Herr Uhl wrote...
Aroihkin wrote...
Deserts can be coastal! ...I think! Yes? Maybe?
Damnit, I'm enjoying my mental image of "arabian prince" romance novel covers, over here. 
Well Sahara, Kalahari and the driest desert in the world Atacama are all coastal just off the top of my head.
Edit: Yay for useless knowledge!
Hooray! \\o.o/
Also,
totally randomly, I just remembered that if you go to the old stats page on ffnet and click on the hit count, you can see wordcount for individual chapters, though that includes any Author's Notes and such.
TAF 04 chapter 20 was 4000 (I'm rounding down), 21 was 4100, 22 was only 3600, 23 was 5000, 24 was another 3600, 25 was 4200, 26 is the cencored version of the smut and is still 4200, 27 was a cliffhanger at 2700, 28 was 4000, and 29 was 5600.
So I guess I was slowly going up, mostly. Neat! I'm still no 8k god though, although I
do ruthlessly cut out whole pages at a time, haha.

ALSO, I VOTE YES ON MANCANDY. Except it'll get the thread closed down earlier due to database size, so I dunno. Maybe we should make a thread on the group forum just for the friday hot spam?