"Fall Into Your Sunlight"

 Is anyone doing a reading challenge this upcoming year?

I would love some recommendations. I was thinking of redoing The 2020 Reading Challenge from ljbookbingo, but I would love to maybe do another one concurrently as well.  

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!  The reading challenge I did last year was one of the highlights for me and was very encouraging to me in a very trying year.

Thanks so much! :D

I signed up for the March Challenge for the comm hc_bingo. I have to rec 15 stories before the April 5th deadline. I love to rec stories so in the past I have really enjoyed this challenge. The table I received:

runaways

slaves

forbidden love

I don't like it.

Of the three I think I may be able to find some stories that I've read for the runaway and forbidden love category. I am definitely going to have to broaden my definition for both categories. Well it is a called a challenge not a cakewalk so I will just have to do my best. :)

I signed up at hc_bingo to do 15 fanfic recs in March and I am very excited by the three prompts I received. I have already thought of a few for each. I love reccing stories! :)

depression

unconsciousness

headaches / migraines

I managed to complete a bingo. I was a little worried that I wouldn't finish because RL has gotten so busy. The story I planned for my healers square became too long to finish in time, so instead I ended up doing 10 recs for the square. Overall I am very happy with what I did manage to produce for this round!




( Stories under the cut )

It was a lot of fun!  I am not sure I will play next year because I don't see my life getting any less busy but we will see.

I had a long eloquent post all set to post when LJ gliched and erased EVERYTHING!  So this is a redo which is a lot less eloquent and much shorter.

Happy Belated New Year!  I hope everyone had a great evening.



It has been a good year.  My family is doing well.  My husband got a new job that he likes and meets our needs better.  I have had some health issues but thankfully nothing serious.  Mentally I have done really well, especially for me as I tend to worry and fret.

As far as my writing I did fairly well this year considering how busy RL has been. I was all over the place as far as fandoms go:

10 stories
11 Fandoms: Atlantis, Doctor Who, BTVS, Magnificent Seven, Psych, Thor, Iron Man, Almost Human, Monk, Hawaii 5-O, and Labyrinth
32,590 Published words, and a bunch more just sitting on my laptop.  32,500 is really good for me!
Most of those were for three comms stories_a_z, older_not_dead, and hc_bingo.  Apparently I work well with deadlines without them I tend to meander. Although my longest story was self-motivated, so who knows.

God-willing I will be able to finish the sequels that I have promised in the coming year.

I hope everyone is doing well!

I completely surprised myself and signed up for a hurt/comfort bingo card over at hc_bingo. I am very excited to get started!

My card is under the cut:


( My hc_bingo card )

I think I got a good card and idea's are already percolating. I was able to (I think) finish my Atlantis h/c fic very very late last night. I will give it a week or so and work on other things to cleanse my palate so to speak and then re-read it and edit it. Then I will have to find a beta who knows the show and can work on my terrible grammer.

:)

I am trying to journal more in this new year so I thought I would start off with a website rec.

I am an avid reader and I am always looking for new books to read. So one of my favorite websites is a site called Paperbackswap.com.



What it is is a site where you can list books that you own that you no longer want.

If you list ten books you get one credit, with that credit you can peruse other members books and if you find one you like you can order it. The member will then send you the used book. If someone requests a book from you all you have to do is print out the address and mail it. Sent media mail it usually costs me between $2.00-$3.00 dollars a book. I have been a member for over 5 years and have swapped many books. Books can be very expensive so this is a good way to get more books without having to pay much at all. Give it a shot you won't be disappointed!

Happy New Years Everyone!

For your listening pleasure here is my favorite version of Auld Lang Syne by the fabulous Straight No Chaser:



( Should old aquaintance be forgot... )

I hope your New Year is a good one!

I am very excited I have two stories off to betas right now! 

First one is a Danny/Kono story which I wrote for the comm older_not_dead.  Which is a comm for romance over the age of 40.  They have a many prompts that you can choose from as long as the couple is over the age of 40 you can post.  So obviously it is a future fic, because Kono's age on the show has never been revealed and Danny's is around 35.  There has been some discussion on LJ and people seem to place her age between 23-27, so placed Kono's age at 27 when we first meet her in the pilot episode.  Takes place about 14 years after that episode and it is about her 41st birthday.  Very excited to have another story out there.  I am also going to use it for my stories_a_z table.  Since I have only used one letter I just need to decide on a title.

The second one is a crossover I have been playing around with for awhile and have mentioned before it is a Doctor Who/SPN crossover.  Pre-relationship Dean/Martha but mostly a friendship fic.  This fic has really been kicking my butt because I want it to be good so my beta has really been working with me to make it better.  It was a serious mess when she got a hold of it but she is all kinds of awesome and is being patient with me.  I am waiting for her to look over it a second time and let me know if I am going in the right direction.  I am hoping that it is the beginning of a series, I have an idea of what is going to happen in the next story but I need to do a lot more research.  This will also be used for my stories_a_z table.  I think I am going to use the title from the song The End Where I Begin by the Script. I think it describes Martha's frame of mind perfectly. How she's hurt and still dealing with what happened during the year that never was and the after effects. But also how she's taking control over her own life and trying to decide what to do next! Very excited!

Here's the song if you have never heard it(it's really good):



Hope everyone's week is going well!