31 Amazing Days is an event, a challenge, a celebration, and a conversation that's going on throughout the month of October 2012. The idea is to choose to make every day of the month amazing by doing something awesome each day, no matter how seemingly small that something may be, and to share what you did via Facebook and/or Twitter. To read the ( Read more... )

Boy, I'm glad I did some research into crossposting between LJ and WordPress before I started writing my novel for Camp NaNoWriMo / august_writing. I did not know until today that when two blogs (say, this one and my WordPress.com blog) contain identical content, search engines assume that since they are identical, they must both be spam, and throw them out of ( Read more... )

Every August, I participate in Jan's August Writing Challenge here on LJ. The community for it is august_writing. The challenge is simply to write something, every day, for a month, and share it. I've been participating every year since 2007, and I've always enjoyed it a lot ( Read more... )

I WILL get the rest of my Big Bang finished and posted before the deadline tonight. I'm planning on getting it done first thing today. I'm working on a fanfic that is now over 5,800 words long and just getting into the third act. I didn't want to post it until I had written the whole thing. When it's done, it'll easily be over the 7,300 words I ( Read more... )

The last two times I've 'fallen in love with' a work of fiction and gotten involved in its fandom, I've written an essay about how I became a fan of that work, why I like it so much, and what being a fan has been like so far. Before that, I also wrote two other LJ entries describing how I got into two of my earlier fandoms. I've recently gotten ( Read more... )

When I first saw Inception, I felt inspired to start working on an original fiction project of mine called Secrets of the ORCAS again. That project was originally started in 2004 and was primarily inspired by The Matrix, but Inception gave me a fresh, new dose of inspiration for it ( Read more... )

I have been waiting impatiently for August to start since Sunday. The first of August is the first day of two month-long creative challenges that I'm really looking forward to.

naarmamo, National Art Making Month, challenges members to create a piece of art a day every day in August. This will be my third year participating. Any and all artistic media and ( Read more... )

I just found out about ficfrenzy through a fellow member of Nanowrimo.org, alasse_fae. She posted a link to her Team in Training page in the "Big, Fun, Scary Goal Central!" thread in the Nanowrimo forums, and it led to her LJ, which led me to ficfrenzy. Naturally, I immediately decided to join the community ( Read more... )

Several months ago, the artist behind the webcomic Dresden Codak created an event called Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day. Details, discussion, and reports on what other people did that day can be found at his discussion board here. I participated, and this is what I did ( Read more... )

From the Temporal Observation Log of Agent Britta 80065My mission to 2007 Santa Barbara was a success. As always, the temporal transporter dropped me into a private, out-of-the-way place where my sudden appearance was unlikely to be noticed: in this case, a public restroom. I was dizzy and disoriented for a moment after I arrived, but I was ( Read more... )