The Best and the Worst of My Contest and Exchange Fiction

I've written a grand total of 14 fics for exchanges and contests where there was an actual deadline. Ignoring all the drabbles I do, I mean. I did Souvenir, Movie Night, and Ace of Serpents for Yuletide, A Break in the Cycle, Masking the Symptoms, Ripples of Change, The Changing of the Guard, Stars, Sky, Night, Borrowing Music and Takes a Jhereg for fandom specific challenges, The Properties of the Elements for a remix challenge, and Rain and Mist, Shadow and Storm and Until the Last Petal Falls for general contests. (And Trust for a rare-fandom ficathon, nearly forgot)

( I muse about which ones worked. )

The Best and the Worst of My Contest and Exchange Fiction

I've written a grand total of 14 fics for exchanges and contests where there was an actual deadline. Ignoring all the drabbles I do, I mean. I did Souvenir, Movie Night, and Ace of Serpents for Yuletide, A Break in the Cycle, Masking the Symptoms, Ripples of Change, The Changing of the Guard, Stars, Sky, Night, Borrowing Music and Takes a Jhereg for fandom specific challenges, The Properties of the Elements for a remix challenge, and Rain and Mist, Shadow and Storm and Until the Last Petal Falls for general contests. (And Trust for a rare-fandom ficathon, nearly forgot)

( I muse about which ones worked. )

Random Things

New phone features baffle users. I admit, I laughed here, mostly because I am one of those people who just wants a cell phone, and doesn't want to pay for anything else -- no camera, no mp3 player, no games, no web browsing. Because I either already own something that does that better, or I really don't need it. (Okay, I do occasionally use the alarm when visiting people, and the clock when I lose my watch. So a cell phone and a clock, and a place to keep phone numbers, and maybe the occasional text message.)

In more irksome news, I can't find my yarn needle, and didn't discover this until hours after I went to the craft store.

ETA: Five minutes later, i find it. On my bookself in my bedroom, five inches from my wristwatch (also missing).

Random Things

New phone features baffle users. I admit, I laughed here, mostly because I am one of those people who just wants a cell phone, and doesn't want to pay for anything else -- no camera, no mp3 player, no games, no web browsing. Because I either already own something that does that better, or I really don't need it. (Okay, I do occasionally use the alarm when visiting people, and the clock when I lose my watch. So a cell phone and a clock, and a place to keep phone numbers, and maybe the occasional text message.)

In more irksome news, I can't find my yarn needle, and didn't discover this until hours after I went to the craft store.

ETA: Five minutes later, i find it. On my bookself in my bedroom, five inches from my wristwatch (also missing).