My short-term memory is pretty much made of fail.  I've lost more ideas and lines and general Cool Writerly Stuff by sheer forgetfulness than anything else.

So, I'm at work, and I have an idea for a scene, I plot it all out, and I know it will be gone in about five seconds.  So I find a piece of scrap paper and scribble some Meaningful fragment of ( Read more... )

There's a discussion - of sorts - going on about spinster qualifications (and no, girls were not immediately on the shelf at twenty-seven - especially not pretty ones) at Austenblog, and it segued into the possibility of an Elizabeth/William Elliot match.  Which is fun!  But then there was this comment:

Marriage to “Miss Elliot” would have only one ( Read more... )

For those who are interested, here are the stories I used for the meme, in no particular order.  Feel free to match them, if you'd like!

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I've probably participated in about three memes in the last five years, but this one - snagged from leia_naberrie - is so cool.  For me, anyway - I might have forgotten a few, so feel free to guess.  ;)

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

( I should be ashamed. Really ashamed. )

As a step to actually working on SC, I came up with a (rough!) dreamcast slideshow thing.  It took awhile, and to my considerable amusement, I ended up choosing the same actress for Elizabeth and Eleanor.  Anyway, here for your viewing entertainment are ( Read more... )

So, I'm reading some writing tips (from a fifteen-year-old, but never mind) and there's a link to the Mary Sue Litmus Test.  Of course, I've happened across it before, but not while working on a fic absolutely ridden w/ OCs.  And since I've always had the sneaking suspicion that Ella is a total Mary Sue, I thought I'd test it out on them.  (Despite ( Read more... )

Anybody who's read SC knows what The Problem of Jane is.  At least, I hope so.  Because nearly everyone threw screaming fits over her - not because they thought she was badly-written (thank heavens!) but because they thought she was bloody annoying.

Well, she was bloody annoying, and I rather meant her to be, but . . . there wasn't any way to really ( Read more... )

A/N: Don't bother reading this. These are just some notes I want to get at.

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