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samanthahirr ([personal profile] samanthahirr) wrote2011-02-10 09:33 pm

3 Fics On Deck, Coming Soon

I can hardly wait to share all the stuff I've been working on for the last two months! Three stories are done and ready for posting--I'm just waiting for their respective challenge communities to kick off.

Coming this weekend is an anonymous contribution to the [livejournal.com profile] kradamvalentine challenge. My fic will be posted to the community along with a couple dozen other anonymous entries over Saturday and Sunday, and the secret name of each author will be revealed on Valentine's Day. Can you guess which one is mine?

The [livejournal.com profile] kradamreversebb Big Bang community will announce its posting schedule soon. I've got not one, but TWO fics paired with great artists in the big bang mix, and the stories are as different as the art prompts that inspired them. One's an undercover action AU set along the Mexican border, and in the other, Kris and Adam learn that revenge is a dish best served with a bottle of 2006 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild.

And they're all Coming Soon.

[identity profile] akavertigo.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
For the record, this is like locking a mouse in a hamster wheel and kicking the ball into a cheese factory.

;_;

[identity profile] samanthahirr.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
But for which of us? These fics are like birds in a cage, dreaming of freedom. I did a spit-take today when I saw that the Big Bang postings have been postponed a third time. I just...but they're right over here...and I could...no?...I'll just keep waiting, then. Sigh.

But I would love to have the run of a cheese factory. Can you imagine?

[identity profile] akavertigo.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but see the thing is you know what happens. It's terrible, the not knowing. Terrible in a very sad, sad mouse way.

...yes. Yes, I can. (Whyyy won't someone write me a Kradam "one of them runs a specialty food shop" fic? Why?)

[identity profile] samanthahirr.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
A specialty food shop fic? Is that all it would take to make you happy? Hmmmmmmm.

[identity profile] akavertigo.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
A food fic, period. But every time I beg whine ask for food porn people just talk about rubber sheets and whipped cream. *sob* I don't care if they have sex, I just want Kris to make fries with duck fat or spike the maple syrup or toss a ham bone in the soup pot. I want Adam's waistline worries to be an actual topic (with a happy ending, naturally.)

*sigh* It's only dreams. Sweet, sweet dreams...

[identity profile] moirariordan.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
OMG [livejournal.com profile] kradamreversebb. *eyes unfinished fic*

*sobs*

Okay well yours will be awesome, so there's some anticipation to distract me from my shame.

[identity profile] akavertigo.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
...YOU DON'T NEED SLEEP.

[identity profile] akavertigo.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I like to think of it as a war cry.

[identity profile] samanthahirr.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there anything I can do to help? I assume it's the sheer number of words that's holding you back, 'cause I KNOW you've got all the imagination in the world. Do you want a chance to just freak out or rant for a bit?

[identity profile] moirariordan.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more like time. I already have 6k down, the word minimum isn't the problem, it's more like, finishing the story to my own satisfaction while simultaneously not failing my last semester of college. Plus I've been staring at the damn thing for months now, so I've lost all perspective and that's not helping. *harrumph*

[identity profile] samanthahirr.livejournal.com 2011-02-12 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely don't fail your final semester!

Pshbt, I know you've got length in you--minimum-schminimum, right? That's usually my problem, too: My story ideas usually need 40,000 words to tell them right, even though the minimum was only 5- or 10k! Ah, scope-creep, you evil bitch.

Stay positive and don't let vertigo talk you out of sleeping once in a while! ;)

[identity profile] sparkfrost.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray! You know how much I love your writing- even though I'm not even in AI fandom you still draw me in!

Btdubs, heard you went to a show on Monday, how did you like Gold Motel? :D I was so tempted when I saw where they were playing, but I had to work the next day. But! We totally need to hang out soon, what do you say to next Wednesday or Thursday?

[identity profile] samanthahirr.livejournal.com 2011-02-12 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I love Gold Motel! EEEEE!

Weds & Thurs are both awesome. Brilliant idea!