I work from home three days a week this semester. And by "work from home" I mean I get up a little before 10 o'clock, have a leisurely breakfast while I watch The View, work on the draft of my dissertation prospectus (that was due LAST MONTH, really) for a couple of hours, watch one of my old soap operas that I've been sucked back into (*shakes ( Read more... )

I've pledged 500 words a day. I'm a little scared. But I've had a story idea in my head two Christmases in a row, and I'm finally going to write it.

It's BANDOM. I haven't written Bandom in months. The split killed my ships, but I'm going to resurrect them here in an AU.

( my story idea, let me tell you it )

Poll Inquiry

Saw the first two eps of Doctor Who series 5 last night (thank you, bootleg DVD fairy!), and I already know 1) I fairly adore Matt Smith's Doctor (and I didn't think I would) 2) and Amy Pond is made of awesome ( Read more... )

I'm not telling you the two "famous" writers I write like (statistically speaking, after feeding that damn thing fic from several fandoms), but one of them rhymes with Man Frown ( Read more... )

( like a lemming shuffling toward the sea )

I'm behind on my reading, perhaps for the same reason I'm behind on my writing. All I know is they go together, and I've been subconsciously avoiding both for a couple of weeks. If you've posted something long and awesome recently -- and, fuck, has there been a lot of that lately, you productive little devils -- know that it's on my to-read list ( Read more... )

"The mind in writing a story is in the throes of imagination, and it is not in the calculations of analysis. There is a Great Divide in the workings of the mind, shedding its energy in two directions: it creates in imagination, and it tears down in analysis. The two ways of working have a great way of worrying the life out of each other. But why ( Read more... )

Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them.["Attempt" being the key word. At the very least, I guarantee to give you an account of how such a story might play out, if I can't manage a proper fic or piece of a fic ( Read more... )

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