Last year at some point, I made myself do a little exercise where I listed my main WIPs and what it would take to get them finished and also what's holding them up.  It was really useful for me, so I'm gonna do it again, seeing as I have these fics that are so so close to being finished.

[4 fics that I conceivably finish]The Merlin OT4 Gift Fic for Concinnity
Current Word Count: ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm writing a Merlin OT4 fic for a friend that's set in 1953 Britain, and I'm wondering what the racial situation would have been like then for Gwen.  I googled a bit, and was having trouble finding stuff, but what I'm interested in would be common knowledge for a modern Brit.  So I figured I'd just ask my flist ( Read more... )

MY ENTRY FOR CHALLENGE TWO OF summerpornathon IS EXCELLENT.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

LOVE,

FLEETE

I was following skellerbvvt on tumblr, who was doing a series of creative writing exercises that seemed cool, so I went to amazon and picked up the e-book.  It's The 3AM Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction by Brian Kiteley.  The exercises do seem pretty cool; I'm looking forward to slogging through them.  Kiteley can be ( Read more... )

Things I shall accomplish today and/or this week
- Finalizing a section of my diss proposal
- Writing a rec for a former student
- Continued obsessive revising of my merlin_hols story
- Betaing for someone that I have put off for a month

In other news, Merlin is coming to an end, which has made me open up all the little Scrivener files with fic snippets ( Read more... )

Whew.  So.  tw_fallharvest is finally drawing to a close.  I'm going to be nitpicking my fic everyday until I post it, but at least it's all there.  I have already prepared myself in advance in case my recipient hates it, because I'm completely and utterly paranoid like that.  The upside is, I finally get to work on the merlin_holidays fic bunny that I've been drooling over ( Read more... )

This was a great panel at wincon that I took extensive notes about; I know that there are a few people on my flist who would appreciate this panel.
[Click to expand: How gay romance is the next big thing, what doesn't translate from fanfic to profic, what to expect from publishers, general writing advice.]

Panelists: tjournal, drusilla, elizah_jane  
(I don't know for sure where they use these usernames on the internet, so I'm not linking them.)
More and more fan people are transitioning to pro.  The panelists ( Read more... )

Texas!  It's so nice to be back in Texas for the next two weeks.  wincon starts on Thursday, which I am So. Excited. About.  And then after that I get to visit my family!

I've got to do academic work for a few days in a row, and it hurts me, because all I wanna do is write fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiic.

TW_FallHarvest: Going super well, have wonderful cheerleaders ( Read more... )

Wah, what a weird day.  This morning the boy and I went to an outlet store and bought bras for me, for no other reason than because we felt we should probably leave the house at some point?  And I suggested bra-buying because most of my bras have holes in them due to my former cat.  She just really liked to drag them around the house.

Then there was ( Read more... )

GUYS.  Guys.  I wrote more than 1,000 words both yesterday and today.  And 500 of today's words were for the diss prospectus, aka Specky.  0_o  And then I sent those words to the advisers, but I'm trying not to think about that AT ALL, okay.  Probably didn't even happen.

Maybe, maybe I could make this a THING that I do.  I could write words everyday ( Read more... )