Yeah, it's been a loooong time. Let's see if I can get back into the swing of things. So, five things make a post ( Read more... )

I usually pride myself on being able to put myself into the heads of my characters. I like to think it makes me more able to make them real people, even those who appear for a brief sentence or paragraph. Yet I have some areas that apparently I'm blind to ( Read more... )

I was reading through my notes for my third-in-the-trilogy story, and I have hit a road block. I want to show (rather than tell) how sensing other's emotions has had an impact on my MMC. I can tell easily enough, but it's hard to show it ( Read more... )

I have finished my first draft of the first part of the trilogy. Yay! Not complete yet--not till I have a chance to do some editing (I already know of some I can cut and some I need to add), but the arc works, and goes into part two the way it should ( Read more... )

I gakked this from hotarunokokoro. It is surprisingly accurate, except that this particular demon doesn't always stay an inner demon...

Your Cute Monster Says Your Inner Demon is Depression
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I got another chapter in my prequel finished, so go me! I now have to kill off a major character (he has to be dead before the original story's start), and I know how it's going to happen...already wrote that part. I just have to figure out how to get him to where he dies. Then I have to have my protag recover from the trauma of the death, meet ( Read more... )

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Thanks to my brother, I now have a Facebook thing. If I knew how to direct anyone there, I'd send out a 'join my friendlist' notice, but I'm not sure how that works yet. About the only people I've added have been relatives so far ( Read more... )

I just came back from spending three weeks at my dad's place. He's in the process of getting it ready for sale, so he asked me to go through stuff and if I saw anything I wanted, that one of my brother's hadn't claimed or that he didn't want himself, I could take it ( Read more... )

Our school district had three weeks of extra long days to make up our snow and mud days. Basically, the Board decided rather than take days from our spring break, they'd just add an hour a day to each school day for a while and make up the missing days that way. So instead of the students getting through at 3:30 (our normal dismissal time), they ( Read more... )