Watch Me Do the Arrogant Author Strut

[cornerofmadness]

Well I deserve it. I won NINE, count 'em nine awards from the Spike Threw the Heart Awards which will be open tomorrow for nominations. So THANK YOU to Sara and the judges. I'm jazzed. In no particular order my winning fic's are

Blood Drops on Rose Petals my Dawn/Connor story which I believe has now surpassed Psychedelic Butterfly as my most winning story. It won Master award (for best overall fic), and the Fire (action) award.

blaar_rosir  helped edit this so tell her what a great job she did too.

Thernody, my one true songfic about Buffy writing Giles to tell him about her and Spike (one of my few Spuffy stories for that matter)  won Top Slayer (best Buffy) and runner up for Sing my Heart Out (songfic)

Untamed, my Darla/Angel historical piece won runner up in the Fallen Angel (Angel centric) category

Ceremony of Innocence, my Buffy/Angel crossover (one of my true babies. I loved this thing as dark as it is) won runner up for the Sinister (best dark) awards

Armor, my Cordy post Xander break up won runner up for the Good things come in Small Packages (short fic) award

Salinity, a Fourth of July fic where Connor goes to extreme measures to make sure Gunn & Fred don't find Angel won runner up in the Tis the Season (holiday) category

and last but certainly not least, Dream within a Dream a Post-Chosen/Home crossover fic where Angel has to deal with Dawn's new boyfriend being his bespelled son won runnerup in the Unfinished Symphony (WIP) category

Aren't they lovely? Go tell Sara so.

 

Comments

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

*glares jealously at awards*

hrmpf, I have a very nice certificate with a teddy bear on it for being good at French. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's good too. Now I know who to harrass when I need French

Oh I found out where the tobacco barons were situationed. "Market Square" most of the houses are still there. Know anything about it?

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

This is terrible, Ive never heard of it, terrible as I used to work for a historical tourist attraction in Glasgow.... I know about late 19th early 20thC life in a Glasgow temenent, but apparenly not a lot about much else.

I also wouldnt be much good at the French, despite recieving top grades in it at school, Ive forgotten basically everything, except the lyrics to Lady Marmalade. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yeah I hear you. Year upon years of spanish and my family being native italian speakers and all I can do is swear.

Merchant city. sorry I gave you the wrong name. MIller, Virigina and Vincent streets are prime in this area. Does that help?

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

oh yea, that's much better. :)

Merhcant City is in the City Centre, towards the east side of it. St.Vincent Street is near George Square though, not actually in the Merchant City, and I presume thats what they mean as Ive never heard of Vincent Street. Merchant City has all been redeveloped now from what it was, its mostly luxury flats and over priced shops now.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's a shame. That's why I can't get a good idea of what the homes looked like though Fodor's says some exist still (good ol' Fodors, no lie if you want to do research a good place is Fodor's or Frommer's travel guides. They give brief histories and you can take it from there)

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Oh, these are pretty.

*going re-read Armor*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

enjoy

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Oh, I did, I did. I still miss this Cordy, with her losses and her pride and her 'I don't think, I know' ness. Even when she's so hurt.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yup. I so missed Cordy after they screwed her up in S3. Heck Evil Cordy was a relief after that.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Hear you. At least in S4 she mostly sounded and acted like ol' Cordy, even when you knw that something was wrong. S3 was just a study in OOC.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

No argument. Evil was at least interesting. Sainthood was not.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, such a good job on you!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Let’s face it, if I wrote something as short as a 1,000 words we’d all die of shock.

Yep, we would. Actually, when I was writing that question I considered writing a 'novel-long' option just for you. *hugs*

And it's going great... most authors there I know, but some I don't and I'm so, so, so excited about this! I'm hoping for 50 (yes, fifty), but I'll be happy with 20.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Haha, smart ass. Just for you I'll write a 500 word short short

50, yep you're nuts. Oh and if you have a non-ficathon wip lying around think about entering it in my new ficathon for finishing those naughty wip's that just won't get done.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

:p I dare you to write something in 500 words. ;) (I need reading material, today's Drabble Night but it isn't enough. *pouts*)

50, yep you're nuts.

*nodnodnod* Yes, I am. Yes, I am. *g*

I considered it, but I only have 3 wips. One is Sailor Moon, the other will end in tears and probably bring several death threats to my doorstep and the third is my most loved baby which I'll end when I'm fifty... *sighs* Talk about novel length plots!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Awww what's a little death threat or two? Trust me my latest one is gonna get me those too

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Hm, okay, I guess I could promise a chapter or two until that deadline. Besides, that story has a Dawn/Spike potential I didn't consider when I began it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

See, there you go. Sailor Moon would have been okay too only I don't know if we could have found help should you have needed it.

You should hear Sharon whine about my new one

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the SM one has a big blank future. I lost the notes I'd written for the next chapters and how it flowed into the final scene and many little details I was supposed to integrate into the parts I'd already written... *sighs* I could never rewrite that. Oh, the help for that comes with the monthly PLZ CONTINUE! review. *g*

But HMWR, that one has an interesting concept. The only problem is that the end smells like tragedy and that I need to read AtS transcripts to get Gunn and Wesley somewhat better.

You DO know that you're making me curious about this WIP of yours, don't you? :-P

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yeah actually the story I volunteered for this had a similar problem. Haven't touched in two years. part of it died with the hard drive. and now I have to reread 125 pages to figure out where the hell I left off and any hand written stuff is a.w.o.l.

Well if you're really curious I could mail you details. It's post AtS finale and it might squickyou out.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Lol. I wish I had 125 pages to read... For HMWR I have a complete page of 'quick notes'. I.e., I can't remember what "D(2) go to theater <-- not like C, the other way. ?. Add roses. Maybe margaritas. ->Giles(1)" meant... Oh well, the joys of deciffering.

Oh, and I am really curious. *G*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yeah now if I only had time to reread 125 pages. Then again that IS better than mere notes.

I'll email you

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

If I had a scan I'd send the page for you. I'm having fun when I'm not ranting at myself for not being a LITTLE more tidier. I also remembered that one of the 'doodles' at the margin actually meant that the whole scene had to be placed after another scene. When I'm calm I'll track the page for the *other* 'doodle' which indicates where it'd go.

*G*

Time is evil. Saturn is taking revenge for his son betraying him. *nodnodnod*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Doodles? WHy didn't I think of that? Well if I looked in the various boxes and stacks of paper I'd surely find other hand written pages of my story. But at this point I don't even remember where I was going beyond the main points of a) get Giles laid b) kidnap Dawn c) impale Angel because he's not been impale enough.

Sent the evil story to you via email.

Damn it's STILL too hot to sleep...and I'm still feverish nearly a week now.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

You know? When you combine a), b) and c) it results in a very interesting story. *smiles innocently* What? I'm just saying...

And the story is SO not evil. In fact, I'd like to see more of it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yes well especially when we consider what Angel's being impaled with. Okay I'll go lie down now.

I will mail it to you. No ewwws from the audience I get enough of that from SJ :-)