All right, now, damn it, someone please explain this to me?

( Lady Firebird is feeling rather discombobulated at the moment. Warning for tone. )

I'm not even halfway through the stories list so I'm not going to have all my recs in before tomorrow's reveal. But that doesn't mean loss of any joy for me. It has been a glorious, gleeful experience to read so many new stories, especially in fandoms I didn't even think had a following ( Read more... )

Several people have been doing these, and I figured it might not be a bad idea to take a look at how I'm doing too.

It seems like I've been back in fandom forever, even though it's only been ten months. But what a ten months it has been! I'm not the world's fastest or most prolific writer, but I'm pleased to discover that I've had a decent year ( Read more... )

It figures. I would discover a new universe, one where I know I absolutely will have to play, right in the middle of NaNoWriMo.

I've gotten pretty disillusioned with Trek over the past several years, ever since it became obvious, about halfway through VOY's run, that Paramount/Viacom/CBS/Whatever had decided to start using the franchise as little ( Read more... )

My most successful year with NaNoWriMo (2004) began in October.

During one of those weekends, I sat down and wrote out a 45-point outline of my story. ( Read more... )

Now that it appears to be coming to an end, I think it's safe for me to declare that I survived the Great Atlanta Gas Panic of 2008. It seems I got off lighter than most: I live on transit lines and drive a relatively fuel-efficient car. But I don't work on transit lines and even the most fuel-efficient of cars runs out of gas eventually, so I ( Read more... )

I have to admit to having a considerable squeeing moment tonight when I checked my RSS reader and discovered that Allison McDonnell had finished the sequel to Carpe Diem and The Art of Friendship. One Fell Swoop has a rather different tone and focus than the previous two installments, but it still does the job remarkably well. I liked "The Art of ( Read more... )

I wrote this last night, September 20, a few hours after finishing "Believing in Dreams." I held it over until tonight so that I could post the fic. I've also decided that while I'm likely to write out Friday night's dream, I'm not likely to give it a home outside my hard drive.

* * *It's a beautiful clear night tonight. The temperature is cool ( Read more... )

I got "busted" earlier this week when my supervisor found out that I have a web presence (the one associated with my actual name, as opposed to this semi-anonymous journal and web site). Since I've long had the sense not to do anything which would get me Dooced, it was more amusing than anything else. But it did leave me wondering just how many ( Read more... )