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Nonattachment by p_zeitgeist. Saiyuki, PG-13, Nii Jianyi and Kougaiji. An absolutely gorgeous story, with beautiful language and imagery and the tension of the conversation between the characters. Go read!

An interesting post by tightropegirl on 'difficult characters', particularly Wilson from House, Roslin from Battlestar Galatica, and Alec from Swordspoint (small spoilers for each).

31_days's prompts for January are up. You know you'd like to come and play.

yaoi_challenge is gearing up for the next round of stories. This time they're doing "Obscure Fandoms"; sounds like it'll be a lot of fun.

remixredux is also going to be open for sign-ups soon. The rules have changed a bit this year, so go take a look. I'm totally amused that I've already written enough Swordspoint stories to qualify me for that fandom. But unless other people sign up as well, it won't matter, so people! You've got a month till sign-ups close; you can write five stories by then.

If you'd like more livejournal friends, go participate in the Yuletide friending fest.

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[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for the rec! Also, for the reminder that I haven't linked the thing on my own journal, which I totally meant to do so that I could do the navel-gazing process-of-writing post about it. And which I need to do because of the impending Remix signups. You'd think I'd remember to do it without help, but no, apparently not.

As for Remix, clearly you need to convince rm to sign on. It means that the two of you would be assigned to each other, because I don't think there are other people who could qualify in Swordspoint, so you'd lose some of the suspense that comes from not knowing whose work you'll be playing with; but on the other side of the argument, you'd each know in advance whether there were a story you were only dying to get your hands on.

You'll notice the way I'm not mentioning the notion that a person could write five stories by the end of the month. There are indeed plenty of people who could, and right now I'm looking back at my utter lack of productivity in the past year and resenting every one of them whom I don't already like too much to resent. Why can't I be one of those people who posts twelve times a day, occasionally tossing in scornful little asides about how anyone can write 750 words a day, what's wrong with you if you can't? Why, why?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

You'd think I'd remember to do it without help, but no, apparently not.

A few weeks ago, a story of mine was recced on try_this_fic. Which is very nice and gratifying and all, but it was a story I'd completely forgotten I'd written. I have no idea how she even found it, as I hadn't included it on my own page of stories, and never posted it anywhere other than on the community it was for. But I quickly added the link to my page so that I could pretend that, no, no, of course I always remember all of my stories.

And of course I'd love to read your navel-gazing on the story.

When I'm not encouraging other people to extremes for my own benefits, I'm jealous and astonished that anyone could write five stories in a month, too. It makes me wonder how their minds work, because I can't imagine that sort of productivity. Surely it has to be different than those of ordinary mortals? Of course, I'm also very impressed by people who can come up with multiple interesting livejournal posts a day, and that's easier than writing stories.