When I said it would be long, I wasn't kidding...

Alien Invasion fic has just broken 90,000 words. It is now as long as RR&R.

There is still 1/3 of the outline left to go.

Some musings on rating a fic for violence (as opposed to sex)

So, flist, I have a hypothetical question for you. If you were rating a piece of fiction for violence, how would you rate a fight scene wherein a character is decapitated and the pov character is covered in his/her arterial blood? For clarification, I'll add that the smell/feel/etc. of the blood is not described, just its presence, so it's not graphically described decapitation.

( Because I swear I rated that PG-13 when I wrote it a few years ago, but maybe I actually rated it R and am misremembering because my comfort level with writing action scenes has gone up since then. Either way, I'm not sure which rating would be more appropriate, because I'm more used to ratings being determined by sexual content )