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Stolen from mechante_fille. And yes, I changed the number of the letter, since otherwise it would mainly mean my whole flist having to scrounge for new words with the same letters.

If you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the fourth letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don't just post a word and not copy - that's not as much fun!

Stolen from foolish_mortal.

1. Think of up to 20 ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.
4. Fandom hints will be given after if asked in the comments.

Now I'm not a very active shipper and I read too many online fiction (and Megan Derr e-books) to have many ships - but I do have them, including a couple (sort of) canon ones. Didn't make it up to 20, though, but I think you guys'll have fun anyway.

( Onward for descriptions )

Yoinked from rykaine.

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.

Be warned, the list is long. And old. And some of them are in Dutch, but I don't quite remember which ones without opening them all. (If any of those get picked I'll provide both a bit in Dutch and an English translation.) And non-descriptive, hoo boy, because when I create the file I usually don't know the story's title yet. Files with numbers are not necessarily sequels but also translations.

( So venture on... )

From rykaine.

1. Go to google and type in "You know you're from [your area] when..."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold or italicise items that apply to you.

You know you're from Holland when...

1. You consider a small hill a mountain, and complain that because of this all other countries are unsuitable for riding a bike. (<-- Well, Ireland and Mallorca were just about all that I could take... so yeah.)

2. You are absolutely convinced that your language is the hardest language to learn. Ever. (<-- Nah, I'm guessing that Chinese or Finnish can own us in that department.)

3. Not that number 2 matters, because you speak at least three languages anyway. Dutch and English, and any or multiple of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Latin and Greek, and have a thorough understanding of most others, even if you don't speak them that well. (<-- Dutch, English, bit of German, even less of French, Latin (with a dictionary for the hard bits), Old Irish.Thought about learning Hebrew, Spanish, Russian and Japanese, but haven't had the time yet.)

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1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

1. Ashen (Silver Ashes)
2. Dmitriy (Jade)
3. Semystes (Beneath These Jasmine Flowers)
4. Isidor (Two Princes)
5. Daran (Silver Ashes)
6. Eshan (Jade)
7. Llewen (Beneath These Jasmine Flowers)
8. Iskander (Two Princes)
9. Keira (Jade)
10. Shad (Two Princes)

( Prompts )
Seriously, all these thing naturally end up at 16 words, gah... Also, most of these combinations were never meant to interact (and so are AU by definition), so some of them worked out surprisingly well and others I just didn't know what to do with.

From lady_akatari.

Put your music player on shuffle. Write down the first lines of the first fifty songs. Make your flist guess them. Please don't Google songs (well, please don't Google songs and then post the title as if you'd guessed it--you can Google and keep the information to yourself).

I did not post songs with no lyrics, obviously. Also songs with made up/foreign languages were skipped (I have more of them than even I’d have thought). A few of the songs have verbal introductions, but I went with the first melodic lines. Songs where the first line was the title were also skipped.

( Songs here )

From alice_montrose.

Comment to this post and I will give you five subjects / things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

Writing

An obious one, obviously, but yeah. I can elaborate. :) Let's see... I started writing when I was 11. At 12 I had my first novel, and for many years it remained my only finished novel while the number of WIPs only grew. Actually, I sent that first novel to a Dutch publisher, and they told me to keep writing and try again with a manuscript in a few years because they'd like to see what I'd grow into.

That never happened, for one thing because my list of finished stories remained very short and I did not feel confident about them anyway. Also, at 18 I turned to writing exclusively in English and I rather suspect they'll turn my stories down simply because they're not in Dutch. And I have no idea what the policies of overseas publishers are with regards to foreign writers.

This should probably tell you two things: 1) I love love love to write and 2) I never finish anything and when I do, I'm hesitant to bother publishers with it. But the feedback from LJ and other places, I find, is helping me a lot with that.

I don't think I'll follow M's road of self-publishing, though. Part of me really wants to fight for a place in mainstream fiction for gay romance stories, which means that someday I'll be sending out Silver Ashes to publishers. Eep.

Desert settings

Uh, I have none? Most of my stories take place in European-style worlds, which, though offering many different climates does not include deserts. However, I love stories set in deserts, as my adoration of Sandstorm shows. I love desert/nomadic cultures. I just... have never done anything with it in my own stories, possibly because I find the idea daunting and difficult to do believably, without ripping off every other desert story ever written.

Windserpent Saga

I think half my flist knows me because of TWS, and I find that terribly amusing. It's a totally silly idea that took on a life of its own. Did I ever mention that I wrote Whistler while I was doing NaNo 2007? And that I cranked it out in just a few days, without lowering my daily word count for NaNo?

It was crazy.

Anyway, now there are five stories, a handful of drabbles, two side stories and two more in the works, and I'm planning a rewrite of the original five. What I'd really like for this is to make it a little more serious and tone down the crack and porn because I've grown to love the verse enough that I want it to be a world in which I could write story after story without it ever growing old. I know some writers only write books set in a single world, and take on many different regions or eras. I want to do that with TWS-verse. But the world needs more fleshing out, and TWS itself needs to be reworked in order to fit my plans for the future.

Good Omens

One of my biggest fandoms. I've been a Sir Terry fan for years, and since recently I'm making an effort to find more Neil Gaiman (my country doesn't seem to like/know him that much, woe), and the combination is just too shiny for words. I wrote my master's thesis on how to translate Good Omens into Dutch, and though getting the thesis finished and graded was and endless stream of troubles, working with Good Omens was awesome. Aziraphale is so adorable, Crowley is simply hilarious, pretty much everything about this book rocks.

Fancy clothing

I am totally curious, alice_montrose, how did you decide on this one? I adore gothic and fantasy clothing, but I can't remember if I ever talk about that on LJ. In any case, if I could afford it, I would have lots of fancy dresses and fantastical outfits. As it stands, I have two fantasy dresses, a couple of skirts (all pretty much floor-length) and a bunch of different fantasy tops. I'm very tempted to buy an actual corset sometime, but the things are fscking expensive, and I think they'd be very uncomfortable. But gods, they're pretty.
I go to at least one fantasy event every year (mostly the Elf Fantasy Fair) and in the weekends I also tend to dress up.

As for 'normal' fancy clothing, I love that too, but no money or occasion to wear it that would justify buying any. But I do always try to look nice. ^__^

Stolen from keelywolfe:

Post something from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations.

I'm going to do just about all of them, so look further behind the cut.

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So that's everything that has something written down, and which I have not abandoned altogether. There are still more ideas in my head - but when aren't there? ^__^;

I've been MIA for a bit, so it's time for an update.

1. I cannot write. Sometimes I don't even want to. When I do sit down to write I can't concentrate. Ironically, I've been distracted a lot lately with working out plot ideas and scenes inside my head. I just need to get them out of my head.

2. Secret Santa! :D Avalon, you do so not fail! I love the earrings, but if you still feel like writing something for me I won't say no. :) They even got here before Christmas. (And damn, we all had the same deadline, so how come a package from Malaysia gets here within two weeks, and my package take a frickin' month to get to the US?)
Sadly, one pair of earrings arrived broken. They're clean off the hooks, so, well, unusable. They were the coolest pair, too. :( The pair with the mother-of-pearl things? Some of the mother-of-pearl things were broken too, but with a little DIY both earrings look the same again and there's crafts and beads stores all over the place here so I should be able to find more mother-of-pearl things to fix them, or some other stuff that would look nice on the earrings. The silver ones are just too cute, I keep fingering them when I wear them. *hugs*

3. Flu happened. Still not quite over it, my darling is on to his second bout right now. Poor thing.

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5. I picked up my new glasses today. They are awesome, and very different from what I had before. These are more 'me' (and I paid through the nose for it, too...). But with such a different frame, and the strength of the lenses adjusted, it's taking some getting used to the new glasses. All day I've been feeling slightly disconnected from the world, as though the route from eye to brain is slower. I'm also continuously misjudging distances, even the distance from my foot to the ground for each step I take. It's tiring, so good thing I picked it up on the weekend. Hopefully I'll be less dazed on Monday.