Damn bunnies keep coming and coming.
I swear if the zombie Apocalypse ever happens all my zombies are gonna be bunnies! Can't you just see this poor beleaguered fan fic writer hitting them upside the head with her keyboard!???
" Down!  Damn it back you beasties!!! I am writing as fast as I can!  Back I say!!!!"  
And in the background my characters ( Read more... )

Well this week there have been ups and downs.  I managed to make my word count every day BUT I forgot something very important.  Rules one , three , five and seven. What are those rules you may ask?  Simple. Rules one , three , five and seven are.... No Whiners. ....  :sheepish scuffle of the foot.::  Ummm opps.  Yeah it could be said to me this ( Read more... )

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So this morning I was reading through the previous years pep talks and I found one by the guy who runs the whole shabang and it made me cry. :) In a good way. Because Chris is right.

How many times have you put your dreams on hold? How many opportunities have slipped through your fingers cause you were too busy, or dare I say it scared?  Too scared ( Read more... )

desiderata - by max ehrmann ( Read more... )

The novella is one of the richest and most rewarding of literary forms...it allows for more extended development of theme and character than does the short story, without making the elaborate structural demands of the full-length book. Thus it provides an intense, detailed exploration of its subject, providing to some degree both the concentrated ( Read more... )

Dude! She Revoked Your Creative License!

CC

All fiction depends on a willful suspension of disbelief, and as authors we have a lot of latitude.  But is there ever a time when we can go to far? Honestly I think that depends on your reader.

For instance, I recently read a fun series of shifter stories and I thoroughly enjoyed them, but when I was ( Read more... )

So Alex, my writing partner got me involved in Story Mash. and I wrote a chapter so take a look....Guardian.
It's a really cool concept.

StoryMash, the future of collaborative fiction. A creative writing community for authors, amateur writers, readers and anyone interested in collaborative fiction and collaborative creative writing. And the best ( Read more... )