Liz What To Write

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Which story/chapter should I try to finish this weekend?

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"Secrets" ch. 15 (3,600) - Ginny's side of CoS
1 (6.2%)

"Strange Likenesses" ch. 7 (1,250) - Voldemort possesses Harry
0 (0.0%)

"The Guardian in Spite of Herself" ch. 14 (2,175) - sequel to "Apartment Manager"
7 (43.8%)

"Friends and Neighbors" (4,400) - an "Apartment Manager" sidestory
3 (18.8%)

"The Courting Dance" ch. 5 (1,550) - Cor and Aravis try to get married
2 (12.5%)

"Lemonade" ch. 18 (1,200) - Faith, Duo, and Sasuke fall into a hell dimension
1 (6.2%)

"Intervention" (12,675) - in which I insert the Red Cross into Star Trek: AOS
1 (6.2%)

"The Transient and the Eternal: Giving Up" (875) - Lucifer helps Alexiel escape Eden
0 (0.0%)

"The Transient and the Eternal: Clouds" (800) - Raphael and Barbiel visit the Mudos
0 (0.0%)

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" (1,350) - Mary Pevensie, in my Narnia genderflip AU
1 (6.2%)

Is there any story I didn't mention that you would prefer me to work on instead of the named options? Please list fanfic only, since that's what I'm trying to clear out of my to-do list.

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In other news, I shoveled the driveway around my (temporary) car, cleared snow off the car, and headed merrily off to the grocery store. When I came home, I got a better look at the driveway I'd backed out of, hastily parked the car at the side of the road, and went to shovel the mouth of the driveway so I could get back in, because I couldn't for the life of me understand how I'd gotten out in the first place! Snowplows are useful, useful things, but man, they leave some big piles in their wake.

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I need to decide on a character to be Sakura's mission partner in "An Ounce of Prevention" -- you know, the person who watches her while she's writing in the diary and makes sure she doesn't give away vital information, miss anything important, or start acting possessed.

The thing is, the guard's identity isn't that important in terms of PLOT, but it will definitely affect the TONE of the story, not to mention the side conversations. But I have a number of options that are equally entertaining for me, and no real preference for any of them.

So.

( Who should be Sakura's guard? )

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ETA: We have a winner, and the winner is Mitarashi Anko! Kakashi is the runner-up, followed by votes for notifying Ibiki (but not using him as a guard, since he has other things he should be doing), and what seems like an interest in having Iruka and members of Team 10 drop by for cameos.

So my main characters are now Sakura, Tom, Tsunade, Anko, and potentially Kakashi as a fill-in guard (because unless Anko moves into Sakura's house -- which I am not ruling out; she might do something nuts like that -- she can't watch Sakura 24/7). That means I have 3 female characters to 1 or 2 male characters. I like this ratio. :-D

Current Mood: curious

Current Mood: curious

I have a weekend. What should I write/edit?

1) Chapter two of Strange Likenesses, the HP fic in which Voldemort tries to possess little-kid!Harry and things go rather badly wrong.

2) Chapter nine of Secrets, my epic retelling of CoS from Ginny's point of view.

3) Chapter nine of The Way of the Apartment Manager, my pre-manga Naruto story, which is beginning to look like it's diverging into a slightly happier AU.

4) "Aphrodisia," a Neville story in which he realizes that he was indeed a victim of the attack that destroyed his parents, and as a result is completely asexual and incapable of ever experiencing sexual/romantic love and the roles that go along with that. (This is entirely Lasair's fault, since she says she can't picture Neville as a sexual being and I suddenly felt a need to justify/explore that.)

5) "Finding Marea," a piece of original fiction that intertwines the stories of six women in a search for truth and meaning and god and stuff like that, and which also happens to be a milieau exploration of part of a fantastical world.

6) The second half of Harvest, an unfinished Ekanu story.

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