Question: What do you think the best thing I ever wrote was? What was your favorite thing I ever wrote? This a serious question -- I'm being sort of introspective recently and I'm trying to figure something out.

Anything is fair game -- my full-time work, freelance, social media (like LJ, hi) and personal writings.

We had an idea some time ago for a great fic, and I was trying to remember what it was, and I just got it-

Community x Eurovision

Abed goes to download the latest episode of Inspector Spacetime, only to discover there was no new episode that week because Eurovision was on instead. Out of curiosity Troy and Abed end up watching part of the ( Read more... )

It gets me down when I see people who, by my estimate, are not great writers getting published. I'm not talking about the whole "Snooki is a New York Times bestselling author" thing, because I know better than to let that get me down since it speaks more about the people buying books than the people writing them. It's just that I look at some stuff ( Read more... )

The Basic Eight
by Daniel Handler

I make no secret that I am a Lemony Snicket fan; I read and loved A Series of Unfortunate Events and bought heehaw_tng The Latke Who Wouldn't Stop Screaming for Chanukah/Christmas. I've known that Handler has other, non-Snicket books floating around but never bothered; I guess I could say I was a fan of the world he ( Read more... )

Tonight's open mic:

Tell me what the name of your autobiography will be.

How about:

"Subtitle:
One Woman's Crusade Against One-Word Titles in Non-Fiction That Don't Tell You What the Book's About and Require an Alternate Title to be Printed on the Cover"

Starting to suspect that my recent problems with writing aren't a loss of discipline like originally feared, but that the real answer is far more terrifying ( Read more... )