Valentine's Day "Sugar and Spice" Exchange *Reminder*

[lenna_nightrunner]

Reminder: All Valentine's Day "Sugar and Spice" Exchange contributions are due to Shimmy's e-mail inbox (twist[dot]shimmy[at]gmail[dot]com) no later than 11:59pm in your own time zone this SaturdaySunday, February 13.

If it looks like, due to unforeseen circumstances, you may not be able to meet that deadline, let us know now. It would be very, very sad if you couldn't make it, but it would be very, very sadder if we were expecting something from you and didn't get it. Why would you want to make Dragonmod and Modkitty sad? (Not to mention your exchange partner XD)

After we receive them, the submissions will be posted here anonymously so we can all enjoy them and vote on their awesomeness. Winners will receive shinies courtesy of Shimmy, and everyone will prosper.

We can't wait to see what you've all come up with!

Comments

[twist_shimmy]

Also!

1) You may send word documents. (Please not docx, the formatting goes wonky for me.)
2) You may send text and .rtf
3) You may send ODTs.
4) You may not submit via carrier pigeon. Sorry.

[twist_shimmy]

Also also, we've gotten about 1/3 of the submissions so far, which is better than I was expecting as a massive procrastinator.

Woo trivia woo.

[ashstoner_021]

I am so glad I got done when I did, my free time has dwindled like a bitch lately! I am so excited to see what people come up with!

[twist_shimmy]

Did I miss an e-mail? I don't have your submission. *panics*

[ladydamodred]

Saturday is the 12th, right? *checks calendar* Yup. So is it due Saturday or Sunday? I got seriously bogged down with stuff, and I want to make sure I have enough time to finish.

[lenna_nightrunner]

...

Nice catch! XD Thank you.

*fixes while cursing stupid fucking ear*

[zute]

I'm making cotton candy out of all this sugar even as I type this.

[visser]

@_@ Mine's gonna hit your inbox like a brick when it's done.

Damn characters in a spicy sweet one shot that demand a novella.

[zevgirl]

Same boat here.

[scarylady]

I can't tell you how excited I am, Lenna :D

And nervous... very, very nervous *chews nails*

[lenna_nightrunner]

You can't be more nervous than I am. This fic is fighting me every step of the way and I want you to love it and I am going to bend it to my will! Somehow XD

I am doing an excited-but-careful-not-to-lose-my-balance-thank-you-very-much-you-stupid-fucking-ear dance!

[elysium_fic]

/em does the dance of "finished and turned in over a week ago and can't wait to see it posted!"

[ashstoner_021]

*joins you in your dance because she did the same thing*

[andorin]

I am still wrestling mine into submission, but I have good hopes to have it done by Sunday. 8-)

Must say I really admire you who manage to turn in things way before deadline. How on earth do you do it?

[scarylady]

By having another story on deadline for the 15th (plus Friday deadlines for T&S) and knowing damn well I'll fall apart if I don't get one of them done early.

So, the answer is... naked terror, I think. :S

[zevgirl]

So, the answer is... naked terror, I think. :S

And naked terror is what kept me up last night and made me get the thing to my beta today.

I'm now wondering just how long too long is.

[scarylady]

I'm kinda the opposite. My two and a half thousand words feels somewhat piddly.

[zute]

My story is scaring me. Sugar doesn't want to come out of my pen. It twists and becomes something else entirely. I asked my brain for something interesting and it does... that. Brain, brain, brain... can't you be nice for a change? Why do you have to go all crazy and twisty? Do you know how hard it'll be for two people to find love if they treat each other like... that?

[scarylady]

Sounds like a fun read!

[bellaknoti]

i have mine up on googledocs, and shared it to shimmy. it should be okay now, yes?

[scarylady]

oo, you all gmaily? Me too. Send me your gmail addie for chatty goodness?

[leilana]

wait - do we have until Sunday or Saturday?

my personal laptop got confiscated by the IAM (yep, they can do that cause i signed the paper) before i flew back home because they were concerned there MIGHT be FOUO info on it. there wasn't any, of course. but it's still behind a locked door sitting on the IAM's desk for final sign-out back to me while he was at a conf all day. i never had time to upload the latest version of my fic library back up to skydrive cause we didn't have connectivity, either. now it's been three days wasted when i could've been finishing up my fic. ::grumble, grumble::

anyways, i will do my bestest to have it in the mod's hot little hands NLT 11:59 HST on Sunday, 13 FEB. hurrah.

[lenna_nightrunner]

Sunday. I screwed up my day math the first time.

I don't know what any of those acronyms mean but I'm outraged on your behalf anyway! Get it to us if you can by the due date. If it's just not possible, we'll work something out. I am shaking my fist in anger at whoever the IAM is!

[darkrose]

Do we need to do anything specific as far as headers go?

[lenna_nightrunner]

Nope! Just do whatever you'd normally do, really. Title and all that. We'll take care of the rest :)

[zute]

Made it! I seriously had no idea the damn thing would end up THAT long... you'd think by now I would have learned.

[zevgirl]

...and doesn't it feel good?

[drakontion]

Done and sent! Phew!

[twist_shimmy]

Got it. :D

Yay!

[dragonreine]

Just sent in my entry, after a bit of panic over not being able to finish it >_< *is excited to see what the others have come up with*

[sleepyowlet]

Finished! Sent! Yay!

And it's a ... well ... nah, that would be telling :3

Did it arrive safely?

[zute]

Hmmmm... let me guess... Loghain? :)

[zute]

I didn't get a return receipt... hopefully it arrived okay. Let me know if it didn't.

[lenna_nightrunner]

We'll be trying to catalog everything tonight/tomorrow morning and contact people if necessary. Don't stress! <3

[twist_shimmy]

Oh wow, you guys. My inbox has been totally inundated but Lenna and I are dancing. There is going to be so much awesome stuff to peruse for V-Day!

[scarylady]

how long till the last time zone hits midnight?

[zute]

I feel sorry for you guys having to deal with all that for tomorrow. There's like a billion of them isn't there?

[twist_shimmy]

32. :D

[ladydamodred]

*wipes brow* Whew!

I always was the one frantically finishing a paper like 2 hours before class. Glad to see things haven't changed.

[twist_shimmy]

I used to start my papers two hours before class. Then I went to grad school and discovered planners.

[onemorealtmer]

I came, I saw, I finished the draft one day before it was due. Typical me, really. Am in hours under the wire. Hours. *cough*

[twist_shimmy]

Yeah, and guess who is alternating finishing hers with building the master list?

*headdesk*

THANK YOU FOR BEING A TOLERANT BETA.

[cave_fatuam]

D'oh! I keep opening the file to work on my thinger, but I've been done since yesterday. Bef's brain no work so good. Although, I probably broke Shimmy's in-box with my giant files of giant-ness. XD

[twist_shimmy]

Nope! Like I said. Easy. :D