I spent most of last week feeling like crap either physically or emotionally. (Or both. It was sometimes both.) Along with a persistent low-grade fever, I got hit with a case of I'm not doing anything with my life, I'm not going anywhere with my life, I will never amount to anything and I'm never going to mean more than I mean right now. Which ( Read more... )

Right. Tired of feeling useless/pointless. I think it's time to start making some tough goals for myself and getting myself somewhere in the writing world. With one professional sale and a diploma from Clarion West I'm sure that I can, I just have to stop being so wishy-washy about it ( Read more... )

And of course, nowabouts comes the point after I go crazy and blow up at people where I start feeling really guilty about it all, and feel the need to reassure you not to worry! I love all of my friends! Bouts of frothing-at-the-mouth annoyance are atypical and temporary, even when they invariably prove louder than normal states! ...I really ( Read more... )

I have this problem with New Years' Resolutions. It's, you know, the usual problem, a sort of amalgam of "They never work" and "There's no magical power bestowed on you on New Years" and "If you have something you want to change in your life, there's really no reason it has to be New Years for you to decide that." So I don't usually declare them ( Read more... )

Try to write something to submit to this: http://parsecink.org/triangulation/2008/guidelines.html

No, seriously. Try.

Oh, now this looks interesting.

x_los has proposed some sort of Mad Doctor Who/Silent Hill Crossover Writing Extravaganza. This is not my fault! ...this probably is my fault.

You know what's embarrassing? Failing to proofread well because it's very late, and then sending the fic off and realizing that in the big upswing you've typed "gif" instead of "gift" and it slipped your attention entirely because, hell, you're a web programmer--you see one of those words way more than another. So your characters are apparently ( Read more... )

This is a placeholder post. Someone remind me to make a real one when I get back from New Mexico.

Writing the Life on Mars/Silent Hill crossover for rionaleonhart has been one of the most awkward (and rewarding) ficcing-linguistics experiences I've had in a while, because LoM is a British television series and, as a result, all the main characters are British ( Read more... )

-Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 TV shows you like(d ( Read more... )