Garden of Thought

Hm, I glanced back over my recent posts and found there were only maybe two in a month and they tending to be about foodstuffs in one way or another.  How very banal, I thought, food?  All I need to add is pictures of cute kittens and exhortations to 'change the world' by clicking on some sort of pathetic looking place/person/animal and I'd really be a lost cause.

On the good side, I got a shiny laptop for my recent bday!  I hope this means I will be able to reconnect a bit as I won't have to fight for the family computer in the kitchen to do so.  A lady I swim with at the pool in the mornings talked about how she was doing a doodle-a-day challenge thing to make herself start using her dormant art skills again and it rather inspired me to try.... something.  Not sure what yet.  But reconnecting with the expression that can be carried out through things like DWth is a start.

I think those who are likely to be most interested have probably found it now, but thought it would behoove me to not leave a link to my first fic of the year, a somewhat bizarre blend of 12 random prompts thanks to dw_straybunnies and thisbluespirit with her holiday challenge.

All that said... The Giraffe Convolution of Doom is over here at Teaspoon.

6 short chapters of mayhem with Two, Six and Seven with a bit of Four and Eleven plus Frobisher, Evelyn, Ace, Jamie, Sarah Jane, Martha, Rani (SJA) and the Meddling Monk at the London Zoo and Ancient Egypt. Enjoy.

Snagged from infiniteviking, the DRABBLES IN SPACE meme!

1) Get a title from here or some other title generator.
2) Add "IN SPAAAACE" at the end.
3) Write a drabble!

Good fun for a quiet afternoon, excepting that mine went a fair bit longer than a drabble. Here is the result in which Ian takes an unexpected trip:

( Something in the Husband....in Spaaaace! )

Very happy to have the next round of fic_rush coming up this weekend - 48 hours of writing with chatting on LJ on an hourly basis with the others. It got me through the parts of my last story that had completely stymied me for two months and I'm hoping it will do the same for a similar situation I'm now in with a different one. Sigh. Action sequences are so darn hard for me to wend my way through.

And thank you to curuchamion and lolmac for their encouraging me along last time! Hope to see you there.

Please do join us! Any fandom is fair game, the point is just to be sharing the process of writing with one another. No minimums, no requirements for being there the whole time, just pop in whenever you can. In my time zone, it starts Friday evening.

It was just too tempting to see what stunt_muppet would come up with for a drabble, and I've allowed my own drabbling to be a bit rusty, so now I have to put this here.

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character with a prompt. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (And as she suggested, if you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.) I only write G-rated.

Fandoms I think I can manage at the moment: Doctor Who (no audios yet), LOTR, Star Trek TOS, Gilligan's Island, The Scarlet Pimpernel, All Creatures Great and Small, Get Smart and maybe M*A*S*H.

1.curuchamion, Three & Liz - Distillate of Starshine
2.siradaono, Beren & Luthien - This Shining Ember Burns my Hand
3.lost_spook, Five & Tegan - This is your Captain Speaking, plus bonus drabble "I Think I Used to Work for Those"
4.john_elliott, Susan & Barbara - My Sun was Always Setting
5.fantom_fan, Ten & Polly - It Will Come for your Children
6.dbskyler and lost_spook, Liz & Ten in the same situation as the previous Polly one, further down the comments - Bewaaare
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