Title: 'Til I'm Gathered Safely In
Author: baudown
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Disclaimer:  Don't own them or make a profit
Written For:  open_on_sunday
Prompt: Accident
Word Count: 100

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Title:  And All Was Said (Part 8, the end)
Author:  baudown
Pairing:  Spike/Xander
Rating:  NC-17
Disclaimer:  Don't own them.  Very much love them..
Summary:  Xander's got a little something on the side.  Alternate season 5ish where nothing whatsoever is happening to any other characters.
Note:  Thanks to everyone who read this, and especially to those who were so encouraging with comments and figuratively held my hand and eased my anxieties about this story.
Feedback:  Please.  It means a great deal.

Parts 1-7 are here:  http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=baudown&keyword=And%20All%20Was%20Said&filter=all




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Title:  And All Was Said (Part 4b)
Author:  baudown
Pairing:  Spike/Xander
Rating:  NC-17
Disclaimer:  Don't own them.  I would like to.
Summary:  Xander's got a little something on the side.  Alternate season 5ish where nothing whatsoever is happening to any other characters.
Notes:  Last week, in a reply to a comment by dimestorefind, I mentioned that I didn't write this in chapters -- it was written more as a series of encounters or vignettes.  But it just kept going and going, and so I have no choice but to post it in chapter form.  The problem is that sometimes, if I break where it feels most natural, it creates chapters that are way too long or way too short.  This particular section was particularly challenging in terms of finding the right place to break.  And basically, I never found it, and livejournal wouldn't let me post in one piece, so I'm giving you two sections today -- 4a and 4b -- because I think it all goes together.
Feedback:  Please.

Parts 1-3 here:  http://livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=baudown&keyword=And%20All%20Was%20Said&filter=all 
Part 4a here: http://baudown.livejournal.com/8219.html#cutid1 


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Part 5: http://baudown.livejournal.com/8801.html

Title:  And All Was Said (Part 1)
Author:  baudown
Pairing:  Spike/Xander
Rating:  NC-17
Disclaimer:  Don't own them.  I would like to.
Summary:  Xander's got a little something on the side.  Alternate season 5ish where nothing whatsoever is happening to any other characters.
Feedback:  YES, especially for this (see note)
Warnings:  I don't think so, except as to long note to follow.
Note:  So.  When I started to write S/X last year, I assumed I'd be writing them some sex.  At the time, I would hardly look at any S/X without at least an R rating (now, of course, I'll read about them shopping for a bathroom tiles if it's well-written).  But somehow, I found it very difficult.  Either it didn't seem to fit organically in the story, or if it did, I just didn't know how to do it.  When I read sex scenes, I know what I don't like (the kind of laundry list of "He touched that, and it made him shiver.  Then he touched that and it made him shudder) but it's harder to get a handle on why I like what I do.  That is, what makes the sex scene good, hot, emotional, etc. And I've really struggled with this. I've tried to read as much as I can about sex-scene writing by authors I like and that sort of thing.  So months ago, I sat down and just started writing something sex-centric as an exercise, but I kept abandoning it, and taking it out again, and abandoning it, ad nauseum.  And it turned into this very, very long thing, which is pretty much all sex scenes held together by a thin membrane of something I wouldn't presume to call plot.  I don't have a beta, and no one's read it, and I've been looking at it for so long that I have no perspective at all.  I'm basically terrified to post it.  So I decided to post the first part, before the sex gets heavy, hoping I'd get some feedback to see if I'm on the right track.  And maybe someone would be willing to take a look at the rest?  Anyway, if this note hasn't sent you running for the hills, here it is.


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Part 2 here:http://baudown.livejournal.com/7716.html

Title:  Seeing In the Dark
Author:  baudown
Pairing:  Spike/Xander
Disclaimer:  Only mine in spirit
Prompt:  Extinct, 100 words, open_on_sunday


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Title:  Waking
Author:  baudown
Pairing:  Spike/Xander
Disclaimer:  They aren't mine.  I use them, for love, not money.
Prompt:  Lead, 100 words, open_on_sunday


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