Win tickets to ride world's biggest airship near OC

GUYS. Are you seeing this? Is there really a story-writing contest for the prize of a free Zeppelin ride? In my county?? I'm sort of worried that I'm hallucinating ( Read more... )

bellatemple is bored and doing this meme. I am also bored, so I am also doing this meme. It made sense.

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you something I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing it that didn't make it onto the page.
I love it when people do this meme or versions of it because I know from my own experience how much cool ( Read more... )

ME: We need to talk.

MYSELF: About what?

ME: Commas.

MYSELF: Oo! I love commas ( Read more... )

1. Swish New Computer: I have a new computer. O.O I was scheduled to inherit thomas_a_kempis's old rig because he's buying himself a new one in order to more efficiently blow up virtual bad guys in Crysis, but somewhere along the line not_a_monk got Dad's old rig instead of me, and I got a shiny new computer for my birthday (which is nearly two months away but hey, no ( Read more... )

I keep putting off making this post because I'm delusional and keep telling myself that I'm going to sit down sometime very soon and do all the work necessary to get my Supernatural/Time Traveler's Wife crossover all put together and fit to post. But you know what? Who am I kidding? There is no way that's happening in time to have the thing posted ( Read more... )

Going over the draft of a fic, I discovered a section that I remember was giving me problems due to a disconnect between what I wanted to say, how I wanted to say it, and what the laws of grammar and understandability would actually allow. At one point, I seem to have deleted half of a very long, convoluted sentence and simply put "critical failure ( Read more... )

1. Thank you to everyone who commented to wish Mr. Bill a happy birthday, he was quite chuffed when he discovered the post (which he did not do until the day after his birthday, because he is too busy running a bookstore to always be checking your LiveJournal, woman ( Read more... )

So first of all, Joss Whedon did an interview for an online community of crocheters. Which, all by itself, is pretty splendid. But on top of that, he has to go and be hilarious:

It's an age-old war. Like the werewolves and the vampires. I think Underworld was actually originally about crocheters and knitters but they thought it would be too ( Read more... )

So I spent all weekend with a Supernatural plotbunny buzzing around in my head (what? plotbunnies can totally buzz!) and I really, really liked it. I did a lot of outlining for it and sketched out a few scenes while I was putting off working on actual, established works-in-progress, and I was really keen to actually try writing it. It was for an AU ( Read more... )

How much do I love LJ's seasonal decorations ( Read more... )