Hi friends!  I'm so overdue for a life update here on LJ, but suffice it to say I've been very busy with work.  Good news?  I got a promotion and a raise after my annual review.  I'm also successfully working towards a professional certification that will help me further along in my career.  These are all good things that make me feel like an adult ( Read more... )

( poem: resonance )

I have this button called "Authorial Intent" and whenever someone pushes that button to dismiss a reader's interpretation or to question the value of even bothering to offer interpretation, it sends me off into a tailspin of discourse on the value of authorial intent and the reader's participation in the process of creating meaning in fiction. So, ( Read more... )

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( scribblings )

So this post is not intended as instruction, per se, so much as an oversharing explanation of my self-editing process.  I thought it might be interesting for some to read, and my most recent short fic offered the perfect opportunity to talk about my writing process as it went through a fairly rigorous reworking for all its ~300 words.

"Of Heaven and ( Read more... )

First person to comment with a request will ensure that I'll do my damnedest to complete it within the next week. "Thought You Should Know Chapter 37"? I'll devote myself to it. Completely new request? I'll do my best to deliver the prompt.

Tick tock, tick tock...

Because you can, without fail, make every lesson somehow relate back to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (bonus points for Spuffy!).

The first day of a brand new year.  2011.  It'll take me at least six months to get used to writing that as the date.  Looking forward to it, 2011.  This is my your our year!

Also!  Yuletide authors have been revealed (!), so I'm going to take advantage of this post to say thanks to three incredibly talented ladies who helped me with my Yuletide fic ( Read more... )

 I really want a The Closer/Sons of Anarchy fic crossover.  Can you imagine Brenda Leigh Johnson and her Major Crimes Unit butting heads with Clay, Jax and the Samcro boys?

It'd be EPIC.

Gakked from dollsome

Here's my fic masterlist.  Also, you can check my fic tag for my most recent dozen or so stories.

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read ( Read more... )