Never thought it would be this hard to start writing a fic. "Hospital Central" provided its viewers with almost an almost embarrassment of riches with which to base a Maca/Esther fanfic story. Seriously, 11 seasons worth (8-19), and some very heavily. It also treated them as any other couple...well, actually better than 95% of the show's couples ( Read more... )

I finally finished my episode of the Otalia Virtual Season, All Out of Fight, and posted it this morning. After a mix of procrastination, increased job workload and sickness, it was a long time coming. But now I can breathe ( Read more... )

Cross-posted to Celtic-Dragon's BlogI was talking with my mother about a week or so ago about writing, specifically my interest in writing fan-fiction, which she doesn’t entirely get. Why not write some original fiction, was her point. 'Why write a story with characters and a setting that someone else has set up?' she would ask. There’s myriads of ( Read more... )

Originally posted 11th May 2010

The Otalia Virtual Season (OVS) began as a project born from a group of people who wanted to keep the love story between Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera, along with the stories of their family, and friends, and the various citizens of Springfield (as shown in the long time daytime serial, Guiding Light) alive. ( Read more... )

I have finally finished writing and editing my episode for the Otalia Virtual Season. Mine is episode 12, called "Family Matters" and it will be going live this Sunday (9th May). If you haven't yet had a chance to read any of the OVS, head over to the link above and read through some amazing stories. The first season of the Otalia Virtual Season ( Read more... )

Wow, I haven't posted in a while. Since last Thursday, I've been down in Largo, FL on vacation; down visiting my mother. I've had pretty decent weather since I've been here. We did have a half day of heavy rain on Sunday or Monday ( Read more... )

Is this what I get for eating carrot cake right before going to sleep ( Read more... )

With permission from the author of the survey, I've put up her questions here for folks to read, and her email address for interested parties to send on their answers to her. Her e-mail is: jae_s1978 [at] yahoo [dot] de (to avoid spambots), and her website is Jae's Fiction.

Here's the full "questionnaire":

1) How many writers/on how many ( Read more... )

I had an interesting email today asking me about resource help (books, websites, dictionaries) for writers of fanfic (and presumeably for other writing as well) and for assistance for beta readers.

This is my response.

Tips for writers:

Fandom Specific: If it's for a specific fandom, I will look up both official websites and some of the ( Read more... )