Yay! [Does a happy dance] I didn't realise your current story was
that long already - it's turning into another epic! We should all
just be grateful you are actually such a fast writer. And I am
being serious here - I've never known anyone to write so much as
fast as you do.

Good luck - I am crossing my fingers, legs and toes that it all goes
well.

Beth Ann

(And I haven't given up about the Sentinel slash yet! The whammy
will strike when you least expect it ... evil laughter...)

-- In madmarthafics@..., "Mad Martha" <madmartha@i...>
wrote:
> --- In madmarthafics@..., "bethann109"
> <bethann109@y...> wrote:
> > Oh Mad Martha, Mad Martha - wherefore art thou, Mad Martha?
> >
> > (Lonely sniffle.)
> >
> > Beth Ann
>
> I'm here! Don't worry. In fact, I've been writing for the last
> hour, in spite of frequent nudges from my dog, who seems to think
> that I'd be better employed taking a walk with him (he's probably
> right, after all the chocolate I've eaten this holiday!).
>
> But this is my cue to make progress report.
>
> I'm currently working as hard as I can on the "Circles of Power"
> prequel. This *should* have been posted some time ago, but
> unfortunately I reached the last chapter and hit a major block
which
> totally derailed me. I struggled like mad with it over Christmas
and
> added about 3500 words - roughly four pages in its current format -

> and then to my dismay I realised that it simply wasn't working.
In
> fact it was terrible, so I had to cut those four pages out again
> <clutches hair> However, things seem to be progressing fairly
well
> again now. I hope <crosses fingers>
>
> I can't give you a deadline for it, because writing to a deadline
> would kill the inspiration off completely. But I'm cautiously
> hopeful that it will be finished this month.
>
> What I can tell you is that it now has a definite title: "One Week
In
> The Summer" (abbreviated to OWITS for the frequent text messages
> exchanged with my beta) and that it'll be about eight or nine
> chapters long. I say "eight or nine" because I suspect the last
> chapter will have to be posted in two halves. I can also tell you
> that it's already 55,000 words long. It follows directly on
> from "The Morning After The Night Before" and covers the week
running
> up to Harry's eighteenth birthday.
>
> And since I'm spilling the beans here, I'll add that there's
another
> short story (honestly, it *is* short!) which fits in
between "Saucy
> Boys" and "Circles" in the Auror timeline, which will be posted
after
> OWITS. That one is already finished, apart from some obsessive
> tweaking, but I haven't posted it yet because it refers to some
> events in OWITS.
>
> After that, I will be returning to the Lodger universe. I promise.
>
> That is, of course, if you can restrain yourself from needling me
to
> write Sentinel slash, Beth Ann!
>
> Happy New Year, everyone!
>
> Mad Martha