Links:
Write what you love and how to decide what it is.
Some simple ways to avoid infodump.
Why you need an author's blog + ideas for your posts.
Once more with feeling: passive vs active voices.

Dreamwidth is giving away invite codes, so if you need one, just let me know.

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Via kunlunjournal: Writer reality check. When I express my desire to rule wulin become a wuxia writer and get confronted with disbelief, I usually respond with a scoff. Confidence is the key (and actual work, of course).
5 ways to look at your manuscript anew. Sometimes I do change the font, and then quickly miss the previous one.
Describing a ( Read more... )

I've found myself with 14 Dreamwidth invite codes (again), so if you're interested, leave a comment or PM me with your e-mail address.

help_pakistan, a fandom auction to help Pakistan recover from the recent floods. My thread is here.

NaNo 2009 editing/rewriting: 2,000 words
Total: 2,000


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1. NaNo 2009 editing: 6,500 words
Tian Long Ba Bu 2003 review: 700 words
Total: 7,200

2. Seen at anat-astarte:
Talk about a story that you wanted to write and never did, and what inspired you to want to write it and why you never did or finished it.I once wrote a short story about a vampire hunter in the 19th century and was planning to write a longer story ( Read more... )

The owner of FM Writer is once again offering the Two Year Novel Course. This may be the last year it's offered for free.

Dreamwidth just gave me one extra invite - just leave a comment if you want it.

1. From here:
Pick any of my stories, and write the WORST possible description of it, and then I have to guess which one it is.

2. I have two Dreamwidth invites. Anyone wants?

3. Writing progress

July 5 1,400 words. Why do my wuxia stories tend to have stubborn old men?
July 6 800 words.
July 7 800 words again. My male protagonist turns out to ( Read more... )

Poll

I still have two one Dreamwidth invite, if anyone's interested.

1. I've joined summerwrite2 and will try to write 150,000 words from May 1 to August 31. (According to the community, that's 1,220 words per day for 123 consecutive days) Unlike NaNoWriMo, all those words don't have to belong to a single project. I'm starting with my imaginarybeasts story, which - in my mind, anyway - feels like crack masquerading as plot. Wordcount so far: ( Read more... )