A thing of usefulness for you: Draft. This is how you should be beta-ing fic, friends. Screw google docs! This thing is specifically about editing drafts of text-centric documents collaboratively. Which is, I note, exactly what beta-ing fic is.

The dude who wrote it seems like a nice guy who was scratching his own itch. Plus it supports Markdown! ( Read more... )

What, you want an entry? It's November now! I wrote an entry a day in October and that's enough of that!

Okay, I did have a topic for today. I have been reading off and on on the flist that people have stories on this computer and not that computer and can or can't work on them as a result. This means that these unfortunates are not using Dropbox. ( Read more... )

"Thusia" commentary is in progress. This one might take a couple of days. It's a lot longer than the other stories I just did! I've got some notes from the original plot summary and so on to include with that one, so you can compare the plan with the result. Er, if anybody is interested in these things. I love fic postmortems. They're part of my ( Read more... )

The death of Steve Jobs got me thinking. ( About death and epiphanies and focus… )

Fandom of a Number Greater Than One: Hey, forsytesaga1967 exists! I am not alone! See, somebody else has written a fannish manifesto for it! She introduces the aunts and uncles! It is perfect! Seriously, read that and see if the series is for you or not.

ETA: And you can watch the entire first episode on YouTube. Start with part one here.As you know, Soames is ( Read more... )

The Pinboard dude is racking up the fandom credibility points, mostly because he wants us as customers. He's running a bookmarking service, not a social media service as AVOS wants to; we want a bookmarking service. Check his twitter feed for the details. Also check out the google doc full of fandom feature requests for Pinboard. The important ( Read more... )

I think I'm probably going to have to do some deliberate promotion for the kink meme. Nobody's commenting on fills, which probably means nobody's reading. I know the fandom is quiet these days since that last burst of energy from rolling our collective eyes at the season 8 comics. But are we dead? That dead? I think not. I hope not. Eek. I'd rather ( Read more... )

I'm tickled pink to report that "Breaking Glass", a story about Giles and Ethan on holiday, about magic, and about portals, got some lovely attention from the Fang Fetish Awards round 9. The notes from the judges made me particularly happy.

And I note that flistians sahiya, ubiquirk, firefly_124, and mireille719 also got some well-deserved kudos. The fandom was ready for stories ( Read more... )

4 bottles of BPAL on the way, according to the click and ship this morning. Always a joyous moment, seeing the mail from the USPS. Not quite as joyous as opening the box and inhaling, but close.

23 tasks in my task list, and still growing. I have been putting my entire life into OmniFocus. I'm not sure if I'm scared by seeing the extent of my ( Read more... )

And in closing, I'd like to note that I am now sold on the virtues of Google docs for beta-reading stories. I refuse to write them using it (I have a perfectly good text editor that I've been using for ten years and can make dance without looking at the keyboard) but for getting and making comments long-distance, it's a win.