My "I will not procrastinate so badly this year!" lasted just as long as the first paper ( Read more... )

You're trying to summarize 900 pages in 255 characters.

Fantastic. 

[1/18/2012 11:59:36 PM] VS: ((Oh, so I was talking about this to Olivia a couple nights ago and she was like, so when are you writing it? And it was like, well we already are. Her: Don't you guys have like a queue of stories you write? Me: Yeah. We do. This one jumped /all of it./))

[12:00:03 AM] Megan: ((Heh, yeah it really did.  the queue is more ( Read more... )

Okay, I usually, as a writer of fanfiction, tend to try to be pretty cool about people reading it. I get that a lot of people are jerks don't have the time or inclination to review, or rather more like my general reaction when I don't leave reviews, they get distracted. I mean, as an author who asks for reviews, I try to be as good as I can for ( Read more... )

So, I've just been thinking in general (I think it was brought on by a lack of well written smut in the CATs fandom) about the place of sex in stories/fiction/movies/TV shows. It's interesting because in a lot of ways I feel it's a taboo subject in our culture (or at least a sorta generally disliked one in public discourse) but at the same time we ( Read more... )

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888)

Alright, so since I'm in a 400 level Oscar Wilde class you might end up hearing quite a bit more about him because he is one of my favorite authors and a fascinating historical figure on top of that, not to mention smack dab in like, one of my top three historical periods to study and he pretty much dominates ( Read more... )

So, somehow I ended up rewatching clips of Van Helsing and it got my thinking.

The scene where Dracula dresses up all fancy to dance with the heroine of the story is the only scene of the film that's really stuck with me ((well, and Dracula's ponytail but that's a thing not a scene)) and it made me start listing off how many scenes like that one I' ( Read more... )

Starting to inch toward organization and competing paperwork. So much paperwork for a double major, what the hell... Okay, not oodles of it but enough that it's' enough to make me bang my head into the table. I should get everything finished up by Thursday though, I hope ( Read more... )

100,000 words in thirty days? This should be no issue... Really.

Since, you know, suddenly we're dealing with a bloody dystopian world. Lots of backstory! Lots of world building!

I found a set of four Star Trek glasses today for really cheap due to the packaging being pretty much dead. Also, Scotty has a large crack in him but I'm not sure if that was from before or transit. I'm assuming from packaging defeats before, but these are more decorative than anything so he'll just be on a shelf looking pretty. But I now have a ( Read more... )