Writing fic for Community: half an hour to write the plot, three days of research to get that one pop culture reference just right.

What's the quickest way to get my hands on Firefly? Preferably an episode where River says something and nobody believes her and she turns out to be right?

Writing stories about couples/threesomes roleplaying as Star Wars characters is not the kind of thing that should become a habit.

(I have other things to talk about like Tim Freedman's new band and how the ARIAs miraculously didn't suck this year, but I'm just gonna leave you with that thought for now.)

Australians! You should all join aus_lolitics because it will make me happy to have a new fun place to talk about lol politics in our own stupid country.

I went to see The Karate Kid at an advance screening with speep. And yes, there are too many remakes going around. Yes, it's stupid how it's called 'The KARATE Kid' when actually they do kung fu. But that ( Read more... )

Editing my bandombigbang fic is just getting annoying now. It's one of those fics that I don't think I'll ever be able to make perfect because it's just so odd and not what I usually write, and it was the first bandom fic I started writing and is pretty much something I did to get familiar with all the main bands. So. It's not perfect and I don' ( Read more... )

I really should have tried getting more involved with the social side of NaNoWriMo before now, the forums as well as the meet-ups. The Fantasy forum has gotten me out of a few ruts this year, and someone just posted a link to the Fantasy Novelist's Exam and I had a good laugh. I only got two points, although I'm now wishing I'd used mead instead ( Read more... )