Progress on my '23 fanfic goals

Posted so far this year. I've managed to complete and post 2 "just because" fanfic stories so far this year. I'd hoped to complete a third this month and post about them together -- "3 things make a post?" -- but it doesn't look like I'll make it, so the unmatched pair can be this installment.

My deep and wide thanks to Skieswideopen and Sharpest_asp for beta-reading and sharing questions and recommendations for improvement, and to Malinaldarose for reading and commenting. ♥ Speaking only for my own, stories are so very much better after they've been mirrored back through a reader's/editor's eyes and encouragement to hopefully find and fix the wrong angles. And a great thing about "just because" stories, as opposed to fest stories, is the time available to make those fixes.

• Pokémon GO: "No Wish For Such Triumphs"
  (G, gen, 1.2K words). When Candela defeats Giovanni in a pokémon battle, he rewards her. But his gift is bait in a snare.
• Battlestar Galactica (1978): "Allow Me To Demonstrate"
  (G, gen, 2.5K words). On one of her first missions with Blue Squadron, Sheba feels she has something to prove.

Of course these are short, few, and trivial when compared to what many people -- including many of you all! -- regularly share. I'm not trying to suggest otherwise. I'm only saying, I wrote these; they're more than I've accomplished on this front in many years; and I felt okay about both of them having something different and worthy to offer anyone in their respective fandoms who chooses to read them.

WIP sentences. Various WIP memes always seem to be running around. Here's a mild crack at one of those memes: The currently drafted earliest and latest sentences of all my seriously-in-progress works-in-progress: ( Read more... )

In other fanfic news, we have a fkficfest '23 schedule now. Check it out. Nominations open on March 31. You don't have to intend to write to nominate. Come play?