Even though I laughed it off at the time and even took some time to mock it, this complaint comment I got a while back has been lingering and festering even though I hadn't even realized it. (Like the one I got last year on 'Rusted Wheel' saying what a shame it is that I'm such a lazy writer.) The more recent one accuses me of shirking my writerly ( Read more... )

I was re-reading Linda Bedroll's Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife for the millionth time last week, and I'm wondering if it's strange that I want fanfic for this fanfic book? I want Hannah/Goodwin fic to be specific. Because...yes. That would be awesome. And despite the idea for a fic circling in my head, I have neither the writing time nor the period ( Read more... )

Why is it the day that you are completely cut off from laptop and even paper and pen is inevitably the time a long stalled out fic suddenly comes to life in your head? Why is it that you spend the entire day with the PERFECT string of words circling endlessly in your brain (Omg, that was how this scene was supposed to go!), and you get home really ( Read more... )

Hey guys. I'm alive. Really. Just had some unexpectedly awesome things happen that have sort of temporarily taken over my life. Just one more week of insanity though, and things should settle in again. Writing has sort of fallen to the wayside, sadly. Not that I haven't been writing, just not writing effectively. The next chapter of my Ginny fic ( Read more... )

How to Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) by Austin Kleon

If you write, draw, create...read this. I found it pretty damn inspirational.

So, just some random thoughts swirling around in my head that have been induced by NaNo this year.

( Romantic Fiction Experiments, Oh My! )

I have strayed once more into the great wilderness of writing. You know that place, where the paths are impossible to see and you begin to believe that maybe you'd hallucinated them all in the first place. Clearly it is time to take a deep breath and remember the two best pieces of writing advice I have ever been given:

#1- Done is better than good.

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( Wherein I recap the Mary Sue debate and get snarky. Surprise! )

Writing Lesson Learned (and Relearned) #28,490

Story stalled out? 90% done and just not finishing itself? One mediocre scene in the middle that you don't want to even read, let alone finish writing, keeping everything else from getting finished?

DELETE IT.

Delete, delete, delete. Don't be afraid, just do it. Delete!!

Who knew that one little key could ( Read more... )

So...I'm still alive. Really. I'm in this weird stretch I hit sometimes when the words just stop (usually because there is some plot hole or major issue with a story that I refuse to admit). This is when my reading phase kicks in. I get strangely voracious after not reading much of anything for a long time. I think it's the distraction factor. My ( Read more... )