I am basically copying this straight from PF, hence the talk about blanket boxes and such. But still applicable to here, I think.

Original here.

What is a blanket box?

A blanket box is a way to break the ice on your new Pillowfort. This one is themed about Writing! To reply to the questions, create your own post (or several posts).

Rules

• The first rule ( Read more... )

 So I signed up for one of those editing program things that you see online.  They've been on my mind recently; one of the Nano winner prizes was a discount and chance to win a free lifetime membership at a similar online program. I didn't win the lifetime membership, and the discount wasn't all that fantastic, but it made me wonder if those types ( Read more... )

 I sent out a nerve-wracking email today to Pen's mailing list. There's a new EU law on the books that has some pretty steep fines for those who operate mailing lists without the express consent of the people on them - which means that basically, if there's anyone who lives in the EU on Pen's mailing list, and I don't verify that they want to be on ( Read more... )

 April was almost a complete wash when it came to writing. Andrew had spring break the first week, and Charlie had spring break the first two weeks, so I got very little writing done. We did have a lot of fun that first week, though - we went to the frankly awesome playspace at the mall and checked out a new grocery store (for some reason, Andrew ( Read more... )

 I'm not sure how I did it, but I wrote 500,000 words this year. I keep thinking it's a mistake, I must have miscounted: but no, every time I look at the files and my spreadsheet, I realize that yes, I really did write half a million words in 11 months, and yes, the vast majority of them will probably be up on AO3 by this time next year (hopefully ( Read more... )

 I was going to write a very comprehensible post about Ramadan, but I have a headache caused by lack of caffeine because I switched from coffee to tea this morning and thus am not much in the mood to try a craft one at the moment. But there's a dozen things I want to post about, so here we are, with yet another list of things.

1. The switch from ( Read more... )

 I have the itchy fingers that usually accompany my urge to write something when there's nothing I MUST be writing at the moment. I have half a dozen things that need to be edited or revamped or plotted, but nothing to be written.

(Okay, that's not true. I have a porn scene to write for a Pen short, but I'm disinclined to write it at the moment ( Read more... )

The pre-orders for The Country Alpha are live - actually, they've been live since last weekend, I've just dropped the ball about promoting them, which is mostly for stupid reasons along the lines of not preparing better on my end. Anyway, they're live now and I've started the media blitz about promoting them.


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Charlie woke up at 4:30 this morning, and didn't go down for a nap until 10am.  Incidentally, coffee is not working.  I made myself a very large mocha (I figured out that if I add cocoa powder to the coffee grounds in my French press, it turns out super smooth nom nom nom) and I still want a nap ( Read more... )

( Hmm. )