I have been AWOL so often and for so long over the summer that I'm pretty sure that I'm just talking to myself on this blog now :( These things happen, I suppose.

I am soldiering through my writer's block. Last weekend I almost finished something that's been eating away at me for the past 6 weeks. I decided not to push it and give myself a good ( Read more... )

Stolen from snailbones. Author Elizabeth Gilbert discusses the psychological damage of the modern "genius" and perhaps a healthier way to negotiate our creative tendancies. With a really amusing Tom Waits story in the mix.

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I don't really believe in relocating part of your creativity outside of yourself, primarily because I don't know how you manage that ( Read more... )

I have finished ONE of my Xmas Gift Fic prompts. So, ummm, yay?

I keep sitting down in front of my laptop staring at the Blinking Cursor of Judgment and then wander away muttering "nopenopenope..."
I'm considering an IV of caffeine to make this happen.


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It's been all hell-bent-for-leather here for the last 3-4 weeks and now... I have some free time? REALLY???? So I'm posting before all of that ends again ( Read more... )

Holy crap but I've got a lot of WIPs on the go at the moment ( Read more... )

I received a request today to allow Morally Indefensible to be translated into Chinese. I was flattered and agreed (there is very little that I could do to stop it if the translator were determined, and I appreciated the polite request). I'm not sure if there is a large Chinese CM audience out there but I suppose anything is possible ( Read more... )

I've had this story idea floating around for over a year that I've never written down because, although I originally had a PURPOSE and an ENDING for it, they were awful and I despaired and sorta shelved it.

Well, this morning I woke up from a vivid dream in which I have rewritten the ending and the result is SPECTACULAR (even if I say so myself). ( Read more... )

I skipped yesterday because I felt less-than-delightful, and I had TWO illustration roughs to do, and I decided to write ALL THE THINGZ over the weekend instead because my muse hit me with the inspiration hammer so hard that my head is still ringing from it, and I had to watch the L.A. Kings proceed to the Stanley Cup final (because my beloved ( Read more... )

Yep, this is totally a thing. I asked it to (pleasepleaseplease) solve my WIP problems, but all it gave me was this:


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Heads up, peeps: this is a post about writing (mine, specifically) and why it is so haaaaarrrrrrrd *whines*. For those who have better ways to spend their time (i.e. watching cute cat videos, observing paint dry, or speaking to fungus), just move along.

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