1. The middle act should go in a NEW direction that's exciting and surprising, not be "and then some stuff happens you don't really need to know".

2. The character's concerns should be petty (for a comedy) or weighty (for a drama) but they themselves should take them seriously. The characters don't overreact. That would be forced. The characters ( 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... )

This is something that is likely obvious to other people but appeared in my head and I couldn't easily put into words ( Read more... )

Account created: 2010-04-11.

I think I signed up to read something specific, or something like that, and then didn't use my account for quite a while. I first actually posted a story for Yuletide three years ago.

Total stories: 4One for each yuletide, plus one original fic I decided to post publicly. I've toyed with the idea of writing fanfic ( Read more... )

ProcrastinationI never did enough writing for it to be a major source of procrastination, but when I did, I often did "not starting" or "having started, not wanting to stop because I don't expect to be able to start again tomorrow ( Read more... )

There was a bishop who really loved golf. Whenever she got a bit stressed, she'd slip off to the golf course for a quick 18 holes. All she could talk about was reducing her score for one particular hole, and it got to the point where she was spending more time on the golf course than with her congregation ( Read more... )