Gacked from awanderingbard:

Name any story I've written or character I've written about and I'll tell you 3 OOC things about it/him/her. What gave me the idea for the story, how it changed from the original, what I took out or couldn't get in, who the character is based on, etc. The mechanics of writing it.

Play if you want, gack if you want. :)

Angie

It looks like the fanfic plagiarists are taking it up to the next level. elisa_rolle reviews romantic fiction in her journal and recently got some comments which indicate that one of the books she's reviewed was originally posted as Star Trek slashfic ( Read more... )

It's always annoying to be reading a book, even a work of fiction, and come across places where the writer is pretty clearly faking it and doing a horrible job. When there are things you know are false being blithely tossed about, with no apparent plot-related reason for stretching the truth or twisting a fact, it's hard not to think some scornful ( Read more... )

I was invited a little while back to be a regular columnist over at Romancing the Blog (which was incredibly flattering :D ) and my first column went up this morning. A bit earlier than I was expecting -- I set it for 6am as per instructions and just assumed that'd be Eastern time, but whatever. :) It's up here if you want to read it; it's about ( Read more... )

Torquere is doing a blitz of short stories especially for Halloween. Mine is called Chasing Fear. Anyone who can guess which universe it's set in gets a virtual cookie ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's October already [laugh/flail] but at least this time I have a fairly free October to think about what I'm going to write for NaNoWriMo, and maybe even jot down some plot/character/worldbuilding notes ahead of time, unlike last year when I was thinking up a name for the protag on November 1st while staring at an empty Word file ( Read more... )

It's up! [beam] Wow, that was fast! I just responded to the edits last night and it's up already. Thanks to my editor, Shawn, for being very cool and very speedy. Champagne and sparkling cider on me! :D

Learning to Love Yourself

Check out this article in Wikipedia. It's about a particular linguistic oddity....

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.I had to keep reading and squint for a while before I got what it's ( Read more... )

Stacia Kane, who writes urban fantasy romances, has gotten together with a few other people I've never heard of (although I'm sure they're pretty cool [duck]) and formed The League of Reluctant Adults, a group of writers who are into urban fantasy comedy. This struck me as an incredibly neat idea, mainly because urban fantasy rocks and so does ( Read more... )

Well, I will be. :D I submitted one of my stories ("Learning to Love Yourself" with the serial numbers suitably filed off) to Torquere Press and they said they wanted it. I've been boinging semi-quietly about this since then, but today I got the contract and now I feel like I can boing in public, LOL! This is so incredibly cool -- I've wanted ( Read more... )