1. I came up with an idea for a novel about five weeks ago, and I've been making steady progress on it ever since. I'm really optimistic about it--I think the premise will appeal to agents and publishers, and having read a bunch of similar novels lately, I'm confident that I can execute it to current genre standards. And it's really, really nice to ( Read more... )

1. “Jeez Louise. Bad Joe, Bad Bob--how many hockey players just stick ‘Bad’ in front of their names and call it a nickname? Y’all quit callin’ me Bitty, you hear, I’m Bad Bittle now.” (Check Please! fic about hockey history ( Read more... )

I felt like I wasn't producing much fannishly this year... but actually I just wasn't writing much. And, in fact, my two favorites of the fanworks I created this year were not fic. Let's start with those.

The Hammer Is My Enormous Penis (Nathan Fillion, "Enormous Penis" by Da Vinci's Notebook ( Read more... )

List ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

Mind Fuck by Manna Francis (available for free online hereThis is my favorite book, and has been since I discovered it in my mid-teens. It's a murder mystery set in a futuristic dystopia; it ( Read more... )

I'm just gonna nab questions I think are interesting from other people who are doing the December meme. If there's anything in particular you want me to talk about, feel free to drop your own prompts, but I make no promises. I'll answer the fannish ones here and the non-fannish ones on jedusorFirst up, I'mma talk about my first fandom. By my own standards ( Read more... )

I did this top ten most-hit fics on AO3 meme when it was going around a year ago, and I just saw someone do it again after also having done it a year ago just to see how things had changed. And I checked my most-hit fics on AO3 again, and they're, you know, mostly the same. Some hockey fic pushed out some bandom fic, and I wrote a Teen Wolf fic, ( Read more... )

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Everyone's doing this meme, and while I usually try to restrict my activity on this journal to actual fandom stuff, it occurs to me that that means some of you might not know the basics. So:

FIRST NAME: Julia.

AGE: 22.

LOCATION: Seattle, Washington.

OCCUPATION: Neurophysiology researcher, currently studying sweet taste in humans. I've had this ( Read more... )

I did this meme last year, and now I am doing it again! Feel free to gank if you like--I'm always interested in hearing what people have to say about their fic.

Fics I wrote this year:
Incubus? You Hardly Know Us! (bandom, Frank/Mikey and Frank/Jamia)
Two Industrial Loads On Hot (bandom, Frank/Gerard)
Psychophysical Examinations of Perceptual ( Read more... )

Psychophysical Examinations of Perceptual Effects of Differential Somatic Stimulation (or: Fuck Off And Leave My Bloody Balls Alone, Would You, Sherlock?): 5904 hits. Sherlock fandom is... really big. o.o

Sex Scenes Your New Boyfriend's Too Vanilla To Read About: 2834 hits. Most of those were probably people doing a search for a tag, scrolling ( Read more... )