I haven't done one of these in a very long time, due to the Great Flash Drive Crash of '15 taking all my furniture and textures with it and also having to learn how to use the programme again on a Mac. Which is honestly the same as using it on a PC, except for that fact that, while Macs are very easy to use and much more stable than my laptop was, ( Read more... )

If your character has a moth daemon who technically does not really have a mouth, can that daemon smile? Can it tsk its tongue? I mean, technically, it shouldn't be able to talk, but all daemons do, so does that extend its magical powers to make noises and facial expressions its animal counterparts couldn't make ( Read more... )

When I write, I try to use the grammar and spelling that the person who's narrating, or whose POV we're occupying would use. So, American characters use American terms and spelling, and UK/Commonwealth citizens use British terms and spelling, regardless of whether the fandom is American or British-based. For characters like Edwin Jarvis and Peggy ( Read more... )

Of all the things to trip me up in writing a story, the fact that I can't make the joke I want to make because French doesn't have an onomatopoeic word for what a mouse says is really unexpected.

A selection of Google from November's fic research ( Read more... )

For some reason, everything I write lately is super long, and my brain is jumping around from story to story, and there are words everywhere. So, here is a meme to assure the general public and myself there are stories in the works. Just long ones.

Post a fragment from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick).Stories have not yet been ( Read more... )

Bad news: The story I've put several K of words into? Turns out, very not historically accurate due to my misremembering/confusing history ( Read more... )

Happy Turn Back Your Clocks Day ( Read more... )

September Googles for Stories:

flowers you can grow indoors
African violet care
down's syndrome
new york children's hospitals
pediatric pneumonia
master title
1970s coat styles
1973 musicals
cake flavors
connecticut stereotypes
hardy boys
honorary degree
napkin etiquette
new york to stamford train
paul flato

August Google Searches, slightly belated:

1920's songs
1940's antiseptic
1940's menu prices
books like Harry Potter
dog sign language commands
gameskeeper dogs
girding loins
history of pregnancy tests
how long are all the harry potter movies combined
italian interjections
muslim athletic clothes
ring cycle
peter lawford
history of child custody