SFBB15: Author Check-In No. 2 Post
Dec. 2nd, 2025 01:50 pmMy apologies for posting this late!
It’s time for our second author check-in. Please note that this check-in is mandatory, but painless, I promise! Just copy and paste the form inside the text box into a comment to this post and fill it out.
~There is no set word count for this check-in; we just want to get a sense of how many authors that signed up are still planning to participate.
~If you have signed up to write more than one fic, please fill out the form for each fic you have signed up to write. You may reply in one comment.
This check-in post will remain open for one week (so through Dec 8). Please note that there are penalties if you disappear without contacting the mod, so if you must drop out, please let me know. (If you are unable to check in while this post is open due to some reason beyond your control, please contact us via the mod account at sfbbmod @ gmail.com and let us know that’s why you’re checking in late.)
Thank you!
It’s time for our second author check-in. Please note that this check-in is mandatory, but painless, I promise! Just copy and paste the form inside the text box into a comment to this post and fill it out.
~There is no set word count for this check-in; we just want to get a sense of how many authors that signed up are still planning to participate.
~If you have signed up to write more than one fic, please fill out the form for each fic you have signed up to write. You may reply in one comment.
This check-in post will remain open for one week (so through Dec 8). Please note that there are penalties if you disappear without contacting the mod, so if you must drop out, please let me know. (If you are unable to check in while this post is open due to some reason beyond your control, please contact us via the mod account at sfbbmod @ gmail.com and let us know that’s why you’re checking in late.)
Thank you!
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Date: 12/2/25 07:25 pm (UTC)Fandom: Will Trent (tv), Reacher (tv)
Characters/Pairing: Will Trent, Jack Reacher, Frances Neagley
Genre: Mystery
Current Word Count: 8000
What's Working Well: everything
What's Not Working: not a thing.
Anything Else: I’ll be finished in time.
Username: PattRose
Fandom: Almost Human
Characters/Pairing: John Kennex, Dorian
Genre: AU
Current Word Count: 8300
What's Working Well: Everything
What's Not Working: Not a thing.
Anything Else: I’ll be done with time to spare.
(no subject)
Date: 12/2/25 07:39 pm (UTC)Fandom: Uramichi Oniisan
Characters/Pairing: Uramichi/Kumatani
Genre: (optional) slice of life, I guess. it's a vacation fic
Current Word Count: 5.4k
What's Working Well: it's all going quite well!
What's Not Working: nothing so far
Anything Else: just that pesky day job getting in the way of fandom
(no subject)
Date: 12/2/25 09:41 pm (UTC)Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons: Book of Vile Darkness
Characters/Pairing: Grayson, Grayon’s Father, Knights of Peleor, Akhordia, Bezz, Carlotta
Genre: Existential Crisis
Current Word Count: 70!
What's Working Well: The concept and the overall bones are good.
What's Not Working: ah...uninterrupted writing time? see below
Anything Else: so far 1 slow-mo family drama, work drama, 1 other fic challenge, and a ton of end-of-year errands. But! I shall persist! And I fully anticipate being done on time ONE DANG WAY OR ANOTHER.
(no subject)
Date: 12/2/25 10:32 pm (UTC)Fandom: Kemutai Hanashi
Characters/Pairing: Arita & Takeda
Current Word Count: ~500 words
What's Working Well: This is the BEST fandom, and I've got a really good idea of where I want this to go.
What's Not Working: ...Life.
Anything Else: Oh boy. This year has had very little solid downtime, and there's definitely some burnout due to ongoing family circumstances. (Nothing personally bad, just people staying over and medical emergencies that affect everyone's routines.) So getting things done has been more difficult than I'd like, but I'm moving in a good direction (I think/hope.)
Username: box-of-doom
Fandom: Wotakoi OR Dramacon OR Is Love the Answer?
Characters/Pairing: undecided
Current Word Count: 0
What's Working Well: I've gotten my other two fics figured out!
What's Not Working: ...I haven't gotten this one figured out yet.
Anything Else: We will see what happens with this one.
On top of the above... it's exchange season and I will be banging out a lot of fics and editing even more this month. But will be making decisions here and hopefully getting a little more done when and where I can.
Username: box-of-doom and estelraca
Fandom: And Another Lovely Day
Characters/Pairing: Nora Chestnut & Elliot Lam (probably more characters later, but. So far.)
Current Word Count: 1,357
What's Working Well: We've got over 1k words!
What's Not Working: Nothing, except needing time and energy to work on this!
Anything Else: The source material is disappearing off of Webtoon Canvas and restarting on Webtoon Originals shortly, which I am both very excited for and also going "nooooooooooooo"
(no subject)
Date: 12/2/25 11:18 pm (UTC)Fandom: Lies of P
What's Not Working: Life getting in the way
Anything Else: I'm so sorry, but I think I'm going to have to drop out. Between work commitments, bad health and running an exchange event of my own I haven't found time at all yet.
(no subject)
Date: 12/3/25 02:20 am (UTC)Fandom: Popsy & The Night Flier (both by Stephen King)
Characters/Pairing: Renfield & Richard Dees
Current Word Count: still around 5k
What's Working Well: I'm still interested in the story, at least
What's Not Working: haven't made hardly any progress since the last check-in
Anything Else: too many other projects, I fear.
(no subject)
Date: 12/3/25 09:07 am (UTC)Fandom: Poker Face (TV)
Characters/Pairing: Charlie Cale/Good Buddy
Genre: Drama, romance
Current Word Count: 8924
What's Working Well: I'm nearly at the wordcount
What's Not Working: Still a bit of plot to finish, and then all the editing
Anything Else:
(no subject)
Date: 12/3/25 10:05 am (UTC)Fandom: undecided
Characters/Pairing:
Genre: (optional)
Current Word Count: 0
What's Working Well: All's fine. I don't tend to start until I have all the Xmas exchange fics completed.
What's Not Working: still need to write my Yuletide fic!
Anything Else: nope
(no subject)
Date: 12/3/25 03:22 pm (UTC)Fandom: Dog Soldiers
Characters/Pairing: Cooper/Spoon
Genre: (optional) AU, Horror
Current Word Count: 1220
What's Working Well: I finally have a plot!
What's Not Working: Everything else!
Anything Else: I have very little time available to write in at the moment. Work is crazy and there's no sign of that letting up, but I'm going to keep trying my best. I'll probably be down to the wire when it comes to finishing, though.
Check In 2
Date: 12/3/25 03:47 pm (UTC)Fandom: XO, Kitty
Characters/Pairing: Yuri Han/Katherine "Kitty" Song-Covey, other pairings tbd
Genre: Young Adult, Coming of Age, Childhood Best Friends to Lovers, Romance, Drama
Current Word Count: ~500 words
What's Working Well: I've got the base of the story down. It's just time to build from there
What's Not Working: having time to sit down to invest in it
Anything Else: (real life, or even other fandoms, getting in the way of working on your fic?) Finished all my fest fics, I'm worrying about my LSAT right now. I should have more time for the fic starting in January
(no subject)
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Date: 12/3/25 06:01 pm (UTC)Re: Check In 2
Date: 12/3/25 06:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/4/25 12:53 am (UTC)Fandom: Evil West (game)
Characters/Pairing: Jesse/Chester
Genre: horror, action, erotica
Current Word Count: 0
What's Working Well: know what i'm doing & am excited to finally write it
What's Not Working: i have one earlier challenge to finish up
Anything Else: confident i'll make it, just gotta get thru the holiday writing first
(no subject)
Date: 12/4/25 02:46 am (UTC)Fandom: Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game)
Characters/Pairing: Jesse, Petra, Lukas, Axel, Olivia, Harper, Ivor
Genre: Action Adventure
Current Word Count: 3,558
What's Working Well: Character interactions, dialogue
What's Not Working: Chose to write it all in present tense, makes it frustrating to swap WIPs when I’m usually a past tense user lol!
Anything Else: I am sick right now, so I’m not doing my best at focusing on anything, but at least there has been some progress… also my long WIP in another fandom is about ten days of work away from finishing!
(no subject)
Date: 12/4/25 06:16 am (UTC)Fandom: Boots/(Poltergeist: The Legacy) (unless I change my mind again)
Characters/Pairing: Nick /& Sullivan
Genre: action/adventure
Current Word Count: 1160
What's Working Well: I have the idea of what I want
What's Not Working: Making time, and not sure how much I like my planned ending but not sure why.
Anything Else: Work, Wow Remix, and smallfandomfest. so much
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Date: 12/4/25 01:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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