Okay, so. I have Established Normal, and Broken It. I have shot my protagonist in the chest. I have an outline right up to the Resolution ( Read more... )

The story for the Baen Adventure Fantasy contest. Deadline: June 30. This one is making me crazy. It'll be great if I can get it under control, but I'm terribly afraid it's bigger than 8000 words.

Edits on the Tattoo story for subbing to the Athena's Daughters antho. Deadline: June 30. This one, at least, will be relatively easy to fix. I think ( Read more... )

So, wow, the RP that ate my brain has also, apparently, eaten my LJ. Has it really been since the 3rd that I updated this thing ( Read more... )

This is wild. Or maybe it's just me, being overly-invested. Hell if I know ( 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... )

A thousand words cracked on the Zombie!Fic ( Read more... )

Yeah, okay, I just got a horrible mental image of the very last scene.

There is something very very very wrong with me and I hate my brain ( Read more... )

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