I've been working so intensively on "A Refugee in Oz" I am ready to scream. After proofreading the story three times in less than a week, reading it is like chewing old gum. So, to have a little fun I've been writing snackfics. They're like little fun stories in between the bigger, more intense ones. Between-meal snacks, y'know ( Read more... )

Here's a little story I doodled out on a whim. An alien invasion is called on account of weather. 1,569 words.

Eggs
by Kim McFarland
( It was a dark and cloudy night. )

Been a little while since I did a meme. I snarfed this one from mct421 OC = original character.

1) First list 8 or more of your OC’s by first name:
Two per fandom for four fandoms...

1) Essobee
2) Jen
3) Melissa
4) And_E
5) Anosmia
6) Tengu
7) Kokoro
8) Pip

2) Who is your favorite OC?I think Melissa, as she's the most self-reliant, well-adjusted of ( Read more... )

Some years ago I wrote a story for a the ReBoot Revival project. They were going to have it illustrated and posted on the site, but then, like so many other parts of the revival, the ball got dropped over on Rainmaker's site and it didn't happen.

I just randomly checked the official ReBoot site for first time in months, and lo and behold the ( Read more... )

I've got another manuscript to beat into shape over the next few months. Writing this thing was a bear and I don't want to tackle anything else this big for a while. Time for a silly fanfic meme like this one, which I snagged from beckyh2112Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with ( Read more... )

Snagged from beckyh2112:

Post one or more sentences from each of your WIP's because if you do you might be magically inspired to finish them.

One sentence? What fun is that? Here and some big meaty chunks from the two stories I'm actively working on now.

A Refugee in Oz(Status: 98% finished, doing the final round of edits, started on the illustrations ( Read more... )

After spending a few weeks revising the manuscript for that Oz story I've blogged about a few times before based on comments by a beta-reader, I'm about to send it to the publisher. I've changed the title from "The Benevolent Dictatorship of Oz" to "A Refugee in Oz." I like the first one better for it's snappy smartassery, but I have an idea it ( Read more... )

I thought I had a finished draft of "A Refugee in Oz." So I sent it to a beta reader someone on an Oz mailing list put me in contact with, and, wow, did he have things to say. Everything from a typo to discussions of theme, pacing, focus, and so on. We've conversed via E-mail and IM, hashing out certain issues at great length. That "finished" ( Read more... )

Got another Oz story building up in my mind. This one's current working title is "Imposters in Oz." Here's one of the characters; I won't say whether she's a title character or not.


Scraps? by ~Negaduck9 on deviantART

This is my first try with a shading technique Lar DeSouza (a longtime net.friend of mine and the awesome artist of Least I Could ( Read more... )

Meme paraphrased from beckyh2112

1. Comment with any character you know I've written.
   
2. I will reply with three bits of trivia about their sexuality: practices, preferences, experiences, fantasies, kinks, etc. Maybe more than three if my imagination goes into overdrive.
   
3. There is no 3.