Archive | April 2012
April Giraffe Call: Celebrations and Special Events!
The call for prompts is now OPEN!
I am now taking prompts on the theme of Celebrations and Special Events Leave one or many prompts, and I will write (over the next month) at least one microfic (150-500 words) to each prompter.
Prompts can be related to one of my extant setting (See my landing page) or they can be for something completely different.
Prompting is free! But Donations are always welcome.
If you have donated, I will write to one extra prompt of yours.
In addition, for each $5 you donate, I will write an additional 500 words to the prompt(s) of your choice.
If I get two new prompters or one new donator, I will write a setting piece (setting chosen by poll).
At $30 in donations, T & I will get delicious cake for our birthdays!
At $40 in donations, I will post an additional 1000-2000-word fic on the subject of the audience’s choice.
At $50, anyone who donated $7.50 or more will have a copy of “Alder by Post” mailed to them if they wish
At $70, I will write two extra 500-word continuations – chosen by prompters picked by random number generator
At $100, I will write three extra 500-word continuations – chosen by prompters picked by random number generator
At $130, I will record a podcast of an audience-choice story and post it for everyone to read.
At $145, T & I will buy ourselves a reel mower!
If I reach $200, I will hold a mid-month Call on a single setting of the readers’ choice. Everyone who tipped will get wordcount-and-a-half
For more information on Giraffe Calls, see the landing page.
I also take payment by Dwolla
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Giraffe Call Advance Notice
Tomorrow through Monday evening will be my Giraffe Call for April. The theme will be Celebrations and Special Events.
In the Lawn & Garden theme of the Spring, I will be working towards a reel mower for portions of our yard.
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Final Giraffe of March:Submitted!
To fulfill ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kelkyag‘s March Giraffe Call prompt, I have submitted “Made of Words,” from stryck‘s prompt to The Abstract Quill’s short fiction contest.
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Summary of the last two weeks of writing! (OY)
I’ve posted a lot since I last posted a summary (Last Summary (LJ)), whoops.
One-Off
Policing (LJ) – A drabble
The Rue (LJ) – A drabble
First Rose (LJ) After 12 Roses and One
DUCKS! meeks‘ art!
Love Meme:
The Meme Post (LJ)
Morrigan/Reid, Luke/Regine, Linden/Luke (LJ) Love Meme
Autumn/Weylan, Audrey/Sage, Taro/Kailani (LJ) – Love Meme 2
Porter/Arundel, Rozen/Kai, Rin/Girey (LJ) – Love Meme 3
Junie/Jin, Carrot/Angua, Regine/Ambrus (LJ) – Love Meme 4
Baram/Rozen, Ib/Baram, Fridmar/Delaney (LJ) Love Meme 5
Jin/Jimmy, Autumn/Winter (LJ) Love Meme 6
Donor perk:
Dinner (LJ) (Space Accountant)
Homecoming (LJ) {Reiassan)
Just Because:
three Cya-Bois (LJ a series of Vignettes for #Addergoole/Boom-Apoc
In the Tub (LJ)
Vacation (LJ) – Boom, Cya and sons
Derailed (LJ) (Luke, Fridmar, et al)
Derailed 2 (LJ)
Feedback Wanted:
What do you like of my writing? (LJ) (feedback)
Poll (LJ) – April Giraffe Call Topic
March Call
Bounty (LJ) – Dragons Next Door, Hunting Junie
Heroes (LJ)
Sidekick (LJ) – Aunt Family, Evangaline & Rosaria
Deep Shit (LJ) – Fae Apoc, Pyry
And Out (LJ) -Rin & Girey
Hooked (LJ) – Rin & Girey
Fred (LJ) (Slave School)
February Call
What to Do with… (Did not Xpost) Thorburn/Basalt/Ceinwen
Kiss-Kisses (LJ) (Ahouva with friends)
Good Bones (LJ) (Wren and Nydia after Graduation)
Company (LJ) – Just before Safe House
Safe House (LJ) Baram/House Elves
Xenonegotiation is now up at EMG-Zine!
The next Giraffe Call will be this Saturday!
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Summary – a complete list of the March Giraffe Call Stories!
March was a tiny call, comparatively. I earned $40 and wrote 9 stories, not counting commissioned continuations.
One-Off
First Rose (LJ) After 12 Roses and One
Reiassan
Homecoming (LJ) {donor perk}
Navigating Lannamer (LJ
Sun-on-the-Water (LJ)
Hooked (LJ) – Rin & Girey
The Aunt Family
The Princess and the Hunstsman (LJ)
Big Bad Witch (LJ)
Frog Pancakes (LJ)
Princesses (LJ)
Heroes (LJ)
Sidekick (LJ) Evangaline & Rosaria
Addergoole
Graduation Plans (LJ)
Yr9
Sequential Vignette (LJ) (Porter & Sylvia)
Trying (LJ) (Arundel/Sylvia Year 8)
Fae Apoc
Reality (LJ)
First Day of Work (LJ)
Deep Shit (LJ)
Tir na Cali
Fred (LJ) (Slave School)
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Love Meme Answers 6: Jin/Jimmy, Autumn/Winter
For the meme I posted Wednesday night here and here (feel free to leave pairings now if you want; I’m having fun.
Jin waited patiently for Jimmy to come back to earth with Juniper. Of all the monsters in the world, Jimmy was probably the only one he could trust, completely, with his kid sister. Jimmy was probably the only one he thought of as a sibling.
The Smiths moving in next to them had been one of the best moments in Jin’s life. For the first time since he started thinking of his parents as separate people from himself, he had someone he trusted to watch his back, and, maybe more importantly, someone who trusted him to do the same
“Got me?”
“I have you.”
Autumn reached for the strands, feeling the twists and the knot where everything was going crazy. The knots were dangerous, the sort of chaos that could pull you in and twist your own lines all up, making as much a mess of you as this tangle of forest was becoming.
But with Winter holding her hand, Autumn didn’t have to worry. Not once had he ever let her fall. Not once in her life had his strength and order failed her.
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Very loose survey – What sort of writing would you like to see more of?
* What sort of settings do you enjoy reading when I write them? What sort do you wish I’d write more of?
* what length stories do you enjoy reading when I write them?
* What plots do you enjoy/wish I wrote more of?
* What characters do you enjoy?
Feedback bribe: 50 words in your choice of setting if you answer at least two of these with more than one-word answers! 🙂
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Bounty
After this story, this story, this story, this story (LJ), and this story (LJ), from kelkyag‘s commissioned prompt.
The catch had been so close, so damned close. Orin had practically had his hands on the kid.
She wasn’t the most expensive kid in the neighborhood, but that’s because she lived next door to dragons and down the road from pixies, harpies, and centaurs. She was, however, the priciest kid per ounce and risk factor, at least in this city.
The amount of time he was having to spend on her, though, this damn thing was turning out to be the lowest hourly rate he’d pulled in over a decade. And what was worse? Now he had base calling, breathing down his throat, telling him to come in. And he’d almost had his hands on her.
Olin packed his gear into his car and headed back to base, grumbling to himself the whole time. This kid would be pure gold, but every minute spent away from the hunt was one more minute that he risked somebody else grabbing her. His team weren’t the only ones interested in her, and it wasn’t just for the payday, either.
He’d caught one of the religious creeps around the kid the other day, and driven the bastard off with a stick and a few well-placed threats. The church guys were the worst, the spooks nearly as bad. Olin didn’t want to think about what would happen if either of those got their hands on this particular target. All that power, all that potential, but she was still in a tiny, fragile package.
Fragile, but either supremely lucky, or surrounded by the best secret-ops team of weirdos he’d ever seen. Every opportunity he’d had had somehow glitched out or gotten ruined, often by the most obnoxious, irritating series of coincidences. It was almost as if…
Olin stopped the car. “Fuck,” he muttered. He hadn’t dealt with those little shits in decades. “Fuck, fuck…” He picked up his phone. Dead. Turned over the car engine. Dead.
He turned to his gear bag, wondering if there was a bounty on gremlins.
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