If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately
be looking for a body in the coach. -Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do readers immediately look for?

If you told me you expect troubled characters to have epiphanies in bathrooms, I wouldn't be surprised. After all, I have an actual series by that name.

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penny_lane_42  did a voice meme where she read aloud a list of words with quite variable pronunciations. I thought it would be interesting to do the same - so I did. Unfortunately my microphone isn't good and my voice sounds muffled and staticky. I hope you can still make out what I'm saying here...

ETA: REDONE! CLICK  HERE INSTEAD!

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You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer
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Via angearia and snickfic

Reply to this post with "ME!", and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then re-post this and spread the love.

angearia did this first.

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Following in the footsteps of snickfic and angearia from the Buffy fandom, but feel free to ask me about any fandom I've dabbled in.

Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Favorite character, favorite moment, unpopular opinion, something about a fic of mine... ( Read more... )

From forest_rose   .

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TV Meme
1. Pick 10-15 of your favorite TV shows.
2. Go to IMDB, and find a quote from each show.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the show
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions.

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