November! November's almost here, and November is a good time for writing. Me being me, I think November's a good time for writing porn: so here I am again with my National Novel Writing Month project: National Porn Writing Month. In 2009 I made it to 21,000 words, in 2010 I got past the 37,000 mark, and this year my goal is to reach 40,000 ( Read more... )

I was still annoyed over those last two stories, so I decided to write something dumb. Really dumb. Really, really, really dumb. Crackfic! I started a crossover, and then I realized that to rationalize it I needed to drag a third universe into the crossover. Also when I got stuck, I made myself insert pop culture references. So yeah - about ( Read more... )

It's almost November again, which means it's going to be National Novel Writing Month again, which means that this journal is going to spring to life for National Porn Writing Month. Sweet leaping Buddhas, I haven't posted anything since July. Oy. But - onwards!

We're going to play this game the same way that we played it last time: comment ( Read more... )

I was rereading, and I found a thing to admire. Despite his failings as a prose stylist, H.P. Lovecraft could put together one heck of a first line sometimes. That's a specific trick of the writing craft that I struggle with - I like to think I'm getting better, bit by bit. Behold:When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of ( Read more... )

Today I read both Raph Koster's post about what roleplayers look like and an archived discussion about spam on Twitter. The common thread between those is slim, but present. It's this: for those of us who conduct a lot of our lives on the Internet, the bar has risen. It's not just that there exist a lot of tools for broadcasting and managing ( Read more... )

Numbers
Total November word count: 21796. Stories begun: 18. Stories posted: 11. Stories that reached endings: 8.

What did I learn?

• I'm rather more squeamish than I thought about writing smut, especially for weirdsex. That bothers me because it contradicts my self-image.
• 1,000 words a day only works as an average - the stories that I was happy ( Read more... )

Insects! Musk-phermones! Transformation! Mind control! All in SPECTACULAR SOMAVISION, in full color and advanced supra-proto-Varnasound as terrifying invaders descend from the sky!

Hear! the buzzing of their wings,
See! their gleaming compound eyes,
Smell! the deadly phermones that turn Earthlings against one another,
Feel! the overwhelming ( Read more... )

Wow, it's a good thing that permission-to-redacted is in full effect with this NaPoWriMo thing. Couldn't resist turning the Rapture on its head, though, because reversals can be fun. Honestly there was going to be porn in here, but worldbuilding, as often happens, ran away with me. If you want tomorrow to be just porn picking up where this ( Read more... )

This is transcribed from my notebook - I wrote it before I saw the suggestions from the open-casting-call post (for which, thanks again!). I'm amused that this loosely matches one of the suggestions in there anyhow. This is a little under 1,000, but the other things in my notebook bump me up, so I'm good.

( word count: 879 )

All right, here it is October 31st, and I'm gonna go for it: National Novel Writing Month, here I come ( Read more... )