sinfulslasher tagged me, so here it is:

Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag ten friends.

(01) The Last Herald Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

(02) The Owl Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

(03) The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper

(04) The Night World Series by LJ Smith (this is the series I based my first internet posted fanfic on)

(05) Damia's Children by Anne McCaffrey

(06) Lyon's Pride by Anne McCaffrey

(07) The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J Anderson

(08) Dark Visions Series by LJ Smith

(09) Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

(10) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Stolen from elrhiarhodan because I'm not sure I can do it and I need a challenge.

From my Yearly Story Roundups, find a fic and choose a passage.

Then, post your passage in the comments below, and I will try to guess which fic it's from. If I get it correct, I'll share some information about the story - backstory, character motivation, possible future story ideas or cookies, etc. If I get it wrong, you'll give me a brief A/U prompt and character(s) for a brief ficlet.

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).

Okay... joining the crowd here. I'm sure I'm missing like 50 movies for this list, but this is what sprang to mind off the top of my head.

01 Star Wars Trilogy (Original Flavor) and yes, I'm cheating with 3 for 1

02 Operation Petticoat

03 McLintock!

04 Hellfighters

05 Mr. Holland's Opus

06 Anne of Green Gables

07 The First Olympics

08 Big Fish

09 Beauty and the Beast

10 Rudy

As seen from everyone else:

You can ask me anything about my writing! Alternatively, you can ask (just a suggestion...):

1) What I was thinking at the time I wrote a story, or a question about my writing as a whole. The question can be about anything, including my WIPs (found here.

2) Pick a character/pairing I've written and I will explain the top five ideas, concepts, etc. I try to keep in mind while writing that character/pairing.

3) Quote a few lines from something I've written and I'll comment on them. You can find my fics from 2007 to present at the links below. Anything pre-2007 is either on TTH or FF.net, but if you want that you'll need to dig it up yourself. ;)

Fic Roundups By Year: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014

Snagged from elrhiarhodan

First, write down the names of 12 characters. Then read and answer the questions. You can't look at the questions (or click on the cut) until you write down the 12 characters you're going to use.

My list is:

01 Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
02 Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
03 John Sheppard (SGA)
04 Tony DiNozzo (NCIS)
05 Elizabeth Burke (White Collar)
06 Rodney McKay (SGA)
07 Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
08 Peter Burke (White Collar)
09 Jack O'Neill (SG1)
10 Shannon Gibbs (NCIS)
11 Mozzie (White Collar)
12 Daniel Jackson (SG1)

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I got tagged by hawk_soaring:

Rule 1: Post the rules.
Rule 2: Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, then make 11 new ones.
Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to your post. Comment if you want some questions cause I think most I would have tagged have been tagged elsewhere...
Rule 4: Let them know you’ve tagged them.

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Snagged from sinfulslasher and hawk_soaring

Bold the ones you've done, italicize the ones you want to do.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyworld/Disneyland.
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo

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I probably shouldn't do this as when I get on a five things kick, fics tend to result, but I'll give it a go anyway...

As snagged from procrastinating sinfulslasher who "snagged from the wonderful rabidchild, who pilfered it from frith_in_thorns (so if you do this, please credit her for her great idea)"

Post a topic in my fandoms (crossovers welcome), list, category, whatever, in comments. (examples: "Five Dates X Regretted Going On," or "Five Things Y Has On His Shelf", or "Your Five Favorite Songs to Write to). I'll (try to) answer with a list of five things (within reason).

A - Age: 32
B - Bed size: double
C - Chore you hate: anything that involves scented cleaning supplies since they give me epic headaches
D - Dog's name: no dogs since I was a kid... my kitty Abu was lost in my parents house fire and we had a 6 month foster kitty named Belle
E - Essential start to your day item(s): shower
F - Favorite color: blues... I inherited that from my dad
G - Gold or Silver: silver
H – Height: 5'3''
I - Instruments you play: trumpet (it's been a long time), clarinet (briefly), melody on piano (no fancy two handed playing for me)
J - Job title: Graphic/Web Designer (officially); Whatever the Boss Asks (unofficially)
K - Kisses or hugs: hugs
L - Living arrangements: two bedroom / one bath house with gay roommate of almost 9 years (yes, I've got a little Grace in me)
M - Mood: usually laid back
N - Nicknames: Kayla Shay is my fanfic nickname... in real life, I don't have one unless you count my college friends calling me by my first and middle name since there was another person in our group of friends with the same first name
O - Overnight hospital stays other than birth: Never... *knocks on wood*
P - Pet Peeves: people late to things
Q - Quote from a movie: AS YOUUUUU WISHHHHHHHHH!!!
R - Right or left handed: right with ambidextrous tendencies
S - Siblings: older brother (8 yrs) and older sister (4 yrs)
T - Time you wake up: when my alarm goes off... then I hit snooze for about an hour before actually crawling out of bed. so 7:45am for work days
U - Underwear: peach colored tonight.
V - Vegetable you dislike: it would be easier to say what I do like..
W - Ways you run late: oversleeping is about the only thing that makes me late
X - X-rays you've had: foot (x-ray and bone scan), hand (college horseplay accident), lungs (pneumonia not fun)... although officially I've never had a broken bone, I think they missed a hairline fracture in both the foot and the hand because they still give me issues on occasion
Y - Yummy food you make: Hamburger, Rice and Cheese... and I totally haven't made it in a long long time. Also, my cinnamon free apple pie, since I'm allergic
Z - Zoo favorite: meerkats!!

Post the first sentence (or three) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!

So I decided to follow the crowd and do this as well. It actually made me clean / located all my WIP fic parts floating around. I found a few I discarded that I had forgotten. I found a few I'm not even including because I really meant to discard them... And I'm not including a few that are way old and never made it beyond notes.

I'll post each one in separate comments and then have a list of links below the cut once I get them all listed.

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