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My Numb3rs story, Symmetry, has been nominated in the Gen Fanfic category at the Numb3rs Awards!

Thank you to the person who nominated my story. *hugs*

For those of you who can't get enough of the The Great Spawn Crossover AU,
fonapola has joined the fun and done what divas_lament and I were reluctant to attempt - tackling all five major spawn verses.

Her story is here: Universal Dumping Ground


For those Watcher!Abby fans. idontlikegravy has posted A Day in the Death of Tony di Nardo

Now I have to get writing myself! So many ideas so little time

I got tagged by wizefics to list my favorite five stories of the year. Truthfully it would be easier to list the five stories I didn't like that I wrote this year. In addition, I am including the Year in Review meme.

First The Stats:
Total fics written this year: I wrote 47 fics all but three were crossovers. You can find links to everything I've written here;

Fandoms Supernatural, Highlander, Smallville, NCIS, Firefly, and Maginificent 7 for the most part but also at least one story in Numb3rs, House, Quantum Leap and Eli Stone

Total Words: ~224,000 words. I just don’t see how I could have written that much. It makes choosing my favorites that much harder.

( Top Five Favorites Meme )


So tagging some on on my flist. pen37, divas_lament, idontlikegravy, fonapola, dharkapparition and lyl_devil. Participate if you want too!

Some more questions to answer about my writing this year.
( The Written Year in Review Meme )

Thank you to everyone who has read one of my stories. Thank you for all your support and your feedback.

I have the most amazing Flist - You guys are the greatest!! *hugs you all*

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

All the Highlander fans on my flist need to head over and read the stories being posted at hlh_shortcuts. The ficathon began posting a couple of days ago and the authors will be revealed next week. There will be three new stories a day for ten days. Go enjoy and comment!! See if you can figure out which one is mine. I'll give you a hint - It's not a crossover (I know I can hardly believe it myself)


A special treat for all you Charlotte and Ezra fans out there; ithildyn has started posting a new story A Quarter For Your Shoe.

For time line purposes it take place before Chapter two of
Child of My Heart; but can definitely stand a lone as a tale of one shared Christmas between Charlotte and Young Ezra. GO read now! It's a wonderful Story

As you may have noticed that I just finished posting the last chapter of Child Of My Heart. Many of you have been asking when will you see more Ezra and Charlotte. Well ithildyn, who created Charlotte, has written a short story set in the present day.

It is wonderful and hilarious. Go read it now! Charitable Impulses.

For those of you wondering if Ezra will show up in the Immortal!Dean world - sorry to disappoint. Ith has claimed Ezra for her Echoes of the Sea 'verse and I gladly handed him over. But that doesn't mean I won't be writing more Immie!Ezra because I plan to!

Snagged idontlikegravy

Post the first lines from your last 20 stories and look for patterns. I included links to the stories for those curious where the line came from.

So here's the summary. 18/20 first lines included a character name and only one story - Ghost Town - did not include people at all. Only two started with dialog.

Since this was the summer of the Spawn fic challenge - 11 of them are about JD Winchester. Seems I written more stories about him than any other character this summer.

I had been worried because I was feeling like my muse had left and I hadn't written much lately. I look at this list and see that isn't true. All 20 stores were written since May!!! Holy crap that's a lot of stories in 3 months. Feeling much better about my Muse.

( The last 20 stories. Watch out for Spawn! )

Next time you hear me even mention I might want to sign up for a ficthon - Please smack me. I don't know why I do this. I get these weird assignments and then I have no idea what to write.

The exception to my ficathon misery was the was the kick-ass highlander holiday ficathon. The memory of that great experience has blinded me to the realities of ficathon assignments.

I've decided I need to get organized: Here's a list of all the things I am writing or want to write this month! Some started - some just planned.
1) The Mag7/SPN crossover sequel to "Ghost Town" - 16,000+ words and closing in on the end!WooHoo!

2) The SPN/FF/HL/SV - Immortal!Dean in space sequel to "Into The Coming Storm" is plotted and since everyone keeps asking - Yes - Methos will be in it and Dean will not be happy.

3) Next Watcher!Abby - Gibbs is investigating Richie - about halfway done.

4) Richie and Jo - Completely plotted just have to get it out of my head. I've been meaning to write this for a long time and now i have a deadline. Thanks dragonsinger Yay!

5) I know there's at least one more thing I've promised - help me out here. And no there will not be a MacGyver/SPN sequel for sometime. Sorry guys.

So yeah - The ficathons:
1) A Numb3rs story about the Eppes brothers all three prompts want Wee!Eppes. Hopefully all my Spawn fic will help with this one but I've written exactly one Numb3rs story.

2) It's a crossover assignment and I only recognize 4 fandoms on her list. Firefly, Quantum leap, X-files and House. yeah good luck crossing those. Sighs - I've never defaulted so I won't give up yet. The deadline is in august!

But best of all:
The next spawnfic_tues story. Truthfully these have been some of the easiest and most fun stories I've ever written. I love this community - *HUGS* to all the other Spawn writers!


So am I a loon or what!! Wait - don't answer that.

So I was planning out my next story for spawnfic_tues when I realized that naming Katie and Sam's second son Sam jr has created an annoying problem of too many Sam's. Sam Jr. agrees and wants a nickname.

So I ask you dear flist please help me find a good nickname for this child - I bring a small drabble that expresses my his frustration at being called Junior.

Edited to add: I don't know of a canon middle name for Sam Winchester, Sr. Anybody out there know if Kripke gave him one?

Don't Call Me Junior


“That’s it I’ve had it!” thirteen year-old Sam Jr. exclaimed as he stormed into the kitchen.

Katie frowned at her second son. “Sammy what’s wrong?”

“It’s my name,” he groused. “I hate it.”

“Why?” she asked though she had her suspicions.

“It’s always Junior or little Sam or Sammy. I want my own identity.”

She nodded sympathetically. It had always been a sore point with him but she’d never seen him this upset about it. “What did you have in mind?”

Sam shrugged.

Katie smiled and couldn’t help herself. “Well, we could always call you Indiana.”

“Not funny, Mom!”

Pillaged from ithildyn, a veeeeeery long meme. Everything you ever wanted to know about my writing and many things you didn't.

( All the Questions under the Cut )

Warning!!!! This is pure crack. I don’t even now how to explain the premise of this story. It starts in the real world and ends in the SPN one - kind of.

Title: A Muse Explains It All
Author: strangevisitor7
Beta: pen37
Fandom: If you look sideways it’s a SV & SPN crossover
Characters: The Writer, The Muse, Sam and Dean Winchester – eventually. A brief glimpse of Lana. (I swear it’s minimal)

Summary: A muse explains to a fan fiction writer why some stories should not be written


A/N: This was written for acresofhope. She made me a fantastic Sam and Katie Icon and I promised to write her body swapping Girl!Dean with a side of Lana. I really did want to write that story but my Muse got in the way. I hope she enjoys this instead.

( This is what happens when I have writer's block )