New Fic: Everybody Loves a Clown

Title: Everybody Loves a Clown
Author: katstale
Rating: PG
Category: Gen
Word Count: 1920
Characters: John & Rodney
Pairings: None
Challenge: The Lost Boys/The Hive Weekend Challenge on sheps_atlantis
Spoilers/Warnings: None
Summary: When John told Neera that clowns scared the crap out of him, maybe he had a reason--a very good reason...
Notes: This is a tag for The Hive, inspired by a challenge where the issuer angeloftheruse wanted a story that explained John's fear of clowns. I cannot recall who issued the challenge or where, but this is my answer. :)

For the girls in chat, who never cease to amaze and inspire me. You guys are AWESOME!

( Everybody Loves a Clown )

Still Alive and...Writing?

Okay, so I have abysmally horrid at updating for several months now. Sorry to anyone who was concerned and I promise I will try to do better again. Why the drought? *sigh* Well, lots of stuff going on and that, combined with a total lack of motivation or energy on my part, equalled no posting here for the better part of two months. :P

What's been going on? Well, family stuff is about the same as always--BUSY. Between having the munchkins here every other weekend from Fri-Sun nights and the usual family commitments, I've not had much quiet time, which has meant not a lot of writing has been accomplished lately. I did finally manage a tag for the weekend challenge at sheps_atlantis though--thanks to watching an episode with Karri last night. :D (I watched The Hive after Epiphany last night and that one cooperated far better than the Epiphany idea. Hope you don't mind... *giggles*)

In other news, as those of you on Twitter already know, my poor aging Furball, Boogie, is not doing well. The vet suspects cancer, but due to his advanced age, treatment is not really an option. So he's been having some okay days and a couple of not-so-okay days over the past couple of weeks, but it's becoming increasing obvious that his time among us is drawing to an end. He's been my almost-constant companion for over fifteen years now, so he's going to leave a pretty huge hole in my life--and my heart--when he leaves me.

On other writing fronts, I have a LOT of ideas that I so want to get started on. After a HUGE drought, I'm hoping that getting just shy of 2000 words down last night in right at two hours time is the signal that the floodgates are opening and the words will flow freely again once more. *crossing fingers*

So I hope to be back with daily progress reports again...or at least get back to updating more regularly. I'm also way far behind on reading fic, so I'm also hoping to begin catching up on the backlog of that soon also.

So Happy Friday everyone! :)