Ren the Ghost

It's Halloween! <3 And trickortreatex has revealed works :D I got an Attic fic :DDD I've also written an assortment of ficlets for ficortreat <3

• Teen Wolf, Derek/Stiles, Ghosts
• Original Work, M/M, Ghosts
• Harry Potter, Voldemort/Draco, Fruits
• 9-1-1, Eddie/Buck, Socks
• Benlian, Pudgie/Benlian, Dreams
• Star Trek: DS9, Garak & Q, Prices
• Original Work, M/M, Collector
• Merlin, Merlin & Arthur, Magic

updated my first big list of fandom exchanges (the one with the single-fandom exchanges, too), since holiday exchanges are coming out of the woodwork now :D (the new (to me) exchanges i've found are in the middle of the too tables)

fandomgiftbasket has revealed! :DDD

I wrote 2 fics and received 5 gifts! <333 My two fics were both for sweetsorcery, an Attic fic and a fic for The Man Who Went Too Far by E.F. Benson, which is a new fandom for me :D

And I got five gifts! I'm absolutely flummoxed, and so grateful and delighted, they're all so awesome <333

I got a Leverage (Drago/Harry—somebody took me up on this rarepair!) fic by Teratornis, a set of three BruJay icons by kingstoken, an Amos/Prax ficlet for The Expanse by impala_chick, a BruJay ficlet by redhandedtamarin, and last but certainly not least an Attic ficlet by sweetsorcery.

This was the first time I actually signed up for anything like this and didn't just do gifts, and I had such a good time! :D I love all my gifts! <333 And I really enjoyed the fics I wrote, and it was fun exploring a new fandom :DDD

So, back in July (wow, time ran away!) I had a goal of writing 14k words/week, and aside from the one week I called, I did in fact do that. Actually, I wrote a smack total of 46k words in July, which is still absolutely fantastic and I'm really proud of myself. I then continued on with a 15k words/week goal for August---I failed.

I ran smack into the wall, LOL. So, in August I managed to write 15k words/week for 2 weeks in a row, and then I could no longer maintain that pace. The first Sunday I had to write 7.3k words in order to succeed, which I did do, and the second Sunday I needed 7.9k words, which I also succeeded at (and set a new daily record). The third Sunday I needed another 8k words, and I only got 4k words.

Upon this failure, I continued the rest of August with no weekly goal. Despite this, I still ended up writing 49k words in August, so I'm not exactly disappointed or anything. :)

In September, I wrote 26k words, and had no weekly goal. I am a bit disappointed at that, but I did succeed in getting my year-to-date word-count to 400k words, which is absolutely baffling. Next on the docket, get my YTD wc to 420k words; then I'll have written twice as much this year as last year! That would be awesome.

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In October, I'm returning to a weekly goal because I've been feeling kind of adrift. The benefit of a weekly goal is that I know exactly how much time I'm going to write that week, and can plan around it accordingly, and as such it's easier to get done. And it makes me feel more secure, more like I Know What's Coming(TM) in the next week. It's a very nice feeling.

My weekly goal for now is going to be 12k words/week. That feels solidly in the realm of possible; I would say I started overstretching myself at 14k words/week, and 13k words was a bit more effort but still comfortable, so I would like to get back to that after/near the end of October, and then hopefully I can keep that pace up for the rest of the year. I might push the envelope up to 13.5k words if that's something that seems doable later on, but I won't go higher than that in 2024.

My initial plan when I started this slow exercise to increase my weekly writing output was, when I reached 10k words/week, to hold at that level for like three months or so. I obviously didn't up doing that; it felt like I could continue so I did. Honestly, my secret goal the whole time was to be able to write 15k words in a week; and I have done that now! Twice! That's super, super cool and I'm incredibly pleased. But having done that, I don't think it's wise to rush back to that; I was probably onto something when I initially thought I'd be sticking longer to the higher weekly goals before moving on.

Hence why I don't intend to keep climbing for the rest of 2024; rather, I'm going to try acclimatizing to a 12k-13.5k words/week strain and hope my writing muscles can adapt to that without breaking, and then we'll see how that works and what I'm doing in 2025.

...In other but related news, I also joined ferunwrimo in September and had a lot of fun with it; I like climbing leaderboards!

In terms of getyourwordsout, I think I'm still a few thousand words ahead of my pledge, and that's also incredibly fun. This is not at all how I thought a 500k word pledge would go :DDD

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Ren the Ghost's Door

DW username: quillpunk

Light is on for: Anybody :D

What's in the Bowl? Fic (drabbles-or-longer)

Let Me Know: Fandom + Pairing (or just fandom if you're fine with me doing whatever pairing I want <3), prompt if you have one :D (for example a premise, like 'trapped in the rain', or just a word, like 'rain')

Other info: I will not write sexual content, gore, underage, M/F or F/F pairings, and will not do anything that's on my usual DNW list (barring 1st person POV if I feel it works). I reserve the right to say 'no' to any request I feel I can't write/that makes me uncomfortable. If you've got DNWs for your request, you can include/link to them and I'll do my best to avoid them, as long as they don't box me in/contradict your request :)

I'm open to requests for any fandom/pairing I've written before on TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername.

I can also be convinced to try out a new fandom if; I can get my hands on the source material, it's short enough that I can consume it in less than a month (since this is a Halloween event! So for example probably not an eleven season tv show, LOL), it's a slash (m/m) pairing, and I think it's something that I can write for. That might not end up being the case! I might not be able to get my hands on it, or I might not be able to write for it, etc. I will let you know if I can't do your request :( You're definitely welcome to request something else in that case!

I particularly like horror, sci-fi, fantasy, mysteries, and sitcoms, if you want to ask for something I've never written before :)

latetreatbonanza is running again! With works due on Dec 24! :D I redid my sign-up from last round, now including this list of...

Every Fandom I've Ever Requested (excluding SK8 because I don't want that at the moment)

- Outlast (Video Games)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon)
- Eye Candy (TV)
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Call of Duty (Video Games)
- Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
- Leverage (US TV 2008)
- Assassin's Creed
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon & Comics)
- Mio min Mio | Mio My Son - Astrid Lindgren
- The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
- The Martian (2015)
- Top Gun (Movies)
- Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
- Stargate SG-1
- Stargate Atlantis
- Black Adam (Movie 2022) (DCEU)
- Biggles Series - WE Johns
- Strangers From Hell (TV)
- Teen Wolf (TV)
- All for the Game - Nora Sakavic
- Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
- DCU (Comics)
- The Expanse (TV)
- xxxHoLic
- Biohazard | Resident Evil (Games)
- Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
- Psychopath Diary (TV)
- Kinnporshe: The Series
- Classroom of the Elite
- Solo Leveling
- The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV)
- Saltburn (2023)
- Original Work
- Smallville
- The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer
- The Attic - A. M. Burrage

And in Fandom Gift Basket (that isn't anywhere else): Malevolent (Podcast), Hello From The Hallowoods (Podcast)

Look at that baby. Look how many fandoms I've requested. ...Those are all from this year, LMAO.

latetreatbonanza is a way to make late gift-giving more fun, featuring a deadline and an anon period like normal exchanges to make it a bit more secret santa-like :D Signing up is just a way to indicate that you're definitely interested in getting late treats for your previous requests, it doesn't commit you to anything, and I think it's fine to put treats in the collection for folks who haven't signed up? (I checked, yes it is.) Check out the about and rules post here.

The Forced Proximity Flash Exchange has revealed, and I'm thrilled to announce I both wrote and received 2 fics :DDD I adore both the fics I got, they're both so lovely <3

For sweetsorcery, I wrote breathe in until you can taste the thunder on your tongue, an Attic fic, as well as an aching kind of sound, a Thurnley Abbey fic. This is a new fandom for me, but I've been wanting to try writing it for a while, and I'm pretty pleased with the result :D

And I received Down in the Trenches, a Biggles fic (Algy POV, Biggles/Erich) by sholio, and True Dawn, a Biggles fic (Biggles/Moorven) by sweetsorcery.

In other exchange news, I've signed up to trickortreatex, since it is after all only a 300 word minimum \o/ I also did end up sending in a swap request for ficinabox, which I'm very nervous about. It's my first time doing FIAB, let alone the swap thing!

• Cohost is shutting down. (it will go into read-only mode on Oct 1, 2024)
• ZNB SF&F Themed Anthologies Year 12! only 3 days left on the Kickstarter and they've still got almost 50% to go. (via tryslora on PF)
• Yuletide is rumbling ahead with Nominations open.
• Pillowfort has secured funds for contiuned upkeep until Feb, 2025. (It's still hanging in there!)
• duckprintspress has made a Kinks Your October prompt list.
• fandomgiftbasket's deadline is approaching, and there are still a lot of empty baskets—the spreadsheet now includes gift numbers per baskets.
• Watch Aikāne, an animated film inspired by queer native Hawaiian love. (via aftselakhis-shaladin on PF)

Yes, I'm hopping onto the smallweb bandwagon <(￣︶￣)>

My project is 10001 Nightmares Party, a personal fanfic archive I just set up. I want to cross-post all my works from AO3 to 10001 Nightmares! There are almost a hundred of them though, so it's going to take a minute, lol.

It's also got fanfic recs <3

What is Small Web September?

Small Web September (is it too early for an abbreviation? Feel free to use SWS for short xD) is a chill, friendly and open event for anyone who'd like to make progress on their small web project(s) to join and share ideas, trade tips, and post progress. A small web project can be anything from a personal site/indie archive or shrine to a webring or directory, a list of resources you wanted to create, a coding how-to, maybe a set of icons or badges - the sky's the limit! As long as it's small web-related (by the definition helpfully offered in our comm intro post), it's suitable and we'd love you to join and work on it during SWS.

There are only seven unclaimed days now, and I think it would be absolutely lovely if we got 'em all! <333

(I claimed five, orz. Got 2.5 reviews finished so far *pumps fist*)