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I'm thinking about Moonridge. The auction's up and I haven't  offered anything yet; I do mean to, I haven't because of my complete and utter shame at having failed to finish the two stories I offered last year, yet, and the one that's almost done has no winner - nope, Terry/Mariojoe has apparently...

a) been abducted by aliens
b) been hanged for piracy on the South China Seas
c) left the fandom

So now I have a soon-to-be-completed story of dark doings and massive angst and no one to give it to. Ideas, anyone, please?

I really do want to offer stories for this year's auction but, bearing in mind I still have a massive Rainbows sequel to complete for my other auction winner, and my less than sterling performance in completing my dues this year, I'm a wee bit nervous about offering too much, over-stretching myself and being unable to deliver.

One idea I had was to offer my next story as a WIP - putting it in a community and offering access in the auction. eg, a set sum of cash to Moonridge gets you on my community list so you can read the WIP (and offer segments as email for the non-LJers out there). I could do at least one, maybe two stories that way, which would be less pressure for me, but would people pay for that, do you think? And how much should I charge?

Cos otherwise, I'm truly at a loss. I thought about offering stories of 5,000 words but - I have to face the fact that that's never going to happen. 50,000 maybe; 5,000? Forget it! ::sigh::

Any other ideas would be welcomed with grovelling, snivelling, everso 'umble gratitude.