Thanks to Daniel the Tiger, my child decided suddenly she just plain had to make a storybook ( Read more... )

I frequently have really vivid, plot-filled dreams while lying half-awake nursing the kid; this was last night's. It was more complete and emotionally rounded than most, and felt kind of like the setup for a fantasy novel or several, so I thought I'd write it down before it fades ( Read more... )

I had a new setting stampede into my half-awake mind this morning, leave muddy footprints all over the place, and rearrange all the furniture, but despite it having left all the necessary ingredients of a compelling short story scattered about, I lack the skill to reconstruct them and hand 'em to you.

However, on a friend's recommendation (Hi, dormouse-in-tea! * ( Read more... )

I know already #10 needs some moderately-serious revision, but that may or may not happen before December; likewise, a lot of the details of exactly-how-the-space-station-is-shaped will be changing in the second draft. Just so you know ( Read more... )

Yes, I know we did this before and I stood you up. But I *have* printed it out; it's not my fault my life went to little flinders all around me right after I posted that and it derailed my process. Or, at least, it's not *yours ( Read more... )

So there I was, lying in bed, snuggled up to the pillow, and pairs of words kept coming into my head. I realized if I told it to go away I'd be mad at myself in the morning, so I got paper, and damn if it didn't turn into a sestina. No, I don't know what it's from or about or whatnot; I only wrote it, after all. Maybe it'll make more sense in the ( Read more... )

Yet Another of my pieces of deep-background roleplaying-game-based fiction. It takes place in the world of St. Mark's Academy, which is a setting of my own devising for White Wolf Gaming Studios' game Changeling: the Dreaming ( Read more... )

Gamefic again, this time from the pov of Kate Jamison, my Son of Ether in cadhla's Victorian Mage campaign. We had a session last night, and she did a helluva lot of things I didn't expect. camwyn has inspired me, somewhat; I'm going to let Kate talk to herself.

( Not porno. No, really. )

A new character, deep background. This is my Celestial Chorus mage, at a key turning-point in his life. He is not yet Awakened at this point. Unlike some of my pieces, it's actually fairly straightforward; no blood or dark weirdness, I promise. It is, however, pretty much porno (or, if you happen to think it classy enough, erotica). Proceed at your ( Read more... )

Another fiction vignette, this one in the form of a first-person narrative. No, it's not me. it's my character. :-> It's writing practice, and also an attempt to exorcise more creative demons that WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE. Enjoy.

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