For the Brits/near-Brits I know ( Read more... )

Moral of the beta I just got back:

When you write original characters, you have to tell people what they look like.

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You are writing in limited third.  You want to establish the race of the perspective character.  How do you do it ( Read more... )

So, I recently realized that I have a favorite narrative kink. It goes like this:

1) Character A and Character B are in love.
2) Character A and Character B have sex.
3) The reason for Character A and Character B having sex has nothing to do with the fact that they are in love ( Read more... )

My absolute favorite thing about writing fanfiction is the ability to start in media res. Like, no warm up, no need to set the scene, just, boom, go ( Read more... )

My wife and I are doing a huge, massive de-crap-i-fication of our house. Considering we've lived here nearly six years, we're both packrats, I produce piece of paper for a living, and we have a toddler and two cats, guess what? It's a lot of crap. I spent a good chunk of the afternoon going through old notebooks, to see if they had enough blank ( Read more... )

Seen around: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.And I'm going to alter this, because I can. First, my WIPs are all in various folders based on what they are: Caseyverse is kept separate from regular XF fic is kept separate from superlong things (MoF, etc). Second, I'm unclear if ( Read more... )

My hard drive is in the middle of a catastrophic failure, so I'm backing up what I can before taking it to the shop tomorrow for what will, hopefully, be a brand-new, covered-under-warranty hard drive. Many files are corrupted, because my computer fucking hates me ( Read more... )

I want to talk, in a rambling fashion, about the writing of AUs. In particular, the type of AU where you pick up characters--fictional or historical or whatever--who were never actually in the same room, and put them in a scenario together, which neither ever experienced, or would have experienced.

One of the funniest comments I got on my Fringe/ ( Read more... )

Author: Amal Nahurriyeh,
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