I had a Thought last night while I was madly pounding out my 500 words ( Read more... )

Is writing emotionally-charged scenes without either understating or going overboard.

I have a scene wherein Ben finds the video of the girl in the case we open on him brooding about actually being murdered. And the version I posted earlier for The Usual Suspects was...okay.

But it was just okay. And if it's "just okay" for someone like me, ( Read more... )

The direction I went skittering off in last night with the Zombies! story has decided to turn on its own tail and go off in an even more diabolical direction ( Read more... )

x1000.

Because, not only did I turn him blond.

I emphasized the dark circles under his eyes and darkened the five-o'clock shadow.

AND THEN.

I added a vampire bite to his wrist.

Someone just shoot me.


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*laughs evilly*

*runs away*

I don't even know if I'm going to use what I just wrote or not--at this point I don't see, at all, where it actually fits in the narrative.

But, DAMN. I'm mean.

I make wallpaper.


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I just introduced a character in one of Ben's awful flashbacks, and she's awesome.

And then she dies.

And then Fifi dies, after Ben comes up from the flashback. And he can't do a blessed thing about it, because he can't even frakking move at that point. So, he gets to relive an Army buddy dying in front of him, while he's helpless to stop it, ( Read more... )

So. I've been watching "True Blood." Being as it's a vampire series based on a book series I happen to like quite a bit, I thought I'd check it out ( Read more... )

Antubis, you are horrible and should be taken out and shot. Or at least given a good stern talking to.

I may (or may not) have an endgame coming together.

It is one in which Ben gets to make a Sophie's Choice over his girls. And in which he tells Ange he loves her. In front of Janni. And then Ange will say "I know, puppy, now go save your ( Read more... )

Yeah, either I'm screwed up or this character is ( Read more... )