i was writing a post for my blog today and trying to find a post i'd written here a couple years ago, which led to me rereading a lot of old journal entries, which led to me thinking / wondering about why i don't really use a journaling site anymore. i don't know-- i think over the years i've withdrawn from LJ/DW as a community space, i think (? it ( Read more... )

it's been another few weeks. things are getting better. best is how i have five days off at the beginning of next week. time to do some serious writing, yo. i've been plugging away at it for a bit, with some good results. i actually feel like this thing might one day become a novel, a real one i can actually sell that people might actually want to ( Read more... )

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i need to marathon covert affairs and pay serious attention to auggie and jai's stories, because sincerely, i'm thinking of both asking for and offering to write them for yuletide. guhhh. i still haven't watched last week's ep or tonight's, but i'm excited ( Read more... )

it's probably not good that the story i started "on a whim" at the XMFC meme is now longer than my big bang needs to be, huh? oh well. when a story eats my brain who am i to argue ( Read more... )

i love it when a plan comes together. and by "a plan" i mean "two stories at once". i spent all of today working on my space noir for 'universal constant' and i wrote about 2k, maybe more. it was the part i was basically most concerned about when setting out to write it, too, which is gratifying to have unbottled it. it's kinda funny actually, ( Read more... )

mild nervous breakdown instead of watching all my shows tonight? not how i wanted to spend the evening. now instead of being full of flail over sunday's game of thrones, and the continuation of the neal/peter love story white collar, and new covert affairs for the first time in six months, i'm puffy-eyed with a headache about to pass out asleep. ( Read more... )

also, if any of you lot are on AO3, i'm just paying attention enough now to notice that you can now subscribe to people! huzzah! so if any of you are interested in the fic i might possibly write in the future, aside from my star trek noir thing (possibilities / likely stories would be in doctor who, star trek, the eagle or kraken fandoms) you may ( Read more... )

tom & lorenzo, how i love those catty bitches. they posted a bunch of chris hemsworth pics and called it "chris hemsworth-- just because." and i say hell to the yeah.

( delicious, delicious eye candy. )

so i thought it was about time i put up an actual book review since part of this journal was initially intended to be for that purpose.... so read on for a review of what turned out to be one of my favorite books of 2010, China Mieville's Kraken.

( hark, capital letters! )