I'm on a bit of a roll, having finished the charity project (please go here if you're interested in donating $10 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and getting not only my story but a nice collection of fics from several fandoms, none of which will be available publicly before December) and now close to being done with the Sherlock fanfic ( Read more... )

Should she follow up with a nuclear warhead?

While replying on a H/Hr forum, I was racking my brain trying to think of whether an author has rewritten a book with significant changes after publication and could only think of Stephen King’s The Stand. And even then King only restored much of what had been cut - he didn’t make any changes to the ( Read more... )

In writing the scene where McGonagall prepares the Hogwarts letters for sending, it JUST occurred to me that in much of Europe dates are listed day-month-year rather than month-day-year. Can any Brits verify that I should write full dates in the text as 31 August 1980 rather than August 31, 1980 ( Read more... )

Stolen from tsarina

First I tried different chapters of my novel-in-progress. Every one of them gave me:


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I left my flash drive with all my alchemy-novel stuff at home.

*picks a random scene to flesh out*

I've been working some on a plot bunny that has been patiently waiting for years. I had started the story, then over Christmas I got a great idea for a scene later on and ran with it. Which left the unlovely problem of trying to stitch the two scenes together while keeping the seams from showing too much ( Read more... )

I just crossed 3000 words on my fic for a_pumpkin_xmas. I'm barely halfway through what I wanted to include.

Yikes.

Who was it that said they'd like to beta? I hope to have this draft done before the weekend's over...

I found out this week via the BPAL forum that a Whole Foods store in Roswell, Georgia, has begun carrying about a dozen different BPAL perfumes from the permanent catalog. A BPAL fan who works there went through the fairly long and arduous process of getting BPAL on the approved vendors list for the stores in the Southern region ( Read more... )

( Authorial Meanderings )