And for most of it there is no excuse.

Anyway -

1) My Yuletide piece is written, edited and submitted. I'm quite happy with it, and especially that I was given a prompt that matched a story I have wanted to write for years! I just hope my recipient likes it as much.

2) I've just received 4 very important letters that I've known about for years: ADHD. Yup, diagnosis confirmed. I don't have any great hope for the drugs - me and psych drugs just don't get on. Mind you, a lot of "don't get on" is probably due to the abovementioned ADHD, so ... Anyway, that makes me AuDHD now, so NeuroSpicy Plus. Yay!

Now to get on with the rest of stuff.

Were you aware that, in the plethora of various daily quizzes like Wordle and Numble and Flagle, that there's a quiz based on using logic to solve a murder mystery? It's called Murdle. It's rather fun.

My Yuletide request this year matched on my willingness to help the greater good (the greater good) and write a Hot Fuzz fic.

And then I saw they liked Murdle.

So I asked if I might write a crossover. And they said Yes.

It Takes a Village tells of the chaos that occurs at Sandford when the Rainbow Retirement Home of Former Murderers starts up.

Enjoy.

Imagine, if you would, in Sense and Sensibility, that the ending was different. Marianne succumbed to her horrid fever, and despite the Palmers leaving in great haste, Mrs Palmer and the baby also fell victim to the foul disease.

And Edward married Lucy.

So Elinor carries on, as one must. But there are two men in her circle who both regard her as intelligent and practical and a suitable wife.

So how does one decide between Colonel Brandon and Mr Palmer? Then Stirs the Feeling Infinite will tell you how.

(I have literally been hoping for this fic for 8 years. I am so blessed to receive such a beautiful answer to the question.)

Three times.

Scene on a Balcony. Lord Peter Wimsey and Miss Harriet Vane have just married, and the reception is getting a little ... heated. So Eiluned Price slips out to the balcony for some fresh air, and makes a new friend.

Not My Assassination. An Assassination Bureau fic set some years after the film, where Ivan is lamenting the return of amateur assassins plying their business in Sarajevo.

A Changed World The Walker family from Swallows and Amazons are facing the beginning of World War II, and they all want to do their part - even Roger who is yet too young.

Oh.

My.

Goodness.

Using this card from the game Paperback as their prompt, my AMAZING Mystery Author wrote me "Dead Planet".

In the Bermuda Triangle of space, things aren't always what they seem.
Or: An archaeologist, a smuggler, and a model meet on a seemingly dead planet and become part of the resistance against the Galactic Federation.

Read it. It's amazing.

I signed up for Yuletide, and wrote my gift-fic (which I'll tell you all about in January). And because the plot-bunnies WOULD NOT SHUT UP, I wrote a treat and two pinch-hits (I have a second treat simmering but it's not behaving so it might end up being a New Year's treat instead).

I saw the gift to me hitting the Gift list back in October.

Today I noticed I have another Yuletide gift there.

Someone has decided to treat me, and I couldn't be happier! In these ghastly times of plague, someone decided they'd take the extra effort and make me something special that they hadn't even signed up for.

So whoever you are, yay. Love your work. No matter what it is. (Posted on Dreamwidth, shared to Live Journal)

( (Hello my lovely writer. Do you know how magnificent you are?)Collapse ) (Posted on Dreamwidth, shared to Live Journal)

( Are you writing for me for Yuletide? You know you're amazing, don't you?Collapse ) Just so you know, Yuletide writers are amazing. (Posted on Dreamwidth, shared to Live Journal)

( (Yes, I've signed up as well. But this is for whoever is writing me something for Yuletide this year.)Collapse )

(Posted on Dreamwidth, shared to Live Journal)

... is awesome!

How It Was Then. It's from Persuasion - Frederick's terribly sensible sister knows something is wrong with Frederick - but she doesn't know what.

My creator is lovely, whoever they are.

(Posted on Dreamwidth, shared to Live Journal)

(Yes, I've signed up as well. But this is for whoever is ( writing me something for Yuletide this year.)Collapse )

There I was, three weeks before the deadline, and no idea what was going to happen.

( And here lies the writing process.Collapse )
For your reading pleasure, A Touch of Sun.