Hi guys,

I know I've been MIA for a while now, as far as this journal is concerned. I haven't abandoned my fluffy fic, I assure you. It will be completed slowly but surely. Though, you might see some angsty entries from me before the fluff task is completed, since, I'm not a very fluffy person at writing. But I suppose you already know that. :D

Anyways. For the longest time, I'd been planning to collect all my fanfiction and post it to one place, both Star Trek Voyager and Queer as Folk. Previously, my Trek stuff was on three different websites (yes, THREE) and I never got around to making a QAF site -- it was only on LJ. I figured, there had to be a website where I could have all my fandom stuff in one place together. At first, I thought... I'll buy my own domain and make a website from scratch, like I used to do in the old days. Slaving away on Dreamweaver, working on one page after another and another and all that stuff. But my work schedule has been absolutely nuts, and I finally realized that if I waited for RL to slow down enough for me to work on a whole domain, my site would never happen. So I thought, I had to find an easier option.

And then, I came across Google sites. It's a simple WYSIWYG tool that lets you make pages/sites relatively easier without too much technical know-how required. And if you can make a decent enough page, you can migrate that to an actual domain anytime. So I decided to go for that. It was still very time consuming, and I've been at it for the last couple of weeks, but I believe my site is finally in a shape that I can announce it here and elsewhere. :)

Check out http://sites.google.com/site/laylafic

There it is --- all my fandom stuff in one place.

I know, I know.... I've been missing since posting the first chapter. The bad news is.... I am not going to meet my NANO goal this year. I'm only halfway through in my goal as of now as I let myself get distracted by things and was not able to concentrate on the story the way it deserved to be concentrated on. Yeah, I know, it sucks to be me. :D

However, the good news is... that despite being distracted, I have been working on the story at a slower pace and now have the entire plotline laid out in front of me. I now know where the story is going and how it's gonna end --- unlike at the beginning of the month when I barely had the vaguest idea of what I was gonna do in a fluffy Brian gets a pet fic. ;)

So I'll be posting more in December. Brian needs fluff in his life right now. And so do I. :D

Title: Rule of the Jungle, Chapter 1 (Part 2) (Nanowrimo story 2008)
Author: Layla V
Pairing: Brian/Justin
Fandom: Queer as Folk US
Time-line: Post-513 future
Summary: Justin thinks he knows Brian. But there are some things which can still surprise him to no end.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just love them very very much


( Rule of the Jungle, Chapter 1 (Part 2) )

Title: Rule of the Jungle, Chapter 1 (Part 1) (Nanowrimo story 2008)
Author: Layla V
Pairing: Brian/Justin
Fandom: Queer as Folk US
Time-line: Post-513 future
Summary: Justin thinks he knows Brian. But there are some things which can still surprise him to no end.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just love them very very much


( Rule of the Jungle, Chapter 1 (Part 1) )

Title: Rule of the Jungle, Prologue (Nanowrimo story 2008)
Author: Layla V
Pairing: Brian/Justin
Fandom: Queer as Folk US
Time-line: Post-513 future
Summary: Justin thinks he knows Brian. But there are some things which can still surprise him to no end.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just love them very very much


( Rule of the Jungle, Prologue )

OK, before I post the prologue of my NANO 2008 story, let me give you a little background on this.

This story is based on an idea which was initially supposed to be a one-off fluffy fic. Like I said before, for NANO, I was supposed to do the gritty, angsty one, which had a much more elaborate plotline. But because my darling Gale is on hiatus because of his accident, my angst muse went on hiatus too. As a result, I decided to expand my fluff plot into 50,000 words. Now, I still don't know how I will accomplish that. I have some idea where I'll take my boys in this fic. The rest I'm going to figure out along the way. All I know is that I needed a plot which was absolutely angst-free, silly and harmless. Unfortunately, this also means that the story will most probably turn out to be.... pointless. :D

But I guess, that's exactly the point of doing this exercise --- at least for the mood I'm in right now. The story might totally be crap, but this is sort of my therapy for the 2 weeks I've had.

So I'm letting you guys know before hand. The story will probably suck big time. But it's Brian and Justin. It's post-513 fluff. And no one gets hurt.

You're duly warned. :)

[cross-posted in gist at ayesakara]

I know it's been a while since I last posted on this journal. I hope you guys are still around. ;) RL has been crazy lately. But let me assure you that I'd been planning to do NANO this year for a while now. I just hadn't had a chance to announce it here.

Then middle of October, as we all know, Gale got hurt and that sort of pushed me totally out of the writing mode. I had to wait till we got good news on his front before deciding whether I'd be able to do NANO after all. All my B/J, Brian and QAF love is tied up with my Gale love. He is the reason I fell for Brian in the first place. And since Brian is the reason I fell for B/J, and B/J is the reason I fell for QAF, so in a way, it's all connected.

Now that we've had several days of good, hopeful news about Gale's recovery lately, my muse has come out of hiding once more. I believe he's going to recover fully, thanks to God, and believing that makes me feel relieved enough to want to celebrate this good news with a new fic.

My plan originally was to do a gritty, angsty, painful Brian-in-a-well fic which had been brewing in my head for almost a year. Obviously, Gale's accident has totally taken me out of that "give Brian as much pain as you can" mode for the moment. I can't do that to my woobie anymore. Or to Justin either whom I love very much too. Maybe next year, when Gale will have gotten all better and will be gracing our screens and looking healthy and gorgeous once more, I will think about maybe testing the limits of my favorite characters again. ;)

So, I've decided. I'm gonna do the most unassumingly, unbelievably, categorically fluffiest NANO fic ever. And when I say "fluffy", I mean "fluffy". It'll be absolutely silly. No one will get hurt in it. There will be no angst whatsoever (which can be hard sometimes, since I'm an angst-whore before anything else but I'll try). Brian will be... Brian but with a twist. Justin will be in for a series of fluffy little surprises. ;)

I might not post everyday but I do think I'll post every time I finish a chapter, and I vow to finish 50,000 words by the end of the month. It's been a while since I've written anything, so...

Wish me luck. :)

Hey guys,

So I'm in a little bind. You see, when I was nearing the end of Psycho Fic, I realized that I wanted my next story to be something lighthearted and fluffy. Something relaxing and easy to take. Something that would be a change of pace and scenery from the grueling drama I seemed to be stuck on when working on my last mammoth.

With that in mind, I signed up for the new qaf_challenges thing.

And guess what? I currently have two plots germinating in my brain and neither of them are of the fluffy kind. One is an idea for a giddily painful and angsty thing that could very well work for the H/c challenge, and the other is a totally out of this world idea --and I mean, literally-- that could be adopted for the Second Chances thing. *sighs*

So it's obvious that I'm not a fluffy kinda writer. Or at least not the kind who can come up with those kinda plotlines easily.

Hence I'm here with a request. If anyone has a fluffy, non-angsty plot bunny they wanna throw my way, please feel free. I'll probably still end up doing the angsty one for qaf_challenges but I just wanted to do something a little different before jumping onto another dramatic plotline. So yeah, my plan is to do something lighthearted (which currently I have no clue for) before doing the story for the challenge.

So any takers? Come on, there must be some fluffy little bunnies lurking in their somewhere! Help me out, people. :D

Thanks,

Your fellow devoted B/Jer :)

Thought it was time to switch from the old, boring, bland theme on laylafic to something new, fresh and more vibrant. So here it is. ;)

Also, thanks to everyone who's sent feedback on the last chapter of Psycho Fic. I'll reply to individual comments as soon as I can. I've had some people ask me if the entire fic could be made available in one Word doc. To answer them, I'd say... yes, that's definitely in the plans. After Psycho fic has been betaed, I'll upload it in one file and anyone who wants to read it or keep it all together, they can have access to that. The timeline for that is sometime after November, when my designated beta, who's also doing Nano this year, will become available.

Another question was... if I could link to the first chapter, or the previous chapters... to guide those who want to read this fic in its entirety *now*. So for them, I've put all the chapters in memories and the link to them is here.

Thank you. :)

**~~NANOWRIMO STORY EPILOGUE~~**

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**~~NANOWRIMO STORY FINALE, part v~~**

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**~~NANOWRIMO STORY FINALE, part iii~~**

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**~~NANOWRIMO STORY FINALE, part ii~~**

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**~~NANOWRIMO STORY FINALE, part i~~**

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First a note about this chapter: I'd intended to post this chapter the way I'd visualized it, i.e. in 3 main parts. But the sections got too big for LJ so I had to break them into smaller sections. Hence, there are 5 parts instead of 3. Just to avoid any confusion, please note that the main parts are still sectioned inside the cuts as originally written. That's all.

Next a summary of the last chapter posted: Previously on Nanowrimo Story Chapter 17: Justin feels safer when Brian returns from the hospital. A link between Henry's missing wife and Lisa Marie Payne is discovered. Brian hires a detective and secrets his loved ones have been keeping from him are promptly revealed. The police find a link between an old house outside Pittsburgh and Henry. And someone is keeping an eye on the House.

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...but Psycho Fic is finally complete. :D

The last chapter crossed 30,000 words. After it's proofed, it'll be posted in 3 parts + an epilogue, tomorrow.

It feels like such a relief to complete this behemoth. I'll talk more about it once I've posted it, but this has been a truly exhilirating and wonderful ride over the last one year. Most people don't take so long to complete one story, but I'm not most people, I guess. ;) Still, it's been a very entertaining and a truly learning experience for me, and I've enjoyed it very much.

And don't laugh, but I've also finally started the Nano-fic for this year's Nanowrimo. I don't have much time left but I'll try my best to cross 50,000 words by the end of Nov 30. If I succeed, cool, if I don't... then at least you'll get another fic from me sometime in the future. I'll try my best in any case.

But I swear, I'm never doing another WIP again. They're way too much stress, man. For the writer as well as the readers. From now on, it's only posting completed stories for me. *nods*

See yah!

crossposted to ayesakara!

Here's the deal...

I will not be posting this year's NANOWRIMO fic as I write it every day. That plan barely worked for the first half of November last year and during the second half, I only posted sporadically until it was the end of the month and I was racing to cross the 50,000 mark till 11:15pm on the last day.

So this year, I plan to write without posting the story everyday and to keep working on it and to finally whip it into shape by Nov 30, 2007 to be able to post in this journal.

And yes, I'm gonna complete this one in 50,000 words. :)

In the meanwhile, the last chapter of PSYCHO FIC will be posted over this weekend. Keep watching this space. :D

And thanks for hanging out with me!

So I signed up for NANOWRIMO this year too. Which means, starting from Nov 1, 2007, I'll be writing a brand new QAF and B/J story. I intend to finish this one in 50,000 words.

Which also means, that within the month of Oct 2007, I'll finish and post the last chapter of last year's on-going NANO fic. Yeah, meaning THIS month, you'll see the finale of the ongoing saga of B/J and the gang and Henry Stanford Jr. Buh-bye, Psycho Fic!!!

Better get back to writing, then. ;)

See yah!

Title: Layers
Author: Layla V
Timeline: All seasons, and post-513.
Rating: R
Written for: qaf_challenges's Icon Challenge with a Twist
Summary: Ted Schmidt deciphers the phenomenon that is Brian Kinney.
Warnings: Ted's narrative, with a focus on Brian, but B/J stays intact.



( Read 'Layers 1/1' )

Title: Switch 1/1
Author: Layla V
Timeline: Post Season 5
Rating: NC-17
Written for: sev_4_blogathon in July 2007. This is the cleaned up version.
Warnings: kink
Genre: romance
Author's Note: Written for severina2001! I'm not particularly a porny type of writer and I'm especially not a PWP fan. But this was a fantasy scene that had been playing inside my head for well over a year. It was time to put it down on the screen.
Summary: Justin learns to communicate with Brian on a new level.




( Read 'Switch 1/1' )