1. Today is The Fabulous Nancy's birthday! Wheeeee! A very happy birthday to midnightcircle. I am using my "Serpents Upon My Dirigible" icon in her honor. We met for coffee last night although we were both dragging. To celebrate her big day, Nancy has decided that she wants us all to dress up like zombies and lurch around downtown.

No, seriously.I'm sure ( Read more... )

1. With the new FictionAlley setup, each story's word count is displayed. This allowed me to see that the grand total word count of all the PoUniverse stories so far is...

...wait for it...

560,000 words. Yeah, that kinda stunned me. Just for reference, "Third" is about 180,000 words, and the dividing line between "novella" and "novel" is ( Read more... )

There's a discussion going on over at the PoU List. I know, isn't that amazing? People are talking about something other than where the next chapter is. I'm eternally grateful to kiwiria for getting people started talking about something else. Basically, people are just piping up about their favorite lines/chapters/scenes/whatever from PoUetc and the ( Read more... )

No, the chapter isn't ready, before you ask. But I'm making slow but steady progress on it. This will be the second-to-last chapter, and it's chock full of action/plot scenes which all have to contain exactly the right plot points and which all have to occur in a specific order and it's damned hard to write ( Read more... )

Just a heads-up...

berenicepotter has created an LJ community for art based on the PoU series. So if you have some, or would like to look at some, please stop over to pou_art and post it or link it or something.

Yay!

I'm curious about something, and I wonder if any of you have any opinions ( Read more... )

Okay, have thought of a topic to alleviate boredom with Fanfic Discussion ( Read more... )

Any writer who tells you she isn't in it at least partially for the feedback is a LIAR. We all love feedback. Without it, it's very difficult to keep up your motivation and continue to write ( Read more... )

We at PoU are thrilled to announce a contest sponsored by Warner Brothers just for members of the PoU list!

You can find the official rules here but here's a quick summary ( Read more... )

I was just checking a link at the PoU group that someone was having trouble with and I noticed something alarming.

Chapter 1 of PoU was 25K.

Chapter 7 of HWTF was 236K.

My chapters have increased in size almost by an order of magnitude. Sigh. You know, if I ever get around to re-writing and re-editing PoU (as I've toyed with doing), I'd ( Read more... )