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*sigh*

How times change. Used to be I'd be the last person to pick on a book's poor grammar, even in the case of such atrocities like Twilight. Fragments were a favorite sentence usage of mine. Look back at my old fics and you can see plenty of instances where this is the case. I used to sigh in irritation whenever someone called themselves a " ( Read more... )

* Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.
* Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Or if I don't have a line to post, I'll tell you about the story.

Because if I list them all, I might find it in me to get them all done.

So, in no particular order, ( Read more... )

That subject line - not just for MetroCon.

My thoughts on politics are shaped a lot by what I read. Terry Pratchett in particular has shaped a lot of my thoughts on the proper workings of government.

But sometimes, my opinions come from less known sources. For example, whenever I hear anyone talking about how democracy in America is going down the ( Read more... )

Do you want to read something funny?

I want to read something funny.

Do you want to read something as funny as excerpts from an Avon Historical Romance titled, I kid you not, Angel in My Bed?

Oh, you don't?

Too bad!

( [Excerpts from Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 16, which were seriously all I could stand to read] )

            There was another girl, hidden within the bowels of the city, who did not care in the slightest about the spectacular view or the rising sun. All she cared about, here and now, was the tangle of gears and cables spread on the table in front of her.

She reached for a pile of tools bunched haphazardly at one end of the table. ( Read more... )

To anyone who is reading this - I've cast my efforts in with the livejournal group help_japan , offering one fanfiction between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. The starting bid is $10. I can write a lot of fandoms, I specialize in weird crossovers, and I wouldn't even mind if anyone broke my offer down into multiple fics. Even if you don't bid on my fic, ( Read more... )

So...drabbles.

Love 'em or hate 'em, but I've come to find since joining charloft that I have trouble with them. I've always had issues keeping my word count into something approaching a limit. I tried to write a thousand page story for a contest? I got three thousand. I tried to keep my GilesXMissouri fic to five hundred words? Yeah, failed. Most of my ( Read more... )

 
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