Three dollars and some change

Mind the Gap 8.2 is updated. It's all Anita and Jean-Claude. Consequences of Anita's injury.

I'm probably going to annoy a few people, but in this chapter's author's notes, I reveal the direction the sequel will take. Yup, the much mentioned aftermath of Over Flame is going to be the sequel to Mind the Gap.

I'm scared just thinking of it.

... looking at my posts in the journal, I'm writing a hella lot of stuff. Man. Oh well. Everyone's got to have a hobby. This keeps me off the streets.

Taa daa! The first two chapters of Inevitable, my Hary Potter/Anita Blake crossover, are posted! Please tell me what you think.

Also, does anyone know why Mind the Gap suddenly has another thousand hits in the last eight hours? Anyone know if someone's linked it somewhere? There are no new chapters up.

Mind the Gap 7.8 is up. Yay chapter seven is done! All I need to do now is write all five parts of chapter eight and the epilogue and I'm done!

Chapter 7.7 got a hilarious review. After I whumped Kennedy good, someone said, "You bastard! You killed Kennedy!"

Tee hee.

Because I am such a tease, Mind the Gap 7.6 has been updated.

It's a good thing I have a 7kb text minimum for these chapters, because otherwise I'd have forgotten to put in an important plot point.

Oh well. Next chapter, Willow goes medival!

Mind the Gap 7.4 is up. Another short Dawn chapter. I'm probably going to get people whining about something in it, but that will be resolved next chapter so I'm not going to care.

I wonder if using so many female characters is a knee-jerk reaction to the utter lack of XX chromosomes in Incubus Dreams. Probably not.

I think I backed myself into a corner with the ending of the last chapter of MtG. There's only one way out, but then to properly track the reactions, I have to take the story on a track I didn’t want to go, namely, involving Willow. I always feel really bad at writing Willow and Xander, properly in character. But I have done what I've done, and so I must do what I must do.

( General thoughts on reviews )

I should have a MtG update by Thursday or Friday.

So the last update before the end of vacation is done. Mind the Gap 7.2 is up. ( My feelings )

I've got the climax scene all set up (mind OUT of the gutter, this isn't that kind of story) and am ready to type, but real life will jump out and stop that, I'm sure. Three nights with plans already this week. Eeek.

Since I'm drawing to the end of Mind the Gap, anyone have any ideas what I should tackle next?

Five entries in FFA today:
Over Tea (Giles/Ginny)
Over Champagne (The Mayor/Bruce Wayne)
Over the Phone (Harmony/Bert Vaughn)
Over Books (Tara/Frost)
Over Bodies (Dawn/Frank Kohanek)

I gave myself two hours for FFAs, and these are what I got. Not bad, if I do say so myself.

( so there was this review... )
ETA: I'm insane. She was talking about the intrinsic perils of crossing Buffy and Anita Blake. Never mind me.

Mind the Gap's next section, Day Six, part three, is posted! Go me.

I'm hoping that no one will have foreseen the Big Bad in this one. I had a hell of a time with the research, but to my utter surprise, it worked. I only had to tweak a few facts from Norse mythology to make it all work. No making stuff up!

Other things in this section. The reason I used Kennedy and Faith in this story, as opposed to Buffy, because of a theme I hope to explore later, if not in this story than in another, related. (Maybe that sequel to Over Flame that everyone keeps asking for and that keeps teasing at my mind). Faith, as part of her redemption (which we touched on in the fight between Faith and Anita in the previous section), and Kennedy, because Kennedy is an old-school Slayer, even if she is one of the Scrappy gang. Anita's like them both, in ways, but unlike in many others, and those differences are what make her even more dangerous.

I was watching the first episode of season five Buffy, Dracula, and I think that's my excuse for the vampire v. vampire differences between the Buffy world and the Anita world. I'll explore that later, or maybe not at all.

The next chapter will be Dawn, because we've let her fester alone with the demon for long enough. I'll try and have that up tomorrow, but I need to rewatch some select DVD sections to get the right reactions. Luckily for me, I've got all three Dawn seasons on my shelf (only one is mine; I've borrowed the other two).

I can't promise I'll be able to get the story done by the time my vacation is over, but if not, then I'll update as often as I can. I'm as interested to see how it turns out as you are.

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I'm thinking of starting fan vid recs here. Only problem is that I've managed to lose the original file names of most of these vids, and the makers don't put their names on the vids. Oh well. I'll see if I can track them down.

Mind the Gap 6a is up. It's another Anita section. I was going to have more Slayerness in it, but that would make it the longest chapter EVAR and so chapter six will have probably three parts. Oh well. My fic, my wonky chapter system.

I'm contemplating doing more FFA, but the only ones that appeal to me are pairings I put up. We'll see.