At 6:00 this morning I dropped my dad and stepmom off at the airport, and now I have the house to myself for the next week. I've got enough food and too many ideas. I'll need to buy cat food at some point, and while I'm out doing that I might as well cash some paychecks and hit up the liquor store, but other than that? I'M GONNA WRITE AND DRINK ( Read more... )

( writing blather )

It seems like a pretty common and basic piece of writing advice that characters need flaws to be interesting and worth reading about. I have found this to be completely factual. Part of it, of course, is that perfect people are not conducive to conflict, and if there's no conflict going on, I am just not there. But on another level, I think being ( Read more... )

So I've decided by the end of this month I'm gonna self-pub some short stories on Kindle, set the price at maybe 99 cents. My dad suggested it to me a couple years ago and keeps asking me when I'm gonna do it, so why the hell not. If I can convince even one person to pay money to consume the preposterous reams of verbiage I'm going to be putting ( Read more... )

So I guess I just finished the fourth draft of Doors, and I guess I swore up and down this was going to be the last one because I can't keep wasting time getting feedback from every human on the planet, and I suppose my next step is trying again with the whole query letter thing.

This fills me with, um, rational concern.And a weird certainty that ( Read more... )

So I think I mentioned that my Gamecube memory card and all but one controller have meandered off. Okay, the controllers were my brother's and it's cool of him to leave me one BUT THE MEMORY CARD. THE MEMORY CARD.Anyway, today I stopped being wroth about that for long enough to remember OH HEY I could play FE10 ( Read more... )

BOOKPOST AND WRITING POST FOR MAY. Although by "May" I really mean "the two weeks between finals and when summer school started." Eeeyyyyyup.

( rereads of the Claidi journals + Hunger Games books 2 and 3 + random books I found in the house (classics and also this lulzy cheap thriller) )

SUMMER BREAK GET. I'm starting summer school on the 23rd (Physics I and Physics I Lab; time-consuming, but it should be cake), but until then, I expect I shall be going to absurd lengths to keep busy. I have entirely too many original fic ideas, but before I commit to any of them I'll be working on my current WIPs - which is to say, Golden and Gray ( Read more... )

I am still working on everyone's drabbles! They are a thing that will happen, probably by the end of tonight!

BUT IN THE MEANTIME, stream bros may recall I had the sudden epiphany that the protagonist of my first novel had SOME STRIKING SIMILARITIES TO ERIDAN, and I have come up with a two-panel summary of the entire book to support this claim


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I intend to spam outrageously get much accomplished today. But before I do:

1) Last night I dreamed I was writing an EPIC SRS BUSINESS MULTI-CHAPTER OKAGE FANFIC. But dude I have no idea what I would even write Okage fic about. As soon as I realized that, dream!me was like "OH YEAH THAT'S RIGHT. ...THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A NICE THING TO FIGURE OUT ( Read more... )