Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

She took a deep breath and stepped out of the locker room into a solid wall of cameras and questions.

She packed a small duffel bag with two bikinis, three throwing knives and a handful of stakes.

If she'd wanted to, Pansy could've reached out an arm and touched him, or maybe stood on her tiptoes and pressed a kiss to the underside of his jawline, just where she could see that the flesh was soft and pale and unfreckled.

Buffy was a memorable name, even in Neptune.

But there, where her own reflection should have been, was a skinny boy with dark messy hair and a pair of crooked glasses.

No one who would need to ask Giles for help should have been willing to just invite a strange person into their house and feed them breakfast.

A meme, copied from thistlerose and others!

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble/ficlet of any pairing/character (from one of my usual fandoms). In return, those ten people have to post this in their journals, regardless of their ability level.

Please give me a pairing or character and some kind of prompt. This says 'first 10' but I reserve the right to combine, skip, and arbitrarily pick other prompts that strike my fancy. :D


ETA: ficlets!
Hex, Dean/Faith, 238 words. Black magic.
In the Past, Draco/Ginny, 197 words. Letting bygones be.
Salon Day, Ginny and Hermione, 295 words. Muggles use potions, too.
April Showers, Harry/Ginny, 282 words. Caught in a sudden storm.
Predictable, Xander/Faith, 273 words. Life is different now.
Summertime Girl, Veronica/Logan, 441 words. The summer sun is calling her outside.
Explanations, Harry and Ron, 189 words. Conduct unbecoming an Auror.
The Talk, Harry/Ginny and Lily II. 140 words. Somebody's got to do it.

Things that make me happy today:

• Trying not to laugh in yoga class, when the instructor tells us to clear our minds, and "if a thought appears, examine it and let it move on." I can't really explain why that's funny, but it just was.
  
  
• This completely awesome BtVS fanvid: Living Dead Girl by bradcpu, which examines Faith's character using horror movies as a framing device, with a dark and twisty tone. Definitely the best Faith vid I've ever seen, and totally worth a download for any Faith fans.

wojelah tagged me in this meme where you're supposed to post a happy thing every day for 8 days. And hey, I could use some cheerful things lately... I've been letting myself get bogged down in badness when I really shouldn't.

So! Some good things!

I've been working on my takingitinturns fic for a few weeks, and it was almost completed... but didn't feel *finished*. I just wasn't happy with it. But in reading through some of the stories already posted I got inspired! Now I have an idea for an actual plotline, which actually ties in well to the recipient's request and the overall theme. THIS is what fanfic communities are all about. *beams*


Also, a quickie rec -- check out part 1 of paukenfrau's Fear of Flying on takingitinturns. I've never read her stories before, but this one just really grabbed me. It's a very intriguing beginning, a scenario that feels very natural to Harry and Ginny, and a good mix of plot and romance. Thumbs up.

From significantowl, a meme: (which seems appropriate since I was just bitching talking about how many stories I have in progress) Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

"He got you pretty good," Dean said, and it took Faith a minute to realize she meant the demon.

"Yes, the attic. What did my brother the cursebreaker have to say about the curse in your cursed attic?"

"Oh," said Harry, thinking that loud parties and flying-carpet trips did not sound at all like what he'd had in mind.

He wonders what would happen if he wrote back the things he thinks about, like floating on my board for hours feels like the rhythm of your waterbed or the ocean is the exact same color as your eyes when you’re angry and I spend all day in it, what does that say about me?

“That’s because it is that thing I do,” Ginny said through clenched teeth.

Lilly cuts the engine and slides out of her driver's seat, climbing across the console to straddle him in the passenger seat.


...apparently some of my sentences are quite long. HA!

Also, file this one under 'H' for 'AWESOME':

There's this meme thing where you're supposed to list 16 random things about yourself, and I think someone tagged me, so...

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Then, I thought this meme would make a good combination with another one going around:

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Or something completely random. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!