From Wikipedia:

A common mistake made by inexperienced fan fiction writers is to believe that writing an AU fan fiction means that the writer can acceptably and drastically alter the personalities of major characters; in fact, the point of AU fan fiction is that the personality remains as much the same as possible, and it is only the situation ( Read more... )

Okay.

May I ask a favour of a kind person who speaks Spanish? I need a few (only a few, seriously) words translated from English into Spanish for something I just happen to be writing. *coughs* If anyone can help me out, let me know? I'd rather not use an online translation thingie, because I want it to be RIGHT. *g*

Gosh.

I've just posted Chapter Fifteen of Safe House, and after chatting to ms_artisan (who very kindly did a fabulously strict beta for me) about the length of that particular chapter, I was curious enough to toddle off and see just how many words this story has sucked out of me amounted to so far ( Read more... )

Reminder to self. Do not watch Doomsday when you are up late at night and feeling weepy from girly hormones and too much chocolate. I sat there and bawled along with Rose and Ten and when Rose turned around on that beach and looked at her mother and Jackie *knew* how bad it was and went running across the sand, I bawled even more. I think my eyes ( Read more... )

I don't suppose anyone who's reading Safe House can magically tell me how many days it's been since the Governor died ( Read more... )

Hmmm.

The problem with writing "and then the conspiracy unraveled" plotlines is that if you've already written an 'afterwards' fic, you've already done the whole conspiracy unraveling thing, and when you think you might need to write it a second time, you have to do it all over again and do it differently.

*pokes brain*

Work better, damn you!

Phew ( Read more... )

*scratches head*

Has anyone else edited one of their fics at prisonbreakfic.net lately? I tweaked something in one of mine yesterday, something I've done a million times before, and it bumped it up to the top of the 'most recent' list, as though I'd just posted it for the first time.

elizabethb, if you happen to read this and can help solve the mystery ( Read more... )