15 ain't so bad, but I'd like more

I really need to get back on the original-fic train - not away from fanfic, but in addition to it. (If Naomi Novik can do it, I ought to be able to get off my dead ass, too. Of course, I'm not sure if her full-time job now is novel-writing, but I can guess it wasn't before.) I've been mentally slowed down for a long while because of multiple jobs and self-inflicted creative blocks, and while it didn't matter for a long time, the fact is that I do have an ego. Don't get me wrong, it's fun being a BNF to 15 people in a small fandom, but having read the last installment in the HP series, I suspect I'd rather have more fans and more people who think I write well enough to recommend what I write (though I don't ever expect it to be on the scale to Rowling or Novik). Plus, the money would be OK. And that's not going to happen with fanfic - the characters don't belong to me, the settings don't belong to me, and the plots are retreads of the same seven that have been used throughout writing history. I simply need to create a new vehicle of my own for those plots. :-D

Memeage

(Taken from gilmorelion, who, since I took this from him, I will not ask the question of, LOL.)

"one question.
one honest answer.
that's all you get.

you get to ask me one question.
any one question.
anything, no matter how crazy it is.

No catch.
But I dare you to repost this and see what people ask you."

(Eh, it's not like it's real life or anything. Just be glad I didn't tag the five people it requests.)

Woody Woodbeaker and friends

I think I saw a woodpecker in my backyard just now. The closest thing I can find is this, except its head wasn't quite that fully red - more just on top than anything. Maybe it's a female?

Also, there's a yellow bird I've seen once before, this weekend, back here. Bright yellow body, black wings. I don't think it's a goldfinch, or at least it's a little bigger and more slender than the one in that picture. And its yellow is very bright, but more ... lemony? than this photo's.

Dudes, gotta question:

I've a friend looking for some players in an RPG based on a book series. The author is Sherrilyn Kenyon and it's her "Dark Hunters" series. Any interest?