So this is going around:

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do you immediately look for?

My fic's here, if anyone feels like giving it a go (or even can; I couldn't do this for most of the people I follow, even if I read all their fic ( Read more... )

I was having a discussion with
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In case anyone was wondering, the official word on the LJ outage is another DDoS attack. (Any DW slowness is for a different reason, and is much less drastic.) My brain went three places: "Ooh, I hope I get more paid account time", "I wish the RP would work", and "I hope LJ's back by next Wednesday, so I can post my Big Bang". Priorities ( Read more... )

I may have started writing an Inception/Thor crossover. As in, I may already have 1500 words of it and an outline for the ending. I probably won't finish it any time soon, but a quick spoiler: it has Loki. (Shock ( Read more... )

I'm particularly interested to see what people think about these questions, so if you're not doing the meme, share your thoughts on any of them! (All the questions.)

( Day 15: Warnings. )

You don't know how happy I am right now: I slept eight hours last night, instead of the four here and there I've been getting for the past few days, and the Internet was interesting while I was asleep, so I have loads to read. So great!

A couple quick links:

- An article about Muse. (Warning: discussion of alcoholism and drugs.) I was sad there ( Read more... )

I was going to take yesterday off; I have a busy few weeks ahead of me, and I have to be careful to give myself some down time so I don't get overloaded. But I wasn't having much luck relaxing, and I'd outlined my new Vampire Big Bang plot bunny when I had sleeping problems last night, so I figured I'd write a couple hundred words and call it a ( Read more... )

I've been writing these when I'm too tired/out of it to work on my actual fanfic. I'm sure it's no surprise to anyone that I have up to day 21 written out.

(The questions.)

( Day three: Favorite characters to write. )

1. June Finish: we're down to the last week! I hit neither of my goals, but it was mostly because I changed my goals mid-week and started writing ALL THE THINGS. (And it's only getting worse, in the best possible way.) I'd just like to make notable progress on everything before July 1st hits.

2. Thanks to
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I'm actually being in-person social tonight - and actually, I'll be doing this a lot over the next few days! Gasp - so here's a mish-mash post for your enjoyment.

+ Rise Against's video for "Make It Stop (September's Children)" made me cry. (Warning: depictions of bullying and suicidal thoughts.)

+ It's funny, rahnekat1 and I nearly had the exact same ( Read more... )