The Ninth Strange Day

Start date: 10 March 2008
Target date: 15 May 2008
Submission deadline: 15 June 2008
Number of days with a zero word count: Too Damn Many

This … is hard. It’s hard working a real job and trying to be a “normal” person and write.

Hello, [My Real Name].

[Name Removed]

Not much, right? But it’s a start! It’s a real place and not self-publishing and you know what? I don’t care if I don’t make a dime off this. IT IS A START.

A friend and I were both nominated for silly, meaningless fanfiction “awards” (basically just a chance to get 30 seconds of fame and a handmade graphic) on LiveJournal.

We’re laughing about it and calculating our odds (zillions to one against) but still, we’re both kinda pleased. It’s a pleasure just to be nominated yadda. Because it means that people read our stories and liked ‘em.

Post it here, I mean. I write it more often than I like to admit.

Torchwood Fan Fiction. According to the Torchwood fans who have read it, it’s “Delightfully Creepy”.

Coincidentally, my name happens to mean “Delightfully Creepy”.

Title: Lots of Things you can do with a Stopwatch
Fandom: Torchwood
Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction. I am not affiliated with the television series Torchwood, nor any of the cast and crew. No harm is intended. It’s all just for fun.
Character(s): Jack, Ianto
Word Count: 800 (est; not counting the bit quoted from “They Keep Killing…”)
Spoilers: The end of “They Keep Killing…”
Rating: 13 and up
Warnings: Nothing you haven’t seen on Torchwood already
Summary: This probably isn’t what they were doing with the stopwatch, either.

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Signed up for NaNoWriMo and I don’t know why. I get all inspired and wound up and ready for it and then November first hits and I just collapse.

Anyhow. NaNoWriMo. This year my approach is going to be a whole hell of a lot of short stories. Original stuff, interconnected in some way. Think television episodes. A core cast of characters, a common location. Now, if you’d please, leave me lots and lots of comments containing plotbunnies. Things you’d love to see me write (that ain’t fanfic).

If you lot start saying things like “oh, I don’t know. Something with a table in it” I will HURT YOU.