Since I've posted a couple of stories lately, folks have been emailing me saying, hey, where the heck have you been? Well, a while back I volunteered for the Systems Committee at the OTW, where I've been spending my free time typing in the name of fandom ( Read more... )

well, holy sheet. Christmas has been very, very good to me.

my short story, Fucking With Sandburg, has just won a Light My Fire Award in the Day In The Life category (Loft Stories Award).

My story Complicated won for the Clue Bus (First Time) category ( Read more... )

2008 was a pretty good year for me, writing-wise. Not as prolific as some previous, perhaps, but I had an album to release and have rediscovered my love of ceramics.

This is because Nos wants us to.

( Year End Meme + links to all this year's stories )

(...this one, at least.)

Okay, we'll put Ray on his back on the kitchen table, hee--oops, knocked over the butter dish--okay, that's working...yeah, make him squirm, Fraser...hello, lube? oh, BUTTER DISH heheh...jeez, uhmmmmm Ray is...that's beautif-- [goes to her bunk. returns] --perfect, now Vecchio catches them, has Fraser--no, wait, his lower ( Read more... )

So, this is all (once again) cesperanza's fault. It all started with a posting she made in which...well, I'll let you read it for yourself if you're interested, but what came to me while reading it was we need better archiving. Not that existing archives aren't beautiful and whatnot, but there is no tie in with LJ, and the LJ community is thriving, and many ( Read more... )

Well, considering I spent painful hours writing about my own writing for my recent Fannish Year in Review, I felt it was only due justice to make the writers of some of my fave stories of last year squirm in equal embarrassment ( Read more... )

nos4a2no9 said I should do this, and I am but her willing slave.
The timing seems appropriate since I'm nearing my one year anniversary
in due South Fandom. I came to dS on January 19th, and discovered The Sentinel
in May (it was all cesperanza's fault.)

2007 Fannish Year in Review

Wherein I link to everything I've written this past year and then yammer about ( Read more... )

I've been on an h/c reading kick since my illness, and it got me to thinking of the many different types of h/c, and how my particular situation would *not* have made a good h/c plot (oh, alas.)
This led to the following categorizations. Please feel free to add your own, hopefully with Sentinel or dS examples:

• Stubbed-toe h/c - When a character ( Read more... )