I've been writing a lot of Star Wars fic lately and have come to the conclusion that I structure them slightly differently than I do the rest of my writing. It's not anything obvious or that anyone but me would notice, but it is there.

It's a bit more circular, a bit more mirrored and relies a lot on tripled patterns.

It's also more visual, but I ( Read more... )

cherrytide : And/or the difference between writing fanfic and original fic ( Read more... )

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cherrytide : the experience of writing a novel?

I'll be honest: I waited until I'd finished the desert novel before writing this, because I felt having three novel first drafts would be better than having written 2.95 novel first drafts.

Disclaimer: I've only been at this since November 1 2013. I've ( Read more... )

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ladymercury_10 :Maybe your favorite/least favorite things about [Young Avengers]? And/or how your feelings differ between the different runs?

My favourite thing about Young Avengers is probably how hard all of them try to do the right thing and how brave they all are. My least favourite thing is the ( Read more... )

So! Meta Monday is basically me going tl;dr about stuff on Mondays.

Right now I'm working my way through the questions from the December 2014 talking meme, but if anyone wants me to talk about other stuff, leave a comment on this post and I'll add it to the list.

( The Once and Future Meta Monday )

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ladymercury_10 : Wanda Maximoff and House of M

House of M is the first comic I read with Wanda Maximoff in it. It showed me how kind she was and I've loved her ever since.

Let me explain.

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I very nearly titled this "AUs are gold" but I figured no one wanted to deal with Periodic Table of Elements jokes at whatever time it is wherever you are.

So, way back when these were supposed to be a December Talking meme, wordsofastory asked "Favorite types of AUs! Or just your general ( Read more... )

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Today, I coined the term "ficframed", which is to fic ideas what earwormed is to songs. They dig into your brain and won't leave.

Well, that was an easy meta post to write.

More seriously, I'm going to answer taiyou_to_tsuki: "Since you've read a fair bit of stories based on mythology-- how do you ( Read more... )

I’m going to explain how I go about making battles, using the Second Battle of Tapae as my case study. Why? Because the Wikipedia article article is 100% unsourced and thus no one can tell me that my battle plans are wrong.

Disclaimer: I’ve no formal training in this sort of thing. I read too many books and spend too long looking at battle plans ( Read more... )

In this post, I'm going to take a look at the genetics involved in the inheritance of Bending ability in Avatar: the Last Airbender (AtLA) and Avatar: the Legend of Korra (LoK).

( SCIENCE HO! )