I'm hoping to do NaNoWriMo* (write a 50000-word story in November) this year, for the first time in over a decade! I was wondering if anyone would be interested in being an accountability buddy that I could email each day's work to as I finished it? I know that getting comments every day on "(Count Your Age) By Friends, Not Years" really helped incentivize me to keep going, so I'm hoping this would work similarly.

You wouldn't have to commit to read/comment every day or anything like that; like, if you wanted to send an encouraging reply once in a while that would be nice but I know 2k every day is a lot to read as well as to write! (But on the other hand I would be a lot more likely to take e.g. "I liked X, do more of that" comments into consideration than usual, since I usually only share completed work with people!)

I write polished first drafts so it ought to be very readable, probably just a bit more disjointed than the final version.

The fic is basically like if you tossed "(Count Your Age) By Friends, Not Years" (the fic I wrote for Ethan's 60th birthday) in a blender with a bunch of hurt/comfort, both physical and emotional. Briggs POV of Ethan vs. Gabriel, as Gabriel breaks into a storage unit of Ethan's and forces him to share stories about some of the mementos he's stored there.

Characters: Briggs, Degas, a few OCs who work with them; Gabriel & the Entity; Ethan, Benji, Jane, & Luther. (Also Ethan's stories will include a variety of characters from all 7 movies.) Gen except a couple of the stories might involve canon ships. Ilsa is alive offscreen as per my usual approach to post-M:I-7 but I'm undecided if Briggs will figure that out. Everyone gets hurt (mostly electric shock, courtesy of the Entity) except Gabriel & Luther.

Anyway, if anyone's interested, please leave me a comment here or on AO3, or you can email me (address on my AO3 profile). Questions welcome as well!


*(no endorsement of the NaNoWriMo organization intended; apparently there's a variety of issues going on that I'm not really on top of but I don't really use their site so it doesn't matter to me)

Feedback welcome! (It doesn't have to be fancy either—if you just tell me the name/prompt of the idea(s) here that you like the looks of the most would be super helpful!)

I've been dealing with a lot of writer's block this fall/winter, and so I thought that maybe getting a new bingo card and brainstorming what I could write for it might help me to break through the block.

So now I've got a bunch of planned-but-not-written fics that I really like the idea of and wish they existed already...but in the meantime I've got to keep trying to get myself excited enough about that I can push myself to make the writing happen. So I thought I'd post some notes about them here.

If you're reading this post and want to encourage me to write more, I'd love to hear whether there's any ideas here you'd be particularly interested in reading! (Also, for prompts where I've got multiple ideas I'm considering, I'd be very prone to making decisions based on which ones have people interested in reading them, so let me know!) I know this post is really long, so I've marked fandoms & pairings in the table of contents so that you can just skip to the ones that interest you.

Basically I'm just hoping that if I know other people and not just me are excited for these stories to exist, that maybe that will be the last push of motivation that I need to break through my writer's block.

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The Sound of Footsteps And the Door Opens (200)	Revelations and Concealments	Paper	Memory Related An Ocean of You (4k)	Steampunk AU
A figure/doll	Patterns	Dystopias	That Moment (incident / chapter / episode) in detail	Farce
Hurricane / Typhoon	Heart on Sleeve	Wild Card	Office	Vicious
Best Friends	United Kingdom	Regional Traits, Markers, and Culture (Welsh, Cockney, Bavarian, Deep South...)	Virtual Reality	Reality is Illusion
Funerals and Wakes	Documentation	Artist	The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step	Standing Trial

Links & rules: Round 24 AO3 collection. I got the card here. The prompt list, which lists the (optional) categories & types for each prompt, is here. Minimums are minimal (100 words for prose, etc.) but are listed here in the FAQs along with posting instructions. There is no deadline. The "gen" in the name of the bingo just refers to the prompts: works are allowed to be shippy.

Comments (whether about my card, the story ideas I've listed below, or anything at all) are welcome!

( List of works, both finished & in progress )