Periodically I attempt to pep-talk myself by reading past stories that more or less turned out okay, or that at least don't make me want to hide my head under the pillow the way the current story does. So I re-read "Dust on his hands from the sky" the other day, and had an interesting set of reactions. Most of them can be summed up as "wish I'd had ( Read more... )

Okay! That's done, and that was the one I was panicked about. The Buffy is the Hero assignment I feel is in my wheelhouse, the kind of pitch I can turn on ( Read more... )

Postmortem time! This is when I figure out what I learned from the process of writing a particular story, what I did well, and what I could have done better. And since the word has an extra meaning when associated with this story, I stick the whole thing behind a cut.

( Her fingers will learn, that lightbulbs burn... )

"Initiation" is Act 1 of a longer story. It jars our hero out of his comfortable life into a new situation, and sets up some interesting problems for him. In many ways, the real story begins right after this one ends. Postmorteming it feels a bit premature. And yet, I learned a lot by writing this one, so a partial postmortem here follows.

( The self-indulgent crack!fic... )

"Breathing": part 1 / part 2 / part 3The long nightmare is over. Now I get to write a post-mortem for it. It has some good things and some bad things, and is mostly, to my view, a mess of unrealized potential. But now I can move on. And maybe in a month I won't hate it so much ( Read more... )

Postmortems! Where I figure out what I learned from the process of writing a particular story, what I did well, and what I could have done better.

( Intentions... )

Postmortems! Where I figure out what I learned from the process of writing a particular story, what I did well, and what I could have done better.

( The request, and intentions... )

"Breaking Glass": Part 1 / Part 2(It's de-friendlocked now, though I don't think I've finished tweaking. My impatience won the battle ( Read more... )

Or fic postpromulgatios or something like that ( Read more... )