*dies*

[sholio]

Finished les342's ficathon story tonight. Darn thing is 22K words long. WHY FOR THE LOVE OF RODNEY CAN I NOT WRITE SHORT???

Okay, now that Lesley's story is off the table, here's what I'll be working on in December and the new year:

- sheppard_hc Secret Santa story
I have my prompt, obviously, but I haven't really figured out where to take the prompt, so this one still needs some brainstorming. And has to be done by the end of December, obviously.

- Christmas story
About half done, maybe 2/3 done.

- Dark-ish AU
This one is at least half done, and that part is beta'd, which means I owe it to my betas, if not to myself, to get the early parts cleaned up, start posting it, and finish the dratted thing.

- Ghost in the Machine
See above. I seriously stalled out on one particular plot point that I really don't know how to write. But it's pivotal to the whole story. I intend to put some serious work into this one.

- The other ficathon stories
I'm now almost entirely through with the ones that I had ideas for at the get-go; now I'm down to the ones that are, for me, "hard" stories to write (very different from what I normally write, or something I'm not sure if I can pull off, or whatever). Except for one of them, which I'm *probably* going to roll into one of the above stories and make it part of the plot of that one.

It feels very good to actually *finish* one of the stories that I'm supposed to be working on, though. Ever since mid-October, I've felt like I was spinning my wheels, writing bits and pieces of a dozen stories without ever finishing anything, or else writing ones like the AU that were fun, but totally tangential to the stories that I feel as if I "should" be working on. I feel like I'm back on track now. *smiles*

Also, it's after 2 a.m. and I really must sleep...