Title: Last Season
Characters: Puck/Kurt (preslash)
Word Count: ~2100
Rating: PG-13, mostly for language
Disclaimer: If I owned Glee, all profits would go to the Howard Bamboo Legal Defense Fund.
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for all aired episodes.
Summary: Puck's a jerk, but he's a sorry jerk at least.
A/N: Written for eldee, who won me in the help_haiti fandom auction.

( The pee balloons are Karofsky's idea. )

Title: At First
Characters: Puck/Rachel
Word Count: 1237
Rating: R
Disclaimer: If I owned Glee then all proceeds would go towards the Howard Bamboo Legal Defense Fund.
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers up to "Sectionals."
Summary: ...for some reason he still watches the tempting sway of her skirt when she flounces out of the music room in a huff, and she unconsciously sits beside him when she returns.
A/N: Written for psychme, who won me in the help_haiti fandom auction. Also big ups to cameroncrazed, beta extraordinaire.

( For a few brief measures, at least, they're perfectly in sync. )

Title: Mike Chang for Prom Queen
Characters: Mike Chang, Tina, Principal Figgins, Howard Bamboo POV.
Word Count: 1241
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: If I owned Glee then all proceeds would go to the Howard Bamboo Legal Defense Fund.
Spoilers/Warnings: None.
Summary: Wait, Mike Chang for prom queen?
A/N: Written for perdiccas, who won me in the help_haiti fandom auction. If you want to bid on me, I'm still available - check out my post here for more details!

( Mike Chang for prom queen! )

Title: Blame It on the Booze
Characters: Noah/Angela, Peter/Claire, with Sandra and Lyle
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~10k
Disclaimer: I don't own any aspect of Heroes or its characters
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers until the end of Season 3. Does not take into account any of the events of Season 4. I was really really really late finishing this.
Summary: A misguided trip to Vegas and a little too much to drink leads to the rekindling of an old relationship.
A/N: Written for yetanothermask for Sweet Charity, a fandom auction to raise money for RAINN. Thanks to all three of my betas - psycho_llama, kathrynthegr8, and cadesama, none of whom gave me a hard time for writing "unphased" instead of "unfazed."

( Shit shit shit shit shit. )

Title: Step Ball Change, Chapter Seven
Characters: Love quadrangle Rachel/Puck/Finn/Quinn, with Brittany and ensemble
Word Count: 1646
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: If I owned Glee then all proceeds would go to the Howard Bamboo Legal Defense Fund.
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers up to "Mash-Up," diverges from canon from there.
Summary: Rachel, Puck, Finn, and Quinn try to sort out their relationships with one another, while Brittany tries to make new friends in glee club.
A/N: Sorry for the long wait between chapters this time. I thought I'd wait until the hiatus to resume working on this. Thanks again to cameroncrazed for the beta!

One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six

( Chapter Seven starts in five, three... four... )

Man. I've got writer's block like whoa right now. I can't write anything smutty, and I can't write anything even remotely humorous that doesn't turn to crack instantly. The only thing I can write right now is angst, and that is not working out with my heroes_exchange prompt.

So you know what I'm going to do instead of write? I'm going to do a poll. I love polls.

For anyone who has ever written before, this one's for you. We'll be playing it fast and loose with definitions, so don't stress it too much. I'm just wondering what you write, why, and how. Ticky box poll so you can check as many boxes as you need!

[Poll #1502315]

What
I think, for me, most of these poll questions would depend on the fandom I'm writing for. I haven't written much for Veronica Mars, but what I have written leans towards angst/romance. Glee lends itself more to cracky or funny fics. I've written so much for Heroes that it probably relies more on the characters or pairings (i.e. Mohinder/Elle tends to be fluffy and silly, whereas Sylar/Claire is really dark and angsty).

Why
As far as why I write what I write is concerned, lately much of my output has been generated by prompts. I would even say that I prefer working with prompts for one primary reason: I like to know that someone's going to read what I've come up with. Normally the length or genre is dictated by the prompt or challenge, so that's taken care of for me. When I choose prompts, it's often determined more by what seems feasible than anything else. I tend to stick close to canon when I can.

How
My writing process right now is kind of ridiculous. For some reason when I write a scene I always start by writing the dialogue first, and then I go back and fill in all the action and description. While it's really useful to do this a lot of the time, it's not the best way way to go about writing scenes that don't require a lot of dialogue, like a really smutty scene, or a scene driven only by one character. I very rarely do any outlining, unless it's a really, really long fic or I'm trying to make sure it fits a specific prompt; otherwise my stories develop pretty much organically. I don't write from beginning to end, though - I normally start with one or two scenes and then fill in scenes around them as I feel necessary.

Okay, flist. Tell me about how you do things.

First, why this came to mind in the first place: the beta sign-ups at heroes_exchange close at the end of the day, so if you need a beta or if you want to beta, here's one last reminder for me.

So yeah. Anyway.

The holiday exchange got me thinking of doing ( Feedback Frenzy again.... )

cruiscin_lan: so i may or may not have written my first RPF...
dragynflies: WHO HWO WHO?
cruiscin_lan: SARAH PALIN.
dragynflies: please be lying.

What do you believe? Let's put it to a vote!

[Poll #1500163]

Man, one of these days LJ Abuse is going to revoke my poll-posting privileges or something.

ETA: Holy moley, I might really have to post it, because I could make it fit one of my Ridiculously Specific prompts.

I don't know if this means anything, but take a look at this pic from Wednesday's episode and pay special attention to the sign on the right.

( image from Sectionals 1x13, so spoilery )

Still not getting comment notifications, but I AM GETTING MY JOB BACK HOPEFULLY. They called and asked if I would be available in January. They'll let me know at the end of the week where I fit into the schedule. Guess I'm too good to let go for very long. Pa-chow!*

In other news, I'm almost all caught up on Heroes now. Just one episode behind! ( Cut for spoilery thoughts, if anyone else was behind )

The fall finale of Glee is on tonight. There won't be a new episode until we're all dead of old age, apparently, judging by fandom's reaction.

Okay, so, here's that fake-memory meme everyone's been doing lately:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.

Let's fake-remember all the fake-good times together.

*I don't know. I felt like I needed a sound effect there or something.