For accountability on the LM-reboot, I can claim to have Done Words, to the effect that I am now in the low 60ks with a healthy ways yet to go before the end of the first of what I expect will be anywhere from a 3 to 5 book series.

To explain the Arthur Pendragon pout of my icon is that, just as I've reached a heart-in-throat scene, as of tomorrow I ( Read more... )

I've been asked How do you research before, in particular for when I do writing research, and since, well, right now I'm getting distracted every three sentences with the need to research something else, I thought I'd give an example of what I research and what comes out of it.  If it interests people enough, I might make it a semi-regular thing ( Read more... )

I guess I got myself un-stuck from the proverbial Writer's Block -- but I'm sure everyone knows by now that when I get blocked, I just end up writing something else in the meantime ( Read more... )

I *smish* you!  I got pumpkin cookies!  Thank you!  Happy Halloween, everyone!

I have good news and bad news.  I'll start with the bad news.

The bad news is, life is conspiring against me.  I'm being run ragged, and when I come home, I have just enough energy to load the document I was working on, stare at it for a long time, and wander off, because ( Read more... )

(apparently I used that subject line already, but, well, whatever)

(also, you want to read through to #3, because there's free fic for you down there!)

First off, I've been remiss in announcing the summerpornathon voting, having completely forgotten to mention #4, and nearly forgetting about #5, which is this week.  Voting ends tomorrow!  The challenge this week is ( Read more... )

Oi!  So does any of you remember the long-version of the summerpornathon challenge #1 entry I wrote?

Well, this week's bonus challenge is to do a fanmix based on a character or a scene or anyone's entry thus far.  I decided to do it based on a scene I had in my head for what happened after Still Waters Run.

Since the direct post to the current bonus challenge is ( Read more... )

I am calling it a monstrous, horribly bad Draft Zero, and I feel horrible for my betas and my artist, because they're going to have to read it in this condition, but I am sick, sick, sick of the BB fic right now, and I need a break from it.

The Draft Zero wordcount?  133,654.

Dear Diary.  Today I have achieved something short of a miracle.  I have resisted signing up to reel_merlin despite realizing that not only are the two movies I'd love to Merlin-ify not taken as prompts, and Constantine hasn't been snapped up.  You see, despite knowing just how kind of bad Constantine was, I always loved it, and... well.  Yes.  Anyway, I feel ( Read more... )

Before I get to the actual content of the post, here's a brief Public Service Announcement:
Spilling the contents of a quiche into a hot oven is probably not a good thing.  I'm just saying.

Anyway!

I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't touched the prompts for the Loaded March Extras like I said I would while on my self-imposed forced break so that I ( Read more... )

Random work in progress snippet (okay, just a line of dialogue, because it amuses me) to something that is:

a) Part 10 of Loaded March

b) An Extra to Loaded March

c) The Big Bang fic

d) Something that is none of the above and that I shouldn't be working on

( If you picked (d), read on )