Time for author reveals!

I wrote: Interview with a University Snake Wrangler, expanding Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence into a student newspaper interview. The comments were very enthusiastic about it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28297368

But that was just a treat, my main story was hase Wasps in the Library for Naomi Novik's ( Read more... )

Darchi's tumbled to her hands and knees on the dark hillside, nearly going head over heels on the slight slope. She hissed under her breath, and the undead owl perched on her shoulder hooted reproachfully.

"I am being careful, Grandmama!" she hissed back. "You're supposed to warn me! That's why we were so pleased to find the owl."

The owl hooted ( Read more... )

Bloody Jack

A young adult or children's book about a girl who is orphaned in the late 1700s, is lost in london childrens gangs for a bit, and ends up joining navy ship as one of the ship's boys. It's written very well. It's very reminiscent of Hornblower or M&C, but doesn't feel like a retelling.

Language in historical booksThere's no choices ( Read more... )

We haven't had the reveal yet, but how did writing yuletide go? This was my fourth year, and third year of doing nanowrimo as well, after which yuletide always feels a lot more possible ( Read more... )

Woo, I did nanowrimo! Well, not quite, but I did about 25,000 words between November and maybe a little head start in October. I continued a story which had been knocking around in my head before ( Read more... )

Producing wordcountLast month I did another NaNoWriMo month. I wasn't sure if I would, as I've been more wanting to work on techniques that work in shorter works, than in planning a whole novel, but idea that grabbed me was for a superhero novel I'd been doing bits on before that, so that's what I went with ( Read more... )

I nominated for Yuletide. After lots of "how could I possibly choose", I decided that I might as well pick three works I liked and thought would make good fic, and not feel like I had to pick the BEST three. I can probably dredge up more obscure things I loved, and would really love to see fic from, but I find it hard to bring to mind things I've ( Read more... )

I have decided I do not have more time to spend revising my novel. I really enjoyed it, although it is still pre even a first draft. But thank you ever so much to everyone who was excited to see it, if you're ok reading the rough version, please do, thank you so much ( Read more... )

As I passed Aunt Vera's, I wandered up to the open garage to see how she was doing. A week ago, she had borrowed mum's bar billiard's table. Mum had said it would be good for her to give the mad science a rest occasionally and try a different hobby. I was excited to see what she'd turned it into ( Read more... )

The fic I received was all the words that ever were or ever will be , a telling of some of the events in Bujold's Curse of Chalion from the Daughter's perspective. It didn't tell anything new, but I loved how it empathised with the Daughter's frustration, and told some of the story of her Father's curse from her point of view.

And I wrote Escape ( Read more... )