365 Challenge Update, Week 2 with Changes

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series 365 Challenge

So it's been a busy week, and from the beginning of the year, I've been writing about 2000 words a day because of the challenge. To me, that is a straight up success no matter where I end up falling on the completed pieces goal.

But on that, I've discovered that some pieces will grow beyond the length I intend for them. Yes, I'm looking at you, "Dowse and Bleed." Don't bother shrugging innocently. So we're adopting a new counting system.

• 1500 words or less: flash fiction = 1 piece
• 1500–7500 words: short story = 2 pieces
• 7500–17.5K words: novelette = 4 pieces
• 17500–40K words: novella = 7 pieces
• 40K+ words: novel = 10 pieces

Here's the new count. Only a week behind. Ah, well.

8/365 pieces. 2.2% done.

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The Perfect Woman

Canon:
Characters/Pairing:
Prompt: Silence & Storytelling
Rating:
Notes:

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This will not do! For what I am / Is woman, not a female man.

   

Winter Rose

Canon: Seven Days
Characters/Pairing: Lena, Wesley Bryn
Prompt: fade
Rating: K
Notes:

Another double-drabble for the 365 Challenge. 200 words.

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She wants a bloom that lives beyond a week.

Every week, Wesley comes to borrow and return a book. Lena wants the rose to live until he comes.

   

Edge of Salvation Edge of Fear

Canon: Faeology
Characters/Pairing: Markus + Shellayne
Prompt: books
Rating: K+
Notes:

This is a continuity born out of a bunch of other stories and prompts and ideas, with a huge push from my beta, but alas! This 365 challenge ficlet is finished first.

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What if every thought could write reality?

Markus was afraid to open the books, even if by doing so he could save them.

   

Beneath the Icewood Trees

Canon: Faeology
Characters/Pairing: Eried Black, Fae Alend
Prompt: Icicles filled the long window / With barbaric glass. / The shadow of the blackbird / Crossed it, to and fro. ~ "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens
Rating:
Notes:

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What is fae and what is magic?

Eried Black is a son of a privileged house, one granted magic to guard and use and sell. When he sees it used amiss, it angers him, but has he finally gotten in over his head?

   

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Love the Winter Rose one. It is so sweet and yet bittersweet and just like the two of them. Such simple desires Lena has... just wanting a smile without confusion and a rose that lasts. :)

[scribblemyname]

I wrote it for you because you wanted more, and I'm glad you like it. I think both of them are content with simple things. If they weren't, they could never make this work.

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Wrote it for me? Yay. :) That's so nice of you.

Very true about them. They'd have to be just the way they are.