Something that came to my attention earlier in the week is the apparent move away from using two spaces after a period.  I guess I am not that surprised if that is true because of how fluid the rules of writing have been over the years ( Read more... )

Something I never realized you could do in a word document was a feature to track the changes you make to your writing and it will mark up the edits and even let you leave comments to explain your thoughts on the changes.  It was always a hassle when I would have to manually mark up edits for friends when I betaed a story or two.  I can't wait to ( Read more... )

A whole month of 2010 has come and gone and I can't believe it. I seem to say that at the beginning of every month, now that I pay attention to the beginning and endings of months, they seem to go by a lot faster than I'd like ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since I've written something for fun or myself and not for an assignment or something (almost two months).  Thankfully while I've been struggling to write out the short story I'm tasked to complete (taking longer than I thought) something interesting happened recently.  I started thinking about the other stories I want to write and ( Read more... )

I'm currently in a writing funk, and with how little time I have to put towards writing in the first place - it doesn't help that I can't take advantage of the time when it comes around.  Doesn't stop me from getting ideas though, the new Star Trek movie even made me think of a story for that fandom as well. Unfortunately writing dialogue and ( Read more... )