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I now have 100 fics posted to AO3, dating back to the mind-bogglingly distant date of 2007! Got my November novel posted today, with only two 'oops you missed the end-italics tag' bloopers (now fixed), and one 'why won't this line spacing match the others' that I eventually gave up on.

Title: Waiting for a sign
Author: marcicat

Fandom: Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Characters: Beckett Mariner, Bradward Boimler, D’Vana Tendi, Samanthan Rutherford, T’Lyn, D’Erika Tendi, T’Pring, Spock, Christine Chapel, James Kirk, Christopher Pike

Tags: AU, Time Travel, Alternate Dimensions, Space Monsters, Team as Family, Found Family, Family

Summary: In an alternate universe where Orion was a core member of Starfleet from the beginning, the Lower Decks crew encounters space monsters, time travelers, and a weird rock. So, basically a normal Thursday.

Author’s note: Title is from the song ‘Sounds of Earth’ by Jim Moray. There’s also a quote about soulmates that was adapted ever-so-slightly from a poem by Victoria Erickson.

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*Just remembered that I've written Christmas-themed fics, went to go look at them on AO3 (very invested in procrastinating this morning)

*Noticed I have exactly 99 fics posted

*Thought 'ooh, I wonder if I could write something real quick to end the year at 100?'

*Realized I never posted my November novel (have not even re-read it yet... not really sure what happened in that story...)

*NEW GOAL: post November novel before the end of the year to reach 100 FICS

*oooooohhhhh noooooooo I keep getting distracted by shopping!

*but it is a day for writing!

*(and also shopping)

*definitely writing!

*and also some holiday decorating

*maybe just a lil' bit more shopping

*gotta get back to that writing...

*FOUR DAYS TO GO

*6200 WORDS TO GO

*yesterday I reached the bowling part of the story, only to remember that I don't love bowling? so that turned out to be only about 350 words, lol

*MOVING ON FROM BOWLING

*there's not much left on my list of plans, but in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'm thinking maybe some family cameos

*not that those haven't already happened in the story, but they could happen more

*also the classic circling back to whatever I wrote about in the first few sections

*time to mention that stuff again, as if there was some kind of plan to this story!

*this is not a drill! this is the last 10,000 words!

*SEND HELP PLS

*goals for today:

-try to resolve some of the "plot" (lol, such as it is)
-time to leave the nebula again!
-move on to writing reports & bowling

*can I stretch report writing & a bowling tournament for 10,000 words? I'M SURE GONNA TRY

*STILL NO TITLE

*Good news! The cat has recovered enough to return to her regularly-scheduled activities of jumping up on furniture and sleeping on fluffy beds!

*Good news! I decided that since the only other things I've written this year were for the Battleship Exchange, and all of those fics were titled with lyrics from 'Sounds of Earth', I should just stick with the theme. I haven't actually picked a title yet, but it seems easier now.

*Good news! ::insert additional good news of your choice here::

I am completely discombobulated today. Took the cat over to the vet for an early drop-off so she can have her teeth cleaned and checked, and now I keep looking for her everywhere. My brain seems stuck in the loop of 'it is work time now, but pre-work things were not done, WHAT DO???'

Also it's 35,000 day???

*all right, we have 20,000 words left to write, and 11 days to do it!

*I'm still trying to finish up two sections in the 'stuff starts happening on the ship' portion of the story

*but I've also moved on to start the 'go back to the nebula' portion

*conversations are now happening completely out of order

*since there's a time travel element to the story, it's possible I can pretend that's on purpose?

*PS: I should really do some work stuff today

*Things are probably continuing to happen on the ship! Something! Somewhere!

*(okay, I have a vague idea of what things are happening)

*(I mean, presumably it's things that will make them need to go back to the nebula, right?)

*today's goal: break this large group of people into smaller groups to make the conversations easier

*also today's goal: 28,333 (WHAT THAT IS SO MANY WORDS)

*THAT MEANS TOMORROW'S GOAL IS 30,000

*SEND HELP

*Bonus content: 6+ words I wrote today: “But no one knows where they are?”

No matter how many words have been written (or not), we've made it halfway through the month, and that is worthy of celebration!