I noticed the strangest thing about my WIP the other day. When I started it, it was born of a writing prompt married to an idea, so I already had some stuff written that I just had to piece together. Then, I wrote some earlier scenes - not necessarily chronologically, but mostly things that happen early in the story, in some order or another ( Read more... )

In a recent conversation with a friend, she noted that I'd had good luck with writing prompts turning into...let's call them "pieces with potential ( Read more... )

I am not even going to make any excuses. It just is what it is ( Read more... )

Suddenly, Shitty First Drafts are everywhere on LJ. And isn't that fun to say, really? Just wanted to thank triciasullivan for first bringing that gem to my attention. I keep it with all my writing stuff, and look at it often. And think about how God really does hate all the same people I hate. Weird, isn't it? Of course, triciasullivan told me about it months ago, and ( Read more... )