The first day of 2012 has brought me a real live winter storm complete with a winter storm warning!    Theoretically we're going to get 8-10 inches over the next 24 hours so I'm spending today kind of hoping that tomorrow the library closes due to weather so I can stay home and watch the Winter Classic.  (I'm still annoyed it's in the freaking ( Read more... )

Well, it is November (Rabbit Rabbit!) and thus the siren call of NaNoWriMo does again try to convince me that I ought to try it.

But I know how that tale ends.  I try, I fail, my brain goes pzzt over a whole bunch of not managing to to write 50,000 words in a month.  Which, you know, is reasonable cause all y'all who succeed are insane.  :D

Let's see ( Read more... )

Give me two characters from a fandom (or two different fandoms, that would be fun) I know of and I will tell you how their first kiss was.

Stolen from everywhere, crack is very, very good, and this is apparently a day of depressing stuff so glee in the form of cracky pairings and kisses!

...also I think I will be bored at work tomorrow and need ( Read more... )

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And a late Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovely people on my flist (which means all of you, darnit)  ;)

Like a lot of you (or I have read a lot of it today), Valentine's Day often sucks. The one year that I was in a relationship over it, my grandfather passed away in the morning which didn't really enhance any romantic possibilities.  Oh, and ( Read more... )

Wow...this is a fantastic post by matociquala about the importance of setting and voice in writing.  She also goes after the problem of mistaking fashionable writing for good writing.

And while I'm rec'ing a post on setting, let me complain about the book ( Read more... )

Oh god. I'm writing fiction again. I can't decide if this is excellent or if I should just destroy my laptop now. Wow. I've been writing a series of sketches linked by character and place. Nothing big, but one or two are almost good. This is terrifying.