I mean... yeah, I'm behind. [shrug] It's a lot of work.

I try to help here and there, but I won't lie, I like to see how people come up with descriptions for my stories, so I'm less likely to fill that in.

And we strongly appreciate everything Keeper does, even if we've managed to outpace him. S'not his fault. S'ours.

I motion that we declare a Keeper Appreciation Day!

KAD?

Writing to many good stories are you?

Bastards!

You have shamed me.

I promise to do my part by not writing good stories.

I'm way ahead of you, OL. I haven't written anything all summer!

Hmmm... you wouldn't, by chance, be planning to write about 5 stories in the next week or so, would you?

Because, if not, I'm worried that your lead is insurmountable.

I will have to try to compensate for my quantity with *extreme* lack of quality. We can make this happen, people!

Sweet Bro and Hella Guff?

There's potential here I think...

Executive Decision -- an important Keeper Appreciation Day tradition is the make-your-own ice cream sundae station.

Because nothing says "cavort!" like a make-your-own ice cream sundae station.

Holy hell, the generator prompt just spat something out that I would love to see.
Cara Holis on Jakkard.
FIGHTING A GHOST TRAIN.

...oh.

...oh yes. o_o

And we know of one minor character that died on a black line so we even have an existing hook.

Okay, just to update everyone on my life:
I wrote over 10,000 words today (today meaning the period of time between when I last slept and now, for my purposes) over three different projects. One was a struggle, one FLEW by, and the other is only about half-way done.

Consequently, from a combination of a lot of writing, staring at a computer screen for hours on end, and sleeping poorly several days in a row, I'm pretty tired. But I'm still perfectly lucid. And after I impale this watermelon on my bedpost, I'll figure out a way to prove it to you.

Also because of this sudden burst of inspiration for these two new projects, I've been unable to get to a lot of the stuff I need to read, like, um, everything you guys have posted over the past few days that wasn't micro-fic. Sorry about that. I will get to them, I promise, but I just feel like I need to get my creative stuff done before it's too late.

'Too late for what?' I hear you ask. Well, classes start up for me again on Wednesday morning, and I'm going to be swamped at various times over the next several months. I'll still be around, absolutely, but I honestly don't know how long I'll be able to maintain my weekly updating of War of the Wheel. I've being going straight for 24 weeks now, uploading a chapter each week and doing what I hope is quality work. But just as a warning, there may start to be weeks I'll miss here. If it happens, I'm sorry.

Anyway, I feel like there's other stuff I wanted to mention, but I'm starting to crash, and I can't remember them, so I'll just leave it there.

Raven, you're a treasure, and don't ever forget it.

I could try to put that sentiment into verse, but Joe Esposito got there first, so why reinvent the wheel?

HA! The Wheel...

Anyway, thanks Orcish. With luck, I'll have that thing I mentioned ready to send to you by the end of the day.

Hey, everyone. I just want to let everybody know that I haven't been feeling so hot these last few days and may skip out on voting this week. I need to make sure everything from the last few weeks is backed up, though. I'll make sure to do that, at least.

Actually, I might start working on reading, formatting, and correcting the typos on all the works I wasn't able to get to over the last month or so.

We've got lots of people to vote now so I think any one individual M:EMber not voting isn't a big deal

Feel better soon man

No problem, Luna. Hope you feel better!

Bluh... I came to the conclusion that I am sort of tapped out at the moment.
Ever since Wild Card, maybe a little before, I've just been creating at a breakneck speed, and I think I finally hit the wall, which is rough since I have two or three things still lurking in the docket.
But anyways, I think I'm going to take a break from writing for the moment, at least until I manage to get all of Phostus posted since it's all typed. Maybe those couple of weeks will help sure up my tanks again.

Not to imply that there's ever a "good time" for this, necessarily, but with school starting for a number of us, I suppose it's as good a time as any.

By the way, I'm planning on using Thursday as my "get caught up on stuff" day, so I should be getting to Phostus then!