jlh | I just wanna bang on the drum all day

First, an RL note: for those of you that had to listen to me bitch about my horrible job, I have an interview on Tuesday so keep your fingers crossed.

I have also decided, due to ridiculous levels of anxiety (witnessed by

gehanna1) that I am putting off graduate school until fall 2004. So much in my life has changed, and I really should assimilate some of those changes before I run around making more.

So, real work. That is, writing work.

I finished a draft of the xmas cookie for the Muses, the one inspired by

ladylisse's picture of S&D in Santa hats, and sent it off to

misscora for a look-over.

From here until the end of the year, I'm writing nothing but smut. This includes:
--The wife swapping fic, which MUST BE COMPLETED. Thank you to

vanityfair for her input.
--Six Nights at the Hogsmeade Inn, which

eccentricfemme requested, to fill in what went on in the Inn during EWFS. The Neville/Susan portion of it will stand alone for Restricted Section and

altricial.
--Seamus & Dean's Shiny New Year, also requested by Femme.
--That Harry/Hermione thing I've been madly scribbling lately.
--Ron & Padma's Shiny New Year, also for

altricial. They will have a bit in Six Nights, but it won't be smutty enough (despite the presence of the bed) so this will be a bit more in the future.

Smut I won't be writing: SBRL for Christmas. Though, to be honest, I think of them so paternally that I couldn't have written good SBRL smut anyway. I had also toyed with making my P/O with sproglets short "Coming Home, Now" more explicit but I really like that final line so I think I shall leave it.

Meanwhile I'll be doing research and plot structure for the EWFS sequel that I hope to start writing in the new year. Thanks to

nmalfoy and

ivyblossom I'm getting really excited about it, though I'm also a little scared since it's more complex and more dark than EWFS. (No,

thezeppo, not that dark.) But, that's what it's all about, right? Being a little scared?

The big question is: Who wants to beta the smut? The always-wonderful

thalialuna isn't so much about the smut, thanks, so I'm looking for someone to beat me about the head regarding punctuation, who isn't afraid to say "but where is his other hand?" and who is squicked by neither het nor slash nor femslash. A tall order, I know, but I'd rather have just one or two smut betas than thirty different people floating around.

Speaking of which:

johnwalton, where are you?