* CRIMINAL MINDS (04/02/16): SORRY READERS, NEW AND OLD FAITHFULS, BUT THE CM MUSE IS ON AN EXTENDED HIATUS *

I’m not being a schmuck leaving you guys hanging on everything, it’s just not a part of my brain currently working. I tried looking at one chapter that I thought was basically done and when I got to the section of the draft that still needed to be written … empty void. And trying to push into that void made me feel stressed and tense and miserable. And I write for fun. For free. So clearly I’m not going to keep pushing into something that makes me feel that way. When the urge to write there comes back, I’ll know it. Trust me. Six years of doing this, I’ll know it. In the meantime, if you are familiar with The Walking Dead, the muse is going crazy over there.

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FORUMS & COMMUNITIES:

UPDATE, 2014: We've shifted our CM prompt postings to Tumblr. Now we have the prompts plus fun pics :) You can get to them here. You can still access the older items below.

Kavi Leighanna and I created two CM prompt challenge Forums to help people get inspiration for stories. They are the TV Prompt Title Challenge, and Novel & Short Story Title Challenge. Both are updated monthly with regular prompts and special bonuses. And even if you don't write, there are threads where you can submit a request if you'd like to see a specific story be written.

If you're just looking for something to read, these forums also link to communities where you can find the stories inspired by the prompts. If you want specifically H/P, and/or JJ/Rossi fics, click here. For all other pairings, AU or general team/friendship, click here.

The forums are open to everyone and they're a lot of fun :) If you have any questions, don't hesitate to shoot a PM to me or Kavi.

AWARDS/NOMINATIONS:

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2014 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Most Beloved Fic - Falling In Love With a Girl

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2011 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Most Beloved Fic - Falling In Love With a Girl

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2010 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Characterization of Aaron Hotchner - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Characterization of Emily Prentiss - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Het Romance - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: (Tie) Best JJ/Morgan - Things Fall Apart

Category: (Tie) Best Overall Fic - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Overall Author

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2009 CM FAN FICTION AWARDS

Falling in Love with a Girl - First Place, Best Work-in-Progress

A Love Story in Three Acts - First Place, Best Drama

Breaking Aaron Hotchner - First Place, Best One Shot

The Being Emily Prentiss, Being Aaron Hotchner Series - First place, Best Series (written with Chiroho)

Goldilocks & Papa Bear - Third Place, Best Friendship Fic

And Me! - Third Place for Best New Author

Thanks again everyone who voted :)

NOMINATIONS - 2ND ANNUAL CARYL FANFICTION AWARDS

Category: Plot: This Is Now

Category: Characterization: This Is Now

Category: Multi-Chaptered: This Is Now

NOMINATIONS - 2015 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Drama: The Arrangement
Category: Best M-rated: The Arrangement
Category: Most Beloved: Second Chances
Category: Best Hotch: Falling in Love, Again
Category: Best Hotch/Emily: The Hours

NOMINATIONS - 2014 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Overall Author
Category: Best Het Romance: The Courtship of Clark and Lois
Category: Most Beloved Fic: Aaron and Emily & Meet Luke and Lorelai

NOMINATIONS - 2013 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Overall Author
Category: Best Angst – The Hours
Category: Best Hotch/Emily – The Hours

NOMINATIONS - 2011 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Angst - Everything Happens for a Reason
Category: Most Beloved Fic - Falling In Love With a Girl
Category: Best Alternative Universe - The Gingerbread Girl
Category: Best Drama - The Hours
Category: Best Overall Fic - The Hours

NOMINATIONS - 2010 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Hotch/Emily Fic - Falling in Love with a Girl
Category: Best Hotch/Emily Fic - Fracture

Category: Best Hotch/JJ - Love, Unexpected
Category: Best Hotch/JJ - The Ides of May

Category: Lifetime Achievement Award - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Humor/Comedy - Finding a Place to Dump the Body

STORIES - CRIMINAL MINDS

Girl'verse:

Universe A - Main Story Universe of Hotch and Emily meeting, falling in love and living their lives together

Story 1: Falling in Love with a Girl - My version of their lives in canon starting with meeting when Hotch worked for her mother, taking them through Season 4. (Complete)

The Offshoots below fall within the story they're listed beneath. They're ideas that came to me after that portion of their lives were covered in the larger story. And they're arranged chronologically so you know where they would properly fall within Story 1, 2 or 3.

Offshoot: Ladybug, Ladybug . . . Fly Away Home - Early Season 3. Emily's 39th birthday. Missing scene between Chapters 26 and 28. (One Shot)

Offshoot: Making Spirits Bright - Mid Season 3, Christmas Eve. Missing day between Chapters 32 and 33. (Four Shot)

Offshoot: A Kick, A Kiss And A Bag Of Chips - Mid Season 3, New Year's Eve. Missing day between Chapters 32 and 33. Direct follow up to Making Spirits Bright. One week later. (One Shot)

Offshoot: Invasion of the Pod People (1) - Early Season 4, Missing day between Chapters 47 and 50. (One Shot)

Offshoot: Revenge of the Pod People (2) - Early Season 4, Companion to Invasion of the Pod People - read the other one first (One Shot)

Offshoot: Night of the Pod People (3) - Early Season 4, Companion to "Invasion" and "Revenge" - read the others first (One Shot)

Offshoot: Escape of the Pod People (4) - Early Season 4, Companion to "Invasion," "Revenge," and "Night" - read the others first (One Shot)

Offshoot: To Rossi's House We Go - Early Season 4, 4th of July. Missing day after Chapter 54.(Three Shot)

Offshoot: Cadence & Noise - Early Season 4, Missing day, couple months after Pod People. (One Shot)

Offshoot: Bartholomew Cubbins Had Nothing On Emily Prentiss - Early Season 4, Missing Day: Shopping Trip (One Shot)

Offshoot: Itsy, Bitsy, Teenie, Weenie . . . - Early Season 4, Missing Day: Shopping Trip (One shot)

Offshoot: Pretty Girls, Pool Parties & Pot Bellied Pigs - Early Season 4, Missing Day: Pool Party at Dave's (Complete)

Offshoot: Dial L for Laundry - Early Season 4. Missing day. Hotch helps Em on Laundry Day (One Shot)

Offshoot: Three Men and a Pissed off JJ - Early Season 4, JJ/Rossi friendship piece. (One Shot)

Offshoot: Goldilocks & Papa Bear - Mid Season 4, JJ/Rossi friendship piece. (One Shot)

Offshoot: The Sick Boy and the Sitter - Mid Season 4, Emily babysits a sick Jack (One Shot)

Story 2: The Hours - Picks up immediately after Girl, Hotch and Emily settle into their lives together and Emily is diagnosed with cancer. (In Progress - Hiatus).

Alternate Ending to Story 2: Elegy - Alternate Ending to The Hours. Warning - Character death. (Complete)

Alternate Ending to Story 2: Requiem - Companion to Elegy. Warning - Character death. (Complete)

AU Offshoot 1: Things We Didn't Plan - JJ/Rossi, Morgan Friendship. JJ suffers a personal tragedy. NOT a direct offshoot of The Hours. AU world. (In Progress - Hiatus)

AU Offshoot 2: The Ides of May - JJ/Hotch Friendship piece (Complete)

Story 3: Life & Such - Picks up shortly after The Hours ends. Series of one shots and short story arcs following them at work and home. (In Progress - technically on hiatus until The Hours re-post is complete)

Offshoot: My Friend the Doctor - Series of Reid centered one shots (In Progress - ongoing as ideas come)

Universe B - Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-51 of Girl before reading this world.

Story 1: All the King's Horses - Emily suffers a personal tragedy (In Progress - Hiatus)

Universe C - Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-94 of Girl before reading this world. This is an ongoing universe, each story will stand alone.

Story 1: Epiphanies - Alternate ending of Girl. Hotch and Emily come to a revelation. (Complete)

Story 2: Birthday Festivities - Emily's birthday. Two weeks post Epiphanies. (M Story - Complete)

Story 3: Everything Old is New Again - Three days before Halloween (Complete)

Story 4: I'm Okay, You're Okay . . . So What's Wrong? - Halloween night. (Complete)

Story 5: Drop A House On Her Aaron - Hotch and Emily go to Haley's for Jack's birthday party. (Complete)

Story 6: My Girlfriend's Boyfriends - A night out for Emily, a night in for Hotch. (Complete)

Story 7: Things That Go Splash In The Afternoon - Hotch and Emily go yachting with Dave (Complete)

Universe D -- Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-32 of Girl before reading this world.

Story 1: Second Chances - Hotch and Emily get pregnant after Haley serves Hotch the divorce papers. Huge honking M Rating. (In Progress - Hiatus)

Universe E - Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Intense universe. No fluff. Read chapters 1-20 of Girl before reading this story.

Story 1: Everything Happens For a Reason - Late season 2, Hotch & Emily fly to Texas for a routine parole hearing. Something terrible happens. Friendship story, no romance in this one. It is an M for violence and language. (Complete)

Story 2: Emerald Cities & Yellow Brick Roads - Hotch and Emily picking up the pieces of their lives. His marriage falls apart as their relationship changes. (In Progress - Hiatus)

Universe F -- Late Season 3, begins with a Gilmore Girls crossover. Read chapters 1-43 of Falling in Love With a Girl before reading Story 1.

Story 1: Aaron & Emily, Meet Luke & Lorelai - CASE FIC: Hotch & Emily are staying at the Dragon Fly Inn while investigating a case out of town. (Complete)

Story 2: The Arrangement - Hotch & Emily continue the unusual arrangement established in Story 1. Another Big Honking M Rating. (In Progress - Hiatus)

Universe G -- Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-36 of Girl before reading Story 1.

Story 1: The Lonely Hearts Club -- Mid Season 3, Valentine's Day. Hotch and Emily working a case in San Francisco. Their relationship changes. (Complete)

Story 2: The Courtship of Clark & Lois -- Hotch and Emily begin dating, late season 3. (In Progress - Hiatus)

Universe H -- Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-109 of Girl before reading Story 1.

Story 1: One Night In October -- A Halloween party at Dave's and things go very wrong. (In Progress - Hiatus)

Universe V -- V is for Vampires of the non-sparkly variety. Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-36 of Girl before reading Story 1.

Story 1: Something Wicked Late Season 3, the team gets lost while on a case in Maine. End up in Salem's Lot (crossover w/Stephen King's world) (In Progress - Hiatus)

ALTERNATE GIRL UNIVERSE:

Story 1: Falling In Love, Again -The Girl'verse Rebooted: This isn't a spinoff of Girl, it's a whole new interpretation. Hotch & Emily meet, not at her mother's, but 2 years earlier in a bank. Everything changes from there. Starts friendship, eventual romance. (In Progress - Hiatus)

Post Eps:

All can be read as stand alones

A Drowning Man - Post Ep for Omnivore - Companion to A Tether; Hotch's POV (H/P)

A Tether - Post Ep for Omnivore - Companion to A Drowning Man; Emily's POV (H/P)

Into the Black - Post Ep for Conflicted (H/P)

No Return - Post Ep for A Shade of Grey (H/P Friendship)

Out of the Half Light - Post Ep for Minimal Loss (H/P)

Post Eps - Season 4 Finale Fix:

Again, all can be read as stand alones but these stories run through the same universe

Story 1: The Middle Ground - Post Ep for Demonology (H/P)

Story 2: Ties That Bind - Post Ep for Roadkill (H/P)

Story 3: That Which We Must Do - Post Ep for Hell & Back (H/P)

Being Emily Prentiss & Being Aaron Hotchner Series:

Joint effort with Chiroho. Romantic comedy pieces with me writing Emily's POV and Chiroho writing Hotch's

Story 1: A Hard Day at Work (by Chiroho)

Story 2: Breaking Aaron Hotchner - (by me)

Story 3: Victoria's Secret or Harry & David (by Chiroho)

Story 4: Secrets of the Fortress of Solitude (by me)

Story 5: Deck the Halls with Behavioral Folly (by Chiroho)

Story 6: Avoiding the Peanut Butter & Pickle Souffle (by me)

Finding Series:

Light hearted world where H/P get together on Valentine's Day. I'll be adding to this world as ideas come to me, so the numbered order of the stories will change as pre or post ideas get finished. But to be clear, the one where they get together is "Finding a Tree in the Forest." Everything else would just work around that story.

Story 1: Finding a Place to Dump the Body

Story 2: Finding a Way To Cheer Up A Cranky Bastard

Story 3: Finding a Tree in the Forest (Valentine's Day)

Story 4: Finding a Naked Man in Your Bed (Valentine's Day - Direct Sequel to Tree)

Story 5: Finding a Place to Stick The Shillelagh (St. Patrick's Day)

Clooney'verse (no connection to Morgan's dog :):

Story 1: Those Who Save Us - Christmas/Team Friendship (In Progress)

Story 2: It's All George Clooney's Fault - Humor/Romance/Smut (H/P) (Complete)

Some'verse: World where H/P get together on a random St. Patrick's Day. I'll be adding to this world as ideas come to me, so the numbered order of the stories will change as pre or post ideas get finished. But to be clear, the one where they get together is "Some Overdue Sowing of the Wild Irish Oats." Everything else would just work around that story.

Story 1: Some Time Spent in Formal Wear - Romance (H/P) (In-Progress)

Story 2: Some Overdue Sowing of the Wild Irish Oats - Romance/St. Patrick's Day (H/P) (Complete)

Story 3: Some Chicken Soup, A Box of Tissues, and a Little TLC - Romance/Hurt/Comfort (H/P) (In-Progress)

One Shots and Short Stories:

A Love Story in Three Acts - Future (H/P) - Romance/Angst

After Goodbye - (Emily/JJ) - Romance/Angst

All About Christmas Eve (H/P) - Romance/Christmas

Begin . . . And Begin Again (JJ/Morgan) - Romance/Drama

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (H/P) - Romance/Hurt/Comfort/Valentine's

Hell Hath - Humor (Morgan/Garcia)

I Loathe You, For Sentimental Reasons (Hotch/Haley)

My Screw Up - (Reid)

New York State of Mind - Future (H/P) - Romance

No Time Like the Present - Mid Season 4 (H/P)

Our Story - Future (H/P) - Romance

Of Broken Hearts & Broken Noses - Future (H/P) - Romance/Angst

Providence (H/P) - Romance/Hurt/Comfort

The Fields Of Elysia - Future (H/P) - Angst - In Progress (Hiatus)

The Tipping Point - Late Season 2 (H/P) - Dark

The Old Man Made Young Again - Future (JJ/Rossi) - Angst

Things Fall Apart - Future (JJ/Morgan) - Sequel to Things Rendered Unto Caesar - Angst/Tragedy

Things Rendered Unto Caesar (Rossi) - Prequel to Things Fall Apart - Angst/Drama

Things We Do for Love - (H/P) - Romance/Comfort

Three Long Mountains & A Wood - (H/P) - Romance/Hurt/Comfort

Multi-Chapter Fics:

Communication Breakdown - (H/P) - Romance/Drama

Fracture (H/P) - Romance/Drama/Suspense - In Progress (Hiatus)

Life, Continued (H/JJ) - Romance - In Progress (Sequel to Love, Unexpected) (Hiatus)

Love, Unexpected (H/JJ) - Romance/Angst (Prequel to Life, Continued)

Mirror, Mirror - (H/P) - Romance/Angst - In Progress (Hiatus)

Horror:

The Snake Pit - Prequel to A Pound of Flesh - Late Season 4 (H/P) - Horror

A Pound of Flesh - Sequel to The Snake Pit (H/P) - Horror - In Progress (Hiatus)

Something Wicked - Spinoff of Falling in Love With a Girl - Vampire/Horror - In Progress (Hiatus)

Alternate Universe:

A Wrinkle in Time - Complete AU (H/P) - Romance/Drama - In Progress (Hiatus)

The Gingerbread Girl - AU Flashback to Early 90s (H/P) - Romance/Drama - In Progress (Hiatus)

STORIES - DOCTOR WHO

What's Past Is Prologue - Post Journey's End, following along with Donna's life. A slight fix it. (10/Donna Friendship) - In Progress

STORIES - THE CLOSER

Post Eps:

Living and Lying and Longing and Dying - Missing Scene from Maternal Instincts (Brenda/Flynn Friendship)

STORIES - THE WALKING DEAD

Running From Monsters - Total AU, no ZA happening. A world where Daryl and Carol are both living in the same Atlanta apartment house. Carol and Sophia have just left Ed, and Daryl is their new next door neighbor. (Caryl) -- Romance - In Progress

The Days In The Cedar Forest - ZA, starting pre-show, moving along with missing scenes. Mostly working around known canon events to start, shifting to AU not long after Rick's arrival. (Caryl) -- Drama/Friendship/Romance - In Progress

The Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Season 2. A hurricane, and a missing day. (Caryl) -- Romance - Complete

This Is Now - ZA, AU where Carol and Daryl meet under different circumstances about a week before civilization begins to collapse. Events pre-show, through Season 2, reimagined (Caryl) -- Drama/Romance - In Progress

The We You Don't See - *RP Fic Only Available on Nine Lives*