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I just got done re-reading Blood Rites and man, I am on a Dresden Files high right now. :D There is just no point whatsoever in writing fanfic for this series; it's all right there in the text. I mean, this book alone is an h/c lover's paradise, and it's just one book out of twelve! (Admittedly one of the more button-pushing ones, but nearly every book has at least one scene that totally sends me into raptures of squee. I am not sure how he does it, but Butcher plays my little fangirl heart like a finely tuned instrument. :D) Also: box of puppies! ^_^

For my own reference - current list of fannish commitments (which hasn't changed much since last check-in):

1.

spook_me (A:tLA, due Oct. 26)
Status: Did some research. Wrote a little. I'd, um, better work on this, if I'm going to finish it at all before the deadline. (It's a low-pressure ficathon, no penalty for dropping out, but I liked both the ideas I had, and I wanted to finish at least one of them, darn it.)

2.

sheppard_hc secret santa (SGA, 3000-wd minimum, due Dec. 21-Jan. 3)
Status: Brainstorming. Did some research. Stuck.

3.

sga_santa (SGA, 1000-wd minimum, due Dec. 10)
Status: Got my assignment; thinking about it.

4.

yuletart (due Nov. 23)
Status: Got my assignment; thinking about it.

5. Yuletide (1000-wd minimum, due Dec. 21)
Status: Signups not open yet.

Other stuff: h/c bingo fics.

astridv's Finders AU for help_haiti. Would like to do a chaptered story, but don't really see having the time in the near future. Still planning to do NaNo!

ETA: Heeeeee ... looking back through my old Dresden Files posts, I just came across my very first conversation with Naye in the comments to a (spoilery) Book 8 post from 2007. Um, wow, it's only been three years? Wow.

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I've been hearing good things about Dresden Files... would you recommend me putting a couple of them on my Christmas list, then? :)

I'm also going to do NaNo! Only I'm going to do it, as my friend suggested, by writing 50,000 words rather than a 50,000 word story. So I can use it to write all my fic assignments and suchlike. *feels crafty*

That reminds me! Side Jobs is waiting for me at the bookstore. :D

(Box of puppies! Still possibly my favorite thing in the books. ♥)

Wow, you have a lot of work to do!! Want more :-)? I don't know it you've ever heard of it but the Family Haven Ficathon sign ups have started. Since you love gen and writing friendship/family oriented stories, I thought this might interest you. It's a multifandom ficathon and there are no penalties for dropping out. The fandoms are Stargate Atlantis, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, Harry Potter, X-Men (canon, movie, evolution), Medium, Supernatural, Numb3rs and NCIS. The stories will be due Feb 14th to 20th with an extra week in case anyone needs it. If you want more information, here is the link:

http://community.livejournal.com/family_haven/20465.html

I honestly don't know how you're doing it? Wow. Does that mean you're doing all the x-mas fics in Dec while you write for Nano?

EDIT Upon looking at the due dates you have a great art in staggering assignments ..lol

Is amazed you can do the quantity and quality combo.

Can I clone you?

:D

Good luck!!

Edited 2010-10-24 23:36 (UTC)

I just got done reading book six too!

I'm still trying to finish the series, I go back to the libary sometime this week to pick up four more of the Dresden Files-or maybe too, depending on if "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is in yet, along with the "Hunger Games" novels-and am eagerly awaiting to see what happens next to Dresden.

What's the current book for the dresden files that's out now anyway? I attempted to look it up, but unfortunately haven't really had the chance to do so quite yet, so I thought I'd ask a fan and see. *hopeful puppy eyes*

I wanna do NaNo too! Okay, but a somewhat adapted version of NaNo - I'm gonna write a graphic novel script while you all are working in your novels. So it's more like NaCo. Anyway, I'm rather excited about the idea.

I just finished the first Dresden Files book! It was an easy read, and I really enjoyed it. I'm not really much into fantasy, especially magic, but I love how this magic has very clearly defined rules and that the author sticks to them (at least so far, in book one). It's a mix of real world and magic world that I love (which is odd, because I've tried and can't get past page 2 of most fantasy novels - the medieval swords and magic variety. I love Harry Potter for the same reasons I enjoyed this, that interaction between real life and this other secret world).

I was also excited to read one of your comments above that you found the first two books slow and the third one much more engaging. If I enjoyed this first book, I imagine I'll enjoy the rest, and I love finding a whole series of books to delve into. I read something about how the author first approached writing this book, so I read it with half a writer's mind and half a reader's one. In some ways, he very much stuck to the formula and yet it does work, and was still fun to read. And it did make my h/c hurt squee with joy! :)

Good luck on all of your writing projects! I'm planning to do NaNo as well and I am trying to make some headway on my Secret Santa this week, while nailing down the NaNo story plot a little more. We've got a couple of busy writing months ahead of us!!

Blood rites is good for H/c.. personally I think JB gets it down pat in Dead Beat. I think it helps that JB is himself a Squeeing fanboy:D..

Ah, Dresden. How I miss reading them :D I've yet to find anything that sucked me in and held on the way Dresden Files did. It also helped me figure out why it was that my own urban fantasy stories weren't working.

Looking at your writing to-do list makes me sleepy. How do you do it! I'm barely able to survive one committed story (and, yet, I plan to take part in NaNo :S).