Everyone who writes fiction, or ever intends to write fiction, should go check out
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Gakked from july_july_july:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you:
(1) something about the story that didn't make it onto the page or
(2) about its unwritten sequel or prequel or
(3) something I learned writing it that I didn't know before or
(4) July addendum (and mine, too): just ask me whatever the hell you want about anything I've ( Read more... )

So I don't usually get a chance to play with my writing process in a way that involves showing before/after illustrations of my thinking thoughts just because I'm not prone to releasing anything for public view until it is in the after-after-after stage of done. Well, hey, lookie here, I've got one that I'd like to share with anyone who's ( Read more... )

Or how to take an otherwise great episode and downgrade it to only good. Holy hell, guys. I feel a serious case of DodgerWinslow, S.D. (Script Doctor) coming on ...

( Cut for spoilers on tonights episode of MEDIUM )

OMG. I have a transition scene in Skin Deep between John and Dean to get from where I left y'all to a long-ass conversation between John and Sammy. It was done, finito, completely written a day and a half ago ... I've been working on the John and Sammy convo. And it has doubled in size from where it was when I thought it was finished, but kinda ( Read more... )

Because these sorts of topics always interest me, and because I can never fit my response into the word count allowed by a comment box, here's my response to a post by fantasyenabler off something posted to metafandom called Why Do I Write Fanfic Poll detailing why I couldn't click-it in any of the options provided, but rather felt a need to go on ( Read more... )

This seemed like a really cool idea, so I grabbed it from
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For those of you who have any interest in all that writery stuff like what's going on inside a head while the fingers are tippy-tapping away on the keys, here are a couple of responses I made to comments on We Were Like Family Once that went into some detail on what kinds of things were going on in my head ...

The Writery Stuff (and, probably ( Read more... )

Obviously, it is not in my genetic makeup to resist the need to respond to this: KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life - The Difference Between Fanfic and Profic. Because there were already, like, 230 comments or something before I pulled my head out of John's ... ehem ... past long enough to hear what was going on, and because I don't have the time to ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm going to post this "intro" seperately from the actual story, so anybody linking over to read it from the challenges community won't think I'm off my gourd or whatever.

I'm a very, very happy dance girl today.

My writing mentor -- an incredibly cool guy, a sensational writer and one of the smartest men I've ever been lucky enough to meet ( Read more... )