Party time ahead!

[wiseheart]

Well, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!

Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.

Let's party!

Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.


400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda

For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like

One eggyolk for painting the top.

How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.

Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.



Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!

And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)

Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!

Comments

Pathways vampire AU

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps two or three chapters. I only have to write this last part of the series, kill off Justin - preferably in a gory way - and wrap up a few loose ends. The series would continue in "Pittsburgh by Night", eventually, with Brian returning to the Pitts half a century later, to become the Prince of the city.

But you're actually right, the Pathways universe is incredibly complicated, with multiple storylines, and eating up new fandoms as I go. Beside the obvious (vampire) ones, it has eaten "Criminal Minds", "QAF", "Poltergeist: The Legacy", to only mention the biggest ones.

Re: Pathways vampire AU

[artemis10002000]

Yep, sounds like one of these fic monsters that just refuse to be done :D But while the most frustrating, the way they're spawning new ideas faster than you can write, I find these ideas also the most fun! After all, that you keep getting new ideas means the story is very much alive in your head and you're having a good time.

Re: Pathways vampire AU

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It *is* fun. It's just getting increasingly complex, so that my old spreadsheats about who's related/allied/in love/in lust/in hatred with whom and who's done what aren't even working anymore. And I don't have the time and the energy to update the framework, work in dozens of new characters, connect the timeline, weave the different plotlines into one unit, and so on...

I'd need a secretary with all the time of the world and a real obsession for the stuff to order it. If you hear of one, send them to me, please.

Re: Pathways vampire AU

[toughnrumble.livejournal.com]

Eeeep, talk about complicated!

Maybe it'd be easier to handle if you just write one-shots or shorter stories for these new characters and different plots rather than try to fit it all into one or two big stories?

Re: Pathways vampire AU

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know.

Most of its existing parts *are* short stories, actually, like "Favourite Son" or "The Return of Forrest Gates" or "The Path of Wolves", which focuses on Oz (from Buffy), or, indeed, "The Road Not Taken"... and a few others, including one-shots.

The problem is that I've been writing in this alternate universe for so long that certain parts start contradicting each other and very few still match the original concept. *le sigh*

Re: Pathways vampire AU

[artemis10002000]

*nods* I think the contradicting is impossible to avoid. Ideas just keep growing and changing. It even happens to the pros. Just look at long-living TV shows or book series, they contradict another as well at some point.

Re: Pathways vampire AU

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I like to think that I'm more devoted to my own stuff than they are - getting it just right *is* the only payment I get, after all, unlike them who get the big bucks to do a lousy job. *g*

Re: Pathways vampire AU

[artemis10002000]

*laughs* There is that!