Ten Rules to Self...

... the next time Self participates in a Fest/Exchange:

1) I will not even think about entering unless I know I'll have at least two months' time with no serious projects except the fest fic.**

2) I will not take the "write the fic, then insert the sex scenes" approach because flow and characterisation always suffer. Likewise, I'll not write scenes all over the place and out of context.

3) I will not whine on hummelchen's shoulder, 'cause next time she'll strangle me for sure, and deservedly so. In addition, I will not whine in general! Not just not on hummelchen's shoulder.

4) I will not ask for a deadline extension. Full stop, no exceptions. I'll be in bloody time!

5) I will not pray that my betas will turn around sixty pages in two days. I'll make sure to be done early so there'll be plenty of time for betaing and editing.

6) I will not procrastinate by whipping through my f-list to see if someone's even later with their fic in order to feel better.

7) I will not start wibbling halfway through "this is so bad, I should've written Plot B", least of all when there's no time for even thinking about Plot B, and Plot B would be twice as bad.

8) I will not post-bloody-pone today's pensum telling myself "ah, you'll rip that off easily tomorrow".

9) I will write the averaged word count. Ok, within limits, but I will *not* end up with a story twice as long as what I'd planned for.

10) I will write at the computer when I have the time, not only by hand. I know I can do it. It's just, well, tough and the games are so bloody distracting…

** oops - broke that already. So much for the likelihood of those rules being followed :(.

Klingon Post: Trouble

( Beware: Klingon Waffling under the Cut )

Public Service Announcements :).

A lot of you probably already saw it, but triatha_ron, the first-ever Ron-centric ficathon (modeled on the Snarry Olympics) has been launched with three competing teams: Team Slash, Team Gen, Team Het. (Yours truly's been allowed to play, and will be doing gen, *squee*)

There are still open slots for writers, and signups will be open from today to Monday, January 15 at noon CST.

And check out the accompanying Drabble Mini-Fest, which will be running with bi-weekly prompts from January 17 on for the general public to play in.

That said, the snarry_olympics are on the roll again with Teams War and Postwar... not that that's news to anybody :). Looks absolutely delicious. In fact, the only thing more delicious than the artwork is the roll call!