I have just finished one of two short plays to be submitted for a contest. They are both probably too ambitious for minimalist sets, but at least they'll both be under ten pages each.

Suffering from a touch of crushing depression as well. I've been sleeping for ten hours lately and the fact that it has been raining for four days straight is not

So here's a list of all the original fiction I have in progress so far.

( Warning, terrible puns ahead )

MY MAGIC SYSTEM QUESTIONNAIRE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED

For attention, not money. But still. People like my work!

Number of Stories In Progress: 6

The thing about fandom is, you eventually run out of canon to play with, until you find another fandom or there's another volume added. With your own original fiction, you can just make more canon and it is very addicting ( Read more... )

Number of Short Stories In Progress: 5

Because I have no creative focus, I started another story which is 5000 words along, and then I thought up a parody of post-apocalyptic thrillers and spent about half an hour looking up basic dog commands in German and practicing them. Plus I made up a few.

Er ist ein Backpfeifengesicht: The command used ( Read more... )

WHY AM I CITING REAL SOURCES ON A FAKE RESEARCH PAPER

AND WHY IS THE FAKE RESEARCH PAPER FIVE PAGES LONG

An Excerpt from "The Ones Who Can Wait":Francisco suspects that the brunette's mind has been blown, because she flinches backwards. Then she stomps off with her case into the nearest house. Narrow and yellowed, with a bunch of old-fashioned black details, right next to red mud houses in the side of what looks to be exactly half a cliff, and half ( Read more... )

The Bechdel test's requirements to pass:
1. It has to have at least two women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

Most of my stuff (original and ff) passes.

In fanfiction these conversations are about stuff like not liking blueberries, and puppies (Circles in the Dirt, a romance but also a crime drama), and weeding, ( Read more... )

Number of Short Stories in Progress:  3

After finishing the last scene of my contest entry, all I had to do was trim eighty words to get it below the limit!

I like it when that happens.

"It smells like... bleach, but more planty."

Surely there is some other way I can describe the way an herbal solution smells, even if it's from a casual narrator. Also:

Number of Short Stories in the Process of Completion: 4.

Closer to Home: Some sort of noir-ish fantasy crime drama about a healer who decides to split from her group and save ( Read more... )