I may have failed miserably at doing any layouts tonight, but at least I did this ( Read more... )

And then I just found out that Yami Ryu died earlier this year. Seems like tonight is a conga line of awesome.

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Folks, TV Tropes is indeed fun, but if you attempt to apply any of the viewers are ____ tropes to your work, you're most likely misusing those things, which makes you an idiot.

Put it this way. Let me break it down for you:

1. Viewers Are Geniuses does not mean you use flowery words and assume your readers get it. It means that you abuse ( Read more... )

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(Title = this journal all the time.)

Anyway, recently applied to an internship at a pretty snazzy-looking sci-fi/fantasy publisher. Actually, it's for erotic novels, but they do a lot of LGBT lit as well, which is awesome. (Fun fact: They're also launching an imprint exclusively for trans lit too. Which is le awesome in itself, I think, ( Read more... )

One of the things I learned recently (actually last semester, but I'm just thinking about it now as I've read an article on how $h*! My Dad Says got published) is that it's possible to write fiction via social media. Now, I'm not talking about Twitter RPs or anything like that. I'm talking about honest-to-God booksThey actually have it in China ( Read more... )

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Back. Sort of. It's currently 1 AM local time, and I'm dead tired and sort of sick. Will probably make an effort to catch up on a few posts before heading to bed, but a few updates first.

Bill's birthday! Things to expect!
- New chapter of AEM. Done! Read it here or here.
- Updated AEM everywhere. (Not done but will happen soon!)
- ASBN ( Read more... )

Lol, I like how my last two posts to this DW were me bitching about LJ, and the ones before that are all old and slightly badly written fanfiction from last year. (P.S. If you want an in-character, not-as-overdramatic version of Intellectual Tango, please ignore that BS down there and go read the FFNet version. It makes me want to hate myself ( Read more... )

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