Title: Too Cold Outside (For Angels to Fly)
Author: gracerene
Pairing(s): Draco/Harry, mention of past Harry/Ginny, background Hermione/Ron, Dean/Ginny, Luna/Rolf
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: ~4,500 this chapter, ~63,000 total
Content/Notes: EWE, creature!fic, Veela!Draco, Auror Partners, case!fic, advent!fic, mild gore, injuries, slow burn, actual burns, snow, kissing, Christmas, cookies, drinking, explicit sexual content; full tag list on AO3
Summary: The Auror Department and the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures are working to create a new division partnering human wizards and Magical Beings in order to more effectively police crime involving any and all classifications of Magical Creature. Auror Harry Potter jumps at the chance to join the pilot programme, but he starts to regret his rashness when he discovers who he's to be partnered with: Draco Malfoy.
Author's Notes: This fic is completely written and I'll be posting a chapter a day from now until Christmas!

Read CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE on AO3

Read from the beginning on AO3

In case you've never heard of it, there's this awesome community, getyourwordsout, which is basically all about setting a yearly writing goal--either a word count or number of writing days goal--with monthly check-ins to see how you're doing. There's a really active community, spreadsheets, sprint rooms, and generally just a lot of awesome encouragement to help you reach your writing goals. I've played along for the past 4 years, and just signed up for 2020!

You can find out more about the community and how it all works here, but essentially there are 7 "levels" of participation for the word count goals raging from 75k words in a year to 500k, and three levels of participation for the habit pledge, 120/240/350 writing days. The two "tracks" are mutually exclusively, and the idea is to choose whichever goal will best motivate you to write! Personally, I "formally" sign up for a word count goal, but "informally" track my number of writing days.

There are a ton of really interesting and thought-provoking posts on writing that go up throughout the year, and there's no shortage of support if you need it.

Anyway, if you're the kind of person who likes structure and goals (like me!) then I'd totally recommend. Sign-ups are open until January 15th! :D


[img: notebook paper with "GYWO 2020" printed in large black
letters with a blue shadow. under that, "writing decathlon" in
handwritten black letters with an orange shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Twelve!
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