You know what? It's NaNoWriMo time again and this year I'm writing a StarWars fic. I've written the same original story for the last three NaNoWriMos but this year I felt like a change ( Read more... )

For the first time in a couple of years I've joined up to Yuletide again. Usually in the stress of planning for NanoWrimo I tend to forget to sign up ( Read more... )

You know what? I've spent a lot of time working on long novel-length stories. Some of these have been drafts for so long that they outlive my laptops. My laptops get used daily for uni work and personal stuff, and carted around each day so they get pretty hammered. I save back-ups on hard-drives and on cloud services ( Read more... )

So, I tried out this 'I write like...' quiz. You paste in some writing of yours and it does an analysis to decide what famous author your writing is like. So I copied my most recent fic into the box. Got several different results, depending on which fandom it was ( Read more... )

Ganked from were_lemur.

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

Okay, what am I doing at 12:37 am? I was being constructive and working on my thesis earlier today. Now? I'm looking at random acts of creativity, including a gingerbread Minas Morgul, a gingerbread Tardis, a massive lolly model of Helm's Deep and the follow-up Battle of Pelennor FieldsI have also signed up to do 100 Beast Wars fics based on a ( Read more... )

My honours don't start til July but I was on campus anyway last Wednesday for Host Day.

( Host Day at Uni )