Monday, Hallowe'en, almost Nano

Woo! This weekend, we picked more apples (the cold snap had not hurt those still on the tree, thankfully, so we managed to get another 2 buckets and 2 boxes worth).

(I need a bushel basket to have a decent idea how many apples we have!)

We also made applesauce and began apple butter, made and devoured apple cake, raked leaves (peh) and planted crocuses.

I found a computer-based post-it-noted system and started making notes for my nano novella (yeah, started. I'm not that good at this).

Aaand... that's about it.

Oh! check out this! rix_scaedu painted the Primordial card from Heirlooms & Old Lace :-)

Poll-Off!

Poll-off! After having the poll up for several days, I have a three-way tie. So!

Edited to add: I clearly can't count. But I'll keep this poll up anyway.

Should I split the continuation-incentive up among the winners or pick a specific winner from those three?

Alternately, should I continue something I've written since I posted the first poll?

Poll #8443 Poll-Off!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

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Should I split this incentive into 2/several continuations?

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Yes, into 4 drabble-length continuations
1 (33.3%)

Yes, into 3 medium-length continuations
1 (33.3%)

Yes, into 2 decent-sized continuations
1 (33.3%)

No, just write one long continuation
0 (0.0%)

Which story should I continue

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The Grey Line (Unicorn/Factory)
1 (25.0%)

When In Rome/Revenge Pumpkins (Cali)
2 (50.0%)

Rule 2 (DND)
1 (25.0%)

Something written since the poll started
0 (0.0%)

Original polls are here:

http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/160638.html
http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/305857.html

In Sickness.... Giraffe Call

For kc_obriens's prompt.

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Neil reached for Ericka's hand, and felt the shimmer and chill as his wife's spectral fingers settled atop his. They had been together through a lot - college, marriage, kids, grandkids, and then this, the zombie apocalypse.

He checked his weapons and watched her face and hand gestures carefully. After so long, they hardly needed words to communicate, and his Ericka had gotten very expressive since they'd started this macabre journey, but it was best to be certain of the details. "Down by the grocery store on the corner?" he double-checked.

She nodded. She wasn't smiling, he noticed. She rarely did, now - not that he could blame her - but her expression today seemed particularly melancholy. He stroked the edge of her cheek carefully.
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9 Things I Hate About... for the Giraffe Call, #Addergoole Yr9

From rix_scaedu's commissioned prompt.

A continuation Three-Way, Preferences.
3-Way originally posted here and on LJ, continued here (LJ) and then here (LJ and then
Here (Duet) and Here on LJ - and then here: Preferences (LJ)



She felt as if she’d kicked him, which made her feel bad, made her want to curl up in his lap and tell him everything was okay. She sat on her hands instead, shifting until she was sitting cross-legged, straight-backed and looking him in the eye. “Is this really about what I want, Thorburn?”
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