Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without

I've only just barely made a start on my current challenge:



but I'm already writing prompts for the next one:




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To make up for the disappointment in somehow missing the signups for the lovely, fluffy SPN-BigPretzel Spring Fic Exchange, I'm seriously considering signing up for this instead:


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Title: The Uncivil War
Author: theymp
Pairing: none (Gen)
Rating: PG-13

Warning/Spoilers: Mild cursing, brotherly bickering, and controversial reference to Sam's eye color. Also, everything I know about the American Civil War is from less than five minutes on Wikipedia ;)

Summary: Dean may not be sure if he actually hates Halloween, but he does know there's something strange going on at the site of a famous Civil War battle. But is it really worth missing a Dr. Sexy marathon?

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural or its characters - these were created by Eric Kripke - I'm just borrowing them. I'm not making any commercial gain. No harm or infringement intended.

Link to The Uncivil War

A SuperWho 100-Word drabble for CFEditor’s birthday:
The 11th Doctor and Amy bump into a familiar face.

Crash Landing
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A/N: It's a little bit early due to differences in Space/Timezones - but have a great day!

I've been doing the E/O Challenge for a little while, this is on FanFiction.net where you're sent a prompt word by Enkidu07 or Onyx Moonbeam and you have to use it in an exactly 100 word-long story.

This week the word of the week was "Storm" and everyone seemed to write a damn fine drabble.


(this is an advert for 'Artemis', a UK Investment company - everytime I see it I think of Supernatural)

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural or its characters - these were created by Eric Kripke - I'm just borrowing them. I'm not making any commercial gain. No harm or infringement intended.

E/O Challenge: Storm. 'The Storm' a 100 word drabble. A storm rages overhead triggering unpleasant memories. Spoilers for up to early season 7. Non-Wincest Hurt/Comfort.

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So I have a couple of ducks. No, I don't live on a farm. Yes, this is considered to be a little unusual.

These are actually the second pair I've owned, a male/female pair, the first two were killed by a fox.

They're Aylesbury Ducks, which means they're big and have amazingly huge, white-feathered wings - or they're white when they've not been flapping about in the mud. I tell you, ducks are dirty.



When they're chicks they have yellow feathers, then they moult (which they then seem do a couple of times a year) - and the first time this happened I commented it was like "an explosion in a pillow factory". What a great phrase - I squirreled it away for future use.

After finishing "The End of the World" I needed to write a couple of lighter fics, I did that with a couple of drabbles, but I needed to do something a bit more, and I was already part way through "Castiel's Day" (I seem to quite often come up with a new fic while working on a current one - plus I'm a big fan of writing something else if I find I get stuck with my current work).

The phrase came up in conversation and it clicked in my head and so "Scritch, Scritch, Scritch" was born! (I'm not sure I like the title though)

I had some really nice comments, unfortunately many anonymous, so I can't reply with thanks, but one comment did make me laugh...

"i just have to say it (because reading this means that i'm not studying for my biology finals): arthropods molt. Birds do not molt. Nor do angels...to the best of my knowledge. ;)"

Am I missing some difference in meaning because I used the US "molt" instead of my more normal "moult"? (I like to write SPN in US English - it's a "stylist affectation"!)

I have a dog too, and she definitely moults, seemingly constantly!

I think you really need to study for that biology test!

BTW I googled "arthropod" and screamed like a baby!

I've finished so many stories recently, and I've realised that in recent days I've killed off Dean, Sam, and Castiel, as well as wiping out the known universe, twice. Not bad for a week's work, is it?

Opheliac Angel is now finished - In a way I'm sad that it's done, but I was getting a bit freaked out about what was going to happen in S7 and didn't want that interfering with my ideas of how I wanted it to end.

Happy Birthday is also finished - not such a need to rush this, but I'd come up with the ending that I wanted, but it was the lead up to this that was the most difficult to write. It's five chapters long, not bad for a one-shot!

No Leaf Clover is finished and published - this thing is a monstrosity, what with its huge wadges of clunky dialogue where Nyarlathotep expounds at length on the nature of existence while leering over Sam. Definitely had to be published pre-7.01, and yes, I'm a little disappointed that the premier wasn't Lovecraftian - but that's a minor, minor point, as I thought it was an awesome episode.

Plus I've also started the E/O Drabble Challenge - which is run by Enkidu07 and Onyx Moonbeam at fanfiction.net - I've managed to write a couple of exactly 100 self-contained stories based on word prompt.

So what's next?

Hmmm, not sure, but I have made some tentative attempts at continuing The Three Faces of Winchester...

I've just published the penultimate chapter of Opheliac Angel - I've called the chapter "How to Break a Heart", it suddenly came to me just  as I leaving the house to go for my regular Saturday morning ParkRun - it was a real incentive to run my little old heart out (woohoo new personal best!) and get back to writing.

So now I've switched off the light of a character that I've feel like I've lived and breathed for the last month - it really is my own heart I've broken.

I'm just tidying the last chapter - honestly I think it's done,  I'm just having problems letting go - especially since I wrote the last scene months ago.

I'm also working on Happy Birthday and really enjoying writing Bobby's character - here's another fic I've written back to front, again having written the end a while back.

I can't believe this story started as just a little idea and a short one-off chapter and just kept growing. As I PM'd to Opheliac Angel the other day, I'm going to really miss my sweet little shifter!