I was reviewing my progress on Every Light in my head on the way home. The Super Major Plot Points are decreasing in number, but there's still a lot. To wit:

Fill-Ins (Stuff I Skipped During NaNo)
--Second half of Kain's Newsstand of Daddy Issues (thanks for that phrase, celeloriel, you rock ( Read more... )

I've had this post in the making for quite some time, and I dug it out of my e-mail today and decided to actually post it.

Firstly, this is not aimed at anyone now or formerly on the f-list! It was originally sparked by my reactions to a handful of events some time ago, but it is not aimed at anyone in particular ( Read more... )

I was discussing fic with first_seventhe today, and something occurred to me that I've been wanting to talk about for a while, if only to get it out of my own head. It has to do with writing and point of view, and the literary tropes that I tend to employ when I'm writing, whether consciously or not.

( points of view, narrators, and general literary wankery )

Honesty compels me to admit I would've forgotten to watch the DNC if it hadn't been on after football, but all that aside, I have lots of commentary. Some of it is squeeful, but more of it is analytical and potentially critical, so you have been fairly warned ( Read more... )

...In this case, by "professional" I mean "Three years of college wankery that I didn't have to try at to get A's." But it's so much shorter the other way about.

So mithrigil has this really fascinating post about how she writes fanfic like the coloratura soprano that she is. I read it, and read a response to it on IJ (link for that one is right here, ( Read more... )

Well, I'm completely failing at writing for het_challenge, which is clearly because the deadline is five whole days away - of course, I don't have time to work on this any time but tonight, but that doesn't matter, because obviously the deadline is quite far enough away, thank you. (Dear muses: WHY ( Read more... )

This is in response to Assignment Two from ff_phd. tl;dr and ridiculous geekishness is about to ensue.

Spoiler Warnings: Up through Giott's Castle for Final Fantasy IV; through the end of Disc 1 as well as Advent Children for Final Fantasy VII; all of Final Fantasy VIII, IX, and Final Fantasy X/X-2; and through the Leviathan in Final Fantasy XII.The ( Read more... )