#Monthly round up

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August 2024 Writing Round-Up

Here’s the monthly round-up of everything written and posted in August 2024!

Here’s the chapters that were released:

Underline the Black 93

Underline the Black 94

Underline the Black 95

Underline the Blue 18

Underline the Blue 19

Constellations 09

Constellations 12 (Gary+Efnisien Tier+)

Underline the Blue 20 (Gwyn+Augus Tier+)

Underline the Blue 21 (Gwyn+Augus Tier+)

Chapter Commentary - Underline the Blue - 18 (Mosk+Eran Tier)

Chapter Commentary - Underline the Blue - 19 (Mosk+Eran Tier)

FANFICTION

A Stain that Won't Dissolve 41

A Stain that Won't Dissolve 42

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All Patreon early access chapters are mirrored at Ream, which is anti-censorship, author-friendly, and supports diverse fictional writing.

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Behind the scenes I wrote 30,204 words in August across Underline the Black, Constellations, and Underline the Blue. In reality, I only wrote one chapter of the last two, and seven chapters of Underline the Black. The most I've written in any month this year. This is why there was no Palmarosa update! I'm so sorry!

The burnout is real, folks. This month (September) I'm also starting back into my tumour/cancer surveillance (I have 3 head/neck tumours, 2 have been treated with radiotherapy but never shrunk, and 1 hasn't been treated at all, so they all need regular monitoring for the rest of my life). This stuff tires me out, the scanxiety is real.

I feel like one day I'll look back on 2024 as a really hard year, and I know I'm not the only one. If you're reading this now, and you're going through a hard year, I'm sending you love and solidarity, because there just seems to be a lot of shit going on for mostly everyone. Please hang in there, we all deserve better years.

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As always, you can support the stories you love by subscribing over at Patreon and Ream! You can also follow for free, and just get email notifications of news and other things that I release to everyone. :D

[aglennco]

AWL’S TOP 10 OF 2022 (#5-#1)

5. Elden Ring (2022)

4. Ghost Files (2022)

3. The Quarry (2022)

2. Evil Dead 2 (1987)

1. Tux and Fanny (2021)

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✨ Liquid Luck Drabble & Art Challenge | June 2024 Round Up ✨

Letters From the Past by elliemarchetti

Prompt : "I am proud of you." 616 | Fred/Hermione | Not Rated My happiness is to be near you.

A Good Life by Goddess47

Prompt : "I am proud of you." 631 | Harry/Severus | T A quiet evening at Grimmauld Place

The path home by Shadowmun

Prompt : "I am proud of you." 602 | Charlie + Molly | G Charlie stayed away from home with good reasons. But maybe there is a better way.

Lost Loved One by Goddess47

Prompt : At Eternity’s Gate by Vincent van Gogh 403 | Harry/Severus | T Harry watched the elderly man weep for his murdered wife.

A Man of Many Regrets by elliemarchetti

Prompt : At Eternity’s Gate by Vincent van Gogh 412 | Albus | G Sometimes life becomes too much even for the best of us

The Flashing Lights by Samunderthelights

Prompt : At Eternity’s Gate by Vincent van Gogh 394 | Sirius/Remus | T Sirius comforts Remus when he has another one of his migraines.

[finishthatficmerlin]

Monthly Round Up - January

Alright fellas, time for the monthly round up!

Top 3 for most words written so far: 1. Excited_Insomniac with 28,831 words written 2. radio with 27,691 words written 3. MayaPleiades with 16,419 words written

Top 3 for most finished fics so far: 1. radio, Mackerel, Excited_Insomniac, and TheGhostMagus have all finished 2 fics each (someone needs to break this tie soon, just saying, lol) 2. salamandair, chaosgenes, and Gil-Galadhwen have all finished 1 fic each

Oldest fic finished so far: Secret Comfort by TheGhostMagus which was started on the 28th of April 2022

Fic finished this month: - The Merlin Club by Excited_Insomniac

- We are Fam(ily) by salamandair

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January round-up;; keeping track of what i've gotten up to so far in 2023

finished reading:

I'm Glad My mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Herbert West Reanimator and Other Tales by HP Lovecraft

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito

albums listened to in full:

Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

...And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid

The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Lanterns - Son Lux

I Love You. - the Neighbourhood

Foxlore - the Crane Wives

Cosmicandy - the Orion Experience

movies watched:

Insidious

Kingsmen: the Secret Service *

Mad God *

Bruce Almighty *

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's "Island of Dr. Moreau"

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

[littledrummeraussie]

January 2023 Round-up

date: January 31, 2023

word count: 13.688

fics posted:

Daddy Grinch – a Levi & Ashton blurb (January 1, 2023)

reach out & touch me (before I go insane) – a dom!Luke blurb (January 3, 2023)

just fall in love with me this Christmas – a fake dating Ashton blurb (January 12, 2023)

a Christmas surprise – a Zoe & Ashton blurb (January 16, 2023)

Thursday’s for the boys – a Kai & Calum blurb (January 17, 2023)

I loved you once – a reunion kinda Ashton blurb (January 23, 2023)

I’ll hold you until we are whole again – a poly!Cashton comfort blurb (January 29, 2023)

[raindropsonroses123]

June/July Reads

Fiction

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Comics

Detective Comics (1937) #546-560

Batman (1940) #380-394

[cheyla-v]

July 2023 Goals

Wrote nearly 28k for the month.

General Goals

25k for OSS, for Camp NaNo

Untagged Fest?

OSS Fic Tracker (*** means worked on in the previous month)

Posted fics

Soul’s Scream - Ch. 28 is at 3,403 words***

Burning Day - Ch. 9-12 completed; chapter 13 not started yet***

Breaking Point - 16,174 words***

Death’s Favored Ones - 17,756 words***

Halfway to You - 5,598 words***

Meet Me Halfway - 6,062 words***

Package Deals - 9,083 words***

Pillars Around a Flame - 4,170 words

Ripple Effects - 15,895 words***

Strange Magics - 8,756 words

The Thing with Siblings - 5,156 words***

Torn, Broken, Transformed - 19,908 words***

Shadow Prince One-Shot series

The In-Laws - Finished at 1,412 words

The Royals - 287 words

Beta - 1,036 words

Hellcats - 989 words

Unposted fics

The Blackest Thorns - 1,176 words

Bloody Blossoms - 3,250 words

Death’s Garden - 2,890 words

Double, Double, Toil & Trouble - 521 words***

Idan & Minh’s backstory - 1,702 words

New Bonds - 2,713 words

Rescue Me - 660 words***

Ryker’s Bane - 248 words

Teen Wolf - 3,711 words

Zekoi - 3,141 words

Plotting Stages

Disrupted Bonds

Hybrid

Lawyer Pareya

MTW

White, Silver, Gold Sequel

YOI Fic Tracker

A Dognapping in Saint Petersburg - ch. 5 at 1,329 words

I’ve Got Your Number - ch. 6 not started yet

Presenting - ch. 6 at 357 words

Tribute - ch. 11 at 2,248 words***

Unofficially Yours - ch. 7 not started yet

You’ve Got a Friend in Me - ch. 8 at 542 words

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Around The World: July 2024

July had a few changes, some minor challenges, and quite the adventure. Let’s get to it!  Followers: 214 or 215 (it’s hard to tell)  Views: 104 Visitors: 72 Likes: 34 Comments: 2 Found on:  WordPress.com Reader Baidu Google Search Popular Posts: Various Writing Posts Creativity Comfort Items and Blah Days True Crime and Questions Podcast Update Been too: United…

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In January, I read 7 books - a total of 2,202 pages! ✨

The Empty Grave (Jonathan Stroud)

The Deal (Elle Kennedy)

Sorcery of Thorns (Margaret Rogerson)

Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Margaret Rogerson)

I'm Glad My Mom Died (Jennette McCurdy)

letters from medea (Salma Deera)

Scout's Honor (Lily Anderson)

You can find my ratings and thoughts on these books below the cut!

The Empty Grave

Storygraph

My Rating: 5/5 ⭐

My Thoughts: great ending that left the world open for future additions. really wish there had been less comments about george’s weight.

The Deal

Storygraph

My Rating: 5/5 ⭐

My Thoughts: third re-read. loved it just as much as the last two times. even with all of it’s cheesy bits.

Sorcery of Thorns

Storygraph

My Rating: 3.5/5 ⭐

My Thoughts: really enjoyed the prose (especially in regards to the library), character growth, magic system, and world-building. had very mixed feelings about elisabeth’s age though.

Mysteries of Thorn Manor

Storygraph

My Rating: 4.5/5 ⭐

My Thoughts: the fact that in this world, books and libraries and houses are sentient beings because of all of the magic laid into them for centuries is one of the reasons i enjoyed it. seeing more of that in this novella was wonderful. also i have to make this known: silas is my favourite character.

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Storygraph

My Rating: 5/5 ⭐

My Thoughts: seeing the truth behind something that brought me joy and that i genuinely think shaped me, my personality, and my sense of humor was rough. i hate that something that was like this for me was like that for the actors that i looked up to when i was younger. jennette’s journey to healing was poignant and beautiful.

letters from medea

Storygraph

My Rating: 3/5 ⭐

My Thoughts: i was really looking forward to this collection but i was honestly a little disappointed by it. there were some parts that were really good, like hit you in the face, make your chest ache good. the rest were just okay. maybe i built it up too much in my head.

Scout's Honor

Storygraph

My Rating: 3/5 ⭐

My Thoughts: the whole girl-scout-meets-monster-slayer aspect was amazing, really drew me in and kept me hooked. the monsters were gross and creepy, the characters (mostly) loveable and relatable. i felt like there were some similarities to buffy the vampire slayer, mostly in the whole “why are young girls responsible for this?” aspect of it all. really great read!

You can read the full thread of my 2024 reads on Twitter!

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October 2024 Writing Round-Up

Here’s the monthly round-up of everything written and posted in October 2024!

Here’s the chapters that were released:

Underline the Black 98

Underline the Black 99

Underline the Black 100

Smoke in Autumn 08

Underline the Blue 20

Underline the Blue 21

Constellations 11

Constellations 14 (Gary+Efnisien Tier+)

Underline the Blue 22 (Gwyn+Augus Tier+)

Underline the Blue 23 (Gwyn+Augus Tier+)

Chapter Commentary - The Nascent Diplomat - 27 (Mosk+Eran Tier)

Chapter Commentary - The Nascent Diplomat - 28 (Mosk+Eran Tier)

FANFICTION

A Stain that Won't Dissolve 45

A Stain that Won't Dissolve 46

Palmarosa 29

Palmarosa 30

Palmarosa 31

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All Patreon early access chapters are mirrored at Ream for those who prefer Stripe / other payment options.

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Behind the scenes I wrote 31,851 words (9 chapters) in October across A Stain that Won't Dissolve, Palmarosa and Smoke in Autumn. It was definitely fanfiction month!

The appointments for health stuff will continue into November, where I need a doppler ultrasound of my carotid arteries (well, artery, I only have the one) and need a liver MRI. Our puppy Tobermory (now a year old!) also needs some appointments too. Keep an eye out for a lighter schedule for that reason, though I'm hoping to end the year with a bang in December. :D

I'll be sending merch out in the merch tier around mid November!

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As always, you can support the stories you love by subscribing over at Patreon and Ream! You can also follow for free, and just get email notifications of news and other things that I release to everyone. :D

[aglennco]

AWL’S TOP 10 OF 2022 (#10-#6)

10. Barbara Olson’s ClassiCanadian Crossword Puzzles

9. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

8. Friends at the Table

7. Blue Period

6. Chainsaw Man

[liquidluckdrabblechallenge]

Liquid Luck Drabble & Art Challenge | Monthly Round Up

* Somnambulus by BelladonnaLee

Fic | Sirius / Harry + Sirius / James | T Prompt : “In time it could have been so much more.” In the moonlit graveyard, Sirius was digging through twenty years of lost time for the one he loved when a certain someone called his name.

* Standards by miss_grimwood

Drabble | Bellatrix / Rodolphus | T Prompt : First date Bellatrix did not want to be betrothed to someone she'd never met, and struck a deal with her father; she could select her future husband, but she must give each eligible suitor a first date. Most of them don't meet her high standards.

* Worse Than Dragons 2 by enchanted_jae

Drabble | Charlie / Neville | T Prompt : First date Neville and Charlie reminisce.

* First Date by RosevalleyNB

Drabble | Katie / Marcus | E Prompt : First date Girls like her didn’t go out with rude arseholes. And they certainly did not end up in dark alleys behind posh restaurants with skirts up their waists and knickers around their ankles.

* Pineapple Tee-Shirt by Ladderofyears

Drabble | Draco / Harry | G Prompt : Photo #11 Harry buys Scorpius a Muggle tee-shirt, and Draco has a good idea.

* Sharing by miss_grimwood

Drabble | Bellatrix / Lucius | E Prompt : Photo #11 Narcissa and Bellatrix had always liked to share. Dresses, jewellery, novels, husbands. The Black sisters carry on the ancient pureblood tradition of pineapple parties.

* Not Close Enough 2 by enchanted_jae

Drabble | Charlie / Neville | G Prompt : Photo #11 Just two professors, about to have a cuppa.

A big thank you to everyone who participated! The new prompt will be up tomorrow! ❤️

[finishthatficmerlin]

Monthly Round Up - December

We're well into January, and that means it's time for the monthly round of up December. As expected, most of you didn't get much done, but that's December in a nutshell :D

Top 3 for most words written so far: 1. radio with 27,691 words 2. Excited_Insomniac with 22,455 words 3. MayaPleiades with 11,485 words

Top 3 for most fics finished so far: 1. radio, Mackerel, and TheGhostMagus have all finished 2 fics each 2.chaosgenes, Excited_Insomniac, and Gil-galadhwen have all finished 1 fic each.

Oldest fic finished so far: Secret Comfort by TheGhostMagus which was started on the 28th of April 2022

Fics finished this month: - Secret Comfort - Magic's Death - both by TheGhostMagus

- The Poisoned Chalice - by Gil-galadhwen

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March 2023

As the third month of 2023 comes to an end, we wanted to discuss what we have been loving this month.

Click here to see our full post!

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"Discover my current favourites - from delicious eats and places visited; to must-see entertainment - in my monthly roundup."

https://atwistofcreate.com/blog/february-round-up