So, I'm writing a short story for this month's magazine theme at Crossed Genre's (Theme: boundaries) and in the guidelines, they do make a point of saying that they welcome stories from outside the US, so I thought it's be nice if I stayed local. On the whole, I like the direction of this story but the problem is I'm drawing a lot from my childhood ( Read more... )

Reading a blog post about fanfiction on OTW by, written by Jim Hines. I especially love this paragraph:

I’ve seen the whole spectrum of opinions, from “Fanfiction is the Devil’s Prose!” to “Fanfiction is so much better than that commercial dreck.” I don’t buy either view. Fanfiction is fanfiction. Some is brilliant. Some is abysmal. Fanfic authors ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, I attended an interesting writing workshop with Juliet McKenna and Dr George Green at P-Con which was very different in nature to the workshop I attended at Octocon last year, with R.F.Long.

The P-Con workshop concentrated on the craft of writing. How not to crowd your writing with various and ultimately meaningless cliched ( Read more... )

So I was scanning the communities on my flist and, on one of the crossover comms, there was a Big Bang promotional post for casestory...except my mind, for a moment, read it as The Big Bang, as in The Big Bang Theory - and suddenly I went to a very strange crossover place in which Sheldon teams up with Sherlock... and together they fight crime.[Looks ( Read more... )

[Sarcasm] Some lovely feedback for Heaven and Earth. Warning, blood pressure alert.

( Put under a cut because she does a bit a of name calling, and I mention this in my reply. )

I'm involved in 2 LAS (Last Author Standing) style comms at the moment one is a Sherlock comm (thegameison_sh - YAY, team Sherlock!) and the other is a USA network comm (Wwhite Collar, Burn Notice, Psych, Covert Affairs, etc)

My fic for the first usanetwork-las challenge was a Covert Affairs ficlet (to be found at AO3) and my second ficlet is up for voting at the moment - ( Read more... )

Deadline for bidding at the gulf_aid_now auction is tomorrow (July 5th). I'm offering fanfic for Highlander, Doctor who, Vampire Diaries and crossovers - and I'm going cheap!

I have two ficathons on the go, plus a WIP, but it's for a good cause so...

I've submitted a fanfiction offer over on gulf_aid_now - I'm offering a choice of fandoms (Doctor Who, Highlander, or Vampire Diaries) or a crossover featuring any fandom I've previously written for, and a thousand words.
Starting bid is €5, and my thread is HERE.

And the finishathon (on multific ) is here - and I signed up, because I'm CRAZY like that. This way I'm committed to writing at least 7,000 new words for my older WIPs, even if I wimp out before the finish.

I have three stories up for voting, all Highlander crossovers - my poll is HERE, AND Heaven and Earth has gone roaring ahead ( Read more... )

I'm obviously a nutter, but I have a new idea for a TVD fic, so I thought I might as well sign up for the tvd_bigbang - anyone else doing it?


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